Amid the recent strategic tumult in the market for advertising technology and other tech geared towards mobile apps and games, Blackstone Inc. (BX) portfolio company Liftoff Mobile Inc. seems bound to attract attention.

The industry is in flux, with rival Unity Software Inc. (U) buying ironSource Ltd. (IS) and app monetization company AppLovin Inc. (APP) making an unsuccessful hostile bid for Unity. Meanwhile, Blackstone’s investment in a Liftoff predecessor is nearing its three-year anniversary.

The sponsor has built Palo Alto, Calif.-based Liftoff as an app tech and services platform through acquisitions and reportedly considered an IPO for the company before interest rates disrupted the market.

While not nearly as large as Unity, Liftoff Mobile could be an attractive target for AppLovin or another sponsor, though the impact of a recession on advertising looms over the niche.

Smaller ad tech companies, measured by gross spending on their platforms, have generally been easy targets for larger peers, BTIG LLC analyst Clark Lampen said.

“Absorbing a smaller player is an easy way of driving both budget gains and some performance improvement,” he said.

Expanding the supply of apps and games where the acquirers can serve ads can drive up ad budgets. Combining data pools theoretically increases the precision of algorithms and increases returns by allowing apps to gain new users with fewer ads or clicks.

“The question is how much, though,” Lampen said.