SessionM raises $35M for mobile marketing/loyalty tech

SessionM raises $35M for mobile marketing/loyalty tech

  Mobile-first marketing automation and loyalty platform SessionM announced a $35 million strategic growth investment round of Series D funding last week, furthering its efforts in the mobile CRM space. The funding round was led by General Atlantic, Salesforce Ventures, Causeway Media Partners, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. […]

Trophit and Adways partner on PreLaunch.Me for better pre-registration campaigns

Trophit and Adways partner on PreLaunch.Me for better pre-registration campaigns

Above: Trophit enables pre-registration campaigns on mobile. Trophit and Adways have teamed up to create entice users to adopt new apps using PreLaunch.Me, a platform for pre-registering users for games and apps on both iOS and Google Play. Tel Aviv-based marketing startup Trophit and Tokyo digital marketing firm Adways are joining forces on PreLaunch.Me to […]

Keettoo app partners with 100 firms, to allow cash to users for viewing ads

Keettoo app partners with 100 firms, to allow cash to users for viewing ads

Keettoo, a free Android-based mobile app which is giving a slice of mobile advertising revenue to its users, has enrolled as many as 100 large and medium-sized companies, and said that the app will soon be available on iOS and Windows platforms. “We have now over 100 advertisers across sectors that include automobile, hospitality and […]

Nine launches ‘innovative’ mobile ad units on programmatic marketplace

Nine launches ‘innovative’ mobile ad units on programmatic marketplace

Nine has extended a partnership with one of Australia’s newest ad tech players to deliver a mobile programmatic offering it hopes will revolutionise small screen advertising. Playground XYZ, which launched last November promising it would shake-up mobile advertising, has been given the green light to bring new ad formats, including Super Skin, Side Push, and […]

McDonald’s Unveils World-First Mobile Experience with the Monopoly Game

McDonald’s Unveils World-First Mobile Experience with the Monopoly Game

McDonald’s Australia has launched what is claimed to be a world-first mobile experience for its largest promotion, with the Monopoly Game at Macca’s app, transforming the entire promotion into a mobile gaming experience that converges the digital and physical worlds. Going mobile for the first time, the campaign and mobile gaming experience was led by […]

What Apple’s iPhone7 Spoiler Tweet Didn’t Tell You

What Apple’s iPhone7 Spoiler Tweet Didn’t Tell You

Let’s go beyond a summary of the new iPhone 7 features and look at something that Apple does just as creatively as phones: live streaming. Apple’s live streamed product launch reeled in tremendous amounts of activity on social media and generated a considerable amount of excitement through various digital channels. The viewer adherence as well […]

MMA EMEA Smarties shortlist announced

MMA EMEA Smarties shortlist announced

Campaigns exhibiting creativity and effectiveness, along with technical sophistication and consumer relevance from around the EMEA region compete to win coveted MMA EMEA Smarties™ Awards. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) EMEA has revealed the finalists for the MMA EMEA 2016 Smarties™ Awards, a shortlist that celebrates the talent and companies that have harnessed the power […]

Snapchat Poised To Rake In $1 Billion In Annual Revenue By 2017, Report Forecasts

Snapchat Poised To Rake In $1 Billion In Annual Revenue By 2017, Report Forecasts

CREDIT: Getty Images Snapchat’s messages may disappear, but the company’s advertising dollars are starting to pile up. The Los Angeles startup is nearly on pace to cross $1 billion in annual revenue by the end of next year, according to a forecast released Monday. By selling video ads, sponsored geo-filters and sponsored augmented-reality lenses, Snapchat […]

MediaBrix raises $6.5 million to make mobile ads more ’emotionally charged’

MediaBrix raises $6.5 million to make mobile ads more ’emotionally charged’

Image Credit: Shutterstock MediaBrix, a mobile advertising startup that says it creates “emotionally targeted brand connections,” that it scored a $6.5 million investment led by Edison Partners. “With this funding, we will continue to ramp our programmatic offerings, invest in R&D and expand our data sciences team focused on consumer receptivity,” said MediaBrix CEO and […]