WordPress MarfeelPress plugin gives power to the publisher
Thursday, November 29, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Marfeel announced that it has launched MarfeelPress, their first all-in-one plugin that enables publishers of all sizes using the WordPress content management system (CMS) to enhance the mobile version of their content while boosting engagement and ad revenue. In the first stage of its official launch, Marfeel will be releasing the plugin to select publishers by invitat...
New ad exchange auction platform from Appodeal launches
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appodeal, an ad mediation platform for mobile developers, is entering programmatic market and launching its own ad exchange - AppodealX. The new product allows Appodeal to work with DSPs (demand side platforms) directly and provide app developers with premium advertisements offered by more than 100 ad demand sources. The ad exchange is a platform which buys and s...
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...
Yahoos BrightRoll Exchange Adds Programmatic Mobile Native Advertising
Monday, January 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Yahoo’s BrightRoll Exchange is now offering programmatic mobile native advertising for native mobile inventory facilitated through a new API that aligns with the IAB OpenRTB 2.3 standard. The BrightRoll Exchange is currently integrated with more than 100 DSPs providing access to thousands of sites and apps via real-time bidding (RTB). Advertisers can continue to ac...
Appodeal Receives over $3M to Grow Its Programmatic Mobile Ad Mediation Solution
Friday, January 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appodeal has announced new growth plans for its mobile ad marketplace after receiving $3.1 million in new funding from some of the top app publishing companies worldwide. App publishers investing include Ximad, Lametina Holdings, Lucky Star Games, and others. The new investment will allow Appodeal to continue to grow its ad marketplace which provides a platform for...
StartApp Adds New Programmatic Video Exchange
Thursday, December 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
StartApp has added a new programmatic video exchange as part of a new partnership with Inneractive, a mobile ad exchange that specializes in native and video ads.With this new functionality, StartApp will utilize Inneractive’s mobile video technologies, such as low-latency real time auctions, video transcoding and granular reporting. StartApp’s video inventory is now av...
Continuous Delivery Drives Business Advantage: Six Leading Edge Companies
Thursday, July 9, 2015 by Dan Juengst
Several years ago, the application lifecycle process known as continuous delivery was a new concept being tried by a small group of early adopters. Things have changed. Now, continuous delivery, or CD, is a practice that companies big and small are not only trying out, but embracing as part of a new, faster moving, on-demand business culture. We’re now hearing the ...
Adobe Marketing Cloud Announces Updates for Programmatic Ad Buying
Thursday, March 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Adobe as announced a new algorithmic engine and advances in its Adobe Marketing Cloud Audience Core Services to bring together the worlds of data-driven marketing and ad tech. The company says these updates are in response to the challenges in programmatic ad buying facing today’s advertisers, with too much focus placed on display ad bidding and multiple data vendors pr...
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...
AppLift New Mobile Game Marketing Platform Leverages Big Data for User Lifetime Value
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppLift, a mobile game marketing platform, has launched DataLift – a new offering that provides what the company is calling “a big data-fueled mobile media buying platform maximizing user lifetime value (LTV).” The platform utilizes technology that optimizes campaign goals, including post-install LTV events, and enables user acquisition for mobile app advertisers.The Da...
Opera Mediaworks New Native Ad Exchange Launches
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Opera Mediaworks has launched a new native ad exchange for buying and selling mobile advertising. The exchange is a marketplace extension of its programmatic display and video offering, the Opera Mediaworks Ad Exchange (OMAX), which it launched in 2014. Utilizing Opera Mediaworks Studio, publishers can create personalized native experiences to both brand direct clients ...
Growth in Ad Tech Firms As Partnerships Spur With Mobile
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
An increasing number of traditional advertising partners are creeping their way into the mobile ecosystem and this can be very good news for developers.Google’s AdMob is a leading ad network which delivers ad services for iOS and Android. Google is said to have earned $3 billion in display ad revenue alone in 2013. They are currently working on updating their partnershi...
