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Back At You’s Beta Data Show Super Lift in Likes

Written on
September 13th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Value exchange marketing is the new term du jour for offer marketing, which unfortunately still has a residual stink of scamminess. Every day more companies are popping up that employ value exchange models to incentivize social, brand-endorsing activities, so standing out from the herd has become a challenge. [...] more...

Unlocking Content With Mobile Apps

Written on
August 9th 2011
Author
Dale Carr

ADOTAS – We’ve all seen examples of a brilliantly designed app that has spread like wildfire, taking in $0.99 a pop. However, seldom do you hear about apps that have made an immediate killing solely from ad revenue. Sure, the big players like Angry Birds, Pandora, Fruit Ninja, etc. can rely [...] more...

Got Funds? SupersonicAds Racks Up $4.2 Million

Written on
July 20th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Maybe it’s because the summer heat is turning brains to mush, but social gaming seems to be on all anyone can think about — even venture capitalists seeking companies with bold monetization strategies. In-game advertiser SupersonicAds, one of the companies serving videos into Facebook’s DealPlay value exchange advertising platform (i.e., watch [...] more...

Adknowledge Integrates Monetization into Corona App Development Platform

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May 18th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Develop, deploy, monetize — you could call them the three hallmarks of mobile development. Now Adknowledge is offering developers the ability to do all three at once through a new partnership with Ansca Mobile, maker of mobile development platform Corona SDK. Adknowledge’s Super Rewards platform is now integrated into the upgraded [...] more...

DigitalMoses: Portability and Flexibility

Written on
May 13th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

DM CONFIDENTIAL: More often than we think but not necessarily often enough, we learn things about ourselves and the industry, aspects that ultimately lead us to a greater appreciation of what we in online advertising get to do. About a month ago, we wrote about one such topic – upward [...] more...

OfferedApp Gives Away Paid Apps Through Offer Marketing

Written on
April 26th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Everybody wants to be like Groupon these days — even Facebook, which just re-imagined its Deals product to be a group-buying service. Just-launched mobile-app distributor OfferedApp — developed by the founders of performance advertising network Cactus Media and app developer MobaTech — is also riding the daily deal [...] more...

In-Game Mobile Rewards Get Real Through Kiip

Written on
April 11th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – “Virtual goods won’t sustain an audience,” CrowdTwist CEO and cofounder Irving Fain told me when the social loyalty platform builder powered the real-world rewards program for the Bamboozle Fest concert. “Rewards in a loyalty program have to tie back into reality.” The rise of gamification in brand advertising has [...] more...

Fitting Virtual Currency Into Loyalty-Based Advertising

Written on
March 31st 2011
Author
James Burrows

ADOTAS – Advertisers are always looking for the secret recipe that results in consumer engagement and actual purchasing decisions. Brands that cook together virtual currency rewards into loyalty-based advertising can achieve both goals if used properly. So how do you fit a virtual currency model into loyalty-based advertising? It could be [...] more...

Got Funds? Tapjoy Scores $21 Million

Written on
January 6th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As we noted yesterday, this has been a gonzo week for funding news, kinda making you wonder if 2011 would really be the year of exiting. Another day, another round of funding closed — this time in the offer-marketing/virtual goods monetization/alternative payment solution realm, as TapJoy raised $21 [...] more...

Affiliate Marketer MaxBounty Fingered for Facebook Scams

Written on
October 22nd 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As it wades deep in another incident that seems to betray its lack of concern for user privacy, Facebook filed suit against two men and affiliate marketing company MaxBounty for violating the social network’s terms of use as well as the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the [...] more...



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