Location-targeting mobile ad company Verve Mobile added several new hires to its sales team, including James Smith as Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, Smith was CRO for Warner Bros. Entertainment’s Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes properties, and he also previously served as CRO for The Huffington Post and as SVP of key accounts at AOL. “We’re […]
Yahoo will roll out targeted mobile ads through its partnership with ad network Chitika, the vendor confirmed. Chitika has worked with Yahoo since 2006 and already uses the company’s location and time-based ad targeting technology to deliver paid search listings across its web properties and across Chitika’s network of publishers. Yahoo has now tapped the […]
Given that the phrase “there’s an app for that” seems to be true more often than not, drawing attention to a new mobile app is harder than ever. This is good news for Fiksu, a mobile marketing company that helps developers promote their apps. The company recently pushed out the latest version of its Fiksu […]
At first, the joke was when mobile will finally “arrive.” And now the joke may be “I wish mobile had stayed away,” as publishers report increased traffic for mobile (hooray!) but decreased ad revenues (ouch!) in comparison to its PC-based facsimile. Of course, there’s no turning back, as report after report signals the consumer’s move […]
At Ad Age’s Digital Summit, Rebecca Van Dyck, head of consumer marketing at Facebook, informed the audience that she hopes her company makes “a few more big mistakes because we learn faster from them.” Van Dyck was referring to Mark Zuckerberg’s decision last year to undo the social giant’s previous efforts to embrace HTML5 apps […]
As tablet usage increases, magazines and other publications are working to create digital editions that take advantage of features on devices like the iPad and iPad mini. New York-based publisher Bullett Media has expanded its offerings into the ad agency space, providing education and creative offerings for clients. Working with Adobe Digital Publishing Software (DPS), […]
Recent reports from research firms IDC and Gartner suggesting that PC shipments are on a downward spiral confirmed what marketing software vendors already know: we are living in a post-PC world in which consumers move between various channels. According to IDC, worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the first quarter of 2013, down […]
Velti is providing BlueKai, a data intelligence company, access to its mobile marketing data, thanks to a new partnership launching today. Aggregated data from Velti’s RTB mobile ad exchange, called Mobclix, will now be a part of the data available for BlueKai clients, which will expand reach and better target mobile and cross-platform campaigns. Velti […]
Brian O’Kelley wants you to know he’s serious about mobile. On the same day IDC reported Q1 PC sales plummeted 13.9% as consumer usage shifted dramatically to tablet and smartphone devices, the CEO of AppNexus told attendees at the company’s San Francisco summit that the company is going “all in” with its mobile strategy. O’Kelley […]
Mobile app analytics provider Flurry has been preparing for a world where mobile is the main nexus for marketing and e-commerce. And while mobile ad spend generally lags way behind consumer usage, the company believes that dynamic will change relatively quickly and that its Flurry Marketplace, the name of its mobile RTB system, will help […]
Convincing students—not to mention adults with full-time jobs—to sign up for summer courses is never an easy task. As an experiment, New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies is trying out a free mobile app designed to drive enrollment in an online summer mobile marketing course. Created through sponsorships with Sprint and DudaMobile, […]
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has expanded the number of tournament-specific mobile properties it publishes, working with mobile platform company July Systems. “Each tournament isn’t going to create their own app, because a lot of that information would overlap with us, such as scoring and information,” Brian Carroll, VP of television and emerging media for […]
Imagine having a conversation with a mobile ad that goes something like this: “I like the Celtics.” The ad: “Did you know the Celtics are playing in this city at 8:00 pm tonight? Go Celtics.” Voice recognition software maker Nuance Communications claims brands will be able to engage customers in such two-way conversations through its […]
In spite of privacy challenges around the use of cookies in a mobile environment, smartphone and tablet activity is apparently spurring more mobile real-time bidding (RTB) and the use of programmatic tools to conduct business between agencies, publishers and developers. Earlier this year, for example, Adfonic claimed that mobile CTRs and eCPMs were much higher […]
Mobile marketing company Velti is expanding its advertising platform with the launch of Velti Media, a buyer-focused mobile ad network. The company currently focuses mostly on mobile marketing, including SMS, performance marketing with carriers, and loyalty programs, with about 30% of its revenue coming from advertising, said Velti’s CMO, Krishna Subramanian. “From an advertising perspective, […]