Perion Network Launches GrowMobile Cross Network, Self Serve Mobile Advertising Platform
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Perion Network has announced the launch of the GrowMobile Self-Serve which offers a cross-network, self-serve mobile advertising platform. The service offers an enhanced, do-it-yourself version of the technology built by San Francisco-based GrowMobile which Perion acquired earlier this year. GrowMobile is part of Perion Lightspeed, the new mobile division of P...
Decisive Opens Mobile Advertising Platform API to App Developers
Friday, November 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Decisive, which hosts a SaaS mobile advertising platform, has announced the new availability of the Decisive Developer API. With the announcement, Decisive is opening up its mobile advertising platform to give app developers the ability to create and manage campaigns across multiple mobile ad networks and ad exchanges, with budgets as little as a $10. The Decisive ...
Moving Past Facebook for Better Mobile Game Ad Targeting
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Fred Hsu
The mobile gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as Angry Birds and Candy Crush have made headlines around the world, and game advertisers are taking note. Many of these games have one thing in common: they are free-to-play, a model that has revolutionized monetization for gaming on mobile devices, opened up the industry to millions of players, and create...
Airpush Integrates its Programmatic Ad Offering with Inneractive’s Private RTB Marketplace
Friday, September 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Inneractive and Airpush are forming a new collaboration designed to increase programmatic demand of Airpush’s Android interstitial and video inventory by leveraging a Private RTB Marketplace facilitated by Inneractive’s Ad Exchange.By integrating Airpush’s programmatic offering, AirX, with Inneractive’s exchange technology, the company will make its interstiti...
Millennial Media Grows Mobile Ad Real Time Bidding (RTB) Offerings with Acquisition of Nexage
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Millennial Media has announced is acquiring Nexage. Based in Boston, privately held Nexage is a provider of Real-Time-Bidding (RTB) technology for mobile ads. Millennial Media says that Nexage will bolster the company’s services in three areas.Increasing yield for developers via expertise and scaleNexage’s offerings will complement Millennial Media’s demand from ag...
Microsoft Advertising Exchange (MAX) Expands Ad Inventory Options to 10 Countries
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Advertising Exchange (MAX) is now serving ad inventory for Windows Phone and Windows 8 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.The new inventory provides developers with the ability to move beyond PC and browser environments when reaching customers, allowing them to access a mul...
NativeX Releases Lightning Play Video Mobile Ad Monetization Format
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
NativeX has announced the launch of Lightning Play Video, a video ad format that combines mobile video ad technology with NativeX’s selection of native advertising formats which includes discovery walls, interstitials, and other rich media formats, both reward and non-reward. Lightning Play uses proprietary technology to instantly play video ads without interr...
Smaato Updates Windows Phone SDK Now Supports XAML Apps
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Smaato, a mobile RTB ad exchange and supply side platform, has announced an SDK update for Windows Phone, now supporting XAML applications on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 platforms on phone, tablet and desktop.What’s new with Smaato’s Windows SDK:- Supports Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1.- Ad size handling has been improved, ensuring more consist...
Demystifying the Buying and Selling of Mobile Ads
Saturday, September 6, 2014 by Dale Carr
Whether you’re an app developer looking to monetize your app through advertising, or an advertiser interested in reaching a mobile audience, the business of buying and selling mobile ads may seem overwhelmingly complex, with many ad tech solutions and buy-sell platforms offering different ways of doing business. Here’s a simple overview of the benefits of each typ...
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...
Leadbolt Launches Direct Deal App Marketplace For Mobile Advertising
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Leadbolt has launched Leadbolt Connect, a mobile advertising exchange platform where app developers can connect to ad campaign offerings, view associated details and activate desired campaigns with the best fit. Both advertisers and developers can connect and run private deals in a fully-managed environment. For developers, Leadbolt Connect is a direct deal m...
