
eMarketer: Snapchat on track for nearly $1 billion in ad revenues next year
In 2013, Facebook unsuccessfully tried to buy Snapchat for roughly $3 billion in cash. At the time Snapchat’s rejection of Facebook’s...

Report: 32 percent of global page views now impacted by ad blocking
While some in the industry are alarmed by ad blocking others dismiss it as overblown, it continues to grow. The latest evidence comes...

Report: More than two-thirds of digital media time now mobile, apps 50 percent
According to July data from comScore, smartphone apps now constitute 50 percent of all digital media time. That’s up from 44 percent...

Apple begins purge of neglected, broken apps; no more ASO with app names
There are more than 2 million apps for iOS devices. However, beginning next week, Apple will be trying to reduce that number somewhat....

Ibotta launches ‘first app-to-app affiliate program’
Some of the apps in Ibotta’s new app-to-app affiliate network Customers who make purchases of selected real-world products and services...

Think smartphones are just about the bottom of the funnel? Think again.
The conventional thinking about smartphones is that they’re primarily used by consumers to help make purchase decisions “on the go” and...

Every call is becoming data: Rich customer data revolutionizes call analytics
Rich data is about to do for call analytics what it has done for customer behavior online: build a rich profile of each caller and...

Report: Video ads on Instagram are more common and getting longer
App marketing and data company Sensor Tower just released its Q2 “Ad Intelligence Data Digest.” The report presents mobile advertising...

Google will punish “intrusive interstitials” with a ranking penalty in 2017
Google announced that is dropping the “mobile-friendly” label in search results. The company says that now 85 percent of pages in mobile...

Branch launches ‘full-stack’ tools for linking web-to-app and email-to-app
Today, Palo Alto, California-based Branch is releasing new products that it says are the first to provide “full-stack” solutions for deep...

Placed entices users to share location with frequent flyer miles
Nearly every app wants your location data. That’s because location is now so valuable to marketers as a targeting, analytics and...

Amobee Triggers activates campaigns based on a mix of online & offline signals
Marketing technology firm Amobee, a subsidiary of Singtel, has launched Amobee Triggers to enable advertisers to activate campaigns in...

Google launches FaceTime competitor, video-calling app Duo
AmsStudio / Shutterstock.com During its developer conference this year, Google announced two new apps designed to take on incumbents in...

Keyword-driven ASO: a quick primer
65 percent of all iOS app discovery takes place via organic in-store (iTunes) search. If app discovery is a big part of your business...

7 tips to generate more leads on mobile devices
As mobile device usage continues to grow, it is important to fully optimize landing pages and capture leads from this audience if we want...

Russia fines Google nearly $7MM for ‘anticompetitive’ app pre-install rules
Last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) found that Google violated its competition law by requiring...

Google injects more context into micro-moments
More than a year has gone by since Google introduced the concept of micro-moments, which Google defines as times “when people reflexively...

How to hold onto the fleeting app user
Well, we already know that 23 percent of users will try an app just once and then never use it again. So my question to marketers is: Can...

Yelp beats expectations with $173.4 million in Q2, 78 percent revenue retention
Yelp announced Q2 2016 earnings this afternoon. The company had better than expected quarterly revenues of $173.4 million. Analysts had...
























