InMobi made an important move in adapting to changes in the mobile advertising space. Last month the ad network and mobile monetization platform acquired Appsumer, a performance marketing firm. Appsumer’s primary role will be connecting the dots between marketing and revenue. They offer a wide array of content, ad targeting and telco solutions, all optimized for the mobile experience.
As Abhay Singhal, Co-Founder of InMobi Group and CEO of InMobi Marketing Solutions, explained in a statement:
“Appsumer brings a next-generation approach for advertisers to better understand the efficacy of their marketing efforts across multiple channels that growth marketing teams employ daily. The solution makes it easy to map all mobile performance media investment to business outcomes.”
InMobi made the purchase in the shadow of Apple’s recent iOS 14.5 privacy restrictions, which deprecated key advertising identifiers on iPhones and iPads. These changes have left growth marketers with significant challenges. “
In the absence of device identifiers like IDFA, marketing data becomes more complex and difficult to comprehend,” says Navin Madhavan, VP and GM for InMobi’s Growth Marketing Solutions. “The loss of IDs also has created nuances around how channel and attribution tools report performances, creating inconsistency.”
In light of these new conditions, mobile adtech and marketing firms have been consolidating. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, there were seven adtech company mergers, acquisitions or IPOs valued at over $1 billion. InMobi is no exception. “Given the changes in the ecosystem, we believe it is important to have intelligent platforms that can bring together data into a single destination and thus make life easier for developers,” Madhavan says.
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