A look back at 15 acquisitions of 2015

With an average of more than three acquisitions happening around the world every month, the year of 2015 seemed to be a year of consolidation. Or was it? Conglomerates like Dentsu Aegis Network, WPP, Facebook, Amazon and Alibaba Group among many others have had a shopping spree, making strategic and tactical company acquisitions to develop a foothold in untouched categories and promising markets.

A general trend that Digital Market Asia saw, when it comes to company acquisitions is the thought revolving around mobile technology. One of the major ones being Verizon acquiring AOL or Zomato acquiring US based UrbanSpoon. Hopefully the consolidation trend will continue as the world becomes a ‘glo-cal’ market.

Here are the Top 15 impressive acquisitions of 2015:

Twitter acquires Bengaluru based ZipDial

Zomato acquires Urbanspoon, enters US market

FB acquires QuickFire to enhance video experience for users

Snapdeal acquires mobile recharge company Freecharge

Sizmek acquires StrikeAd to advance in mobile & programmatic 

Verizon acquires AOL to strengthen mobile mktg

WPP’s Cohn & Wolfe agrees to acquire majority stake in Six Degrees PR

foodpanda acquires food delivery company Singapore-Dine

Practo acquires Qikwell to expand appointment scheduling

Amazon Web Services to acquire Elemental

Alibaba continues video focus; to buy out Youku Tudou

Pandora to acquire Rdio

GroupM’s big programmatic move; acquires The Exchange Lab

mcgarrybowen acquires luxury experts SAME SAME but different

Dentsu Aegis Network acquires Band to expand B2B offering

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