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Next-Gen On-Device Mobile AI: What Is It & What Might It Mean for Game Ad Tech?
Tencent, Qualcomm, and Vivo recently announced a new partnership, with a view to refining game experiences by harnessing the potential of on-device mobile AI. We’ve all heard so much about AI in recent months that it’s easy to assume any reference to it is simply over-enthusiastic marketing speak. But what this collection of tech giants have underway is pretty fascinating. It’s also somewhat confusing, as it’s a little complicated on the technical side of things. So let’s take a look at [...]
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PepsiCo Planned Space-Based Orbiting Billboard for Gaming Ad Campaign
U.S. soft drinks giant PepsiCo was, until recently, planning to launch a gaming-focused advertising campaign hosted on billboards suspended in space. If you’re not familiar with ‘stratosphere advertisements’ – also known as ‘orbital display ads’ – brace yourself. Russian tech outfit StartRocket plans to releases networks of tiny ‘cubesat’ satellites into space, which can be arranged into formations that project light back to Earth; perhaps assuming the form of a company logo or slogan. As such, the satellite arrays essentially offer orbiting [...]
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What Does House of Lords Proposed 'Digital Authority' Mean for Games?
A new report from the House of Lords has proposed the formation of a new ‘Digital Authority’ to monitor and even regulate technology companies, and make sure that UK law evolves in tandem with technology. As reported by the BBC, the document looks at tech firms’ management of data and privacy breaches, and their handling of problematic social behaviour over online platforms. The reports’ authors have branded responses to such issues as ‘inadequate’, and stress a belief that self-regulation on some [...]
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ironSource Debuts New Platform for Monitoring Return on Advertising Spend
Mobile monetisation and marketing outfit ironSource has unveiled its new ROAS Optimizer platform, which offers users a means to monitor the return on advertising spend (ROAS). Only last week, we saw how advertising is increasingly valuable to casual mobile game revenues. But as the in-game and app-based advertising model continues to find a more established footing, its ecosystem is at the same time evolving into a rather complex beast. ROAS Optimizer hopes to address that complexity, while simultaneously automating bid optimisation with a [...]
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Indian Gamer Behaviour Must Be Played Up to Better Target Ads
Users’ behaviour and gameplay must be considered so that ads do not get pushed to the wrong group of gamers, leading to bad user experience and a waste of inventory. In a Q&A with ExchangeWire, Nazara Games CEO, Manish Agarwal, discusses the challenges he faces in supporting the Indian ad market and stresses the need for brands to produce creatives that do not interfere with gameplay experience. And he should know, considering Nazara has more than six million monthly active [...]
