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Turbo Systems, the first universal, no-code engagement platform, announced an $8 million Series A funding round. Led by Mayfield, an investor in ServiceMax, Marketo, Moat, Outreach, Hashicorp and several other leading SaaS/Cloud companies, the funding will be used to accelerate Turbo’s growth, through investments in engineering, marketing, and sales. The shift to the cloud is accelerating; every industry is being transformed by software. This has created an incredible shortage of software developers, overwhelming IT…

YouAppi Expands 360 Platform To Include A Private Marketplace, Native In-App Video Ads, In-App Playable Ads And Connected TV Ads YouAppi, a leading growth marketing platform for premium mobile brands, announced the expansion of its video platform to include connected TV, playable ads, native video ads and an exclusive private marketplace (PMP). The expansion is in direct response to increased demand from global brands to incorporate trusted, safe videos through an easy-to-use, integrated platform. Quarter over quarter,…

Advertisers will be Able to Use Moat's Measurement Platform for Facebook's New Video Ad Play Metric Facebook announced that it is changing the way its 3-second and 10-second video view counts are calculated. Until recently, these video view counts included the time period in which a viewer rewatched or replayed a video. Facebook will now include on the unrepeated time period for its the 3-second and 10-second video view metrics. In its blog announcing the change, Facebook wrote, “We’re updating some of our video ad…

The international 'Festival of Creativity' and 'Thermopylae' for global advertisers, Cannes Lions, is just a few days away. In keeping with our coverage of the Cannes Lions for the second year in a row, we interviewed Shachar Orren, Chief Storytelling Officer at Disney-backed storytelling platform, Playbuzz. The Playybuzz team is heading to the sixty-fifth edition of Cannes Lions. How long have you been following/visiting the Cannes Lions? I’ve been following Cannes since I joined Playbuzz 4 years ago, and this will be…

"Demand still far outweighs supply when it comes to video inventory."Tell us about your role and how you got here? What galvanized you to start an adtech company? If you had asked me in my 20's where I see myself, I would have probably answered in the military. After the mandatory three year service in the Israeli military, I stayed on as an officer. As part of my service, I started my Executive MBA studies in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Offer Yehudai, a long-time friend, helped me with a project for a class I…

Maureen Polo,  SVP, Brand Studio, Fullscreen Influencers could be growing in numbers but not in credibility. That's where influencer analytics platform come into the picture and try to prove their worth. To better understand how Influencer Marketing platforms influence social media buying behaviors and the idea behind the latest report, titled "Influence by the Numbers’, we spoke to Maureen Polo, SVP, FullScreeen. Tell us about your role at Fullscreen and the team and technology that you handle. I am Senior Vice…

Now, Moat Shall Offer Video Viewability and Attention Measurement Across the Major US Digital Platforms Oracle's Moat, a SaaS analytics measurement provider for marketers and publishers that is part of the Oracle Data Cloud, today announced it has been selected to measure viewability and attention signals on the LinkedIn platform. The collaboration will focus on LinkedIn's video for Sponsored Content. With the integration, Moat will be the first provider to offer video viewability and attention measurement across the…

The Acquisition of Grapeshot Will Dramatically Expand Oracle Data Cloud's Ability to Improve Marketing Outcomes for Their Partners Worldwide Continuing their efforts to strengthen brand safety technology, Oracle has now acquired Grapeshot. On 24 April 2018, the leading marketing technology provider announced that they signed an agreement to acquire Grapeshot. Grapeshot is an industry-recognized leader in providing brand safety and pre-bid contextual solutions. Read More: Oracle’s Moat Unveils New Invalid Traffic…

Idan Shchori VP Global Monetization, Playbuzz In 2018, there are immense opportunities for marketers to monetize their content. Global marketers have successfully built their content empires by sticking to one major goal -- deliver relevant, interactive, and personalized content to customers. Playbuzz is a successful authoring platform for storytellers, and to understand how they bring core monetization offerings to global publishers and brands/agencies, we spoke to their VP, Global Monetization, Idan Shchori.…

Marketers and Brands Can Leverage Video for Sponsored Content and Company Pages to Reach & Engage the Right Audiences, the Right Way Now, LinkedIn Can Also Add Native Video Directly In a major announcement for marketers and brands, LinkedIn is now adding more muscle to its B2B marketing platform. LinkedIn B2B users can now leverage video content on the platform to run native video advertisements, and also include video within their brand assets, including their Company Pages. With its recent move, that always…

The Mobfox Moat Partnership Will Enable Advertisers Access To Verified Inventory This new partnership enables Mobfox to offer advertisers Moat’s viewability metrics for improved transparency, better ad measurement and optimization for in-app ads. These tools would be available for all inventory that comes from Mobfox SDK publishers. Partnering with Moat, we are able to provide advertisers and publishers a solution that ensures verified, high-quality inventory, and a greater means to track the effectivity of our…

New Integrations Make AdColony the First In-App Video Marketplace to Integrate with all Leading Ad Quality Measurement Partners AdColony, the ad quality video marketplace, has announced that the company is fully compatible with all major viewability measurement partners for both programmatic and managed service campaigns. AdColony is the first in-app video marketplace to partner with Integral Ad Science (IAS), MOAT and DoubleVerify, providing a range of options that will give AdColony customers the flexibility to work…

In Part 2 of Our Year-Ender 2017 Series, We Bring You the Top Ten Martech Moments From the Year in a Chronological Order "The true delight is reminiscing and reliving the moment all over again." For Martech journalists, 2017 proved to be a momentous year, as we saw many mega-moments of delight that paved the course for the future. In Part 2 of our Year-ender 2017 series, we bring you the top ten Martech moments from the year. Read More: Trends in Marketing Technology Budgets Could Impact Data Quality and Hygiene…