App developers and publishers who have yet to stop using unique device identifiers (UDIDs) now have a cut-off date. Apple informed app developers yesterday that it will soon ban any apps or updates to existing apps that include UDIDs, a component of analytics systems that publishers and developers have been using to track apps and […]
Location analytics company Placed launched Placed Affiliate, a monetization platform for mobile app developers, in beta today. By using Placed Affiliate, mobile apps collect location data on users who opt-in, and can then monetize that data. “Placed Affiliate does not impact the in-app experience with ads, rather it simply measures location for the purposes of […]
Volkswagen created the “Smileage” mobile app, expanding on its 2012 campaign slogan, “It’s not the miles; it’s how you live them.” Working with Google, VW’s app is the first project from Google’s Art, Copy & Code project, showcasing how companies can use technology — Google’s technologies in particular — to create more innovative brand experiences. […]
Some companies claiming to be “mobile demand-side platforms” are veiled mobile ad networks, or at least they’re mobile ad network-like. Which is to say they may be taking margin without disclosing price paid to the client. Others may be more transparent, buying on a per-impression basis and charging licensing fees as a standard DSP would […]
Opera Software spun off its mobile advertising, content distribution, and monetization businesses into Opera Mediaworks, the company announced on Monday. The global mobile marketplace will work with more than 80,000 mobile sites and mobile applications, and brings together several recent acquisitions, including mobile advertising firms 4th Screen Advertising and Mobile Theory, which were acquired a […]
The Weather Channel may have taken some heat from meteorologists for naming this past weekend’s East Coast snowstorm “Nemo,” but doing so was certainly good for ratings and web/mobile traffic. The storm also highlights an issue that its owner The Weather Company has been trying to address since bringing on several digital ad heavy hitters […]
In its latest advertising campaign, for the new game Devil May Cry, Capcom used targeted social media ads to engage with its audience through mobile devices in the U.K. The campaign included organic tweets and posts on Twitter and Facebook, with the gaming company promoting several specific posts on both networks, targeted to current followers […]
Games were the number one app category on the Millennial Media platform throughout 2012, and advertisers in the travel, education, retail, and restaurant industries all leveraged that popularity for their advertising strategies. Overall, 74% of mobile game impressions came from smartphones in the third quarter 2012, and when it came to the operating system, Android […]
Mobile ad network AdTheorent has unveiled real-time, predictive modeling software that aims to address the inefficiency inherent in current mobile data mining methods. Called Real Time Learning Machine (RTLM), it can analyze 50,000 mobile bid requests per second. “There is a problem with the way data mining works,” CEO Anthony Iacovone tells AdExchanger. “First, you feed that system […]
Mobile advertising gained steam in Q4 thanks to increased interest from advertisers and consumers during the holidays, according to recent data and reports from several mobile advertising platforms. As consumers turned to their phones and tablets more often during the holidays — and as they received new devices as gifts — advertisers took advantage during […]
SmartWool, a company that sells hiking and outdoor clothing made from merino wool, knows its customers and fans like the outdoors and being on the go. It made sense, then, for the brand to focus on mobile social outreach — and it has seen promising results. “We felt mobile was critical,” said Molly Cuffe, senior […]
Gartner predicts global ad revenue for mobile will top $11 billion this year, and leap to $24.5 billion three years hence. (Press release) That’s a striking increase from the estimated $9.6 billion it recorded in 2012, suggesting a rosy near-future for mobile ad sellers such as search companies, app developers, ad networks and social platforms. […]
Vikram Somaya, GM of The Weather Company‘s marketing insights group, WeatherFX, began his Media6Degree’s AdsCON presentation about the importance of data by reciting a passage from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In a stentorian voice, Somaya read lines about Caesar talking about “threatening clouds” to the attendees seated in a seminar classroom at NYU’s Stern School of […]
A little more than a year after making its first mobile-centric acquisition, sweepstakes content company ePrize has made its third purchase in the smartphone marketing arena with text marketing specialist Mozes. In an interview, ePrizes CEO Matt Wise told AdExchanger that the company is currently looking at several other potential prospects in the mobile space […]
Having “incubated” rich media mobile ads firm Celtra in 2006 while he finished his graduate studies at Babson College, CEO Mihael Mikek has seen the pre-smartphone days when SMS ads were all the rage. Eventually the mobile market began to take off and after grabbing $7 million in funding since 2010, the Boston-based company has […]
