Medialets

Medialets enables ADTECH publishers with rich media mobile ad formats through the Medialets Enrich program

NEW YORK, NY – July 21, 2010: Medialets, the most widely deployed cross-platform rich media ad solution for mobile apps, has today announced that ADTECH, the international provider of ad serving solutions and part of AOL Advertising has selected Medialets’ mobile in-app rich media ad platform. ADTECH will integrate Medialets’ Universal SDK for iPhone, iPad and Android into their mobile platform, giving ADTECH’s clients access to Medialets’ high-impact, cross-platform mobile rich media ad formats.

“Partnering with ADTECH is another step in our effort to make mobile rich media more widely available to the brands and agencies that are increasingly seeking the most effective means of reaching mobile consumers,” says Medialets CEO Eric Litman. “ADTECH serves a broad audience of more 150 billion ads and 800 million unique users, and gives advertisers greater access to our highly engaging mobile rich media formats.”

As the leading cross-platform, cross ad network rich media solution built explicitly for mobile, Medialets enables brands and agencies to create ads that take advantage of all of the features and hardware capabilities built into today’s generation of smartphones. Medialets’ high-impact rich media ad formats empower publisher partners to sell more ad inventory at higher CPMs. The Medialets Enrich™ preferred partner program enables leading ad networks, ad mediators and ad servers to sell and support Medialets’ unique cross-platform rich media units. Advertisers benefit from the ability to run a single set of ad creatives across an exceptionally broad range of mobile properties and access a unified set of reports from which to measure campaign success.

“Medialets’ formats enable our clients to build deeper connections with consumers, generating significantly higher engagement rates than static banner ads while delivering maximum return for their advertisers’ media spend,” said ADTECH CEO Dirk Freytag. “Plus, integration of their Universal SDK was a simple process; it allowed us to begin offering our clients Medialets’ highly engaging formats very quickly.”

ADTECH’s integrated ad server solution enables web publishers, ad networks, agencies and advertisers to manage, serve and evaluate virtually any kind of online advertising campaign including display, video and mobile formats. In addition to serving as AOL’s global ad serving solution provider, Gannett, Fox Networks, The Weather Network and a host of other international ad networks and publishers use ADTECH’s digital ad server solution.

About Medialets
Medialets is the most widely deployed rich media advertising solution for mobile apps. Medialets brings unprecedented scale to mobile rich media campaigns by enabling the delivery and measurement of the industry’s highest-impact rich media across the broadest array of top tier iPhone, iPad and Android apps. NPR, The New York Times, Variety, The Washington Post are just some of the top publishers that have enabled Medialets’ cross-platform rich media. Medialets’ high-value formats are also available via leading ad networks, ad mediators and ad servers through a preferred partner program, Medialets Enrich™. 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 ADTECH
ADTECH is an international supplier of digital marketing solutions and is AOL Advertising’s ad serving platform. The company’s flagship product is an integrated ad server solution that enables web publishers, ad networks, agencies and advertisers to manage, serve and evaluate virtually any kind of online advertising campaign including display, video and mobile formats. ADTECH’s solution differentiates itself from the competition through its scalable, enterprise-class infrastructure and user-friendly tools, providing users with increased efficiency, reliability and ROI for their online advertising business. ADTECH customers include major players like BSkyB, Hi-media, Gannett and Fox Networks. ADTECH AG is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL Inc.

About AOL
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) is a leading global Web services company with an extensive suite of brands and offerings and a substantial worldwide audience. AOL’s business spans online content, products and services that the company offers to consumers, publishers and advertisers. AOL is focused on attracting and engaging consumers and providing valuable online advertising services on both AOL’s owned and operated properties and third-party websites. In addition, AOL operates one of the largest Internet subscription access services in the United States, which serves as a valuable distribution channel for AOL’s consumer offerings.

Nexage and Medialets Launch Preferred Partnership With Mixology, Top iPhone Application

Integrated Partnership to Deliver New Rich Media, Analytics, Mediation and Monetization Capabilities to Publisher Clients

BOSTON and NEW YORK, May 18, 2010 — Nexage (www.nexage.com), a leading provider of mobile advertising yield optimization and mediation solutions, and Medialets, the most widely deployed cross-platform rich media advertising and analytics provider for mobile apps, today announced a preferred partnership to bring turnkey mobile advertising solutions to publishers.

