The company's new leaders said they see a big opportunity for contextual-based advertising as marketers prepare for regulation and privacy laws.
Critics say agencies that own data businesses will give preferential treatment to their own clients and cut off access to non-clients.
Data Plus Math is being sold at a 24X to 30X multiple of revenue, which is high even for its sector, experts say.
Google's new Chrome privacy controls is causing advertisers to reexamine how they target ads, and Walmart and Target could benefit.
Google's plan to make significant ad-tracking changes to Chrome will be felt by publishers, ad-tech firms and consumers.