Ascential

Ascential is an international business-to-business media company that connects and informs business professionals across more than 150 countries. The company operates through four key segments: Digital Commerce, which focuses on measurement and optimization for online sales growth; Product Design, which provides trend forecasting and insights for consumer products; Marketing, offering events and tools for enhancing marketing effectiveness; and Retail and Financial Services, delivering data and events to drive performance and innovation. Ascential is known for its prominent events, such as the Cannes Lions festival for branded communications and Money 20/20 for financial services. The company also runs the UK's largest trade show, Spring/Autumn Fair, and the global fashion trend forecasting service WGSN. With 22 of its 31 product lines recognized as market leaders, Ascential aims to empower its clients with the content and connections necessary for informed decision-making and business growth.

Duncan Painter

CEO

18 past transactions

Tracksuit

Seed Round in 2023
Tracksuit is a brand tracking company that provides modern consumer brands with affordable and effective tools to measure and understand their brand health. The platform allows brand marketers to track key metrics such as awareness, consideration, preference, and brand associations among real consumers in the market. By offering enterprise-level brand tracking at accessible price points, Tracksuit enables teams to benchmark their brand's performance against competitors and monitor growth within their category and total addressable market. This comprehensive dashboard helps businesses gain insights into market dynamics and future customer attributes, facilitating informed decision-making to enhance brand positioning.

#Paid

Series B in 2021
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Perpetua

Acquisition in 2021
Perpetua Labs, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing and marketing an application designed to enhance growth strategies for e-commerce brands and agencies. The company's platform simplifies the process of leveraging keywords, creatives, audiences, and campaigns, enabling brands to optimize their digital presence and maximize profitability. By streamlining these essential components, Perpetua Labs empowers marketers to efficiently manage their advertising efforts, ultimately improving their competitive position in the market.

Hudson MX

Series D in 2021
Hudson MX, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in New York, operates within the technology sector, focusing on advertising solutions. The company has developed a platform that empowers media buyers, agencies, and their partners by streamlining the media buying process and reducing operational costs. This technology aims to enhance the effectiveness of local advertising by providing tools that enable clients to compete more effectively with both local television and digital media. By improving efficiency in local investments, Hudson MX seeks to transform the landscape of media buying for its users.

InfoSum

Series A in 2020
InfoSum has developed a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy. Its platform enables advertisers, media owners, data providers, and other advertising technology firms to collaborate across multiple data sources, without requiring the underlying data to be moved or pooled. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Yimian Data

Acquisition in 2020
Shenzhen Yimian Network Technology Co., Ltd. specializes in eCommerce analytics solutions and services designed to assist consumer goods leaders in making informed business decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, the company offers tools such as YiDrone, which focuses on market research for strategy and product development, and YiSonar, which provides insights into social content and audience engagement. Additionally, Yimian Data delivers artificial intelligence services that encompass data fusion, natural language processing, and machine learning, alongside data analytics services that include automatic monitoring and insights discovery. The company also provides business consulting aimed at problem-solving and opportunity exploration. With an additional office in Shanghai, China, and Lone Tree, Colorado, Yimian operates as a subsidiary of Ascential plc.

Hudson MX

Corporate Round in 2020
Hudson MX, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in New York, operates within the technology sector, focusing on advertising solutions. The company has developed a platform that empowers media buyers, agencies, and their partners by streamlining the media buying process and reducing operational costs. This technology aims to enhance the effectiveness of local advertising by providing tools that enable clients to compete more effectively with both local television and digital media. By improving efficiency in local investments, Hudson MX seeks to transform the landscape of media buying for its users.

Flywheel Digital

Acquisition in 2018
Flywheel Digital LLC, founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in providing managed services focused on helping consumer product companies enhance their sales on Amazon's platform. The company offers Amazon-specific software solutions designed to improve sales performance and brand visibility for its clients. As of November 1, 2018, Flywheel Digital operates as a subsidiary of Ascential plc.

Brand View

Acquisition in 2018
Brand View Limited, founded in 2008 and based in Reading, United Kingdom, specializes in software that provides analytics for price, promotion, product composition, and online product positioning. As a leading global provider in this field, the company assists retailers and suppliers in measuring and managing their pricing strategies and nutritional offerings, thereby enhancing their digital presence and e-commerce performance. Brand View tracks and organizes pricing and promotional information for a vast array of products, making complex data accessible and actionable for its clients. Operating as a subsidiary of Ascential plc since September 2018, Brand View has established partnerships with some of the world's largest retailers and brands, continuously innovating to meet their clients' needs while promoting a culture of mutual respect and positive impact.

Warc

Acquisition in 2018
Warc helps companies grow their businesses by offering advertising best practices, evidences, and insights from popular brands. The website’s portfolio of products includes case studies, best practice guides, event reports, company profiles, trend reports, consumer insights, advertising forecasts and data, topic updates, tailored research, and news. Warc also publishes journals, including Admap, Market Leader, the Journal of Advertising Research, and the International Journal of Market Research. Warc's clients include advertising and media agencies, brands, research companies, and universities. Warc’s services are used by various companies, including Unilever, Mazda, Nestle, Maxus, The University of Melbourne, and more. Warc hosts three annual case study competitions: Warc Prize for Innovation, Warc Prize for Social Strategy, and Warc Prize for Asian Strategy. Warc was founded in 1985 and is based in London, United Kingdom with presence in the United States and Singapore.

