Press & Events

September 25, 2023
PCON Commerce Dinner September 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: September 2023 August 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: August 2023 July 25, 2023
Summer Internship Program 2023: Final Projects July 5, 2023
Auto Intel Report: July 2023 June 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: June 2023 May 16, 2023
Influencer Marketing Report: Q2 2023 May 10, 2023
PCON Dinner Series: Generative AI May 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: May 2023 April 26, 2023
Digiday: How the social traffic that gave life to BuzzFeed News ultimately led to its demise April 21, 2023
Subscriptions are Means to an End, not Businesses April 14, 2023
Pencils Down: Progress Partners, From Digital Disruption to Investment Innovation April 3, 2023
Auto Intel Report: April 2023 March 14, 2023
Marketing Dive: How Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse could compound a marketing slowdown March 10, 2023
Progress Partners’ Perspective on the SVB Situation March 9, 2023
Streaming Media: The New CTV Challenges of Advertising Metrics March 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: March 2023 February 15, 2023
Q422 Progress Partners’ IT & MSP Market Outlook Report February 13, 2023
Q4 2022 Progress Partners’ Government Technology & Services Report February 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: February 2023 January 30, 2023
Channel Futures: The Gately Report – Cybersecurity M&A, Investment Likely to Cool Somewhat in 2023 January 30, 2023
Automotive News: 3 auto industry trends to watch this year January 30, 2023
Digiday: Atlas Obscura wants to be profitable before raising funds in a tricky media market January 20, 2023
Retail Touchpoints: Retail Media will add Fuel to the Fire for M&A in AdTech January 2, 2023
TechCrunch: Will Twitter, PayPal and Walmart compete to launch America’s super app? January 2, 2023
Auto Intel Report: January 2023

December 15, 2022
Subscription-Only Streaming: The Beginning of the End December 6, 2022
Macroeconomic Outlook Webinar December 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: December 2022 November 29, 2022
Retail Media Webinar November 10, 2022
Digiday: Why media investors are saying publishing company VC funding slowdown is a good thing November 9, 2022
WSJ: Disney’s Earnings Hurt by Costs at Disney+ November 6, 2022
IBT: Disney Has Caught Up With Netflix, Amazon And Apple Could Be Next November 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: November 2022 October 13, 2022
Cybersecurity Market Report (Q3 2022) October 3, 2022
Auto Intel Report: October 2022 September 30, 2022
Summer Internship Program: Final Projects September 22, 2022
The Wrap: Can Kantar Dethrone Nielsen as the King of TV Viewership Measurement? September 20, 2022
Progress Partners Golf Retreat September 15, 2022
Cybersecurity Dive: Security vendor consolidation a priority for majority of organizations worldwide September 15, 2022
Cybersecurity Stocks Decline Alongside Broader Tech Despite Positive Q2 Earnings Results September 8, 2022
1H22 Progress Partners’ IT & MSP Market Outlook Report September 6, 2022
Auto Intel Report: September 2022 August 18, 2022
IBT: Inflation Brings Upper-Income Americans To Walmart August 18, 2022
Case Study: Gamut and Coxreps have been acquired by One Equity Partners August 18, 2022
Supply Chain Constraints Begin to Ease: Derek Wittenberg’s Summer 2022 Update August 15, 2022
Whitepaper: The Basics of Blockchain August 11, 2022
Digiday: What Axios’ sale says about the valuation of digital media companies August 10, 2022
Kiplinger: Stock Market Today: Encouraging Inflation Data Sparks Stunning Stock Rally August 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: August 2022 July 28, 2022
IBT: Netflix Sees Stranger Things At The End Of The Road July 28, 2022
IBT: Red Hat Revives IBM, For How Long? July 28, 2022
Channel Futures: Cybersecurity M&A: Creating Rough Seas in the Channel July 26, 2022
Cybersecurity Market Report (Q2 2022) July 8, 2022
M&A: Cybersecurity M&A Continues to Set Records July 8, 2022
PE News: VCs begin to pause investments as they prepare for downturn July 5, 2022
Auto Intel Report: July 2022 June 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: June 2022 May 12, 2022
Security Week: Zero Trust Firm Xage Security Adds $6 Million ‘Top-up’ to $30 Million Series B Funding May 12, 2022
2022 Progress Partners’ Managed Services Provider Market Outlook Report May 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: May 2022 May 2, 2022
Cybersecurity Dive: M&A sets record pace as ransomware, nation-state threats fuel security demand April 28, 2022
Progress Partners Innovation Survey Demonstrates M&A Gap in Growth Strategies April 28, 2022
2022 Progress Partners Innovation Survey April 27, 2022
SC Media: Cybersecurity M&A growth seen to continue April 27, 2022
Security Week: Cybersecurity M&A Activity to Continue; Growth Funding to be More Conservative April 27, 2022
Adweek: The Fate of CNN+ Reflects the Wider Struggle in Streaming April 25, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (04/18 – 04/22): April 22, 2022
Cybersecurity Market Report (Q1 2022) – Strong momentum with 108 M&A transactions closed totaling $29B in deal value… April 18, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (04/11 – 04/15): April 11, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (04/04 – 04/07): April 5, 2022
Is Cash Funding a Deglobalization? April 4, 2022
Auto Intel Report: April 2022 March 31, 2022
Adweek: Chris Licht Famously Turned Around Colbert’s Late Show. What Will It Take to Save CNN? March 29, 2022
The next generation of media is here. Are you ready? (infographic) March 28, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (03/21 – 03/25): March 21, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (03/14 – 03/18): March 16, 2022
E-Crypto News: US President Joe Biden’s Crypto Executive Order- What are the Implications? We talk to 31 Crypto Heavy Hitters! March 14, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (03/07 – 03/11): March 7, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (02/28 – 03/04): March 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: March 2022 February 28, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (02/21 – 02/25) February 22, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (02/14 – 02/18): February 14, 2022
Auto-Tech Transactions (02/07 – 02/11): February 7, 2022
Technology Steps Up to Help Navigate the Last Mile February 7, 2022
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (01/31 – 02/04): February 2, 2022
Auto Intel Report: February 2022 February 1, 2022
Despite Increased Regulations, Adtech Has a Bright Future January 31, 2022
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: 2021: The Year of the Bottleneck January 31, 2022
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (01/24 – 01/28): January 29, 2022
The next generation of media is here. Are you ready? January 24, 2022
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (01/17 – 01/21): January 20, 2022
Media Companies Will Reinvent Themselves with Technology January 17, 2022
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (01/10 – 01/14): January 13, 2022
Perspectives on the booming of gaming in capital markets after the beginning of the pandemic January 13, 2022
Is the “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) model here to stay? January 10, 2022
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (01/03 – 01/07): January 1, 2022
Auto Intel Report: January 2022

