
Google’s Universal App Campaigns Now Available To All Advertisers In AdWords
Google’s all-in-one campaign type for Android app developers is rolling out globally. Universal App Campaigns enable app marketers to...

Morgan Stanley: No, Apps Aren’t Winning. The Mobile Browser Is.
Last week, comScore released its Mobile App Report, which we covered. The report contained many interesting findings, but its big...

Apps Eat Digital Media Time, With Top 3 Capturing 80 Percent
Measurement firm comScore has published a new report on mobile usage and user behavior. The highest-level takeaway is that cross-platform...

App Ad Spend On Facebook Up Nearly 300 Percent In Q2
App developers spent 293 percent more on Facebook ads in Q2 2015 than in Q2 the prior year, and mobile app installs from Facebook...

Planning For Next Summer’s Mobile Conferences: What’s Your Jam?
In a few months, if you’re like me, you’ll be planning your 2016 budget, and that’ll include deciding which conferences to attend. At 3Q...

Amazon Puts Out The Fire Phone
All companies make mistakes. Yet one of the biggest in the consumer devices arena is Amazon’s much-hyped but spectacularly unsuccessful...

Standing On Shoulders Of Apple Pay, Google’s Android Pay Officially Launches
Google was first with Wallet. But it was blocked by frightened mobile carriers, and beyond that, it failed to capture the imagination of...

Content Blocking In iOS 9 Unlikely To Bring About Mobile “Admageddon”
There’s a great deal of hand-wringing over iOS 9 and the prospect of “content [ad] blocking” in mobile. Some ad-industry execs are...

Apple Event: iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, Apple TV And Ad Blocking Expected Today
Later this morning (at 10 a.m. Pacific) in San Francisco, Apple is expected to introduce its widely anticipated interim-generation...

Facebook To Small Businesses: Use Pages As Your Primary Mobile Solution
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Facebook today introduced several updates to Pages that make them more mobile-friendly and add a number of...

Comscore: Smartphone Penetration Above 77 Percent In US
The July smartphone numbers are out this afternoon from comScore. According to the measurement firm, smartphone penetration has reached...

AOL Buys Mobile Marketer Millennial Media For Roughly $240 Million
This morning, AOL announced that it was buying mobile ad platform Millennial Media for roughly $240 million. A deal had been rumored for...

Ranking All-Time iOS Apps: Facebook Most Downloaded, Pandora Top Grossing
App Annie released a report that presents the most downloaded iPhone and iPad apps and games “of all time.” The company also ranks the...

Google Declares War On App Install Problem It Helped Create
Today, Google announced a change where publishers who aggressively promote their apps to mobile visitors might face a ranking penalty....

Wearables Game Changer: Android Wear Now Compatible With iPhone
Google just changed the rules for wearables. It has introduced Android Wear for iOS. The caveat is that right now it’s only available for...

Yahoo: The Decline Of The Mobile Browser Is A Threat To Search
nevodka / Shutterstock.com Earlier this week Yahoo held its second Mobile Developer Conference in New York. This was the East Coast...

Google Debuts New In-App Interstitial Designs For App Install And Text Ads
Google’s previous format for app install interstitials, on the left, is being replaced by the new style on the right. Google has rolled...

IDC: Smartphone Growth Slows, Apple Watch Now #2 Wearable After Fitbit
Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock.com China’s stock market crash has inserted fear and doubt into the global economy over the past week. A...

Succeeding In Mobile Advertising: The Journey Begins
Our industry is on a journey. Digital media is growing up, and as mobile becomes the predominant way people consume content, marketers...
























