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 […]
Two years into their existing partnership, ad holding company Interpublic Group is making an unspecified investment in Kiip, a company that promises to connect marketers and consumers through the use of “unexpected” targeted rewards to mobile app users and gamers. Apart from help in continuing to build the San Francisco startup, Kiip co-founder and CEO […]
Earlier this week, Thrillist Media Group, publisher of a young men’s local lifestyle guide network and e-commerce app, brought in digital ad sales vet Todd Anderman as the company’s president of sales, marketing and operations. Most recently the chief media and revenue officer of mobile ad targeter Jumptap, Anderman spent much of the past decade […]
Even as mobile real-time bidding gets more attention, the obstacles currently in its path will continue to prove challenging, says Brian Monahan, managing partner of IPG’s Magna Global. The media shop’s research unit just unveiled its twice-annual Media Economy Report, which details the promise and the problems of mobile advertising. As Monahan pointed out in […]
Among the questions facing publishers last year: (1) What should be done about the rise of audience buying?, and (2) How do we make mobile advertising really pay off? Meredith Corp., the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, has been focused on mobile for years, particularly through the […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Dan Grigorovici is CEO at AdMobius. If brands and agencies are ever expected to invest significant dollars in mobile then it’s time for the industry to get serious about measurement. While it’s true that progress […]
The Saturday before Christmas came in as a top three December shopping day for many retailers, including Best Buy, Toys ‘R’ Us, and Walmart. Below we present final holiday 2012 data from location analytics company Placed, which analyzes in-store visits of consumers who have opted-in to a mobile location measuring app. Placed’s location-based network does […]
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 […]
Adelphic Mobile is one of a handful of companies trying to address the problem of poor audience segmentation in mobile. It hopes to get there faster with the help of a $10 million investment led by Google Ventures. The money is earmarked largely for marketing and other go-to-market spending. “We’ve been pretty heads down, working […]
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 […]
While the media and tech press watch Facebook and Twitter minutely for their respective ad strategies to emerge in a more defined way, professional social network LinkedIn has been slowly growing its ad business through its Marketing Solutions unit. As the company pointed out in a research note released Friday, 72 percent of LinkedIn’s revenues […]
Snack giant Mondelez (Nabisco, Cadbury, Trident) began trading as a standalone company this week after splitting from Kraft Foods (Oscar Mayer, Maxwell House). CEO Irene Rosenfeld said specialization will let the company focus on expansion, especially in developing markets, per Reuters. That means nailing mobile, since many people in developing economies are skipping PC ownership […]
In beginning his new mobile ad startup, Admobius, co-founder Dan Grigorivici admits he’s no “spring chicken” when it comes to the ad technology landscape. He’s worked in a range of product-related capacities spanning digital agencies Carat and Digitas, mobile ad network Quattro Wireless (sold to Apple) and behavioral ad network Tacoda (acquired by Aol). Along […]
Facebook is rolling out a “small test” of mobile ads on non-Facebook sites, a spokesperson told AdExchanger today. The move is an extension of its current ad sales and serving relationship with Zynga, and the first time the company has signaled interest in combining its data with outside media impressions. Yes, it’s an ad network. […]
With audience buying a critical part of digital advertising – or traditional advertising channels, for that matter – where does the tablet fit in? Some think of it as “lean back” experience similar to TV. If so, should brand marketers get excited and start targeting devices with tablet screen resolutions? On the other hand, perhaps the […]
CPX Interactive was founded and long run as a traditional ad network business, but it wants to be known for multi-channel advertising — a la ValueClick. So it’s breaking out its channel offerings into branded divisions, starting with mobile and affiliate ads. Its new mobile network, Moversa, is three months old but already contributes 5% […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. The mobile media space is as exciting as it is daunting. As a digital media director, it seems there are more […]
WPP-owned Mindshare has a lot of love for its digital ad partners, but it’s tough love — especially on the first date. For one client, new ad networks, data providers, and other platforms must prove their worth within a week of testing. “Every test partner for this client has seven days to perform, and if […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Christy Belden is VP Media+Marketing at LeapFrog Interactive, a digital marketing agency. We live in a myriad of systems, which interact and work with another on a continuous basis. A great example of this is ants. Ants have the ability to […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Eric Johnston is VP Engineering and Chief Architect with Verve Wireless. Last October, when Apple released version 5 of its mobile operating system, hidden deep in the developer documentation was a short note attached to a system function called uniqueIdentifier: “Deprecated […]
Every month seems to bring a new company bent on cracking the code of mobile advertising. One of these is ThinkNear, which aims to bring elusive scale to hyperlocal ads. In this discussion with AdExchanger, CEO Eli Portnoy talks about the company’s value proposition and challenges it has faced. AdExchanger: What problem is ThinkNear solving? EP: […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Elizabeth Zalman is co-Founder at Media Armor, a mobile advertising technology company. “The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Elizabeth Zalman is co-Founder at Media Armor, a mobile advertising technology company. In January, I committed my 2012 resolutions to this readership, and my personal favorite was ensuring we hit $1B in spend. Resolutions are wonderful, but in order to fulfill […]
Anupam Gupta is President and CEO of Mixpo, a video advertising technology company. AdExchanger.com: How did your experience in product management at Microsoft prepare you for Mixpo? AG: Broadly speaking, it taught me to listen closely to customers and partners for insights and to use that input as the north star for our value proposition […]
Bryan Jones is CEO of Collider Media, a provider of targeting technology for mobile advertising. AdExchanger.com: Can you share a bit of background on you and how you got involved in Collider Media? BJ: Sure. I’ve been in mobile for about 4 years now, having been a corporate attorney before that. It’s been an exciting […]
Last Thursday, Medialets announced that it would extend its mobile rich media capabilities from mobile apps to the mobile web. Read the release. PHD Mobile Director Sal Candela discussed mobile from his media agency vantage point including rich media needs across mobile app and web environments. AdExchanger.com: Has mobile finally “hit” at PHD? SC: I […]
Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is the former CEO of mobile ad network Ringleader Digital and currently runs Bump Equity, LLC. The latest change in Apple IOS 5 of eliminating the use of the UDID is a huge shift for the mobile application ad […]
Jim Payne is CEO at MoPub, a mobile monetization platform. AdExchanger.com: Looking back at your experience at Admob, what’s coming in handy from those days at MoPub today? JP: Admob was probably the best place to learn about the nuances and complexities of mobile. I can’t think of a better place to have been to get […]
Content delivery network Limelight Networks announced last week its new Limelight REACH Interactive platform which the company claims “helps publishers, agencies and advertisers create ‘tappable’ pre-roll and post-roll in-stream video ads, which open coordinated microsites.” Read more. Jonathan Cobb, GM and CTO of Limelight’s Mobility and Monetization Group, discussed the announcement and its implications. AdExchanger.com: […]
On Wednesday, video ad technology company Mixpo announced a solution which it says “extends in-banner, dynamic video ads beyond the Web to tablet devices” enabling efficient deployment of campaigns across digital channels. Read the release. David Karabag, Director of Product Management for Belo Interactive Group, and part of media company Belo, discussed trends in the […]
