Its capabilities extend beyond AppLovin’s mobile games to external studios, broadening its impact. Last year’s Axon 2.0 upgrade introduced improved machine learning models that enable more precise targeting, increasing the effectiveness of app-install ads.
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| Nov 12, 2024
Gaming audiences are a powerful force in back-to-school shopping, influencing both digital and in-store purchases. Activision Blizzard Media’s latest research reveals how this often-overlooked group—many of them parents—are planning early, spending big, and responding to mobile-first ads.
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| Apr 28, 2025
Discord expands ad offerings: The company is launching Video Quests for mobile in June 2025, incentivizing ad engagement with in-game rewards as it broadens its advertiser appeal beyond gaming.
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| Mar 20, 2025
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| Feb 27, 2025
Source: ĢAV Forecast
Flashy new features meet AAA games, yet battery life shrinks and OLED gets ditched. Is this really a next-gen move?
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| Apr 3, 2025
Those increased processing abilities are also enabling more advanced mobile games, indicating an open door for highly-advanced phone apps and offerings. Our take: SlimLM could be the start of a new chapter for AI, where models aren’t reliant on remote data centers or strong internet connections.
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| Nov 20, 2024
As competition intensifies and consumers continue to seek value, retailers will need to double down on how to differentiate themselves and offer shoppers what they want, wherever they are.
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| Nov 25, 2024
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Source: CivicScience
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| Mar 13, 2023
Source: Sensor Tower
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Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
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| Mar 28, 2023
Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
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| Nov 2, 2023
Source: Lumikai; Google
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| Mar 28, 2023
Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
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Source: data.ai (formerly App Annie)
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| Mar 18, 2025
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Source: Toluna; Coraly Partners; Halford Media Advisory; QuickPlay; Swerve.tv
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With party games, GTA, and AI-powered development, Netflix is diversifying. But inconsistent strategy and low TV gaming interest could make this a tough sell.
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| Jan 24, 2025
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Gen Zers and millennials have normalized gaming into adulthood, but smartphones have opened the door for older generations.
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| Aug 2, 2024
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“Mobile game advertising has grown at a pretty nice clip, and it’s going to continue,” said Wurmser. Another factor that has helped is the wider array of games now available on mobile. More complex casual games with a variety of monetization strategies and rich media ad formats are available, as developers rely less on hypercasual games. This was originally featured in the ĢAV Daily newsletter.
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| Oct 25, 2024
Companies specializing in mobile gaming could observe a reduction in user engagement and in-app purchases.
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| Oct 16, 2024
App install ad spending on mobile games started to recover in 2023, but it still dragged down overall install growth. Game advertising reeled from Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) privacy rules that took effect in 2021. Then growth in in-game advertising slowed in 2022 but started to recover in 2023.
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| Mar 26, 2024