Clavis Insight

Acquisition in 2017
Clavis Insight, operating as Clavis Technology Ltd., specializes in online and eCommerce analytics solutions tailored for consumer packaged goods companies. Founded in 2007 and based in Dublin, Ireland, with additional offices in Boston, London, Paris, and Shanghai, the company focuses on providing data and insights that help brands enhance their online presence and performance. Clavis Insight's services enable brands to manage portfolio and stock levels effectively, safeguard brand integrity, and drive eCommerce sales. By analyzing consumer visibility in online retail stores, Clavis Insight identifies strategic actions that brands can take to foster profitable growth, improve product findability, and enhance their competitive edge in the digital marketplace. The company's clientele includes many leading global consumer goods brands, underscoring its position as a key player in the eCommerce analytics sector.

MediaLink

Acquisition in 2017
MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm specializing in the intersection of media, marketing, technology, and entertainment. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Los Angeles, it offers a range of services that include developing and implementing strategies to enhance competitive advantage and accelerate business growth. The firm also provides executive search, conference programming, and event production, catering to a diverse client base that encompasses Fortune 500 companies, media and entertainment firms, emerging technology companies, and private equity and venture capital firms. Led by Michael Kassan and Wenda Harris Millard, MediaLink employs a team of over 70 professionals who possess significant operational expertise in their fields.

OneClickRetail

Acquisition in 2016
OneClickRetail is a provider of e-commerce data and analytics solutions designed to help online retailers measure and enhance their performance. The company fills a significant gap in the market by offering expanded data on sales, market share, web traffic, conversion rates, in-stock status, and customer reviews. Utilizing proprietary algorithmic analysis, OneClickRetail delivers insights through weekly performance reports and provides clients with hands-on training and resources, including a comprehensive reference library. The platform is tailored to meet the specific needs of e-commerce organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions and optimize their online strategies effectively.

Next Gen Publishing

Acquisition in 2007
Next Gen Publishing is an Indian publishing company. Next Gen Publishing Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in October 2004 and commenced operations from January 2005 with the promise of offering the finest in the field of publishing. Over time, not only have our B2C titles, Car India, Mother & Baby India (both licensed from Bauer Media, UK), T3 India (licensed from Future Publishing, UK), Bike India, Smart Photography , Ideal Home & Garden set trends in their categories, they have also earned considerable critical acclaim. In order to engage with a new set of readers and enthusiasts, Next Gen operates state of the art websites for 6 of its publications viz Smart Photography (www.smartphotography.in), Bike India (www.bikeindia.in), Car India (www.carindia.in), Mother And Baby (www.motherandbabyindia.com), The Ideal Home and Garden (www.theidealhomeandgarden.com) and T3 India (www.t3india.com). In the recent past we have launched Auto Components India (www.autocomponentsindia.com) which joins Commercial Vehicle (www.commercialvehicle.in) in building our B2B magazine portfolio. In addition to websites for these magazines, we have full fledged content apps (on android and iOS) for Bike India, Car India, T3 India and Smart Photography and soon we will have them for The Ideal Home and Garden and Mother and baby. All the magazines (B2B and B2C) of Next Gen are also available on all major digital ezine platforms, namely – iOS, Android, Amazon, Windows 8 and the web, through Reliance Jio, Magzter, Zinio, Dailyhunt, Readly and many more.

Yospace Technologies

Acquisition in 2007
Yospace is a mobile applications innovator and platform provider allowing digital publishers, mobile applications developers, and mobile operators to rapidly and affordably deliver mobile video services. The technology enables intelligent streaming thus promoting ad insertion and ad replacement enabling the content owner to monetise their content effectively. It specializes in workflow and delivery for multi-screen non-linear, linear, and live streaming. The company offers yospaceCDS, a mobile and Web-based video delivers platform that provides a basis for publishers, broadcasters, video ad networks, and applications developers to enable live and on-demand video services with in-stream ad insertion. It also offers a range of broadcast head-end solutions to enable the stream conditioning and ad avail detection required for dynamic ad insertion in live streaming, including automation system integration, placement opportunity information service, scheduling integration, and blackout management. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Staines-upon-Thames, United Kingdom. Yospace Technologies Ltd. is a former subsidiary of Bauer Consumer Media Ltd.

Trades Exhibitions

Acquisition in 2007
Trades Exhibitions provides exhibition organiser in the professional beauty sector. TEL’s main business is the ‘Professional Beauty’ brand which comprises the largest beauty exhibition in the UK, five further exhibitions and five trade publications aimed at the health, beauty and spa market.

WGSN

Acquisition in 2005
WGSN is a leading provider of trend forecasting and style intelligence for fashion and design businesses, helping them create commercially successful products and services. The company offers digital subscription services that deliver valuable insights into emerging trends, consumer behavior, and market analytics. WGSN's portfolio includes daily trend intelligence, retail analytics, and bespoke consultancy services, enabling brands to remain relevant and anticipate future needs. Through its comprehensive research and strategic insights, WGSN equips clients with the information necessary to identify upcoming trends and consumer demands, ensuring they can innovate effectively in an ever-changing marketplace.

Scottish Radio Holdings

Acquisition in 2005
Scottish Radio Holdings operates as a commercial radio broadcaster and publisher.
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