Posts Tagged ‘Admob’

In brief: Loads going on at AdMob. On Friday the Federal Trade Commission gives the Google-AdMob deal the green light; earlier this month AdMob marks a new milestone (200 billion ads served);and we learn AdMob’s testing geo-targeted ad serving technology with a U.K. dating service. In an exclusive interview Russell Buckley, AdMob Vice President Global Alliances, discusses the nets & bolts of AdMob targeting, the significance of iPad, the positive outlook for mobile coupons and the future of mobile advertising.

US watchdog the Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation of Google’s proposed acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob, concluding that the deal is unlikely to harm competition in the nascent mobile advertising market.

With client interest in mobile growing, ad agencies are weighing the pros and cons of acquiring specialist skills

Simeon Simeonov is co-founder and CTO of Better Advertising, a provider of online advertising compliance and assurance solutions. Sim is also founder of FastIgnite. Previously, he was a VC at Polaris Venture Partners and chief architect at Allaire/Macromedia (now Adobe). Sim blogs atblog.simeonov.com, tweets as @simeons. “Notwithstanding anything else in this agreement, device data may not be provided or [...]

Submitted by Editor on 7 May, 2010 – 12:45. It has taken just five months for mobile advertising to go from a trickle of coverage in the mainstream media to a feeding frenzy. Since Google announced its plan to buy mobile ad network AdMob for US$750 million AdMob for US$750 millionin November, national papers and newswires [...]

My comment on the below: Absolutely brilliant! by Patrick Smith on April 20, 2010 Ewan’s Presentation for TechCrunch’s GeeknRolla Mention the phrase “mobile web” to almost anyone and the chances are their mind will turn to Apple’s iPhone and the new-fangled iPad. But Ewan McLeod, editor of Mobile Industry Review, is not one of those people. Here’s the video, [...]

Posted By, Ethan Lyon | Mar 26, 2010 What made Google a multi-billion dollar company today will help the search giant pioneer the next revolution in mobile advertising: hyper-relevancy. Google AdWords enabled advertisers to target users with unprecedented precision. Google’s acquisition of mobile advertising platform, AdMob, signals the next evolution in advertising. Google will deliver [...]

Apple has the tools to succeed in the mobile ad arena, but will face established rivals and may need to adapt culturally to make the most of the opportunity

Relax News Monday, 1 March 2010 When it comes to mobile applications iPhone and Android users share similar download and usage habits — but iPhone users are more likely to spend money purchasing applications than their Android counterparts. (Relaxnews) – When it comes to mobile applications iPhone and Android users share similar download and usage habits [...]

Is Mobile World Congress still relevant? The conference was discernibly quieter this year, and its legacy of being dominated by the ‘traditional’ heavyweights of the carrier and handset world leads some of the newer players in the industry to see it as all a bit Jurassic Park.