Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. It’s a big round for the startup company, which left Seattle for San Francisco shortly after graduating from the Techstars program in 2012. The latest round brings total funding in Leanplum […]
Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic audience company, announced the launch of native ad specialist plista in Singapore and Taiwan. Part of the Xaxis portfolio, plista is the industry’s most comprehensive programmatic platform for native ads and the first to provide a single source solution for buying in-feed, outstream video, recommendation widgets and in-ad formats across […]
POKKT, a mobile video advertising platform in India and South East Asia, has announced the launch of a new in-app mobile retargeting product suite. POKKT adds this formidable suite to its progressive mobile ad platform, giving advertisers the ability to remarket and defined audience segments and niches efficiently. Commenting on the development, Manish Tewari, POKKT’s […]
Facebook’s newest batch of tools is designed, in part, to help fill any weekend night voids on its users’ calendars — whether it’s with a night on the town or a pizza delivery. “It’s Friday night. You don’t have plans. I’ve got a babysitter ready to go. What do I do?” said Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, […]
A fitness tracker designed for wheelchair users has won the Grand Prix at the Dadi Awards, which celebrated 10 years of recognising the UK’s finest digital work at a ceremony in London on October 19. Accenture’s app was described by judge and executive creative director at StartJG, Patrick Baglee, as fulfilling “a clear need” and […]
Flipboard announced 65 new publications available on its platform through partnerships with publishers Bonnier, Rodale and The Enthusiast Network (TEN). The new titles, such as Motor Trend, Working Mother and Runners World, add breadth and depth to the topics people follow on Flipboard. In the months ahead Flipboard will add more sources and important voices […]
AdAsia Holdings, the seven month-old tech vendor-agency hybrid, has opened in two new markets – Vietnam and Indonesia. Country managers have not yet been confirmed for the Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City offices. The agency says that its rapid expansion has been fuelled through client demand, with Taiwan the next launch target for the fast-growing […]
Triton Digital, a leading technology provider for the audio industry, announced that SoundCloud, the world’s leading music and audio platform, has selected Triton Digital’s programmatic audio advertising exchange, a2x as a monetization partner for their digital audio advertising inventory in Canada. This partnership enables programmatic buyers throughout Canada to execute targeted, at-scale buys across SoundCloud’s highly engaged […]
Taptica, a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available, announced that Codoon, the largest sports social platform, has engaged Taptica for its Facebook social offering to drive qualified user installs in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and more […]
Go2mobi, one of the first mobile programmatic advertising platforms, announced a partnership with Neustar, a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services. The partnership brings together the latest innovations in mobile DMP and DSP technology including highly accurate and up-to-the-minute insights and audience data. The partnership gives marketers and media planners better optimization capabilities and […]