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| Aug 13, 2013 | Mobile ad firm Millennial Media buys Jumptap to help it fight Google | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile ad firm Millennial Media has agreed to acquire smaller mobile firm Jumptap for 24.6 million shares of Millennial, which is worth... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Nuance uses its voice smarts to create interactive & entertaining mobile ads | Let’s be frank: Mobile ads suck. Not only are they dull and not making anyone as much money as they should, but people aren’t even clicking them intentionally. In fact, almost forty percent of mobile clicks are made by accident, according t... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Nuance uses its voice smarts to create interactive & entertaining mobile ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Let’s be frank: Mobile ads suck. Not only are they dull and not making anyone as much money as they should, but people aren’t even clic... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Tablets Are Eating Into Smartphones’ Share Of Mobile Content Usage, While Android Remains In Lead Overall, Finds Jumptap | Tablets are continuing their rise as the preferred screen for consuming mobile data, according to the latest figures from mobile advertising network Jumptap. The company, which produces a monthly report of what platforms are performing the ... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Agenda for Mobile Madness on March 19: Athenahealth, Timbre, Twitter, Verizon… | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We are coming down the home stretch towards Mobile Madness 2013. It’s March tomorrow (eek…I mean, yay).
Luckily the program is all set. We are going from 1:30-5:30 pm, March 1... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Albright, Paradise, Bolt, MC10, Verizon Join Mobile Madness on March 19 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Llllllllet’s get ready to rummmmm-ble…
For those of you interested in mobile technology and business—which means pretty much all of you—we have some notable additions to the s... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Prepping For 2013 IPO, Mobile Ad Player Jumptap Names Ex-Yahoo Exec COO; iAd/Admob Backer Joins Board | Independent mobile ad network Jumptap is filling out its team with two more key executives as it continues to prepare for an IPO in 2013 — and look for more M&A activity as it gets there. The company has named Frank Weishaupt, a former ... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Jumptap Gets $27.5M More for Mobile Ads: IPO or Acquisition Coming? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everything old is new again. At least in the world of mobile advertising.
Jumptap, the stalwart mobile tech company based in Cambridge, MA, said today it has raised $27.5 mill... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Jumptap Completes $27.5M Financing | Jumptap, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of targeted mobile advertising solutions, completed a $27.5m financing.
Backers include:
– existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and ... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Preps For IPO, Picks Up Another $27.5M From Keating, WPP And More While Waiting | Jumptap — one of the last big, independent and privately-held mobile ad networks around reaching 263 million people worldwide — has today announced that it has picked up another $27.5 million in funding to keep up the pace with other player... |
| May 10, 2012 | Who Is Boston’s Hottest Startup? [Poll] | As we prepare to kick off our monthly speaker series Tech Cocktail Sessions in Boston next week (register here), we have been getting a lot of questions about the Boston area startup scene. With some of the top educational establishments in... |
| May 8, 2012 | JumpTap: Kindle Fire Usage Has Declined After Holiday Boost, iPad Back To Pre-Fire Launch Levels | The Kindle Fire from Amazon has stolen a march in the tablet world, with some estimating that it now makes up more than half of all Android tablets in use in the U.S. today. But the latest monthly figures from mobile ad network JumpTap toda... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Jumptap: Early Days For The New iPad Show A ‘Heavy’ But Still Marginal Impact On Traffic | The new iPad from Apple has so far smashed all of its own sales records for previous tablet models, selling 3 million units in its opening weekend, with total sales projections for 2012 at up to 66 million.
But according to some early (poss... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Jumptap: Android, iOS Now 91% Of All Mobile Ad Traffic, Kindle Fire 33% Of All Tablet Use | The onward march for Android and Apple continues apace, and leaves a big question mark for how other platforms can hope to compete, at least in the U.S. market: New figures out from Jumptap indicate that in the month of January, the two com... |
| Feb 25, 2012 | Velti is Working on a Mobile “Do Not Track” List | Velti plans to announce two new initiatives aimed at helping mobile advertisers get ahead of data collection and privacy concerns, according to a source who was briefed by the company.
My source says Velti, a publicly traded mobile ad compa... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Do Not Track: The CAN-SPAM of 2012 | Remember in 2003, when the CAN SPAM Act was signed into law, how spam just stopped overnight? Yeah, me neither. Just as CAN SPAM did little to curb spam, having Google and Microsoft sign on to Do Not Track (DNT) still leaves a lot to be des... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Mobile News: From Apperian to Zmags, Jumptap to Mitt Romney | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some interesting news tidbits in Boston-area mobile and marketing/ad tech today.
