Venatus, a leading provider of digital advertising solutions in the gaming industry, today announced the acquisition of AdinPlay, an AdTech business focused on monetising browser based games. The acquisition is the first since Venatus took on investment from the UK based private equity firm LivingBridge in 2021, and is part of their strategic plan to scale in the burgeoning gametech space.
Newsweek announced their first annual rankings for the U.K.’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® list, and Venatus was ranked among the countries leading businesses. The 2022 U.K.’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® are the result of a collaboration with the Best Practice Institute(BPI), a leadership development and benchmark research company.
As mobile usage continues to grow globally, the opportunity to target gamers in-between gaming sessions or whilst out and about is greater than ever and with modern advertising formats, advertisers can easily repurposing existing content to better utilise campaign budgets and extend reach across mobile devices.
Direct sale ad campaigns are perhaps the best way for publishers to increase their advertising yield, by booking campaigns directly with large scale advertisers and marketing agencies. By cutting out the fees of programmatic middlemen, publishers can greatly increase their profitability by opening up to both direct and programmatic demand for their ad-units.
Advertisers require new options aside from outdated web banners, to truly connect with audiences in engaging ways. Rich media ad-formats offer that solution, with customizable, engaging and interactive formats driving higher engagement and click-through rates. As a result, these formats demand higher CPMs and can boost profitability for web publishers.
With research showing 27.6% of all search engine clicks go to the first link on result pages, ranking highly amidst competitors is crucial to increasing overall site traffic. As outdated SEO methods like 'keyword stuffing' are increasing penalised by search engines, publishers must better understand how search engines function, in order to better optimize their content to boost search rankings and increase organic traffic.
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