Where, oh where, is more creativity, like ESPN's brilliant merger of animated video players from EA Sports into the live-action analysis by Jackson on the studio field?
Media firms and content producers in China are discovering increasing opportunities to fill the screens of Chinese consumers, whether on televisions or tablets, says Koo, whose company was created by the 2012 merger of Chinese video sites Youku, which Koo had founded six years prior, and Tudou.
Vivendi, a French telecoms and media group, announced a merger of its video-game business with Activision, a gaming company based in southern California, which it will control with a stake of up to 68%.
The result of a recent merger of two European video adtech companies — Teads and Ebuzzing — the Paris-headquartered company's pitch to publishers is that its innovative video 'Supply Side Platform' enables more lucrative video ads to reach parts that traditional pre-roll video ads don't.
Teads was actually founded via a merger of two European video adtech companies: Teads and Ebuzzing.
Just about a month after the merger of the short-form video apps Musical.ly and TikTok, the app is introducing a new social feature, allowing users to post their reactions to the videos that they watch.
SAY, which was formed from the merger of Six Apart and Video Egg, has already been doing a some of that, buying sites like Remodelista, ReadWriteWeb, XOJane and Dogster; and on top of that has "exclusive partnerships" to sell ads into other sites that include Fashionista, Gear Patrol and Food52 — in all, some 500 publishing sites are in its network, totalling a global audience of 400 million.
In the 1990s, the merger of fetoscopy and advanced video-endoscopic surgery formed the basis for endoscopic fetal surgery.
Once you assess what drives companies to merge or acquire one another, however, it seems like we're about to enter a period of mergers between video competitors and see a series of acquisitions by larger companies looking to accelerate their video strategies, with a common theme being increasing both monetization and margins.
Four months later, Wuhayshi announced in a video the merger of the al-Qaeda offshoots in Yemen and Saudi Arabia to form "al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula".
