Tag: mobile advertising

Amazon mobile video ads to challenge Facebook and Google

Jesse Collins
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Amazon wants a piece of the digital advertising marketing space that’s currently dominated by Facebook and Google. A new form of Amazon mobile video ads is to be introduced to the eCommerce giant’s smartphone shopping app. Amazon reportedly intends to sell video spots on its mCommerce platform. Amazon has been testing the ads on the iOS platform and plans to rollout a test for Android later this year. For several months, the Amazon mobile video ads have been on Apple’s iOS platform, according to people who are familiar with the…

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Mobile game advertising to benefit from new strategic partnership

Jennifer Goula
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Google and Unity have teamed up to give mobile game ads a boost. A strategic partnership between Google’s mobile ad business and Unity Technologies, a game engine developer, will help to enhance mobile game advertising. This partnership is integral to the gaming industry, as mobile games make up half of the worldwide game business; a business which market researcher Newzoo reports is now valued at an estimated $70 billion. The partnership has been in the works for several years. Both Google and Unity have been reportedly working on teaming up…

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New study predicts mobile advertising to grow to nearly 31% in 2020

L. Green
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Mobile is anticipated to be a driving force behind global advertising expenditure growth. Mobile advertising is expected to make up 30.5% of global ad expenditure in 2020, according to new forecasts from Zenith. Mobil ads are likely to overtake television ads in 2021. Back in 2017, mobile advertising accounted for 19.2% of global advertising expenditure, which is 11% lower than the 2020 growth prediction from Zenith’s recently published “Advertising Expenditure Forecasts”. Furthermore, the ROI Agency noted that if expenditure on mobile ads continues to grow at its current rate, it…

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Mobile ad reach was greater last year than ever before, Nielsen

Jennifer Goula
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The results of a new data analysis indicate that more online consumers were reached in 2017 than previous years. Mobile ad reach has made massive progress in the Philippines where they made it in front of more consumers than ever before last year. The Nielsen media research firm released a report showing the mobile advertising performance outpaced other forms of digital ads. They also surpassed the total from the year before. This analysis was published in the company’s Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings Benchmarks report. That report involves an analysis of…

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Facebook mobile ads drive social network’s revenue to $12.97 billion

Sam Lambert
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Advertising sales for smartphones and tablets has generated a powerful growth for the company. Facebook mobile ads sent the social network’s revenues considerably higher as the company reported it brought in $12.7 billion in Q4 2017. That figure represents a year over year growth of 47 percent over the previous fourth quarter’s $8.81 billion. The Facebook mobile ads revenue made up about 89 percent of the total earnings the company generated in the fourth quarter. In 2016’s last quarter, mobile advertising sales represented about 84 percent of total revenues. The…

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