SITO expects location-based mobile ad market to grow to about $18 billion in 2019

SITO expects location-based mobile ad market to grow to about $18 billion in 2019

A small U.S. advertising company is making waves in the tiny but rapidly growing market for personalized mobile advertising. SITO Mobile Ltd uses location-based data to target ads to users of more than 250,000 mobile apps, including the Wall Street Journal, Pandora and Major League Baseball. SITO collects data including a device’s ID and location […]

PushSpring and comScore Partner to Deliver Enhanced Mobile Audience Segments for Programmatic Buying

PushSpring and comScore Partner to Deliver Enhanced Mobile Audience Segments for Programmatic Buying

Pushspring announced a partnership with comScore to introduce mobile audience segments, based on comScore Mobile Metrix and PushSpring’s App Graph data, for use in programmatic ad buys. PushSpring says it provides advertisers and app publishers with mobile app audience data for more than 200 million unique device IDs in the US and Canada. The company […]

Razorfish Hires Harvard Physicist Kevin Mercurio as COSMOS Data Scientist

Razorfish Hires Harvard Physicist Kevin Mercurio as COSMOS Data Scientist

Razorfish, a world leader in helping global brands drive customer obsessed business transformation, today announced it has hired Kevin Mercurio as director of data science for the COSMOSTM platform, a new position. Based in the agency’s New York office, Mercurio will report to Chief Intelligence Officer Samih Fadli. The hire follows the recent launch of […]

Location Tracking and the Trouble With ‘Opting In’

Location Tracking and the Trouble With ‘Opting In’

Anyone who’s opened a new app lately has seen a location- tracking pop-up that reads something like, “Allow app to access this device’s location?” Most people tap “Allow” on the assumption that it’s necessary for the app to do its thing—to hail a ride, find nearby restaurants or forecast the weather. And then they forget […]

Real-Time Data Used to Calculate the Brand Power of Athletes

Real-Time Data Used to Calculate the Brand Power of Athletes

Brandtix is the first global sports index platform that provides analytics on a players’s brand value, based on up-to-date athletic performance and social media presence. The website and app were developed by a team of experienced sports marketers to help agents, sponsors, broadcasters, and clubs make informed endorsement decisions. Brandtix combines real-time, incremental analytics pulled […]

McDonald’s Japan Combines Consumer Micro-Moments with the Weather

McDonald’s Japan Combines Consumer Micro-Moments with the Weather

McDonald’s Japan rolled out a campaign using from the Weather category’s Weather Index when it launched a customizable menu that offered many burger variations. Using sales data from the company’s nationwide network of restaurants, together with weather data, McDonald’s Japan was able to analyze in real time when and where products were selling well, and […]

comScore Introduces Mobile Audience Campaign Reporting in Canada and the United Kingdom

comScore Introduces Mobile Audience Campaign Reporting in Canada and the United Kingdom

Launch Enables More Comprehensive Measurement of Campaign Demographics and GRPs within comScore vCE comScore today announced the expansion of its mobile demographic reporting capabilities in validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE®) to Canada and the United Kingdom. Through the addition of demographic data partners, including recently-added Spotify, this latest vCE release brings mobile advertising into alignment with […]

Snapchat adopts Facebook-style ad targeting like email, mobile device matching

Snapchat adopts Facebook-style ad targeting like email, mobile device matching

Snapchat will allow brands to target ads based on people’s email addresses, people who resemble those defined groups and the type of content they view. Snapchat is rolling out new ad targeting options that challenge its anti-creepy advertising stance and could be used to execute the type of retargeting that Snapchat really doesn’t like. Snapchat […]

Mobvista Reports H1 2016 Results – Exceeding Revenue and Profit Expectations

Mobvista Reports H1 2016 Results – Exceeding Revenue and Profit Expectations

Mobvista, Asia’s largest and fastest-growing mobile ad tech company, announced its earnings report for the first half of 2016. Mobvista’s H1 revenue of $118.174 million and net profit of $11.525 million surpassed the full-year results of 2015. Mobvista ranks first among all the mobile marketing companies listed on China’s National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ) in […]