mobile-advertising
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Novosol
Novosol is a Singapore-based mobile advertising and customer-engagement company behind moLotus, a patented GSM-based mobile video interaction platform. moLotus delivers personalized, interactive video messages directly to any mobile handset - no app download or data connection required - and can push millions of messages a day. Working through telecom operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, Indosat and Telkomsel, Novosol helps banks, retailers, automakers and consumer brands automate customer relationship processes while opening a new advertising revenue line for the carriers themselves.
RevX
RevX is a programmatic demand-side platform (DSP) for mobile app marketers, using machine learning and data science to power user acquisition, retargeting, retention and monetization across in-app, web, social and connected TV inventory. Part of publicly listed Affle (India) Limited since 2019, RevX processes hundreds of billions of bid requests daily for 400+ global clients and has been repeatedly recognized in the AppsFlyer Performance Index, including top-ranked positions in iOS gaming remarketing in 2025.
Adsquare
Adsquare is a Berlin-based location intelligence company that turns real-world movement and behaviour into audience data marketers can use to plan, target, optimize and measure advertising campaigns. Founded in 2012, its mobile-first data exchange connects location, app-usage, demographic and offline signals to leading DSPs, SSPs and CDPs, powering geocontextual, proximity and audience targeting across mobile, online and digital out-of-home (DOOH). The platform is built privacy-first around consent-based signals and serves thousands of advertisers and dozens of platform partners across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Big Happy
Big Happy is a New York-based advertising technology company that turns everyday screens into immersive, cinematic brand experiences. Founded in 2019 by adtech and media-buying veterans, it operates an end-to-end platform spanning creative development, media activation and campaign measurement across high-impact mobile formats and 3D digital out-of-home (DOOH). The company works with 300+ brands including Coca-Cola, Verizon, Samsung and the U.S. Army, reaching 7,000+ premium mobile publishers and over one million DOOH screens across North America.
AppLovin
AppLovin is a Palo Alto-based advertising technology company that runs an AI-driven marketplace connecting app advertisers with the users most likely to engage with them. Founded in 2011, it grew from a mobile-gaming ad network into an S&P 500 company by building AXON, a machine-learning engine that matches advertiser demand to publisher supply in real time. After selling its own games portfolio in 2025, AppLovin now focuses almost entirely on high-margin advertising software, expanding beyond gaming into e-commerce and connected TV.
Tenjin
Tenjin is a San Francisco-based mobile measurement partner (MMP) that gives app and game developers affordable, transparent marketing analytics. Founded in 2014 out of Y Combinator, it bundles mobile attribution, ad-revenue aggregation, LTV prediction, cost reporting, fraud prevention, and a marketing data warehouse (DataVault) into a single all-inclusive platform - built for the 'marketing scientist' who would rather analyze data than wrangle it.
Locala
Locala is a French-founded omnichannel advertising platform that helps global brands plan, buy, and measure multi-location marketing campaigns. Using location data, consumer-mobility signals, and machine learning, it connects online ad spend to real-world outcomes like store visits and foot traffic. Formerly known as S4M (Success for Mobile), the company rebranded to Locala in 2022 and works with brands including L'Oreal, Volkswagen/Audi, Subway, McDonald's, Nespresso, and L'Occitane.
Picnic
Picnic is a London-born ad-tech company building user-first advertising for the open web. It packages social-media-style ad formats - Stories, swipe-to-act, emoji reactions - and delivers them on premium publisher inventory, aiming to make ads people actually engage with rather than ignore. Founded in 2017 by Matthew Goldhill, Picnic pairs its creative formats with PIQ, an inventory-quality platform, and ships every campaign carbon neutral, claiming roughly 50% lower emissions than the industry standard.
CloudX
CloudX is an AI-native ad monetization platform for mobile publishers, built by the founders of MoPub and MAX. It rebuilds the programmatic supply-side stack so autonomous AI agents - not manual ops teams - can run auctions, manage price floors, and optimize revenue, with auction integrity verified inside Trusted Execution Environments. The company launched out of stealth in November 2025 with a $30M Series A led by Addition.
InMobi
InMobi is a global mobile advertising and marketing technology company founded in 2007 in Bangalore, India. It became India's first unicorn in 2011 and runs a stack of mobile-first products - the InMobi DSP, InMobi Exchange, and the consumer lockscreen and AI commerce platform Glance - reaching billions of devices and processing over a trillion ad requests monthly. In 2025 it doubled down on artificial intelligence, launching its Helix AI layer and Glance AI commerce, while preparing for a planned domestic IPO in India.
Moloco
Moloco is a Redwood City-based machine learning company that helps app developers, retailers, and streaming platforms turn their first-party data into performance advertising. Its DSP, Commerce Media, and Streaming Monetization products use deep neural networks to make billions of bidding decisions every day for customers like Wayfair, StockX, Costco, Netmarble, and Yogiyo.
Button
Button is the leading mobile commerce enablement platform that uses AI-powered deep-linking technology to intelligently route mobile users to high-converting app destinations. Founded in 2014, Button has driven over $25 billion in cumulative commerce by connecting retailers, publishers, and creators in a performance-driven ecosystem - turning every mobile tap into a measurable, revenue-generating action.