Telcos plan to muscle in on adland

Telcos plan to muscle in on adland

If the future of advertising is mobile-led, then O2-owner Telefonica’s measured attempt to control the delivery of ads across its network spotlights the power it could wield in a market dominated by Facebook and Google. There aren’t many mobile operators that don’t harbor a similar ambition, though like the Spain-based provider – the bulk of […]

Kiosked Co-Founder Antti Pasila Named Chief Executive Officer

Kiosked Co-Founder Antti Pasila Named Chief Executive Officer

Antti Pasila has been named Chief Executive Officer of Kiosked, the global programmatic advertising platform, in a natural evolution from his former role as Chief Strategy Officer. Pasila co-founded the company in 2010 with Micke Paqvalen, who previously served as CEO and has now been appointed Chairman of the Board. While Kiosked has served both […]

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 […]

TubeMogul Wins Pernod Ricard Deal

TubeMogul Wins Pernod Ricard Deal

TubeMogul has been selected as the preferred programmatic platform partner for brand advertising in Australia by multinational distilled beverage manufacturer, Pernod Ricard. Pernod, which previously used Vizeum for all of their programmatic buys, will now use TubeMogul’s automated software platform to plan, buy, measure and optimise their Australian brand advertising and manage the entire process […]

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 […]

#DMEXCO2016 – WPP’s Reading Room

#DMEXCO2016 – WPP’s Reading Room

Background: DMEXCO – a local German advertising technology expo or another international ‘must attend’ event for the diary? That debate will continue but both the usual global media suspects and local German players showed up for this year’s biggest European advertising technology show. Details and Implications: Rise of the machines: Technology is the driving force […]

Viamedia Launches Advanced Multi-Screen Mobile Ad Innovation for Audience and Impression-Based Selling

Viamedia Launches Advanced Multi-Screen Mobile Ad Innovation for Audience and Impression-Based Selling

Viamedia, the television industry’s largest independent cable TV ad management company, today announced an advanced mobile advertising innovation, AdMessenger Tap-To-Expand, the latest addition to the company’s growing roster of cutting-edge cross-platform ad solutions to reach any viewer on every screen. AdMessenger “Tap-to-Expand” is designed to reach consumers with an easily updated, geo-targeted, offer specific, custom-scrolling […]

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 […]

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 […]

MoPub’s Global Mobile Programmatic Trends Report: Four years of growth and new opportunities for buyers

MoPub’s Global Mobile Programmatic Trends Report: Four years of growth and new opportunities for buyers

This quarter’s report marks the four year anniversary of MoPub‘s Mobile Programmatic Trends Report (find the first report here). Since that time, the landscape for in-app mobile advertising, particularly through real-time bidding exchanges like MoPub Marketplace, has changed dramatically in terms of players, technology standards, and even platforms. On MoPub Marketplace alone, monthly ad impressions […]