The Mobile Media Upfront, the premiere event for mobile advertising and media
decision-makers, returns to New York City on May 8 at the Helen Mills Event
Space and Theater. The affair is the only mobile industry event that unites
leaders from all the major holding companies including Aegis, Havas, IPG,
Omnicom, Publicis, MDC, and WPP, as well as major brands and key players in
the burgeoning mobile universe.
The day-long program will feature many of the top thought-leaders, creative
and media powerhouses from across the content, distribution and technology
ecosystem. The 2012 Mobile Media Upfront will focus on the Q3 and Q4 2012
plans of the industry’s biggest mobile and advertising players.
“Mobile is quickly becoming the first screen for savvy advertisers. Smart
advertisers are locking up premium audience inventory as they see the impact
on their advertising and m... (more)
InsightExpress, a leading marketing research and data analytics firm, today
announced that it has been commissioned by VivaKi to measure advertising
effectiveness on tablet devices employing its Tablet AdInsights product as
part of the most recent wave of The Pool, an ongoing research initiative that
seeks industry alignment for engagement platforms of the future. VivaKi is a
division of Publicis Groupe and home to two of the world’s largest digital
agency networks (Digitas and Razorfish) and two of the world’s largest
media agency networks (Starcom Mediavest Group and ZenithOpti... (more)
Google will be acquiring AdMob, a network for ads on mobile gadgets for $750
million broadening its advertising reach to include mobile advertising. Omar
Hamoui, CEO of Admob launched the company 4 year ago and has been a pioneer
in the way he has maneuvered the controls imposed by wireless carriers to
produce an effective mobile network for advertising. The platform has allowed
Independent apps developers to find cost-effective ways to sell their product
in targeted spots. To date, AdMob has displayed 140 billion ads on mobile
websites and applications and its revenue is expecte... (more)
AdMarvel, a leading provider of mobile advertising mediation services, today
announced the availability of its iPhone Advertising Toolkit. Leveraging
experience from a broad portfolio of mediation services for mobile
advertising, the toolkit enables iPhone application developers to easily
integrate advertising from virtually any ad network into their applications.
Advertising metrics and analytics are provided via a web console giving a
near real-time view of the application’s advertising performance. To answer
the diverse needs of iPhone developers with an expanding internationa... (more)
the Rubicon Project, the digital advertising technology and data company, has
partnered with mOcean Mobile, an independent mobile advertising platform, to
provide premium Web publishers with a unified view into monetization across
their display and mobile platforms with REVV for mobile (RFM)™. Available
through the company’s REVV for publishers™ advertising platform, RFM
offers publishers a complete platform that includes mobile ad serving,
campaign management and ad network optimization to match every mobile ad
impression with the highest paying demand source. Through the REVV ... (more)