AdColony Partners with UFC to Launch High-Performing Instant-Play HD Vertical Video

AdColony Partners with UFC to Launch High-Performing Instant-Play HD Vertical Video

AdColony, the largest independent mobile advertising platform in the world, released industry-leading results for its Instant-Play HD Vertical Video launch campaigns for brands across top mobile apps. Advertisers and their respective campaigns include UFC for UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey, a premium cable television network, a global consumer tech and entertainment platform and other Fortune 500 brands. […]

Cheetah Mobile rebrands mobile ad business as Cheetah Ads

Cheetah Mobile rebrands mobile ad business as Cheetah Ads

Mobile utility and content app developer, Cheetah Mobile Inc., launched Cheetah Ads, its newly rebranded mobile advertising business. Cheetah Ads unifies Cheetah Mobile’s strengths in utility apps and mobile content under a single name with a strong focus on bringing vertical video ads to every kind of mobile moment. Formerly known as Cheetah Ad Platform, […]

YuMe Turns Mobile Advertising on its Axis with New Vertical Video Format

YuMe Turns Mobile Advertising on its Axis with New Vertical Video Format

YuMe, a leader in brand video advertising software and audience data, announced the availability of an immersive mobile vertical video ad format for brands and advertisers. YuMe’s new customizable vertical video ad format enables video ads to fit more naturally within the mobile experience as full-screen video that is viewed in portrait mode. One of […]

BBC eyes vertical ads to boost mobile monetization

BBC eyes vertical ads to boost mobile monetization

The BBC became the latest publisher to introduce vertical video to its news apps, both domestic and international. Already, the overseas version carries vertical advertising. For now, that consists of static ad interstitials between videos, but in the next few weeks vertical video ads will be introduced — but the format is not without its own […]

Lipton Launches #BeAMaker Vertical Video Campaign

Lipton Launches #BeAMaker Vertical Video Campaign

Unilever-owned tea brand Lipton has launched #BeAMaker, a mobile-first vertical video ad campaign. The campaign pushes Lipton’s sustainable living brand message, building on the fact that it sources tea from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms. The video content tells the stories of young tea farmers in Kenya, focusing on what these titular ‘makers’ – such as rap trio Aroma 3 – do […]

Spotify Embraces Vertical Video with Branded Moments

Spotify Embraces Vertical Video with Branded Moments

Music streaming service Spotify has begun serving vertical video ads using its new format ‘Branded Moments’, which launched in beta in October. Like a number of the service’s other ad format, Branded Moments offers users 30 minutes of commercial-free listening afterwards, but Branded Moments is the first video unit from the streaming firm to use […]

Flipboard Is Now Offering Vertical Video Ads That Act Like GIFs

Flipboard Is Now Offering Vertical Video Ads That Act Like GIFs

Flipboard, the mobile publishing app with 90 million monthly readers, is launching a vertical video ad unit on August 3 with independent film distributor Bleecker Street as its first buyer. On the heels of its critically acclaimed film Captain Fantastic, Bleecker Street is pushing historical thriller Anthropoid while targeting readers of politics, movies, entertainment and news. […]