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Google recently announced that over 100,000 Android devices are activated each day. As Android continues to build its share of mobile subscribers, we at Medialets have been creating and fine-tuning our Universal SDK for Android, which we’re happy to announce is out of beta!

Using our Universal SDK for Android, publishers can serve and measure Medialets’ fully engaging rich media ads within their Android apps.

The release of our new Universal SDK for Android, in combination with our Universal SDK for iPhone and iPad, means publishers can now create and deliver the richest and most engaging mobile ads across Android and iPhone/iPad devices. This, combined with the ability to view and compare a common set of metrics for both Android and iPhone/iPad campaigns, significantly streamlines the buying, serving and measuring process for brands in mobile.

The release of our Universal SDK for Android is the culmination of a very exciting few weeks in the development of our Android capabilities. On May 20th, during the day 2 keynote at Google I/O, a demonstration of a Medialets rich media enabled ad for Android was featured.

Also recently, New York Magazine launched their new Android app featuring a campaign for Starbucks, enabled by our Universal SDK for Android. Other leading publishers are in the process of integrating our Universal SDK for Android into their Android apps.

Our Universal SDK for Android supports Android OS 1.5 and higher and is ready to support future devices using the soon to be released Android 2.2 (Froyo). With so many different Android devices on the market and more on the way, the biggest problem in creating an Android app is the varying screen resolutions of all these Android devices. Our tech team solved the screen resolution problem with our new Universal SDK for Android so publishers can run a single creative that works intelligently across all resolutions on various Android phones.

To learn more about Medialets’ cross platform rich media advertising solutions or to get the Universal SDK for Android integrated into your Android app, send an email to connect@medialets.com.

We’re excited to announce today that we’ve partnered with Mojiva as part of our continuing effort to broaden the availability and distribution of our rich media ad formats.

As a partner in Medialets Enrich, Mojiva can now leverage our highly engaging rich media in-app ad formats for campaigns that run across their ad network or through their mOcean Mobile platform.

This partnership with Mojiva, as well as the partnerships we announced with Nexage and Jumptap, allow us to not only accelerate the growth of mobile rich media by giving advertisers access to the most engaging ad formats in mobile today, but to give them more buying power as well.

To learn more or to partner with Medialets, give us a shout at connect@medialets.com.

Mobile ad network joins Medialets Enrich™; Gives publishers and advertisers access to Medialets engaging, cross-platform in-app formats

NEW YORK, NY – May 26, 2010: Medialets, the most widely deployed cross-platform rich media ad and analytics provider for mobile apps, today announced a partnership with Mojiva to deliver Medialets’ highly engaging in-app rich media ad formats to Mojiva’s network clients. As a Medialets Enrich™ preferred partner, Mojiva can now leverage Medialets’ mobile rich media for campaigns that run across their ad network or through the mOcean Mobile platform.

“Our partnership with Mojiva brings greater scale to the mobile app ad campaigns we enable,” says Medialets CEO Eric Litman. “Together we’re accelerating the growth of mobile rich media by giving advertisers more buyer power and greater access to the most engaging ad formats in mobile today.”

The recently launched Medialets Enrich™ preferred partner program enables leading mobile ad networks, ad mediators and ad servers to sell and support Medialets’ unique cross-platform rich media units.  Medialets Enrich™ enables advertisers to run a single set of ad creatives without changes across an exceptionally broad range of mobile properties and provides a unified set of reports from which to measure campaign success.

“We’ve seen great demand from our clients for in-app rich media ads that not only generate higher CPMs, but allow advertisers to build stronger connections with consumers and see maximum return for their media spend,” said Mojiva CEO David Gwozdz. “We are pleased to work with Medialets. Their scale and flexibility help make them a leader in delivering rich media solutions for mobile apps.”

mOcean Mobile is the leading independent mobile ad serving and analytics platform, currently managing billions of ads for mobile websites, ad networks and applications including The Rubicon Project, Polar Mobile, The Star Tribune and News Over Wireless.

Medialets enables brands and agencies to create high-impact ads that take advantage of all of the features and hardware capabilities of iPhone, iPad and Android devices while empowering publishers and ad networks to sell more ad inventory at higher CPMs. Medialets’ unique cross-platform solution enables advertisers to run a single set of ad creatives across an exceptionally broad range of mobile properties and consistently measure performance through a unified set of reports.

To learn more about Medialets, visit http://www.Medialets.com.

