Mobile Marketing & Martech
Coalition Against Ad Fraud releases ‘first standardized document’ to pin down mobile fraud
CAAF is focused on performance ad fraud on mobile...
InMobi becomes Sprint’s exclusive in-app, CTV ad platform by buying the telco’s ad firm
The purchase of Pinsight Media positions InMobi as the central player in Sprint’s ad future, and possibly in the ad future of T-Mobile and...
Braze launches an app ecosystem with more than 45 integrations
Called Braze Alloys, it’s one more step by this former mobile marketing platform (when it was known as Appboy) toward expanding its channel...
Branch buys TUNE’s attribution platform
The acquisition boosts Branch’s nascent attribution solution, adds to its deep linking and complements its access to Facebook data -- which...
Smaato report finds post-GDPR spike in CPMs for non-targeted mobile ads
Spending for targeted ads to users who have granted consent are also spiking, but the expectation is that rates will stabilize as the audience...
AR breaks out of the app and onto the mobile browser
8th Wall Web allows brands to offer interactive AR content without forcing their customers to download an app or scan an image marker such as a...
5 ways to improve ROI on seasonal pages by optimizing your SEO crawl budget
What is a crawl budget? Google’s goal is to make useful information available to people searching the web. To accomplish that, Google...
Dstillery’s new Dscover Maps bring data visualization and location insights to brands
Not the first such product to market, Dstillery argues it has more and cleaner data than rivals....
Facebook rolls out mobile-first video creation tools for advertisers
Marketers can use the tools to add motion to existing images and videos or to create video ads from company assets like logos or...
Report: Marketers are missing mobile opportunities to reach customers in store
The Salesforce/Publicis.Sapient study reveals that 71% of retail customers use their phone during their in-store shopping experience....
Swrve’s new platform enables ‘payload’ targeting and triggering
The company says this is the first real-time use of granular data within an event for defining audiences and deciding when to send...
ironSource releases new platform to track playable ads’ metrics
Called the In-Ad Data Platform, it is designed to capture the choices users make inside these...
Gartner releases first Magic Quadrant on mobile marketing platforms
Mobile-only platforms take most of the top places, above Salesforce and...
WildFire launches virtual coin platform to promote app discovery and engagement
Eschewing blockchain, the company is offering a standalone reward system that operates inside and between mobile...
Simpli.fi’s ‘addressable geo-fencing’ enables individual household targeting but at scale
A kind of 'Facebook Custom Audiences for the real world,' the approach uses plat lines and GPS data for greater location...
If you use mobile location data, it’s time for a mid-course correction
Contributor Gladys Kong argues that the massive influx of mobile data and changing user patterns demand that location data companies step back...
Neura and In Loco are launching new efforts to tap the real world for targeting
These startups are pointing to ways in which the Internet of Things, data mashups and predictive inferences are helping marketers move beyond...
5 Tips to Choosing Your Winning Business Domain Name
Back Rub, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, DrivUrSelf, Research in Motion, Sound of Music. Wonder if these big brands had been as successful if they...
Kiip undertakes ‘first’ blockchain-recorded mobile ad campaign
The mobile marketing firm is now writing an Anheuser-Busch audit trail to a public blockchain, where all stakeholders can view all the...
Mobile marketer Leanplum buys Connecto’s conversational marketing
The acquisition of the Bulgarian firm boosts Leanplum’s goal of making conversations a central feature for maintaining brand relationships...