December 20, 2021
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (12/13 – 12/17): December 17, 2021
New data privacy regulations perspectives December 13, 2021
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (12/06 – 12/10): December 9, 2021
Local OTT Advertising Is An Untapped $137 Billion Opportunity December 6, 2021
Last Week’s Auto-Tech Transactions (11/29 – 12/03): December 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: December 2021 November 30, 2021
Implications of a Cookieless World and Their Alternatives November 22, 2021
Business Insider: 6 TV advertising firms that experts say are prime acquisition targets in 2022 November 17, 2021
Innovation Redefining the Auto Industry November 17, 2021
StrategicCFO360: Fractional CFOs’ Are On The Rise November 5, 2021
Crunchbase: M&A Mayhem: Is Organic Growth Still the Best Way to Scale a Business in 2021? November 5, 2021
Next TV: Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus Turn 2 Amid Changing Trajectories November 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: November 2021 October 27, 2021
TechCrunch: How 2 Companies Leveraged Organic and Inorganic Growth October 23, 2021
Building next generation media brands October 19, 2021
Sportico: MLB and Sinclair ‘Need One Another’ Despite Tough Talk on Rights October 13, 2021
Fortune: The Tricky Art of Valuing Next-Gen Media Companies October 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: October 2021 September 15, 2021
MarketScale: How Media Companies Can Win Big with New NIL Rules September 13, 2021
The National Interest: Inside the Bidding Competition for NFL Sunday Ticket September 9, 2021
FEI Daily: Robinhood’s IPO: The First Inning for the Democratization of FinTech and Investing September 2, 2021
FEI: The Rise of the Fractional CFO September 2, 2021
The Armchair Trader: Robinhood – Bad News for Investors as SEC and PayPal Turn up the Heat September 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: September 2021 August 27, 2021
Street Fight: Adtech Isn’t Dying Amid Privacy Changes. It’s Transforming August 26, 2021
AdExchanger: The Big Story – Will the Stock Market Mint Ad Tech Millionaires? August 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: August 2021 July 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: July 2021 June 24, 2021
Key Trends 2021: Video June 24, 2021
Auto Intel Report: June 2021 May 20, 2021
A Banker’s View: Discovery and WarnerMedia to combine, Will a New Media King Emerge? May 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: May 2021 April 29, 2021
A Banker’s View: Microsoft is Seizing Opportunity in Healthcare – is the Sun Setting on IBM’s Dominance in the Space? April 12, 2021
Progress Partners’ Newest EIR, Jamie West on Building Value for the Digital Future April 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: April 2021 March 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: March 2021 February 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: February 2021 January 20, 2021
A Banker’s View: Salesforce Acquires Slack January 1, 2021
Auto Intel Report: January 2021

