Apple developer guidelines for iOS 14.5 just got real
Monday, April 26, 2021 by Liz Waldeck-Pinckert
The day the mobile app industry has been waiting for has finally arrived. Apple begins enforcing its new privacy features this week with the release of iOS 14.5 – seven full months after the company first announced the changes. Starting this week, consent is mandatory for any and all user tracking.
We’ve gone back and forth on what opt-in rates migh...
AOL launches Smart Yield beta
Monday, June 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
AOL has announced the beta launch of Smart Yield, a mobile-first solution that solves the challenge of leveling the demand bidding playing field for mobile publishers. By creating a unified auction, Smart Yield provides advertisers with the inventory they want and mobile publishers and app developers with the opportunity to gain the highest possible yield for each impre...
Monetizing apps without alienating users: A chat with Receptiv
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
We recently sat down with Receptiv, the company formerly known as MediaBrix, to learn more about how they work with app developers monetize their products. Receptiv is an in-app mobile video ad platform that connects brands to app users to increase ad performance. Founded as MediaBrix in 2011 and named an Adweek Top Mobile Innovator, they are available via both programm...
BHD in Vietnam signed with SpotX video inventory platform
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Vietnamese broadcast and digital video company, BHD, has signed video inventory management platform, SpotX, to power the monetization of its diverse media properties around the globe.As one of the largest media companies in Vietnam, BHD’s activities range from production, cinema exhibition, pay TV channels and VOD service. With more than 20 years experience in productio...
Being smart about competitor mobile ads could increase your eCPM
Monday, January 9, 2017 by Jan Pollack
You've worked hard to build a cool app with great user engagement, and a market for yourself, but you don't want someone else's poor ad or competitive call to action to mess that up, right? This concern causes some developers to keep advertising blacklist settings on auto-pilot, or avoid ads from competitors altogether, but that's a mistake - the odds a...
SSPs are NOT dead
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
In light of many folks in the industry considering SSP’s to be extinct, Andrew Gerhart, COO of AerServ, a mobile-first video mediation platform believes that a full service SSP can offer additional services such as viewability measurement, fraud and ad quality measurement. He contends that many individuals focus on irrational negatives, and ignore the positives SSP’s br...
The Top Emerging Trends for Mobile Programmatic Advertising
Thursday, January 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Josh Stivers, a mobile strategist for AerServ, to get his insights for mobile programmatic advertising in 2016. ADM: What are the biggest trends you expect to see in programmatic for 2016?Stivers: Video will continue to be the big story in 2016, as more consumers switch from TV and desktop to mobile and connected devices for their favorite ...
The App Features That Draw the Most Advertising Dollars Are...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Josh Speyer
The good news for app developers is that, as the dollars continue to flow toward mobile and away from traditional mediums, there is plenty of ad spend to spread around. There are many app developers reaping the rewards of the mobile advertising boom, though not all who enter the market are able to monetize their creation in any significant way (or at all.) What sep...
Amazon Guarantees App Developers $6 CPM for Interstitial Ads
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon is now offering a guaranteed $6 CPM for interstitial ads for new app developers who integrate the Amazon Mobile Ads API for the first time. The Amazon Mobile Ads API is an in-app display advertising solution to monetize mobile apps and games across platforms, including phones and tablets on Android, iOS, and Fire. With the Amazon Mobile Ad Network, developer...
Manage Reduces SDK Footprint and Enhances Services of Its Programmatic Mobile Ad Serving Platform
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Manage has released the latest version of its new software development kit (SDK), Manage SDK, which allows publishers to monetize their apps through a variety of ad formats, including full screen video, interstitial, Mobile Rich Media Ad Interface Definition (MRAID) rich media, and Experience Ads. Manage offers a full spectrum data-driven mobile marketing solutions...
Ooyala Provides Audience Targeting With Release of Video Publishing Analytics Platform
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Ooyala has released Ooyala IQ, the latest version of its video analytics platform that provides the ability to analyze video performance and audience behavior, including multi-dimensional filtering by device, operating system, browser, country, state, DMA (for U.S.), and player or traffic source. The Ooyala IQ analytics engine maximizes video monetization across all scr...
Native Ad Units on Mobile Do's and Don'ts
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Eddie de Guia
Native advertising has been practiced online since 2000, but it was only in 2014 that it exploded onto mobile. In addition to native ads in mobile Web browsers, in-app native advertising is growing in popularity across news, gaming, messaging, and other types of apps.Capitalizing on the in-app advertising opportunity is critical; users spent 86 percent of their mobile t...
How Ad Mediation Can Boost Your Mobile App Revenue
Friday, February 6, 2015 by Josh Speyer
Ad mediation, the process of managing inventory allocation to buyers, is often misunderstood by developers. Questions range from “why do I need it?” to “how will it help me?” to “can’t I build this myself?” and everything in between. In short, ad mediation allows publishers to better control their ad sales strategy and earn more from their inventory. Th...
Fuse Powered Announces the Acquisition of Corona Labs Mobile Game and App Development Platform
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Fuse Powered, a mobile monetization platform based in Canada, has announced that it has acquired Corona Labs and its mobile game and app development platform. All According to Walter Luh, CEO/Founder of Corona Labs, “Let me be crystal clear that Corona is not going away – quite the opposite. Everyone on the team (including me) is joining Fuse and we’ll continue to ...
A Mobile Publisher’s Guide App Monetization with AD Mediation
Thursday, October 23, 2014 by Josh Speyer
The mobile media space has exploded in recent years, as our mobile devices have become an indelible aspect of our daily lives. We use our devices to communicate, shop and access content, among other uses, all of which have opened up endless opportunities for advertisers and publishers. However, as with any emerging channel, standards and best practices for mobile m...
Beachfront Media Now Offers Programmatic Video Advertising Technology for Mobile Gaming
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Beachfront Media has introduced a new ad mediation platform, Beachfront.io, which offers programmatic video advertising technology for mobile gaming. The Beachfront.io platform provides mobile game developers and advertisers with a real-time bidding (RTB) platform for public and private marketplaces, helping improve fill rates and achieve higher CPMs. Wit...
Smaato Offers Beta Dynamic Demand Mobile Ad Server
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Smaato has releases the beta version of its Smaato Publisher Platform (SPP), an enterprise-grade, infinite scale SaaS platform ad server. SPP features Smaato’s Dynamic Demand technology that moves beyond sequential ad server selection instead allowing direct sold, RTB, indirect, and programmatic buys to all compete within SPP on an impression-by-impressio...
MoPub Releases Dashboard From Beta
Thursday, July 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
MoPub Dashboard is now available after a month of beta testing with management saying that they created the new dashboard to provide developers a simple, yet deeper and more strategic insight into their ad business.
The dashboard combines key metrics, such as revenue, CPMs, and clicks, from all of a developer's ad sources. One view access is available for ad networks, ...
Day one at AppsWorld North America 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
A HUGE thank you to Kate Williams of AppsWorld for the invitation to cover the event. It has been nothing short of amazing, and has been great to meet everyone in person, and tell them all about our new magazine. Here is a condensed rundown of our day:SendDroid talked to us about their app monetization network offered to Android developers that is offering high CPMs and...
Are mobile ads CPMs on the rise
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
According to MoPub mobile ads overall have seen a pretty dramatic increase in CPM's over the last 2 months for Android, but iOS developers still win in revenue for cost-per-click ads.The device yielding the highest CPM is the iPad - which attracts large volume advertisers.The reasons are yet unknown but it's encouraging news for those developers still mon...