—Zmags, the Boston-based mobile and social commerce company, has raised $7 million from Square... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Jumptap Announces Partners to Provide Offline Data for Targeted Advertising | Jumptap, a mobile ad targeting company, announced new partners today that will help the company acquire off-line data about consumers. That data can help app developers target ads at users. Jumptap has partnered with Targusinfo, Polk, Acxio... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | inneractive Launches Cross-Platform SDKs To Help Developers Monetize Their Apps (In One Line Of Code) | If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it eleventy-four times. Mobile advertising is hot right now. U.S. mobile ad revenues, for example, are expected to hit $2.8 billion by 2015, says BIA/Kelsey, thanks largely to the the fact that 76.8 mil... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Do You Live In An Android State Or An iPhone State? | It is clear by now that Android is winning the overall mobile market share battle in the U.S. among smart phones. But how does the battle break down by state? Mobile ad network Jumptap put out a report this morning (embedded below) with a m... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Southern states like Android, northern like iOS | Study breaks down device usage by state and finds an interesting north vs. south pattern
After the debt ceiling fiasco and the refusals to compromise over a budget deal, no one would argue that we’re a divided country. Every issue comes dow... |
| May 11, 2011 | 58% Of Mobile Web Users Get Their Content Fix Through Browsers: Jumptap | Yes, smartphone apps are still in vogue, and most mobile app stores continue to grow by leaps and bounds. Yet consumers spend more time engaging with the mobile Web on their smartphones than through ad-supported apps, mobile advertising sta... |
| May 5, 2011 | Jumptap Confirms $25M Financing for Mobile Ads | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA-based Jumptap, a maker of mobile advertising software, said today it has raised $25 million from new and existing investors. The new investors were not disclosed... |
| May 5, 2011 | Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Closes $25 Million Funding Round | As we reported a month ago, mobile ad network JumpTap has raised a round of new funding. The company confirmed this today, announcing a $25 million financing round from AllianceBernstein, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Vent... |
| May 5, 2011 | Independent mobile ad network JumpTap raises $25 million | It seems that there’s still room for independent mobile advertising networks. Mobile advertising company JumpTap announced today that it has completed a $25 million financing round. The capital will be used to recruit new employees and for ... |
| May 5, 2011 | Jumptap Closes $25M Financing | Jumptap, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of targeted mobile advertising solutions, has completed a $25m financing round.
Investors include existing backers AllianceBernstein, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Ventures, Valhalla... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | How “mobile ads 2.0” will let you take control of your monetization | Editor’s Note: This discussion about mobile economy is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Jumptap Takes In $20M More for Mobile Ads | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The mobile company financings continue around town. Cambridge, MA-based Jumptap, a mobile advertising software firm, has raised about $20 million in equity financing out of a ... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Mobile Ad Network JumpTap Raises $20 Million | Mobile ad network JumpTap has raised $20 million in new funding, according to a recent SEC filing, out of a $27 million round. This would bring the company’s funding to nearly $90 million. We’ve contacted the company for confirmation.
JumpT... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | TechStars Takes Off, Jumptap Touts Patents and Partnerships, & Other Tech Tidbits Around Town | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There were a number of tech developments this week that I didn’t get a chance to digest yet. That’s in part because I couldn’t eat solid food for, like, two days. Let’s just m... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | The best place to set up your startup | John Backus is a co-founder and managing partner at early-stage VC fund New Atlantic Ventures. He blogs at http://navfund.com/blog/.
Now’s a good time for startups: VCs are investing more money now than they have since the recession hit. Bu... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Lands Deal (And Investment) In Japan | We last covered mobile advertising network Jumptap in August 2008, when the Massachusetts-based company raised $26 million to penetrate the rapidly growing mobile web market. Although another ad startup emerged as the winner in that race, J... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Jumptap Gets New CEO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA-based mobile advertising network provider Jumptap announced today that it has brought on George Bell, formerly managing director of General Catalyst Partners, as... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | Apple closes down Quattro advertising network | Updated with comment from other ad networks
Quattro Wireless, the ad network acquired by Apple earlier this year, announced today that it’s winding down its existence as an independent network to focus on Apple’s iAd program.
Apple chief ex... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | MobileBeat 2010: Will independent ad networks get crushed? | With Apple and Google both poised to make a big push in mobile advertising, is everyone else in trouble? During one of the breakout sessions at our MobileBeat 2010 conference on July 12 and 13, we’ll have executives from mobile ad networks ... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Hate ads? Swipe here | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Jumptap, a mobile ad network headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., is working on a feature that every ad network should have. The company ... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Hate ads? Swipe here | Jumptap, a mobile ad network headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., is working on a feature that every ad network should have. The company will host user profiles that let mobile phone customers toggle their own preferred ad settings — basicall... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | BeanJar brings real-world rewards for video game winners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
BeanJar is a new game awards company that launched in the last week, and competing today as a finalist in the startup competition at ou... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | BeanJar brings real-world rewards for video game winners | BeanJar is a new game awards company that launched in the last week, and competing today as a finalist in the startup competition at our GamesBeat@GDC conference in San Francisco.