As a Medialets Enrich™ preferred partner, Nexage increases the volume and scalability of mediation and monetization for rich media ad units, and Medialets will be able to provide full mediation and monetization services to their publisher clients.

“Both Nexage and Medialets selected one another based on their respective leadership positions and focus on scalability and results for their publisher clients,” said Ernie Cormier, CEO of Nexage. “We are pleased about the partnership and our ability to expand the portfolio of rich media services we can offer to premium publishers.”

The partnership leverages Nexage Mediation, which maximizes mobile ad revenue by increasing ad-fill rates, increasing effective CPM (cost per mille [thousand]), and giving publishers direct control over how ads are served on their mobile sites. It offers brand safety and configuration of advanced business rules across multiple mobile silos of web and apps.

“This partnership with Nexage gives our publisher clients the option to increase ad-fill rates and maximize their mobile advertising investments,” said Eric Litman, CEO, Medialets. “At the same time it extends the distribution of our cross-platform rich media ad units across more publisher apps, giving top brands and agencies more mobile buying power.”

The partnership also leverages Medialets’ capabilities to enable publishers, developers and advertisers to deliver highly engaging and measurable ads into mobile applications. Digital Outcrop, creators of Mixology, the ultimate drink recipe and bartending guide for the iPhone, has already signed on to launch rich media ad campaigns from Medialets while having its inventory mediated and monetized with Nexage Mediation.

“The Nexage – Medialets partnership allows us to deploy best of breed application rich media and mobile ad mediation in one SDK – eliminating the need for multiple ad network SDK implementations, minimizing release cycle management, and maximizing advertising revenue,” said James Murphy, co-founder, Digital Outcrop.

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.  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.

About NEXAGE, Inc.
Nexage is a leading developer of Mobile Advertising solutions that enable companies to maximize advertising revenue from their mobile properties. The company’s leading product is Nexage Mediation, a hosted advertising optimization service that enables carriers and media companies to fully control and maximize the monetization of their mobile channels. It has been demonstrated to serve text, banner, in-application and video ads with higher fill rates and effective CPM than could be achieved previously. Currently, Nexage Mediation powers mobile ads for a number of top-tier publishers, broadcasters and operators. Additional information is available at www.Nexage.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^TM offers the most flexible ad monetization platform for publishers. Clients include The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Variety, Pandora, and more. 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.

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Apple announced their iAd network today, the next step in Quattro Wireless’ evolution since its acquisition by Apple. And what they announced was just fantastic: an ad network that focuses on rich media interactions inside of iPhone apps. Apple is sending a loud message to the advertising community that mobile ads are different from online display – and even online rich media – and that they can be far more valuable to a brand. We couldn’t agree more.

We built the first rich media ads for mobile apps and now work with a large number of the top apps and publishers to help them monetize and sell their own inventory. We provide publishers the tools and the infrastructure they need to be successful selling ads. That’s very different from the iAd network, which like all ad networks sells ad inventory on a publisher’s behalf and takes a meaningful percentage of the revenue.

Not only are we the most widely deployed rich media platform for mobile, we’re also a cross-platform solution, meaning we work on iPhone and Android devices with other platforms to follow soon. That means that advertisers can create one set of interactive ads and run them across all of our publishers and ad network partners regardless of what kind of device they use, with a consistent set of metrics to measure their campaign’s performance. We are also a cross-network solution, and will shortly be announcing a number of ad network partnerships where advertisers will be able to buy Medialets rich media ads in addition to our direct, publisher partners.

Apple’s done more to move the needle in the brand community for mobile advertising than anyone else, and that was before they owned an ad network. Now that they’re promoting rich media units on a grand scale, we’re convinced that the flow of dollars into mobile ads - across all platforms - will only increase. That’s great for Medialets and for all of our partners.

This is an exciting day for mobile advertising.

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.

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.

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.