MediaPost: Deal-making for media and marketing companies perked up in the second three months of 2015 — the highest number for any quarter in over a year — with marketing technology agreements sharply higher. Media, marketing, and technology deals numbered 871 in the second quarter of this year, according to investment banker Petsky Prunier. This is higher than the 769 in the first quarter of this year and more than 739 deals in the second quarter of 2014.