AOL’s Advertising.com division acquires buy.at

[Qui Gon Jinn]

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Woohoo .. I won the bet .. I did say it would be less than 12 hours

[Julie H]

You haven't won the bet yet, there's still two of them that haven't posted.

[drivetowin]

Stop it you two you just made me choke on my coffee

[Shane]

Whooo another one assimilated by the borg .... the AOL roadshow rolls on..

I wonder who'll be first to buy a gold plated helicopter or some 50 carat diamond teeth grillz

Ok joking aside, congrats to buy.at if it's what they wanted to happen, hopefully any/all changes will be for the positive over the coming months and years ahead although it will be interesting to see the how the relationship between ad.com and buy.at develops as time moves on.

[Qui Gon Jinn]

no, no, no Shane you have it wrong .... It's AOL's fallback girl

[Michael_Anthony]

Well done Steve and co.

I guess you called them the minute their Tradedoubler bid fell through

[dougs]

Well done all

Doug

[dougs]

Whats was the price...if aol were willing to buy td for 900 millio dollars what did they pay for buy.at

[ian-d]

Congratulations buy.at team, always a pleasure dealing with you and hope it brings increased success over the years. Just don't let AOL get too involved

Hope they have good comms on the buy.at yacht

[renegade]

It's certainly interesting. I'll reserve judgement on whether this is good news from my perspective for a year or so.
On the upside anything which salvages a few extra campaigns from Advertising.com in a form we can run has to be good news.
There are so many potential downsides it's hard to know what to worry about first!
I'd like to see some investment sorting out the v3 interface - I still prefer v2 if I want to pick up links and get out again but v3 has some nice features - we need a v4 that takes the best of both.
I also can't see all the people that grew with buy.at working for AOL and it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
I'm not a fan of large corporations and I sincerely hope Buy.at can retain some degree of autonomy within their corporate structure.
I certainly wish all the staff and everyone who helped build Buy.at all the very best for the future.

[ben01]

Congratulations to all at Buy At. - They've been my network of choice for some time now, and are always a good laugh.

The only thing I'm concerned about is whether the key members of staff will stick around long-term.

Ben

[Ballswinger]

As i read the email press release my little Buy.at widget thingy let out the rings - I had to laugh, perfect timing.
Well done guys and good luck for the future - there's always a beer in ipswich for you lot.

Andrew

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[sgpratley]

Well done guys, all the best with teaching AOL's advertising division the difference between their a***e and their elbow. If anyone can do it it's Mal and 'is boys!

[dougs]

I think you mean Steve and his boys and girls, if you look at the shareholders.

Doug

[hirschnathan]

Anyone know the price?