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Former Snap employees raise $9M for Trust, emerging from beta to level marketing playing field

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms.

Former Ad Tech CEO Rob Leathern Is Building A Subscription Service For Avoiding Ads

Rob Leathern is hoping to help publishers embrace ad blocking, and he’s doing it under a familiar name — Optimal.com, which was previously the social ad company where Leathern was founder and

Brand Networks Acquires Social Ad Platform Shift For $50M

Social marketing company Brand Networks continues to gobble up the competition — it just announced that it's acquiring Shift in a $50 million cash-and-stock deal. Back in 2013, it acquired Optima

Social Ad Companies Team Up As Brand Networks Acquires Optimal For $35M

Social media marketing company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.brandnetworksinc.com">Brand Networks</a> is announcing that it's acquiring <a target="_blank" href="http://www.optimalsocial.com">Opt