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  • Burstly’s Storefront Open for Business: Buy Ads on the Hit “Words with Friends” App Directly

    alex (October 6th, 2010)

    Until today, iPhone and Android app developers didn’t have a simple solution to effortlessly sell ad space directly to clients.  Developers that tried to sell campaigns directly usually were surprised by how much work it took to manage a campaign, to deliver proper reporting, and to collect payment from the advertiser. These time-consuming tasks took away valuable resources from what developers would rather do: work on their next great app.

    Burstly’s Storefront offers app developers a turnkey platform that allows advertisers to purchase ads directly from the app developer. When a developer opens a Storefront, they are able to customize it in order to make sure it meets their needs, be it supporting multiple apps, different ad sizes, or customizing the look and feel of their Storefront to match their own website’s. Once live, each developer’s Storefront automates the whole ad buying process – from creating a campaign, to trafficking the ads, and even billing and reporting – all without any work from the developer.

    Advertisers can buy ads on multiple apps, and even across multiple developers’ apps, on both a CPM and CPC basis. In order to protect advertisers, we’ve created a unique dynamic pricing system that not only uses a familiar bidding system, but also ties prices to market performance rates to ensure a cost-effective ad buy. Advertisers promoting other mobile apps can track ad performance by using our download tracking system. This system gives advertisers a cost per install figure, even when buying on a CPM or CPC basis. Advertisers can access real-time reporting data and change their ad campaign options on the fly just by logging into their Storefront account.

    If you’re an advertiser interested in buying ads on “Words with Friends”, just click here now to go to Newtoy’s Storefront. If you’re a developer and would like your own Storefront, just visit Burstly’s website and sign up now.

    More partners are launching soon, so stay tuned!

    Introducing Burstly!

    ryan (March 30th, 2010)

    Today, we’re excited to announce the wide release of Burstly, the only open and free ad management platform for developers.

    So what exactly is an open ad management platform and why should you use one instead of your current solution? We realize that as developers, a lot of you have multiple apps and that you’re monetizing them in a variety of different ways. Of course, you have ad revenue that’s coming in from your ad network and ad exchange partners. And for that, we’ve built an open source SDK that provides a mediation layer for 8+ partners today with the ability to easily add new ones. But you might also make money selling a paid, full version of your app, or up-selling features through in-app purchases, or even selling ads or sponsorships directly to advertisers.  An ad management platform lets you see across ALL of your revenue sources and provides the visibility and control needed to take advantage of them from one centralized place. Seeing this data in one place empowers you to run what makes you the most money vs. ad networks or ad exchanges.

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