Jerome Turnbull, director of media buying at AppLovin, shares his home office with his pet chinchilla, Speedie. That’s just the way people gotta roll in the WFH world. When Jerome, who joined AppLovin through its acquisition of Machine Zone in May, isn’t hanging out with Speedie or tending an aquarium populated by blue velvet shrimp […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On The Plus Side Walmart resisted starting a membership program because it goes against its lowest-cost-for-all ethos. But that stance comes to an end this month with the planned launch of Walmart Plus, a $98 per year loyalty program, Vox reports. Walmart Plus was […]
AppLovin’s acquisition of Machine Zone last week turned heads. Shouldn’t it be MZ acquiring AppLovin? But the deal makes perfect sense when you consider that Machine Zone is only the most recent – albeit the largest – content deal for AppLovin, which has made strategic investments in mobile game studios regularly for the last two […]
AppLovin is set to snap up Machine Zone. Put another way, a mobile ad startup is acquiring one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world. Terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were not disclosed, and the acquisition is subject to approvals. MZ’s valuation was reportedly around $6 billion in 2015. Machine Zone has […]
Machine Zone’s (MZ) experiment with homegrown ad tech is over. The gaming company shuttered Cognant, an internal demand-side platform created in 2016 to help MZ’s media buying team plan, create, buy, optimize and measure marketing campaigns. MZ laid off the entire Cognant team in June, as well as around half of its in-house media buyers, […]
