Location-based mobile marketing firm, Rover nabs $1.1 million in seed round and sets up a new strategic advisory board to guide growth and maximize it’s product focus in mobile.
Web.com’s acquisition of Yodle significantly expands scale in value added digital marketing solutions increasing total revenue base by over 35% and enhances long term growth profile. The move also adds complementary vertical market solutions, franchise specific products and cloud based office automation business applications with over $30 million of projected synergies.
New Kenshoo research suggests that marketers are leveraging direct response advertising units to drive more revenue in Q4 2015. New bidding strategies for social ads drove greater number of clicks as total reach becomes more focused. Facebook’s Product Listing Ads and Dynamic Product ads this season highlights the importance marketers placed on direct response ad types.
RNTS Media, holding company and parent of Fyber focused on mobile ad technology, finalizes acquisition of Heyzap.
Oracle ORCL announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Maxymiser, a leading provider of cloud-based software that enables marketers to test, target and personalize what a customer sees on a Web page or mobile app, substantially increasing engagement and revenue. Maxymiser optimizes over 20 billion customer experiences per month for brands such as Allianz, HSBC, Lufthansa, Tommy Hilfiger and Wyndham.
Marin Software provider of a leading cross-channel performance advertising cloud, and Boost Media, the leader in creative optimization marketing technology announced an enhanced partnership to benefit customers by streamlining the creative optimization process.
MediaBrix attempting to meet rising demand mobile brand engagement with revamped products & platform to create deeper experiences through emotional connections with agencies under pressure to identify new and effective ways to spend brand budgets on mobile, MediaBrix offers new breakthrough in emotional targeting.
Latest Boost Media $19m in funding led by Battery Ventures. Other participating investors include Javelin Venture Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, Webb Investment Network and individual investors. Battery General Partner Roger Lee has also joined Boost Media’s board of directors.
To date, the company’s technology has powered $1 billion in paid search ads for 100 premium global brands across the retail, education, financial, healthcare and insurance, casual gaming, auto and travel verticals.
Link building goes beyond the concept of simple connections from a site to another, particularly as technology to determine efficacy of a website and it’s relevance to keyword has matured. Underneath the art of Link Building are essentials a digital marketer needs to master to ensure the “findability” of a resource, service or a website.
Kenshoo a global leader in predictive media optimization announced it will go to market with IBM to deliver search marketing campaign management solutions to clients, such as Bizgnition.
A certified IBM business partner, Kenshoo offers premium technology solutions for automating, measuring, and improving search engine marketing campaigns at scale.