Promote Your App for Free With Tappx Cross Promotion
Monday, April 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Tappx is a Cross-Promotion Platform, 100% transparent and it is made for developersTappx, the international exchange community to promote the apps for free is now available to apps in English. Tappx offers a fair exchange because every impression has an egalitarian value and gives the developers a chance to take control of their own cross-promotion campaigns. Tappx is a...
Twitter Finally Opening MoPub Marketplace to Drive App Installs and Engagements
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Twitter has made it official on a blog post: It is flexing the muscles of its MoPub ad exchange to leverage its Twitter Publisher Network to allow developers to set up campaigns directly on ads.twitter.com.According to the post, the MoPub Marketplace reaches more than 1 billion unique devices and handles more than 130 billion ad requests inside Android and iOS applicati...
Opera Mediaworks Reaches One Year Anniversary
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
Demonstrating how dynamic the mobile industry truly is, in
one short year Opera Mediaworks has become one of the world’s larges mobile
advertising platforms. A fully-owned subsidiary of Opera Software, Opera
Mediaworks has reached a number of milestones has reached in the last year.
Revenue Growth
Opera Mediaworks revenues increased 134% from Q1 to Q4 2013...
Airpush and OpenX Launches AirX, a New Private Mobile Ad Exchange
Monday, February 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Airpush and OpenX have announced a partnership to launch AirX, a new private mobile ad exchange. AirX combines OpenX’s global, Real-Time Bidding (RTB) exchange with Airpush’s ad network of more than 120,000 active Android apps. The new partnership creates one of the largest pools of mobile apps that can be accessed programmatically.With the combination of Airpush’s scal...
Google Play Services 4.1 Provides App Developers With Enhances to Game Apps, Android SDK Access, Mobile Ads, and Google Drive API
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google Play Services 4.1 has launched and it includes a number of enhancements including new Turn Based Multiplayer support for games, and a preliminary API for integrating Google Drive into apps. This update also improves battery life for all users with Google Location Reporting enabled. Once the rollout has completed, developers will be able to download the SDK u...
Google Adds New Ad Review Feature for Its AdMob App Monetization Network
Thursday, November 14, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has added a new Ad Review Center feature to AdMob to give developers more control over ads that appear in apps.
The Ad Review Center lets developers review ads before they appear in an app, and displays ads which have already shown in the app, to allow developers to assess if they want to continue showing those ads to users. It can particularly useful ...
App Marketing Done Right: How to Market Your App in Today's Crowded App Stores
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Giancarlo Maniaci
Most advertising industry long-timers remember the infographic that was the first to comprehensively detail the landscape of interactive advertising in a somewhat organized fashion. I remember seeing it and thinking “It’s getting a bit crowded in here.”
Over the last decade, the era of the ad network has come – and almost gone. Around the turn of this century, prospect...
Placecast Debuts Location Based Mobile DSP
Thursday, September 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
App developers could see increased revenue with the launch of Placecast’s new product, the PlaceAD location based demand-side platform (DSP).
With the new service, marketers will be able to launch location based mobile app campaigns with the added benefit of further segmenting their audience by age, gender, interests, device type/operating system, time of day, and we...
Grow Mobile, a New Marketplace To Get Users
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Zynga's former head of mobile marketing A.J. Yeakel, Storm8's former head of business development Brendan Lyall and Ming-Lei Xu, who sold Wild Needle to Zynga, have just launched a new tool to let developers market their apps by engaguging in ad exchanges, buying ad space, and more. It's called Grow Mobile, and it is a dashboard that incorporates about 75 diff...
7 developer mistakes using ads for monetization
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
There are so many options for app developers to consider when using adds to monetize their app traffic. Unfortunately there are also a few things that need to be considered before picking an ad network to use that are often overlooked.Mistake#1: Not segmenting your inventory effectivelyWhen it comes to inventory segmentation for advertising, developers usually do ...
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