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.
You probably already know that Medialets’ SDK is distinguished by its ability to enable the industry’s most compelling rich media and deepest ad and app analytics. These capabilities, combined with our unparalleled support in developing high-value rich media creative, attract a broad range of top tier publisher and advertisers to our platform.
And, as demand increases, we’re finding that needs are evolving. Publishers want Medialets’ rich media because it brings the most value to their app inventory, but they’re also looking for a solution that easily integrates into their current and future sales and advertising operations.
That’s why we’re excited to announce the availability of Medialets’ Universal SDK for iPhone and iPad. This Universal SDK is designed to support Medialets unique high-value rich media, while also giving publishers the flexibility and control they need for the most effective inventory sales and ad operations – all from one SDK.
Medialets’ Universal SDK makes it easier for publishers to manage and grow their app advertising revenue in a few ways:
By enabling rich media, display advertising and analytics, all from one SDK
By easily integrating with ad networks and mediators to supplement inventory sales, all from one SDK
By allowing the publisher to benefit from Medialets’ high-value rich media while also using their established first-party ad servers (like DoubleClick’s DFP, AOL’s AdTech or Ringleader), all from one SDK
Medialets’ Universal SDK also gives publishers server-side control of their app advertising. In other words, you can make changes to ad tags without updating your app, saving time and money.
The Universal SDK was featured this morning on TechCrunch. If you’d like more information about how Medialets’ Universal SDK brings more value, flexibility and control to your app advertising, send us an email.
Another great campaign created and powered by Medialets recently hit NPR and CNN’s iPhone apps for the critically acclaimed AMC show “Breaking Bad.”
Taking full advantage of the unique capabilities of the iPhone, the ad begins with a banner in the news sections of each app. The user is urged to click on the banner. Once clicked, it expands to take over the entire iPhone screen and displays a “Bad Chemistry” quiz where the user is asked to tap the elements displayed on the screen to learn more about each chemical element. When you tap three elements, the user is then prompted to “shake” their phone, thereby mixing the chemicals chosen and creating a bad reaction. This bad reaction “blows up” on the screen via a full-screen take over. The user is then shown a page offering them the option of watching the series trailer, re-playing the “Bad Chemistry” game, or going to iTunes to purchase episodes of the highly acclaimed series. Here’s a video of the ad in action on an iPhone….
This campaign was recently featured on AllThingsD in a post by Peter Kafka.
Over the last few months, we have heard from a lot of custom and multiple app developers who have said “it would be great if we could register a whole bunch of apps at once into Medialytics rather than doing it one by one.” And with our recent release of our Analytics SDKs for Android and Blackberry, the need to provide a bulk-uploading tool became even greater.
So today we’re releasing our Medialytics Application Management API that allows for programmatic and bulk registration of iPhone, Blackberry and Android apps into our Medialytics platform.
For custom and multiple app developers, the Application Management API makes it easier to gain unprecedented real-time access to the performance of their apps while seamlessly managing all versions and properties of their apps within the Medialytics analytics platform.
ScrollMotion, a media and technology company specializing in the development of innovative applications for mobile devices, helped us test the API over the past few months by uploading and registering hundreds of apps into Medialytics.
The Application Management API, which is a RESTful API, can be accessed for free by signing up for a Medialytics account at www.Medialytics.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.
More evidence out today that Medialets is the solution publishers are looking for to monetize their mobile content. The Associated Press, CNN, NPR, Variety, MenuPages.com, CNNMoney and The Washington Post have integrated Medialets into their mobile apps.
These publishers are now giving brands access to advertising that taps into the full creative capabilities of smartphones while delivering the highest returns for their media spend. Below is a press release with more info.
LEADING PUBLISHERS LOOK TO MEDIALETS FOR MOBILE RICH MEDIA ADVERTISING SOLUTION
The Associated Press, NPR, CNN, Variety and others integrate Medialets into their mobile apps
New York, NY: February 18, 2010 — Medialets, the most widely deployed rich media ad and analytics platform for mobile, today announced that The Associated Press, NPR, The Washington Post, MenuPages.com, CNN, CNN Money and Variety have integrated Medialets’ into their mobile applications. These publishers can now reliably deliver engaging rich media ads into their mobile apps while measuring usage and driving real mobile ad revenue.
“Publishers are turning to Medialets for our ability to provide them with the most engaging rich media ad units in mobile,” said Eric Litman, Medialets CEO. “Through their relationship with Medialets, these publishers can now give brands access to advertising that taps into the full creative capabilities of smartphones and delivers the highest return for their media spend.”
Medialets’ ad technology enables publishers to serve rich media ads into mobile applications, whether those ads are sold in-house or come from an integrated advertising sales partner. The unique ad formats offered by Medialets let brands and agencies create engaging ads that utilize the power of a mobile app with the intimacy and exceptional measurability smartphones provide. The advertisements can include video, animation, sound and other advanced functionality.
Examples of the rich media ads created, served and tracked by Medialets for these publishers can be found at the Medialets blog.
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.
LEADING PUBLISHERS LOOK TO MEDIALETS FOR MOBILE RICH MEDIA ADVERTISING SOLUTION
The Associated Press, NPR, CNN, Variety and others integrate Medialets into their mobile apps
New York, NY: February 18, 2010 — Medialets, the most widely deployed rich media ad and analytics platform for mobile, today announced that The Associated Press, NPR, The Washington Post, MenuPages.com, CNN, CNN Money and Variety have integrated Medialets’ into their mobile applications. These publishers can now reliably deliver engaging rich media ads into their mobile apps while measuring usage and driving real mobile ad revenue.
“Publishers are turning to Medialets for our ability to provide them with the most engaging rich media ad units in mobile,” said Eric Litman, Medialets CEO. “Through their relationship with Medialets, these publishers can now give brands access to advertising that taps into the full creative capabilities of smartphones and delivers the highest return for their media spend.”
Medialets’ ad technology enables publishers to serve rich media ads into mobile applications, whether those ads are sold in-house or come from an integrated advertising sales partner. The unique ad formats offered by Medialets let brands and agencies create engaging ads that utilize the power of a mobile app with the intimacy and exceptional measurability smartphones provide. The advertisements can include video, animation, sound and other advanced functionality.
Examples of the rich media ads created, served and tracked by Medialets for these publishers can be found at the Medialets blog.
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.
