Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer announced the company’s bid for acquisition of video advertising company BrightRoll, The New York Times reported on November 11.
According to the report, Yahoo plans to purchase the video servicing company for $640 million in cash. Mayer said that the acquisition would further strengthen Yahoo’s position in the video advertising business, as the company has fallen behind competitors Google and Facebook in recent years. This is the second largest acquisition Yahoo has taken since Mayer took over as CEO in 2012.
BrightRoll, a video ad platform that programmatically delivers video ad across many sites, is expected to earn more than $100 million this year.
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