The sad tale of mobile ad exchange Mobclix, which was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2013 after being acquired — and mismanaged — by mobile agency Velti, seems like it could have a happy ending. In November, Mobclix was acquired yet again, re-emerging several months ago as Axonix, a programmatic mobile exchange underpinned by the […]
Mobclix, the mobile ad exchange that was acquired and subsequently sold by the troubled mobile marketing agency Velti, re-emerged Tuesday as Axonix. GSO Capital Partners, a division of Blackstone, bought Velti’s US, British and Indian mobile marketing divisions (including Mobclix) in November last year. Axonix will officially launch next month in a partnership with Telefonica, […]
Video advertising platform Tremor Video announced Tuesday that it had hired 10 engineers from the recently shuttered mobile ad exchange Mobclix. The former Mobclix team will work on the development of Tremor’s programmatic buying solutions for brand advertisers. Tremor Video was eager to hire its engineers for their experience in mobile and programmatic solutions, said […]
Krishna Subramanian, the chief marketing officer of the mobile marketing agency Velti and co-founder of ad exchange Mobclix, which Velti acquired, has resigned from the troubled agency. In an email, Subramanian writes, “As many of you already know I have moved on from Velti. I am grateful to have co-founded Mobclix and humbled by the part […]
Twitter’s acquisition of mobile supply-side platform MoPub this week could pave the way for more activity and something close to standard business models in the nascent mobile exchange space. Established desktop exchange players like the Rubicon Project and PubMatic, which have expansive networks on the sell side, have struggled to retrofit their existing platforms to […]
Velti is providing BlueKai, a data intelligence company, access to its mobile marketing data, thanks to a new partnership launching today. Aggregated data from Velti’s RTB mobile ad exchange, called Mobclix, will now be a part of the data available for BlueKai clients, which will expand reach and better target mobile and cross-platform campaigns. Velti […]
Late last week, UK mobile marketing firm Velti announced that it had acquired mobile ad exchange Mobclix, which “connects more than 25 online, video and mobile ad networks including Millennial Media, Jumptap, InMobi, Traffic Marketplace, Mojiva and Smatto,” according to the release. Read more. Dakota Sullivan, VP of global marketing at Velti, discussed the acquisition. […]
Mobile ad exchange, Mobclix, announced the acquisition of mobile analytics firm, Heartbeat, on Monday. (Read more.) Also, last week, Mobclix released results of “The Mobclix Challenge,” a performance comparison between MobClix and Google-owned mobile ad network, AdMob. See it here. Krishna Subramanian, co-founder of Mobclix, discussed the Heartbeat acquisition as well as the Challenge. Prior […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a new column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Today’s column is written by Krishna Subramanian is co-founder of Mobclix. You’re probably already convinced that you should be thinking about mobile advertising. You can’t read any tech blog these days without hearing about Apple buying Quattro Wireless, Google buying […]
