Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year

(PaidContent.org)  This story was written by Rafat Ali.

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Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208. This sector continues to drive online content, reaching annual revenues of $600-800 billion.

The report breaks down these investments and acquisitions into major categories and contains industry analysis from:
-- A future trends piece by Lauren Rich Fine, Practitioner-in-residence at Kent State University and former Managing Director in Merrill Lynch's Equity Research Department.
-- Douglas Anmuth, Senior Internet Analyst for Lehman Brothers, with his presentation at our EconAds Conference held recently in NYC

The rest of the data is derived from our own reporting at paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, ContentSutra.com and paidContent:UK, and supplemented with coverage of EconAds.

Order your report to learn about increased activity from AOL (NYSE: TWX), Aegis Group, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Draper Fisher Jurvetson and more.

VC Investments:
-- Total number of investments:160
-- Total number of disclosed investments: 137 valued at $1,925,830,000
-- Average investment size: $14,057,153
-- Best estimated value of overall investment in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): $2,126,620,000

Acquisitions:
-- Total number of acquisitions: 100
-- Total number of disclosed acquisitions: 46 valued at $17,535,320,000
-- Average acquisition size: $327,313,415
-- Best estimated value of overall transaction in the space (disclosed and undisclosed): $20,594,510,000

The charts below provide a topline overview of how the money was spent (click thumbnails for better view):

                    


By Rafat Ali