Millennial Media’s acquisition of competitor Jumptap has shed new light on the mobile arena. Despite being the country’s second-largest provider of mobile display advertising, behind Google, Millennial has struggled to recapture the momentum it enjoyed when it went public last year. The $193 million acquisition will inject new vitality into the Baltimore-based company, claimed Millennial CEO […]
One big old mobile ad network is set to acquire another. Publicly-traded Millennial Media announced an agreement to buy Boston-based Jumptap for a combination of tech and stock. Read the release. While Jumptap’s roots are in a traditional publisher network model, Millennial called Jumptap a “programmatic and mobile-first” platform. According to Millennial CEO Paul Palmieri, Jumptap’s strategic benefits […]
Tablet usage is growing at an impressive speed, with traffic from tablet devices doubling over the past year, according to new data from Adobe’s Digital Index. Additionally, tablets surpassed smartphones for the first time in February 2013, when looking at global traffic share. Adobe looked at more than 100 billion visits to more than 1,000 […]
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 advertising is on the rise and, looking at reports from the third quarter 2012, the use of mobile real-time bidding by buyers and publishers is also growing. Market intelligence firm IDC predicts that mobile advertising will reach $8 billion globally in 2012, jumping to $14.2 billion by 2014. Looking just at the U.S., market […]
