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Search Results for : Mobile Advertising

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March 03, 2021
Adapting Mobile Marketing For A Privacy First Future
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People
February 04, 2021
Charting the Unchartered: the Role of Telcos & the Future of Media & Marketing Models
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Industry
January 11, 2021
Targeting User Identities in the Wake of Third Party Cookies
People
September 30, 2020 What Does The Road Ahead Look Like?

At the beginning of September, Snap Inc appointed Jake Thomas as the Head of UAE operations. This comes as the company rapidly expands its local partner ecosystem and seeks to deliver more opportunities to consumers and brands than ever before. Communicate spoke with Thomas to understand how he plans to grow the company’s vision in the […]

People
September 28, 2020 Data Drives the World

Data is the most valuable currency in the 21st century. Data and analytics guru, Bernard Marr said: “While the average small business has less self-generated data than big players. . .this doesn’t mean big data is off-limits. In fact, in many ways, big data is more suited to small businesses, because they’re generally more agile […]

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August 31, 2020 Video Accounts For 42% of All Campaign Spend On Average

Mobile advertising platform, Ad Colony recently published the results of their survey, which asked marketers regarding their strategies and results for user acquisition (UA). The meteoric growth in mobile app usage has bred major competition in the marketplace. Creating a stellar app is just the beginning for developers. With millions of apps in the Google […]

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July 14, 2020 Game On! Why Brands Shouldn’t Overlook Videogames in Their Media Strategies

New report marks the launch of Gameloft for brands. A couple of weeks ago, Paris-based videogame publisher Gameloft, owned by media conglomerate Vivendi, unveiled Gameloft for brands, a new identity that unifies all of its Gameloft Advertising Solutions services. The launch was marked with the release of an in-depth report on gamers and what they […]

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April 28, 2020 Ad Colony Survey Findings Reveals Increase In Mobile Usage During Ramadan

Mobile advertising platform, Ad Colony unveils some interesting findings on consumer behavior on mobile as the holy month of Ramadan begins. The company surveyed people throughout the Middle East and North Africa about mobile usage during the Ramadan season. Respondents typically aged from 25 to 44 years. The key highlights of the survey are as follows […]

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March 03, 2020 Adopting New Metrics For Mobile Advertising

Mobile phones have become the one-stop destination for consumers-right from wake up calls to urgent shopping needs, instant messaging, etc. Naturally, this gave the rise to mobile advertising as a prime channel for marketers to communicate with their audience. With the advancing developments in the digital space, marketers need to stay on top of the […]

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September 25, 2019 Egypt Ranks Highest Of Smart Phone Mobile Gamers

In a research conducted by AdColony with On Device Research within several regions, Egypt ranks the highest in number of smart phone mobile gamers in the world followed by Brazil and Russia. The research was conducted across 15 countries in the Middle East, and other regions. Within the Middle East, the companies looked at KSA, UAE and […]

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April 30, 2019 MMA Tackles Industry Trends at Impact Forum

By Elías Jabbe Pertinent topics such as mobile advertising, digital publishing and influencer marketer were discussed and further analyzed during the Mobile Marketing Association’s annual Impact Forum in Dubai. The forum brought in thought leaders working in-house  at global and regional companies to discuss the transformation of business through mobile. Among the speakers was Emre […]

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September 10, 2018 How 3 brands and 1 mobile ad company are changing mobile video ads

Independent mobile advertising platform AdColony teamed up with three Unilever brands to run interactive mobile video campaigns in what the company claims to be a regional first. The Unilever brands included Sunsilk, Brooke Bond and Jif, which used the Aurora HD interactive video ads. This format also gives advertisers the opportunity to measure attention of […]

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April 29, 2018 23% spend more than 25% of their budget on mobile. Why are the rest not spending?

Mobile budgets have increased since 2016, with 23% spending more than a quarter of their budget on mobile Over the longer term, those spending more than 25% of their budget on mobile will almost double by 2022 93% still use Facebook while only 41% use Snapchat for mobile marketing The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), recently […]

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March 03, 2018 4 things we learned at Mobile World Congress (MWC)

If there was a single conclusion to be drawn from Mobile World Congress – the wireless mobile industry’s largest annual event that was held in Barcelona last week – it’s that the smartphone makers, carriers and networks in attendance have roughly 5,000 reasons to be excited about 5G, or fifth-generation wireless system technology. “It’s really […]

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February 27, 2018 IAS vs MOAT: which one should you choose?