The company’s goal is to create a rewards system for video g... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | ULocate Launches Ad Network for Location-Aware Mobile Devices | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston’s uLocate Communications, known up to now mainly as the creator of the Where local search and recommendation app popular with many smartphone owners, is turning into so... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Boston’s Mobile Startups React to Google’s $750M AdMob Purchase | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I was at the offices of uLocate, a Boston startup with a suite of location-aware information services for mobile phones, when I heard today’s news about Google’s $750 million ... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Admob buys mobile ad aggregrator AdWhirl — takes out major threat | updated with comments from Quattro and Mobclix
Admob, a leading mobile advertising service, is acquiring AdWhirl, a service that aggregates ads from mobile ad networks.
In an interview confirming the deal, Admob chief executive Omar Hamoui ... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | Admob buys mobile ad aggregrator AdWhirl — takes out major threat | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
updated with comments from Quattro and Mobclix
Ad... |
| Aug 3, 2009 | Roundup: Ancestry IPO, exec pay cap in Congress, Verizon’s sub-$99 smartphones | Ancestry.com files for a $75 million IPO — The company, which traces its roots back to Ancestry Magazine and 1983, has collected nearly $400 million to date — $95 in investment rounds, and another $300 million from the sale of a majority st... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | AdWhirl raises $1M for ad platform | One problem iPhone app developers wrestle with is which ad network to sign up with. It can take a couple of weeks to switch ad providers because the app needs to be re-approved by Apple.
AdWhirl is what computer programmers would call a met... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | MADS powering Euro mobile publishers with ad platform | Somewhere along the line someone didn’t get the memo about how hard it was to succeed on the mobile Web. Netherlands-based MADS, has announced it has won over 150 of Europe’s online publishers with its mobile ad-platform, a reach which repr... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | metaTXT, the World's First Mobile Search Engine Optimisation Standard Launched at Mobile Asia Congress | 19th November 2008, Macau: Today ten of the most innovative mobile companies are partnering to drive the metaTXT standard. metaTXT is the world's first mobile search engine optimisation (SEO) standard. metaTXT will enable search engines to ... |
| Aug 30, 2008 | Funding roundup | Active.com, Conviva, SpeedDate are among those that received funds
Here's a look at some of the funding announcements across the social network, community, video, digital media and advertising sectors.
The biggest fundraising announcement c... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | JumpTap Raises Another $26 Million for Mobile Search and Advertising | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Investors still see the mobile search and advertising market as one of the hottest tickets in the digital economy. Since its founding in 2004, mobile advertising startup JumpT... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Mobile search and ad company Jumptap raises $26 million more | Mobile search and advertising company Jumptap has raised $26 million in a fourth round of funding led by AllianceBernstein, with all previous investors participating.
The company has positioned itself as an alternative to Google’s search an... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Jumptap Raises $26 Million Series D To Take On Google In Mobile Search; Strengthens Ties to AT&T | Mobile search and advertising startup Jumptap has raised more than $26 million in a series D round led by AllianceBernstein. Existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Summerhill Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Valhalla Partners, an... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | Here comes the App Store ecosystem | Apple's coat tails in mobile software will be worth riding, giving iPhone platform an early boost
Who said Steve Jobs didn't learn a few things from Bill Gates?
Gates' company grew after he turned PC makers into his allies by convincing the... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | PinchMedia and JumpTap partner up for iPhone apps ad network | A newly formed partnership between iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media and mobile search and ad company JumpTap may connect brand-name advertisers with iPhone application users.
The partnership, announced at MobileBeat, could be a formidable ... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | Mobile Advertising More Effective Than Online Advertising | JumpTap and RAM Provide Advertisers with New Insight into Mobile Campaign Effectiveness
NEW YORK — June 11, 2008 — Today at the New York Mobile Marketing Forum, JumpTap - the leading mobile search and advertising solutions provider - announ... |
| May 22, 2008 | JumpTap Expands Presence In Sweden To Meet Accelerating Demand For Mobile Search And Advertising Services | STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — May 22, 2008 — JumpTap, the leading mobile search and advertising solutions provider, today announced the opening of a new office in Stockholm. The company also announced the addition of new executives, including Rickard... |
| May 22, 2008 | JumpTap ökar närvaro i Sverige för att kunna möta det växande behovet av mobila sök och annonstjänster | STOCKHOLM, den 22 maj 2008 - JumpTap, ledande inom mobila sök- och annonseringslösningar, meddelar idag att man öppnar kontor i Stockholm för att möta den ökande efterfrågan på sök- och annonstjänster för mobiltelefoner. För att leda satsni... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Fox, NBC Tap JumpTap for Mobile Ads | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA mobile search and advertising provider JumpTap announced today that it will distribute mobile ads for NBC Universal‘s mobile websites, including sites for shows ... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Advertising Giant WPP On The Prowl For Acquisitions: Spot Runner, VideoEgg Rumored As Potential Targets | Advertising conglomerate WPP is looking to increase its Web advertising revenues through more acquisitions. Last year it purchased 24/7 Real Media for $649 million, and is currently making a run at Nurun, a Montreal-based interactive ad fir... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others | Medio, a Seattle start-up that gives you search results tailored for your mobile phone, has raised $30 million in a second round of funding to keep up with the mobile search Jones’.
Founder Brian Lent worked side-by-side with the Google co-... |