About Medialets:

Medialets, the most widely-deployed rich media advertising and analytics platform for mobile, enables publishers, developers and advertisers to deliver highly engaging and exceptionally measurable ads into iPhone, iPad and Android applications. Medialets’ one-of-a-kind ‘asynchronous’ ad delivery technology enables delivery of the most compelling, measurable rich media even when the user is offline, while its Universal SDK™ offers the most flexible ad monetization platform for publishers. Clients include The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Variety, and Pandora along with many other leading publishers and brands. Based in New York City, Medialets is a privately held company with marquee investors and a world-class team. Visit www.medialets.com, email connect@medialets.com, and follow Medialets on Twitter @medialets.

About Mojiva:

Mojiva (www.Mojiva.com) is a mobile advertising company that owns and operates the fastest growing mobile advertising network, currently reaching more than 41 million unique users monthly through mobile web and app display advertising. The Mojiva network gives brand marketers and publishers everything they need to efficiently run targeted mobile display advertising campaigns within premium mobile content on any mobile device, including iPhones, iPads and other tablet devices. Founded in May 2008 and based in New York City, Mojiva has grown faster than any other advertising platform, and currently helps advertisers reach their target mobile audiences in 190 countries.

As the most widely-deployed rich media advertising and analytics platform, it’s our goal to offer the most innovative and comprehensive platform for publishers, advertisers, developers and our partners. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Rich Media Ad SDK for Android, making Medialets the first and only cross-platform, network independent, fully native rich media solution for mobile.

The introduction of our Rich Media Ad SDK for Android means it’s now possible to create and deliver the richest mobile specific ads across both Android and iPhone devices. This, combined with a sophisticated dashboard that enables advertisers to view and compare a common set of metrics for both iPhone and Android campaigns, significantly streamlines the buying process for brands in mobile.

Android rich media support is also critical for scale; the demand for mobile rich media is only accelerating as more advertisers seek out campaigns that deliver engagement rates beyond that of online advertising to reach the exponentially-growing audience of smartphone and app users. Having a single solution for rich media across the mobile ecosystem drives down the cost to create mobile ads and takes the guesswork out of how to comparatively measure performance.

Top tier publishers, agencies and advertisers are already tapping into Medialets’ rich media advertising and analytics platform for iPhone and iPad. Today, we’re happy to say that we’ve made it easier for our current and future customers to effectively address the full scope of this growing market.

Medialets is immediately signing up new and existing customers for the initial public beta of the Android Ad SDK. To learn more, email us at connect@medialets.com.

As millions of new smartphone users access thousands of new apps on their iPhone, Google and Blackberry devices, we have re-architected our Medialytics Data Server Infrastructure to meet the explosive demand for data. Now, Medialytics can provide publishers and developers with an even clearer and more valuable picture of user analytics.

Our goal in re-architecting the existing Medialytics data infrastructure was three-fold and symbiotic:

• Design for aggressive scalability
• Offer precise user-metrics
• Serve timely, near-real-time data

The stability of the new Medialytics technology stack, in conjunction with improved sub-systems, now allows us to collect an unprecedented amount of user data and offer it in aggregated, multi-tiered analytical reports. For example, future reports may display which apps were run on a unique Nexus One device in Kansas during the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

In addition, a new underlying event-processing system now allows for autonomous server activity which helps drive data delivery and processing when performance and response times are at their most critical.

So what does all this mean to the speed in which your data is collected and shared? Where user-metrics were available within the same day, they can now be available multiple times within an hour.

Visit Medialytics.com to sign up for your own Medialytics account.

Big news today for all Blackberry and Android developers out there…Medialets Blackberry and Android Analytics SDKs are now available.

These SDKs extend Medialets analytics offerings beyond the iPhone, reflecting the strong growth in Blackberry and Android development.

Our analytics SDKs provide developers with a single dashboard that allows for the measurement and tracking of basic metrics as well as complex custom events within all of their Blackberry and Android apps (and iPhone of course). Now you can view deep, customized analytics for your apps across multiple platforms, to make the most informed improvements to your apps. The SDKs can be downloaded simply by signing up for Medialytics at http://www.Medialytics.com.

Here’s a screenshot preview of the dashboard…

The strength of Blackberry’s install base and high value users along with Android’s solid relationships with OEMs, carriers, and users, made it a priority for us to make our unique analytics capabilities available to developers working on these platforms.

And while we’ve spent a significant amount of time developing these SDKs, they are as always, available for free simply by signing up at Medialytics.com. We’re also hosting an Android Developer meet-up at or offices on March 3rd. All are welcome. More info and RSVP here — http://www.meetup.com/androidnyc/

More exciting announcements and product releases across our analytics and rich media ad platforms to come! Stay tuned.

Developers can now define and measure complex custom events within apps

New York, NY: March 1, 2010 – Medialets, the most widely deployed rich media ad and analytics platform for mobile, today extended its Medialytics offering by releasing a new Analytics Software Developers Kit (SDK) for Android and Blackberry applications. The new SDKs allow developers to track standard application metrics (unique users, sessions, average run-time, run-time frequency, etc) as well as define and measure complex custom user events within Blackberry and Android applications.