June 29, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series – Business Growth Hacking: Exploring TV Production Innovation June 19, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series – Business Growth Hacking: Corporate Development Tales From the Buy-Side June 11, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series – Business Growth Hacking: The Future of Sports Media June 4, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series – Business Growth Hacking: Implications for the new Data Economy May 31, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series – Business Growth Hacking: Creating Enterprise Value May 20, 2020
Season 2 of Progress Connect Webinar Series: Business Growth Hacking May 15, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series: Rethinking Business in a COVID World – Podcast & AudioTech Edition May 8, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series: Rethinking Business in a COVID World – Gaming Edition April 30, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar: Rethinking Business in a COVID World – HealthTech Edition April 28, 2020
Localogy Live: M&A Roundtable – Featuring Chris Legg of Progress Partners April 24, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series: Rethinking Business in a COVID World – Private Equity Edition April 20, 2020
Progress Connect Webinar Series: Rethinking Business in a COVID World – OTT Edition April 13, 2020
Season 1 of Progress Connect Webinar Series: Rethinking Business in a COVID World March 12, 2020
Progress Perspective: Trends to Watch 1Q 2020 March 10, 2020
Progress Partners Hires Sanjay Puri as Managing Director March 9, 2020
Podcast: Localogy Preview – Chris Legg, Progress Partners January 28, 2020
Progress Partners Hires Gretchen Tibbits as Managing Director

November 18, 2019
CDP’s and Augmented Analytics: The Appetizers of The Big Data Food Chain October 10, 2019
Digiday: The GreatUnbundling – Why Some High-Priced Strategic Adtech Deals Could Unravel October 9, 2019
A Banker’s View: 5 Driver’s of a Deal September 16, 2019
BostonSpeaksUp: Meet Sam Thompson From Progress Ventures July 12, 2019
A Banker’s View: Salesforce to buy Tableau June 5, 2019
Progress Partners 2019 Market Perspectives April 30, 2019
Progress Perspective: ShopTalk 2019 Scouting Report March 25, 2019
Progress Perspective: Ready O.A.R. Not, TV Convergence is On the Horizon March 7, 2019
Thought Leader Spotlight: BritBox is Coming, BritBox is Coming . . . to the UK February 28, 2019
Progress Perspective: CES2019 Scouting Report February 27, 2019
Thought Leader Spotlight: International Insights – Netflix, The Global Monolith January 22, 2019
A Banker’s View: RTL Group Buys Yospace

December 21, 2018
A Banker’s View: TMC Market 2018 November 2, 2018
A Banker’s View: IBM Buys Red Hat July 11, 2018
The Rising Importance of Corporate Development in Times of Disruption April 17, 2018
Scouting Report: Mobile World Congress 2018 April 2, 2018
Progress Perspective: Digital Automotive Industry March 13, 2018
WSJ: Ad-Tech Company Pledge Toward Ad-Quality Initiatives March 5, 2018
Progress Perspective: Where do Video Supply-side Platforms go from here? February 19, 2018
Progress Perspective: What does the future hold in 2018? February 12, 2018
Progress Scouting Report: NRF’s Big Show 2018 and Retail’s Revolution January 30, 2018
Progress Scouting Report: CES 2018 January 9, 2018
Progress Partners Hires David Arslanian as New Managing Director

