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Digital and marketing firm SapientNitro buys London digital outfit DAD for £26m

Digital and marketing firm SapientNitro buys London digital outfit DAD for £26m

By Staff on September 8, 2011

Ambitious digital marketing firm SapientNitro, owned by the Boston-based and Nasdaq-listed business services company Sapient, is buying former London rival DAD for £26m plus earnouts. Sapient also operates business in financial services and general management. It moved into direct marketing with the acquisition of London agency Nitro in 2009. DAD began as a conventional direct [...]

Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance | Tagged Alan Herrick, boston, d&ad, digital channels, direct marketing, London, Nigel Vaz, Ray Fine, sales generation, sapient, sapientnitro, sky, Vodafone, £26m acquisition

Travel Channel owner Scripps buys into UKTV

Travel Channel owner Scripps buys into UKTV

By Stephen Foster on August 15, 2011

If anyone doubted that the digital TV business in the UK (apart from Sky) was destined always to be a minnow, further evidence to the contrary has emerged with US company Scripps Networks Interactive, owner of Travel Channel and Food Network, buying into UKTV for a price that could reach £340m. Scripps, headquartered in Knoxville, [...]

Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged BBC, bbc worldwide, deal, digital channels, food channel, knoxville tennessee, programming, scripps networks interactive, travel channel, uk government, uktv, virgin media

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