These custom events provide a great deal of insight and flexibility to the application publisher. Developers can instrument their application to capture the metrics that are most meaningful to their application and unique to the Medialets platform, developers can store a practically limitless amount of data with their custom events. For example, a game application developer can not only track what level a user has achieved in a game, but also all of the pieces and associated objects the user collected in that level. A content app developer can look beyond simply what article a user is reading and learn how they got to the page, how long the user spent on it, and if they scrolled to the bottom.

Integration of the new Analytics SDKs is a simple and rapid process – taking just a few hours to complete. Data captured through these events is then available in a comprehensive dashboard that also provides standard reporting metrics. Developers and publishers can make educated improvements to their Blackberry and Android apps based on these measurable insights into user behavior.

“Medialets offers analytics that support the high level of innovation that’s going into to Blackberry and Android apps, and go well beyond the basic metrics of simply counting downloads.” said Medialets CEO Eric Litman. “These insights help developers to deeply understand what users do and don’t do with their applications and empower them to make critical decisions about where to focus their valuable development resources.”

Developers can download Medialets’ BlackBerry and Android Analytics SDKs, along with our iPhone Analytics SDK, by signing up at www.Medialytics.com.

About Medialets:

Medialets is the most widely deployed rich media ad platform for mobile. Our clients include The Washington Post, NPR, Variety, MenuPages.com and more than 17,000 others who use Medialets to measure their audience and serve award-winning, high impact ads that outperform online rich media by an average of 2.5 times. Medialytics, our mobile app analytics platform supporting the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices, delivers in-depth views into both application and ad performance while providing the industry’s only solution for guaranteed post-click ad reporting. We are a privately held, New York-based company with marquee investors and a world-class team. Visit us on the Web at www.medialets.com, email us at connect@medialets.com, or follow us on Twitter @medialets.

Good news… real time data processing within our Medialytics platform is back. Kudos to our dev team for getting this functionality up and running, enabling Medialets to provide the industry’s only real-time analytics platform for rich media ads within iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps.

Google’s Android Market has been officially live for 24 hours. Here are some early observations and comparisons with the iPhone App Store’s first 24 hours.

There are myriad similarities between iPhone and Android users:

• They like to play games, shop, and know what music they are listening to,
• They are curious about the weather, and
• They generally share the same interests as iPhone users 

During the first 24 hours of Android Market, 62 apps were available to consumers, all free.  This is less than 10% of the number of apps we saw at the launch of Apple’s App Store. Although Apple allowed both free and paid applications to be distributed when the App Store launched, paid downloads for Android will not be available until Q1 2009.

Observation #1 – The average application has 7,800+ downloads.

Android Market is providing some detail on downloads per application –  in contrast to Apple’s embargo of this information after the first 15 hours of launching their App Store.  Rather than displaying exact figures, Android phones show download ranges for a given application, with the smallest range we observed being 100-500 and the largest 10,000-50,000. Given those ranges, roughly 206,000 to 770,000 downloads occurred within the first 24 hours of launch. The weighted average of midpoints is 7,850 downloads/app, just north of the middle of the 5,000 – 10,000 range.

Observation #2  - Nine apps made it to the 10,000 – 50,000 downloads range.

If we use ratings and number of reviews to differentiate, unlike the iPhone platform, games are not in the top three.  Of the nine apps in this range, only three are games.  ShopSavvy is at the top of the list factoring in ratings and number of reviews, followed by The Weather Channel, and Shazam, an app that helps people identify a song they are listening to.  During the early hours of the iPhone App Store, while Apple was still publishing download data, only two apps broke the 10,000 download mark – Remote and AIM.  Remote, the leading app, was downloaded ~16,000 times. Although the ranges for the top Android apps are similar, it is still too early  to assert with confidence that a trajectory similar to Apple’s App Store is occurring.  Other factors over time need to be considered, including the total number of apps in the market.

Observation #3 – 24 hours into the launch, it appears that either Android users are generally interested in the same types of application functionality as iPhone users, or possibly, that Android developers are generally interested in creating the same types of apps as iPhone developers.

We compared our observations of the iPhone App Store 24 hours after launch with Android Market, and found that once we normalized the names of categories between the two platforms, the categories have similar distributions of applications. We had to make some assumptions and groupings to make our best apples-to-androids comparison and noted those in the table below the chart.

As always, we love hearing from anyone who is interested in learning more about, or sharing their experiences about this new platform. Feel free to contact us at connect at www.medialets.com or follow us on twitter at @medialets.