Sorrell’s S4 Capital gains first Australian foothold with MightyHive purchase

Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital will get its first Australian outpost with the acquisition of programmatic platform MightyHive, which was confirmed overnight.

The impending announcement was leaked on the service’s website ahead of the formal announcement and put to end a month of media speculation which resulted in S4 Capital confirming that it was in talks to acquire MightyHive.

The privately held San Francisco based programmatic service with offices in Sydney and Singapore has an estimated value of between US$140m-$200m on revenues of around $25m a year according to the Financial Times.

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