Huawei brings HMS Developments to MWC 2022
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 by Richard Harris
At this year's MWC conference in Barcelona, Huawei continued to strengthen its support for developers with the debut of several new developments, including PC versions of HUAWEI Mobile Cloud, AI Search, AppGallery, HUAWEI Assistant·TODAY, and Petal Search enhanced for AR Glasses.
Focusing on its mission to help developers achieve business success, Huawei d...
Immersv VR and Mobile 360 marketing firm nabs $10.5M in Series A
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Immersv, an interactive advertising platform for Mobile 360 and Virtual Reality, has completed a $10.5 million Series A round of financing. The Series A financing builds on a year of significant product and market momentum for Immersv, which combines interactive 360 advertising with a programmatic real time bidding platform. The company has recently signed programmatic ...
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...
ironSource now includes AdMob in their mediation network
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ironSource announced the expansion of their integration with AdMob as a network partner of their Supply Side Platform. Publishers using the ironSource Mediation SDK can now leverage AdMob as a premium demand source for rewarded video in addition to interstitials. This incrementally increases competition for their video inventory, and maximizes global fill rates and eCPM...
ONE by AOL: Mobile: Selfserve capabilities for mobile SSP
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
AOL has announced new self-serve capabilities for its programmatic mobile supply-side platform, ONE by AOL: Mobile (ONE), which launched in 2016. The new self-serve functionality meets the monetization needs of mobile-first app developers and publishers by maximizing mobile ad inventory and providing complete transparency and control. Through the platform, app economy p...
Enhance by FGL now features Appodeal support
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appodeal has announced that Enhance by FGL now features Appodeal support. This will enable app creators to bring to market products that are already optimized for ad-driven revenues, with absolutely no additional code work required.Enhance works by allowing developers to inject SDK code into their already compiled iOS and Android apps. App creators can upload their comp...
Pixalate and Beachfront bring transparency to mobile world
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Beachfront Media has announced an extensive partnership with Pixalate Inc. to utilize existing technologies for a safer experience in the mobile world. The deal will bring better transparency to the Beachfront supply-side platform (SSP) that processes more than 50 billion mobile video ad requests each month. The partnership leverages Pixalate’s fraud detection capabilit...
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...
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...
MobFox to Start Using Pixalate Blacklists to Help Mobile Advertisers Against Fraud
Thursday, August 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
MobFox has announced that it will start using Pixalate’s IP/User Agent Blacklists to measure fraud type and volume to optimize away from fraudulent traffic. The new IAB-approved Advertising Fraud Protection addition to the MobFox mobile advertising platform will help decrease the chances of ineffective ad spending for mobile and programmatic advertisers using the platfo...
MobFox Releases New Ad SDK in Multiple Sizes for App Publishers
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
MobFox has released a new “built-to-fit" SDK for mobile app publishers, making its SDK available in multiple sizes - from 90K to 350K - to fit a publisher’s needs depending on the ad format they choose and other requirements. The full SDK offers enhanced support for video and audio ads and the lighter SDK reduces the time it takes for the publisher to install, thus maki...
Latest Manage InApp Advertising SDK Optimized for iOS 9
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
In-app advertising platform Manage has released the latest version of its SDK (v.3.3) which has been optimized for iOS 9. It also extends an app publishers’ ability to serve and monetize in-app ads, including video and new Multi-Image ad units. The latest release cuts the size of the SDK by as much as 35 percent.The updated SDK provides access to Manage’s mobile supply-...
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...
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...
SponsorPay Mobile Ad Supply Side Platform Rebrands as Fyber
Thursday, July 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SponsorPay has officially rebranded to Fyber. The company offers a monetization platform that includes mediation, an ad marketplace and ad serving capabilities.According to a company statement:SponsorPay’s rebrand to Fyber goes beyond just a new company name. Over the last eighteen months, we have evolved from a rewarded advertising network into a top mobile supply...
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...
PubNative Launches Native Advertising Platform Accessible Through an API
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
PubNative has announced the availability of its new native advertising platform, which provides a supply-side platform (SSP) that can be accessed by developers through an API instead of through the integration of an SDK. The company also has announced a recent investment from AppLift. Through the PubNative platform’s API, publishers can request over 20 adverti...
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...
