# Mediaocean

> Mediaocean is the advertising infrastructure company that runs the plumbing behind roughly a quarter of the world's media spend. Its software handles the unglamorous but mission-critical work of planning, buying, serving, reconciling, invoicing and paying for advertising across TV, digital, print and everything in between. Formed in 2012 from the merger of the 1967-founded Donovan Data Systems and the startup MediaBank, it now processes more than $200 billion in annualized media spend for agencies, brands and media owners, and has spent the last decade acquiring the pieces - Flashtalking, 4C Insights and Innovid among them - to unify buy-side workflow and ad serving into a single omnichannel platform.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Bill Wise (Co-Founder & CEO), Michael Donovan (Founder, Donovan Data Systems; Executive Chairman)
- **Team size:** ~1,400-1,700 employees across 20-30 global offices
- **Products:** Prisma / Spectra, Flashtalking, Innovid, Lumina, Aura
- **Notable:** Handles roughly a quarter of global media spend - $200B+ annualized - through its software., Named a Leader in the 2023 SPARK Matrix for AdTech Platforms by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions., Built one of ad tech's most active M&A roll-ups: Flashtalking, 4C Insights, MBS, ColSpace, TView and Innovid.

## Products & services

- **Prisma / Spectra** — Buy-side media management and workflow - campaign planning, buying, actualization, billing and reconciliation across digital and traditional media.
- **Flashtalking** — Independent ad server and creative personalization platform for ad delivery, dynamic creative, measurement and identity-driven targeting.
- **Innovid** — Ad serving, CTV delivery, measurement and creative technology, being merged with Flashtalking into a combined omnichannel ad-tech unit.
- **Lumina** — Cross-channel media planning that ties strategy and budgets to activation and outcomes.
- **Aura** — Agency time, cost and resource management for tracking the people-cost side of campaigns.
- **Ignitia** — Financial and business-management tooling for agencies operating on the Mediaocean platform.

## Achievements

- Handles roughly a quarter of global media spend - $200B+ annualized - through its software.
- Named a Leader in the 2023 SPARK Matrix for AdTech Platforms by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions.
- Built one of ad tech's most active M&A roll-ups: Flashtalking, 4C Insights, MBS, ColSpace, TView and Innovid.
- Traces its lineage to Donovan Data Systems, founded in 1967 - one of the oldest continuously operating ad-tech businesses.
- Used by 100,000+ advertising professionals worldwide.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Announced acquisition of Innovid (NYSE: CTV) at ~$3.15/share, an enterprise value of roughly $500M, with a plan to merge it into Flashtalking.
- **2024-12** — Completed the Innovid acquisition, forming a combined independent omnichannel ad-tech organization led by Zvika Netter, reporting to CEO Bill Wise.
- **2023-04** — Positioned as a Leader in the 2023 SPARK Matrix for AdTech Platforms.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mediaocean.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mediaocean
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/teammediaocean
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mediaocean
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teammediaocean

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Last updated: 2026-08-13