Adknowledge Buys Lookery Unit

by Ken Schachter on 07 November 2008, 14:46

Categories: Archives - Computers - General news - Media - Internet - Finance
Topics: google , yahoo , FaceBook , Adknowledge , Lookery , Cubics

 
Adknowledge, a social ad network backed by Technology Crossover Ventures, has acquired the ad-serving business of Lookery.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company, based in Kansas City, Missouri, acquired Cubics, an advertising network targeting Facebook developers, in 2007.

Five-year-old Adknowledge runs a pay-per-click ad network positioned as an alternative to the platforms of Google and Yahoo. The auction-based system includes traffic from e-mail, search, display, and social advertising.

Closely held Adknowledge has more than 140 employees.

Lookery is based in San Francisco.