Woodside Capital says AI-driven consolidation shifts digital ad buyers toward end-to-end “control points”
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- Woodside Capital Partners flagged a structural shift in digital advertising as AI merges creative, media, commerce, distribution, measurement into automated systems.
- Buyers are moving from point solutions to “control points” across the value chain to own proprietary data, workflows, outcomes.
- Consolidation accelerated in July, highlighted by Fox’s USD 22 billion deal for Roku, Walmart’s USD 1.4 billion purchase of Vibe.
- Overall M&A volume declined, while AI-native challengers such as Profound, Nexad raised capital as potential future targets.
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