Last year’s brand safety debacle brought to light some key issues with digital advertising. Among these were viewability and ad fraud. Ad fraud is rather self-explanatory, but what is viewability? Viewability is essentially an online advertising metric that determines if an ad is actually ‘viewable’, and then, allows advertisers to pay only for ads that […]

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January 25, 2018 What mobile movement data says about consumer behavior

By Puja Pannum, managing director, Blis MENA Retail marketing teams have learned that the more they know about their consumers the better they can tailor marketing strategies to their needs and secure their long-term loyalty. They’ve invested considerable resources into gaining insight into their shoppers, and have the necessary tools at their disposal to do […]

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January 03, 2018 How Gameloft is helping advertisers

5 mins with Yann Fourneau, vice-president of sales & marketing SEMEA, Russia & LATAM People usually know Gameloft only for creating mobile games. What can you do in terms of advertising? What are the different formats? Gameloft has actually been ranked world’s number 1 mobile game developer in downloads by App Annie for the second year […]

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December 13, 2017 Kwanko launches in Dubai

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Paris, Kwanko is an online performance advertising company with offices in more than ten countries including Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and now in the UAE. Who? Kwanko started off as a French family-run startup in 2003. In 2004, it set up […]

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May 23, 2017 Omnicom Media Group adds MENA to Pathmatics partnership

To further broaden its regional digital insights, Omnicom Media Group, the media services division of Omnicom Group, has extended its partnership with Pathmatics to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This means the group’s clients in the region will have exclusive access to Pathmatics’ display and mobile advertising intelligence to better capture market […]

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April 22, 2017 Blis and TVTY partnership enables personalized location-based ads

Global location intelligence company Blis is now stepping into a new frontier of geo-location-based mobile advertising through its partnership with TVTY. A “moment marketing company,” TVTY brings to the partnership the ability to launch location-based digital ad campaigns reacting to real-time events. These real-time events include “sporting events, changes in the weather or even stock market […]

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January 17, 2021
What Will the State of Mobile Be in 2021?
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April 29, 2019 Mobile Marketing Association hosts #ShapeTheFuture Forum in Dubai

By Elías Jabbe The Mobile Marketing Association returns to Dubai today to host the latest edition of one of its signature events: MMA Impact Forum. The Istanbul-based MENA & Turkey chapter of the global MMA is leading the organization of the annual forum in Dubai that unites marketers from various countries in the Middle East […]

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April 04, 2017 Blis now predicts future location behavior

Global location intelligence company Blis has released its latest innovation for the mobile advertising market: Blis Futures. Using proprietary deep learning technology, Blis Futures is an AI-powered, predictive location modeling solution. It identifies consumers most likely to visit specific locations, then provides advertisers a guarantee they will only be charged per consumer visit.  Working with Vizeum, Stella […]

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April 02, 2017 RIP mobile download advertising

Mobile app downloads is a dead business, wake up to the new reality: audience discovery By Rammohan Sundaram, managing director and senior vice-president – APMEA C1X Inc It was 2008 when the mobile app download companies came into being in plenty. Every second company I knew was a mobile ad-network. I wondered what the state […]

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March 20, 2017 On hold: mobile advertising in MENA

These were some of the thoughts that came out of the agencies’ feedback on what our mobile story should be on. Clearly, they couldn’t agree on one thing so we decided to let them talk about whatever they wanted to talk about. Over to the experts… Fahad Maghrabi, digital director, Initiative Riyadh   What are […]

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January 20, 2017 mCanvas partners with IAS Media in the Middle East

Described as an ad storytelling platform for millennials, mCanvas has partnered with IAS Media in the Middle East to bring its mobile ad formats to the GCC market. The partnership will give IAS Media exclusive access to mCanvas’ proprietary mobile ad technology for use in GCC while mCanvas will leverage IAS Media’s advertiser and publisher […]

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November 02, 2016 Now you see me

It feels like video has been the next big thing in digital media for the past ten years. Ever-increasing connection speeds and user connectivity have fueled the continued acceleration of video usage and, therefore, its importance to advertisers. Recognizing a shift in user behavior – and video as revenue potential – the big TV companies […]

