Dentsu continues acquisition of digital and mobile agencies in Europe and Israel
To overcome cultural issues of a traditional Japanese leading corporation, Dentsu acquires via London based Dentsu Aegis Network
On April 20, 2015 Dentsu announced another investment in its quest to strengthen its global footprint and to strengthen capabilities in mobile and digital: Dentsu acquires Israeli digital performance agency abaGada Internet Ltd..
abaGada Internet Ltd. – performance marketing: “Building your online marketing strategy to deliver outstanding results”
abaGada Internet Ltd. was founded by current CEO, Eval Chen, in May 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and employs about 22 people.
Revenues were about UKL 3.5 million in the year ended December 2014.
abaGada performs search engine marketing (SEM) to increase customers’ website traffic, analysis of customer and user behavior.
Dentsu plans to rebrand and integrate abaGada into Dentsu’s iProspect brand.
abaGada as Dentsu’s technology hub in Israel
Many large global corporations have operations in Israel to link into Israeli’s legendary innovative strengths. Israel’s technology strength and attraction for Japanese corporations was recently visualized at a series of events in Tokyo, e.g. The Israeli Venture Fund meeting in Tokyo on March 4, 2014.
With the acquisition of abaGada, Densu now also has an antenna into Israel’s innovations.
Dentsu and Dentsu-Aegis
Dentsu dominates Japan’s advertising space, and is a very very strong force in Japan’s media industry sector, through control and management of major advertising channels with an overwhelming market share in Japan, and has been working hard to leverage its creative power and strength in Japan into a larger global footprint.
A big step forward towards a larger global footprint for Dentsu was the acquisition of the London based Aegis Group, announced on July 5, 2012.
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