AdMarvel, a subsidiary of Opera Software as well as a provider of mobile advertising services, announced the availability of its Android Advertising Toolkit version 1.5 on Feb. 17.
AdMarvel, a subsidiary of Opera Software
as well as a provider of mobile advertising services, announced the
availability of its Android Advertising Toolkit version 1.5 on Feb. 17.
The AdMarvel Android
Advertising Toolkit enables Android application developers to easily
integrate rich media advertising, including advertising from various
global ad networks, into their applications. AdMarvel announced the new
version of its toolkit at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
In addition, company officials said AdMarvel also supports rich
media advertising on the mobile web on Android phones. Advertising
metrics and analytics are provided via an online web console that
provides a near real-time view of the application's advertising
performance. And to further meet the needs of Android developers,
AdMarvel also features a rich media ad-server, supporting the
provisioning and management of direct-sourced or in-house advertising.
"Android devices are quickly catching up to the iPhone in terms of
distribution and usage around the world," said Mahi de Silva, CEO of
AdMarvel, in a statement. "Leveraging our work with rich media
advertising on the iPhone, we are very excited to extend our platform
to Android developers. Rich media advertising does a better job of
engaging consumers, and provides for a better brand experience.
Advertisers are willing to spend more on these campaigns, which means
higher revenue for the developer or publisher."
The AdMarvel toolkit supports JavaScript, expandable ad units,
animation, interstitials and transparent overlays of content and user
interaction, company officials said. It also supports the ability to
contain an ad experience to within an application for the promotion of
new features or content channels.
Moreover, the AdMarvel Android toolkit also supports click-to-call,
click-to-maps, click-to-app, click-to-video and click to YouTube
actions. And the toolkit also supports server side tools to
create, manage and track rich media ad performance and analytics.
AdMarvel officials said the company's offerings power many of the
leading developers on the iPhone and Android platforms and support over
500 publisher and carrier customers globally. AdMarvel works on behalf
of its customers to source, manage, optimize and serve advertising from
51 global and regional ad networks and agencies.
Opera announced its acquisition of AdMarvel in
January 2010 with the goal of improving the performance of mobile
advertising and expand the browser company's overall portfolio of
products and services.
In a statement on the Jan. 20 acquisition of AdMarvel, Lars
Boilesen, CEO of Opera, said: "In our fast-growing industry, mobile
advertising represents an interesting long-term revenue opportunity.
Every month, nearly 50 million people access the Web using Opera on
their mobile phones and together with AdMarvel, we think we can play an
important role in the evolution of mobile advertising."
Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.
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