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Despite Soaring Engagement, King Gets Dinged By A Pullback In Digital Ad Dollars

Gaming is growing like gangbusters in a socially distanced world, but it’s not immune to macroeconomic trends. Take Activision Blizzard’s mobile gaming arm, King, home to the wildly popular Candy Crush franchise. Activision Blizzard, which also owns the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises, reported its Q1 earnings on Tuesday after market close.... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // May 5th, 2020 //
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MGI Restructures Its Mobile Ad Tech Assets To Create Verve Group

Media and Games Invest (MGI), the German holding company that acquired mobile location player Verve in January, is creating a separate business unit for its ad tech assets. The new unit, announced on Tuesday, is called Verve Group, and comes along with a mini reorg. Sameer Sondhi, previously SVP and GM of global business development... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // May 5th, 2020 //
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Mobile Apps Ally To Fight COVID-19 Misinfo In Developing Countries

Misinformation can spread as quickly as disease. But accurate information is power during a health crisis, said Tim Koschella, CEO and founder of Kayzen, an in-app in-housing startup based in Berlin. Koschella and his team are spearheading an initiative to circulate reliable health info through in-app ads on Android devices in developing countries, including across... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 24th, 2020 //
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Why Business Is Booming For Mobile Game Publishers Despite The Downturn

The mobile gaming category – a more than $60 billion-a-year market – is thriving amid the brewing economic crisis. But unlike other publishers and platforms experiencing engagement spikes without the corresponding uptick in ad revenue, mobile game publishers are seeing massive boosts across the board. Nearly every metric (other than CPMs and cost per install or... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 21st, 2020 //
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Axios Launches Native App Ahead Of Schedule As Time Spent With News Soars Thanks To Coronavirus

Axios launched its first mobile app on Wednesday two weeks earlier than planned in order to take advantage of the explosion in engagement with news content during the pandemic. The news site had more than 26 million unique visits in March, a record, said Mike Berkley, chief product officer at Axios. Of that web traffic,... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 15th, 2020 //
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InMobi Avoids Coronavirus Layoffs With Stock Compensation Plan

Mobile advertising platform InMobi is revising its compensation structure for employees in an effort to avoid layoffs due to economic strife related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Effective April 2020, employees will receive a portion of their salary in the form of stock rather than cash. The stock component begins at 10% of an employee’s... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 11th, 2020 //
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PlaceIQ Acquires Freckle IoT In Latest Example Of Location Data Market Consolidation

On Tuesday, PlaceIQ announced its acquisition of Toronto-based location data and measurement company Freckle IoT. Terms were not disclosed. Foot traffic may be way down during the pandemic, but consolidation in the location data space is heating up. The day before, Foursquare revealed merger plans with location data provider Factual less than a year after... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 7th, 2020 //
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Starting As CMO During The COVID-19 Pandemic

One thing Adam Singer learned when he was looking for a job over the past six months or so, was that Fortune 500 businesses aren’t equipped for remote workforce management. One CMO didn’t feel comfortable hiring someone in Austin, where Singer moved this year, because she’d never managed someone remotely before. A well-funded tech startup... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // March 25th, 2020 //
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Coronavirus Aside, Some Mobile Ad Tech Companies Doubt The Value of MWC

First it was Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, then Facebook’s global marketing conference followed by F8 and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Fear over spreading the coronavirus is scuppering events around the world, and rightfully so. As of Friday, there are 31 active cases of coronavirus reported in Spain, with three in Barcelona.... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // February 28th, 2020 //
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Mobile Device IDs Will Be The Next Ad Tracker To Bite The Dust

Mobile advertising IDs are probably not long for this world. Neither Apple nor Google – which is fresh off announcing its plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome less than two years from now – has taken concrete steps to eliminate their respective device IDs as of yet, but the app ecosystem should be preparing for that... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // February 10th, 2020 //
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