The deal & relationship map
of ad tech and media, updated live.
Ad Nuggets tracks the deals, vendors, agencies and brands that make up the ad tech and media industry, so you don't have to piece it together from a dozen newsletters. Free to browse, no signup wall.
Built & run solo by Stanislas Dauré · no corporate backing
Why Ad Nuggets exists
Ad tech and media is a small, fast-moving industry, but the information about it is scattered across a dozen newsletters, PR feeds, LinkedIn posts and spreadsheets that people rebuild by hand. Ad Nuggets puts that in one place: every deal as it happens, the vendor landscape, who holds which agency or brand account, and the people moving between companies, aggregated from public sources and kept current automatically.
Most of this doesn't need to be paywalled or gatekept: the core news feed and company directories are free with no signup wall. The paid tiers exist for the workflows built on top of that data, not for the data itself.
Everything you need to track the industry
Sales Lab: AI outbound pitch builder Pro
Upload your company deck once and Sales Lab turns it into a personalized pitch for any prospect: grounded in your real materials plus that account's live Ad Nuggets profile, with a Find Contact email finder, a live-meeting bullet view, and follow-up reminders so nothing you pitched goes cold.
Live deal & M&A tracking
Every acquisition, funding round and partnership across ad tech and media, aggregated from source and organized by sector, with alerts the moment a new one breaks. A free preview shows recent deals; full history is on Pro.
AdTech vendor landscape
DSPs, SSPs, CDPs, retail media platforms and e-commerce marketplaces mapped out with ownership, positioning and the news that moves them.
Agency & brand relationships
Who holds which account, media group structures, and the key contacts behind them: the relationship map most people track in a spreadsheet.
Watchlists & entity follow Pro
Follow the companies, agencies and vendors you actually care about and get a personalized feed plus alerts on their activity, so you stop scanning the whole firehose.
Slack & Teams alert delivery Pro
Route keyword, agency-move and deal alerts straight into the channels your team already lives in, with no extra dashboard to remember to check.
Source health & data transparency
Every feed we scrape is monitored for freshness and failures, and that health status is public, so you always know how current the data actually is.
Ad Nuggets CRM Add-on
A pipeline built for people selling into ad tech: kanban deals, contacts & organizations, activities, insights dashboards and Salesforce sync.
API access Paid
People-moves, comp benchmarks, deals and vendor market-share endpoints, plus an embeddable widget you can license and use programmatically.
Glossary, Learn & industry calendar Pro
Plain-English definitions for every acronym in the industry, deep-dive articles with quizzes on what's reshaping ad tech, and a full events calendar with history and reminders.
Chrome extension Pro
Look up any company from the toolbar or auto-detect it on LinkedIn, right from whatever page you're on. Plus Challenge Me: turn any article into a reading-comprehension quiz with related Ad Nuggets Learn picks, without leaving the page.
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AdTech & media sales
See who's buying and who's selling before it hits your CRM, and follow the ripple effects (an acquired vendor, a reshuffled ad ops team) on the accounts you actually sell into. Add target accounts to a watchlist and get alerted the moment something moves on them.
Agency & brand teams
Track who holds which account across the industry, how the agency/holding-company/brand relationships actually map out, and the key contacts behind each one, kept current automatically instead of the spreadsheet most teams maintain by hand.
Investors & corp dev
Live M&A and funding tracking across ad tech and media, with comparable-deal context and sector trends so a new transaction lands with a frame of reference instead of arriving cold.
Journalists & analysts
A live feed of deals, vendor moves and people changes replaces manually monitoring a dozen press-release pages and PR newsletters, with source links back to the original publisher on every item so you can verify before you cite it.
Recruiters
People-moves data (who just left, who just joined, who got promoted) is core to the product, and it's also available as its own scoped API tier: a recruiter-only key that exposes people-moves and comp-benchmark data without the rest of the deal and vendor dataset.
Common questions
Is the free tier actually free, or is it a trial?
It's a real product, not a time-limited trial: the news feed, brand & agency profiles, and the AdTech vendor directory are free indefinitely, with no signup wall -- the independent agencies roster within Brand & Agency, the industry calendar, glossary, and Learn hub are part of Pro. The Pro trial (7 days) only applies if you choose to start a paid plan.
Where does the data come from, and how accurate is it?
The news feed aggregates public RSS sources across ad tech and media. Revenue, headcount, and market-share figures on vendor/agency/brand profiles are estimates compiled from public filings, press releases, and news coverage, not a confidential dataset. Every profile has a "Suggest a correction" link, and source health is monitored and shown publicly.
Can I cancel Pro anytime?
Yes. Cancel from the Stripe billing portal (available from the account menu) at any time, no contact required. You keep Pro access through the end of the period you already paid for.
Is Ad Nuggets affiliated with any AdTech vendor, agency, or holding company?
No. Ad Nuggets is independently built and run, with no ownership or commercial ties to any company it tracks or covers.
Do I need a credit card to try it?
Not for the free tier. If you start a Pro trial, your card is authorized at signup but not charged until the 7-day trial ends, and you can cancel before then at no cost.
Meet the founder
Solo founder
Stanislas builds and runs Ad Nuggets end to end: product, data pipelines, and support are all the same person, which is why the roadmap moves fast and every reply is a real one, not a template.
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