Marketers are always looking for new opportunities to tap into pop culture and gain access to significant audience volumes. Digital Advertising is set to cross a major milestone in the world of advertising as it is expected this year to overtake spending on traditional ads. Yet, gaming remains the biggest untapped market, with a potential audience of 2.4 billion gamers around the world. The last couple of years has seen an unprecedented rise in the market size of video gaming and esports. Consider this: the video gaming…

Back in 2008, Barack Obama (then Senator) achieved a sort of firsts when his presidential campaign ads appeared in the popular EA game Burnout Paradise on Xbox 360. A billboard message inside the game encouraged players to register to vote. Obama realized back then what many brands are taking note of today: young audiences of 18 to 34-year-olds — which represent the core gamer group — are getting harder to reach via traditional advertising mediums such as television, and are instead spending a considerable amount of time…

Developers Using More Ad Formats and Showing More Ads per Session as Confidence Grows and Revenues Rise The fifth annual In-Game Advertising Study, released by deep-data analytics and player management company, deltaDNA, finds that 94% of Free-to-Play (F2P) games now feature some form of in-game advertising (up from 87% in 2018). While the number of developers making between 40-100% of their revenue from ads has increased by 21% year on year. The study, which is based on the experiences and opinions of hundreds of game…

Partnership Enables Enhanced Audience Targeting On Gaming Consoles Tru Optik, the most widely used audience intelligence and data-management platform (DMP) across Connected TV (CTV), announced a partnership with Anzu.io, a leading blended in-game advertising platform that brings real-world ads into video gaming and esports, to make first and third-party data for enhanced audience targeting available for in-game advertising on gaming consoles. As 67 percent of U.S. consumers play video games on at least one device, there…

More Game Developers Turn to Advertising With gaming shifting to mobile, developers are looking to monetize their games through advertising, and advertisers are realizing that mobile games attract players from nearly all demographics. How big is the market for mobile in-game advertising? We estimate that the US market for in-game advertising on all devices will exceed $3 billion this year, with mobile comprising the majority. Ad spend in all games grew 16% in 2019 and will continue to grow by double-digit rates…

Higher Demand for Ad Network Transparency and Campaign Data Sees Developers Remaining Loyal to Those Networks That Deliver After years of uncertain experimentation, Free-to-Play (F2P) game developers are starting to view ads as a genuine alternative to In-App Purchases (IAPs) rather than just an additional revenue bonus. In the last twelve months, the number of games owing at least 40% of total revenues to ads has increased by 15%, while the number of games generating 81 – 100% of their revenue from ads has leapt by a…

Adverty AB (publ) has signed an agreement with world-class independent game developer MADFINGER Games to enable seamless in-game advertising in the upcoming new title "Shadowgun War Games". Launching on Google Play and Apple App Store in February, the game has over one million pre-registrations to date. Adverty AB, the leading in-game ad platform, has signed an agreement with world-class independent game developer MADFINGER Games to enable seamless in-game advertising in the upcoming new title "Shadowgun War Games". The…

Gamers don’t like it when advertising gets in the way of play, as illustrated by the furore around the unskippable ads recently introduced to NBA 2K19’s loading screen. Many game developers aren’t keen on disruptive Digital Advertising either. They work hard to create incredible gaming experiences and understandably don’t want them spoilt by intrusive, ugly, and unnatural ads. Yet advertising provides an essential revenue stream that allows developers to keep producing creative and innovative games for tomorrow’s players.…

Company’s Total Revenue Grows 20% and Programmatic Revenue Grows 750% Year-Over-Year, as Its Network Now Delivers over 40 Million Completed Ad Engagements per Day Tapjoy, the Maximum Impact Platform for mobile advertisers and app developers, announced it was named the exclusive advertising provider for Jurassic World Alive, the hit mobile game developed by Ludia, a Montreal-based video game company that creates and distributes cross-platform digital games, in partnership with Universal Games and Digital Platforms.…

The rewarded video ad format is adored by the mobile gaming and advertising worlds. We now finally have an ad format that satisfies the needs of advertisers, publishers and gaming audiences. Rewarded video ads provide gamers with a reward for watching the entire length of a video ad. In the mobile gaming world, this format works extremely well in mobile games. For developers, rewarded video ads offer the potential to increase in-app purchases and lengthen play session times, therefore increasing loyalty and retention. Also,…

