Rockville, MD-based B2B media and marketing company Access Intelligence has acquired event-organizing agency VMA Media.
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Terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed.
San Francisco-based VMA organizes events for the video marketing industry, including its annual flagship Videonomics Summit, as well as roundtables throughout the country that bring together decision-makers and industry executives.
VMA now becomes part of AI’s marketing communications unit, joining the company’s portfolio of marketing events, which includes Chief Marketer, Event Marketer, Multichannel Merchant and LeadsCon.
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VMA senior staff Nicole Healy, Chelsea Walker and Jeremy Walker join AI in light of the merger, according to a report by magazine-media news site Folio.
AI is the privately-held B2B media company that owns Folio, PR News and media and events company AdExchanger.
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