November 20, 2017
Spotlight: Fox Forges Future November 2, 2017
Progress Connect 2017 in “One Word” (Video) October 30, 2017
Progress Connect 2017 Recap Reel (Video) October 25, 2017
Nick MacShane moderates Data Panel at Advanced Advertising October 22, 2017
Progress Connect 2017 “It’s All Future” (Video) October 19, 2017
A Banker’s View: Hearst Buys Rodale October 18, 2017
Progress Connect 2017 “Why this Event?” (Video) October 16, 2017
Progress Connect 2017 featured Top Talent in Internet and Digital Media Technology October 2, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: Dmexco 2017 September 12, 2017
Progress Partners’ IndustryMaps Highlighted in Digiday’s “Oral History of the LUMAscape” September 12, 2017
Digiday: Internet Mysteries —Why Do Ad Tech Companies Rarely Die? September 7, 2017
Progress Partners Continues to Grow, Announcing Multiple New Hires and a Promotion August 24, 2017
Axial: How Investment Banker Nick MacShane Supercharged His BD Strategy August 10, 2017
Nick MacShane Featured in Digiday Article on Moat and “the Ad Tech Pivot” July 14, 2017
Progress Connect Dinner Series: There’s Brand Safety In Numbers June 23, 2017
Progress’ Perspective on Cannes Lions 2017 May 29, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: NAB 2017 May 15, 2017
Progress Partners Hires Brase, McCarthy, Haddad, and Promotes Hagerty May 15, 2017
Axial: Is Debt or Equity Better for your Business? May 7, 2017
Progress Perspective: The Announcement of Open AP May 1, 2017
Davis Rosborough’s Interview at Tru Optik’s 2017 INFronts Lounge April 24, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: Advanced Advertising Summit April 3, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: Shoptalk 2017 March 20, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: Mobile World Congress March 13, 2017
Beet.TV: Publishers Suffering “Data Leakage” with DashBid CEO Tom Herman March 13, 2017
Progress Partners Celebrates 15-year Anniversary of Dealmaking March 9, 2017
Beet.TV: Massive’s Alex Drosin Sees TV Ads At The Fabric Of UId March 5, 2017
Progress Partners Announces Promotion of Davis Rosborough to Vice President February 28, 2017
Progress Partners Named in Axial’s 2017 Top 100 Most Recommended Middle Market Investment Banks and Advisors February 27, 2017
Beet.TV: Rebundling The Bundle In TV’s Golden Era with MediadTV’s Tom Morgan February 23, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: IAB Leadership Summit 2017 February 20, 2017
Beet.TV: Fidelity’s Speros, Out Of Great Risk Taking Comes Great Creativity February 16, 2017
Progress Perspective: What’s to Come in 2017? February 13, 2017
Beet.TV: How To Turn Mobile App Users Before They Churn with Localytics’ Raj Aggarwal February 10, 2017
Progress Perspective: 5 Deals Worth Revisiting from 2016 February 6, 2017
Beet.TV: From MAC To IP And Beyond, MODI’s Mike Bologna Surveys Addressable TV Future February 3, 2017
Progress Perspective: Potential Merger for Verizon/Charter Communications January 31, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: NRF 2017 January 30, 2017
Beet.TV: As Advertising Follows Content, Expect More Addressable Options with Samba.tv’s Dan Ackerman January 23, 2017
Beet.TV: Confirming User Identity Key Concern In Mobile Marketing with Syniverse’s Mary Clark January 23, 2017
Progress Scouting Report: CES 2017 January 16, 2017
Beet.TV: Tru Optik Mines Behavioral, Demographic And Purchase Data For OTT Cloud January 10, 2017
Spotlight: How How To Build Your Digital-Age Newsroom

December 26, 2016
Beet.TV: IRIS.TV on Machine Learning Yields Personalized Video Streams December 12, 2016
Spotlight: How To Form a Distributed Content Strategy December 2, 2016
Nick MacShane Speaks at Sonobi’s Premium Programmatic 360 November 29, 2016
Progress Connect 2016: The Inaugural Event November 17, 2016
Jay Jamijian Speaks on Babson’s 2016 Investment Banking Conference M&A Panel November 14, 2016
Progress Perspective: What is the Significance of the Adobe-TubeMogul Deal? November 8, 2016
Beet.TV: Following Geo Fencing Launch, DSP Simpli.fi Eyes Localized Native Ads November 8, 2016
Beet.TV: Furious Corp.’s Ashley Swartz On Corralling Disparate Media Company Data, Systems November 7, 2016
Beet.TV: Pixability Looking To Add More Social Platforms, Sees Possibilities In OTT, CEO Bettina Hein November 7, 2016
Beet.TV: Progress Partners Sees ‘Tectonic’ Shift, Deal Opportunities As Digital And TV Collide November 4, 2016
Beet.TV: Videa Aims For Efficiency And Scale In Local Television Advertising Inventory September 22, 2016
Spotlight: Don’t Even Think About Dropping Your User

October 2, 2015
Progress Partners Builds Momentum; Strengthens Buy-Side Due Diligence and M&A Services, Expands SMB & Software Capabilities

November 13, 2013
Sam Thompson Judges TechCrunch Pitch-Off March 4, 2013
FurtherEd and Progress Partners Join to Nurture Ed-Tech Startups February 11, 2013
Sam Thompson Moderator at Venture Summit West

October 27, 2011
Sam Thompson in Babson Venture Capital Panel September 20, 2011
Nick MacShane Moderates Ad Panel at OMMA Global

November 15, 2010
E-recruiter RealMatch scores $4.7M in funding and a Monster CEO

July 23, 2009
Amp Agency Buys Search Shop

February 26, 2008
Boston Boutique Bank Progress Partners Comes To NY

November 1, 2007
Progress Secures $8.4 million for Online Media Firm