Mobile demand-side platform Jampp was acquired by Affle on Wednesday. It’s a mobile marketing company with a presence in India and Singapore. There’s nothing like a little uncertainty (ahem, Apple) to spark M&A. The mobile advertising industry has been experiencing a massive wave of consolidation in the wake of privacy-related platform changes. Since February, AppLovin […]
Seems like almost every ad tech company you meet these days has attained unicorn status. Mobile ad platform Moloco has raised a Series C funding round, announced Thursday, that brings its valuation to $1 billion. The funding came courtesy of the South Korean investment banking group Shinhan GIB and a handful of other new and […]
App marketing platform AppLovin filed for its IPO on Tuesday after the market closed, and it wins for best ticker symbol ever: APP. Read the full S-1 filing here. AppLovin is taking advantage of a public market boom for advertising-related technology companies, but AppLovin was actually quite hot before the froth started frothing. The company […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Meiry Vaknin, vice president of partnerships at YouAppi. With Amazon having joined the Google and Facebook duopoly as the platforms dominating digital marketing, could new or old players be preparing […]
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 […]
In this new podcast series, AdExchanger editors break the cabin fever by talking with the top thought leaders and practitioners in digital and data-driven advertising – all while under social isolation. Abhay Singhal, CEO of InMobi Marketing Cloud and co-founder of InMobi Group, is making the best of San Francisco’s shelter in place order. What […]
As the mobile app space matures and consolidates, one of its early entrants is floundering. Smaato just appointed its fourth CEO in a year after laying off 10% of its staff. Total headcount is down 20% from the beginning of last year, with the mobile exchange going from 240 to 190 employees. Ajitpal Pannu, who […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mobile Detox Are people cutting back on their mobile phone use? Media agency Hearts & Science tracked the phone usage of more than 2,000 Americans over 14 months and found that 64% scaled back their app usage during that period, with the average down […]
On Monday, Activision Blizzard Media, the advertising and media arm within Activision Blizzard (parent company to juggernaut game studio King), launched King’s Council, a panel comprised of around 5,000 of its most engaged and active players across the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose is to conduct user research and to test ad […]
When Japan-based SmartNews raised its most recent funding round – $28 million in August – the company’s valuation hit $1.1 billion. It’s an eye-popping appraisal for a news discovery app. There aren’t many ad-supported unicorns galloping around the digital news biz these days. SmartNews has raised just over $116 million since 2013. The app, founded in Tokyo […]
