Three ways programmatic is changing mobile app monetization
Monday, October 3, 2016 by Ross Barasch
Earlier last month digital marketers from around the world flocked to Germany for DMEXCO, one of the largest digital marketing events in the world. Traditionally, a buy-side focused show, the event now attracts more developers and publishers as programmatic real time bidding (RTB) is becoming a bigger part of mobile app monetization strategies. In fact, the move towards...
Two Case Studies On How Programmatic Ad Mediation Maximize Revenues
Friday, February 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Programmatic ad mediation is quickly becoming the standard in the next level evolution in monetization strategies for app publishers.Programmatic ad mediation works by giving publishers access to the whole marketplace, including traditional ad networks and mediators as well as RTB marketplaces - providing an expanded number of ad networks competing for ad inventory. Pro...
Mobile Advertising Predictions for 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently hosted a Q&A with members from Fiksu’s executive team who offered their predictions on mobile advertising for 2016. Included in the Q&A were Fiksu’s Tom Caputo, Chief Product Officer; Benjamin Hansz, VP of Client Management; Claire Oliverson, Director of Product Marketing; Craig Palli, CSO; Pat Eichmann, Senior Director of Sales West; and...
Smaato Updates RTB Ad Platform With New App Monetization Tools
Thursday, September 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Smaato is providing developers with new app monetization tools as the company has extended the functionality of its SPX real-time advertising publisher platform to include a native advertising builder and private marketplace functionality.Smaato offers a real-time advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers. Smaato’s new “point-and-click” native mobile...
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...
Vserv.mobi and Microsoft Woo App Developers on Nokia X
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Vserv.mobi and the Nokia X Developer Relations team at Microsoft UK have announced a new competition as part of their ongoing global DVLUP collaboration, to boost the efforts of the Nokia X developer community in Europe.The competition is designed to help and encourage app developers expand their Nokia X development efforts and maximize their monetization opportuni...
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...
It’s a Strange Marriage Between Two Fierce Rivals as Facebook and Google Join Forces
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Show me the money! You hear that a lot on our website and it’s what drives the mobile economy. Companies might compete hard in the mobilesphere, but if there is a way to make money working with a rival, they might not be thrilled about it, but more cash is more cash.
Google and Facebook are doing just that with the announcement that DoubleClick Bid Manager has joined w...
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...
Inneractive SSP Debuts Video in a Box for Mobile Publishers
Monday, September 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Inneractive has added to its SSP services with “Video in a Box,” allowing app developers and mobile publishers to serve full screen video ads in their mobile/web apps or in-stream properties.
Video in a Box enables display and video and includes an integrated video player. Video ads play natively and can be skipped, without forcing the user to close or leave the curren...