UPLTV's Report Was Based out of 30 Million Ad Impressions Combined from IoS and Android Devices. UPLTV, focused on mobile game ad mediation, released its February 2018 Global Mobile Game Advertising Monetization Data Report. This report is based on the data collected from over 30 million ad impressions on iOS and Android devices. Ad impressions are categorized based on casual, match-three, and casino games. For each category, the advertising monetization indicators eCPM (effective cost per mille) are collected and stats…

"As AdTech grows, we will see an enhanced focus on not just placing an ad, but also knowing what is happening on the other side." Tell us about your Journey in Technology? What inspired you to start Anzu.io? Since I first dipped my feet into the AdTech industry, I was hooked. I saw in AdTech, a wide-open canvas for innovation and meaningful advancements. My mission was - and is - to create breakthrough products that have the power to change the way humans and advertisements interface with one another. A core…

If I were to get brand advertisers in a room and ask them about their three biggest advertising nightmares, chances are most of them would say ad fraud, brand safety and lack of transparency. Digital advertising, particularly in the modern-day AdTech industry, has struggled with these three issues for many years now. Brand safety continues to be a serious concern for 99% of ad industry professionals surveyed this year by CHEQ and Digiday. Earlier this year, YouTube and Google found themselves in the middle of a…

We’re only one month into 2020, and the AdTech industry is already manifesting one change after another. With a lot of pressure coming from the world markets and ongoing issues within the industry itself, independent AdTech will have to face many challenges this year. However, brace yourselves, for we’re in this together! Here’s our checklist on how to survive in 2020. 1. Bye-Bye, Cookie As you might already know, Google will drop third-party cookies in 2022. Which seems like a distant future. However, this decision is…

Singular ROI Index Analyzes $6.3B in Ad Spend for 2.2B App Installs Across 550 Networks to Identify the World's Top Ad Networks for ROI in Mobile User Acquisition. TikTok has emerged from nowhere as one of the top platforms for advertising ROI, joining perennial leaders Google and Facebook. And Apple Search Ads shows its own emerging power: hitting all 12 top regional and vertical lists. TikTok almost literally exploded, with ad spend jumping 75X from May to November. Growing 614 million users in a single year can…

Original Movie Poster Designs Pay Tribute to Iconic Artists Around the World While Showcasing the Broad Range of Shutterstock Content Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global technology company offering a creative platform for high-quality content, tools and services, launched its eighth annual Oscar Pop! poster series to celebrate the best picture nominees in the 92nd Academy Awards. Each of the posters features photos, vectors, textures and illustrations from Shutterstock's diverse collection of over 300 million images…

First of its Kind, Integration Provides Important Hiring Information in Real-Time Crosschq, a new company focused on helping companies hire and retain the best employees, introduced the first-ever reference check integration with Slack. Crosschq for Slack enables HR and hiring teams to immediately access and interact with important reference information, reducing the time it takes to hire and onboard employees. “In a tight job market with low unemployment, companies are hard pressed to find and hire great employees. By…

"Marketing Automation is critical to defining the funnel and building a communication plan for each of the customer touchpoints, as well as post-analysis." Tell us about your journey into Marketing Technology and how you started at Anzu.io? I have been involved with Anzu since the company’s early days. Having worked in the AdTech space before, I was inspired by Anzu’s mission to make advertising better, and could see the potential impact I could have as a marketer. I am super proud of the team and what we’ve accomplished…

Tell us about your journey in Technology. What inspired you to start Anzu.io? I was always fascinated by technology and innovation, and had already begun programming by the age of 9! In my early years, I experimented with working in many areas of computing such as Reverse Engineering, Hacking, Computer Graphics, and Demo-making. Tasks that did not involve creativity and innovation seldom interested me—and this truth remains today! As the years went by, I had the chance to work in a wide range of technological fields and…

 Bidstack, the in-game advertising group, has entered into a £10m trade deal that represents the first-ever major investment from an agency group into in-game advertising. Bidstack has been trailblazing the in-game ad category since it was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018 – becoming the first crowdfunded gaming company to go public. Since its arrival on the open market, Bidstack has signed partnerships with game publishers such as Sports Interactive and Codemasters, ad tech platforms such as The Trade Desk,…