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March 14, 2016 Small screen, big ideas

Last year was the year of mobile. You blinked? Well, you missed it. We moved from multiple screens to one – the mobile – and now, we’re again including new screens through wearables and virtual reality, resulting in a shift in consumers’ consumption habits and technology adoption. The one interesting element that governs this seismic […]

Industry
January 17, 2016 Update: Reports suggest Microsoft close to InMobi acquisition

Sources at InMobi reveal that the acquisition is a false claim and no further information can be expected at this time. Earlier, SeekingAlpha reports that Microsoft is near to closing a deal to acquire mobile advertising company InMobi. The report indicates that the number InMobi is requesting is approximately $2 million, but does not confirm […]

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November 23, 2015 Hide and seek

Currently, a viewable desktop ad is one where 50 percent of the pixels of the ad are visible for one second and 30 percent of the pixels of video ads are visible for one second. Since the release of the first set of guidelines by the Media Ratings Council (MRC) in June 2014, there have […]

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July 11, 2015 Digital Venture becomes the exclusive provider of Airpush in the Middle East and Africa

Digital Venture, part of JGroup, has gained exclusivity rights to represent global mobile platform Airpush. Airpush’s mobile platform utilizes advanced targeting technologies, including geo-fencing, persona targeting, app inclusion targeting and A/B testing to match advertisers with the right audience. Airpush also offers proprietary performance ad units, including advanced abstract banners, which are believed to perform […]

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March 31, 2015 Buzzeff launches new mobile video ad formats in the Middle East & Africa

Buzzeff today announced the launch of its exclusive mobile video advertising formats in the Middle East and Africa market. The two mobile solutions released are inRead Mobile and inFlow Mobile, both of which come with a high level of audience targeting options including targeting by geographic area mobility, device platform, such as Android, iOS or Windows, […]

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February 19, 2015 InMobi and SMG announce European partnership

Mobile advertising platform InMobi and media network Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) have announced a strategic partnership to drive mobile advertising across Europe. The partnership will combine the strategic strengths of both organizations to ensure best-in-class scalable mobile advertising solutions for all SMG clients. “Mobile is no longer an option, but an imperative for brands and […]

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September 04, 2014 Criteo shares new numbers on mobile opportunities for advertisers

  Self-described “personalized retargeting company” Criteo, which is reported to be bought out soon by Publicis Groupe, recently released the Mobile Flash Report, compiling figures on mobile behavior and usage and the opportunities that lay in them for advertisers and retailers. We’ve recapped the key findings: Retail, classified ads and travel rank first in mobile […]

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August 14, 2014 Connect Ads partners with Shazam in the UAE

  Digital media and technology solutions provider Connect Ads, a subsidiary of OTVentures, announced today an exclusive partnership with music, media and ad recognition app Shazam – which runs on any smartphone and can recognize content on nearby TVs, videos or tablets. The app has seen increasing commercial use, whereby TV viewers who “Shazam”ed a 15-second commercial showing […]

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July 27, 2014 The Digital Madison Avenue

  In this day and age, each and every one of us lives two distinct lives: one offline, which is the real life we all know, and another life online, which so many of us are now enjoying. This new online lifestyle has attracted all sorts of people, both sane and mad, to Madison Avenue. […]

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July 13, 2014 Criteo’s AD-X Tracking tool to work with Twitter

  Global digital performance advertising company Criteo  has announced that its in-app measurement solution, AD-X Tracking, is working with Twitter as part of the Mobile App Promotion program. The partnership will see Criteo developing a custom measurement solution for tracking mobile app install campaigns. “Initial results during the beta period have been very strong for mobile performance […]

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July 05, 2014 Nike shares social media numbers around its World Cup presence

  With its competitor Adidas being the official World Cup 2014 sponsor, Nike, which sponsors ten teams at the tournament, and over 50 percent of the boots worn on pitch , is sharing the figures on its social media presence during the month-long football bonanza. Followers for Nike’s football channels (namely Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube) […]

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May 12, 2014 Hard to carry

Last month, Spanish telecom company, Telefónica, beat its competitors to the punch: it teamed up with private equity firm Blackstone to buy the technology behind MobClix, a defunct mobile ad exchange. On the surface, it’s a natural move. For mobile advertisers hungry for user data, the richest sources are the mobile carriers themselves. And, for […]

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