101 Top San Francisco Advertising Companies and Startups of 2021

June 18, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Advertising companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Advertising industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top San Francisco Advertising Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

AppsFlyer

AppsFlyer

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AppsFlyer is a mobile ad attribution platform that allows advertisers to analyze which campaigns drive results.

Demandbase

Demandbase

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Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform.

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Brave

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Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators.

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Jampp

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Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance

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HYP3R

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We are HYP3R. Our innovations help top marketers acquire high-value travelers directly and at scale.

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Sendoso

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Sendoso helps companies connect and drive revenue with personalized gifts, eGifts, virtual experiences, and more.

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Chartboost

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Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.

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Firefly

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Firefly is a mobility based advertising and data platform that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising.

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NextRoll

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NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.

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Singular

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Singular, a marketing intelligence platform, unifies marketing analytics, giving marketers actionable insights from previously siloed data

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Samba TV

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Samba uses data and analytics to improve TV on any screen.

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Tapjoy

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Tapjoy maximize mobile engagement and monetization for leading advertisers and app developers.

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Vungle

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Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.

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Copysmith

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The world’s best AI copywriter. Use AI to write copy for ads, product descriptions, social media posts, landing pages, blog posts, and more.

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Sojern

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Sojern provides data-driven digital marketing solutions for the travel industry.

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Metadata

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The autonomous demand generation platform for B2B enterprises.

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Upwave

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Upwave is a marketing analytics company providing brand marketing measurement tech to the world’s leading brands, agencies, & publishers.

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Perpetua

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Perpetua Labs helps brands improve the performance of their ecommerce ads using AI-powered automation.

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Swrve

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Swrve is the world’s leading mobile marketing automation platform, pioneering the fast-growing mobile engagement marketing space.

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Coil

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Coil specializes in providing web content monetization solutions.

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Catch&Release

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Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet.

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SuperSonic

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SuperSonic designs a mobile advertising technology platform that grows business by building a platform powered by advanced technology.

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MightyHive

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MightyHive is a programmatic solutions provider that simplifies complicated programmatic media buying for advertising organizations.

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Octane AI

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Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.

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Ampush

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Ampush fuels growth for some of the world’s most disruptive companies.

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LiveRamp

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LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.

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Sharethrough

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Sharethrough is a software company that powers in-feed, native ads for premium publishers & brand marketers.

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Pixlee

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Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.

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Instapage

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Instapage is a landing page platform designed to scale marketing efforts while lowering the costs.

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NinthDecimal

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NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data.

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Himalaya Media

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Himalaya builds a podcast platform, audio content network, and original production studio for podcasters.

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ClearSlide

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ClearSlide is the leading system of engagement to make every customer interaction successful.

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Smaato

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The Global In-App Advertising Platform

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vidIQ

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vidIQ is a YouTube audience development and management suite that provides applications and solutions for marketers.

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Krux

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Krux helps marketers, publishers and agencies drive revenue by delivering smarter content, commerce and marketing experiences.

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Marin Software

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Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.

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Radius Intelligence

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Radius Intelligence seeks to power data intelligence across all B2B applications, channels, and users.

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VidCrunch

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VidCrunch is a San-Francisco based company specializing in turning static content into engaging and monetizable videos.

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Bleacher Report

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Bleacher Report is a digital media company based in America, delivering digital media content on sports around the world.

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Improvado

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Data aggregation for Marketers. All your marketing data in one place, without developers.

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Zyper

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Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.

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NewCo

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NewCo is an organizer of forums and conferences used to connect people with businesses on a mission.

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Scalarr

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Ant-Fraud Solution that Detects the Mobile Ad Fraud Using Machine Learning

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Volta Charging

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Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

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Plexure

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Plexures IoT driven CRM platform delivers seamless customer experiences across multiple digital channels in the real world

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Aki Technologies

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Aki Technologies empowers brands and retailers to target consumers in pivotal moments using personalized advertising.

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DataFox

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DataFox is a company intelligence platform that helps you find and prioritize your target companies to source more opportunities.

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Taptica

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Taptica is a performance-based online marketing network that helps businesses optimize ROI-driven marketing campaigns and raise revenue.

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Chocolate

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Chocolate is a global mobile video advertising firm. We offer two core products – Chocolate Marketplace and Chocolate Ad Mediation.

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Mobile Action

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Mobile Action provides a one stop-shop for app marketers to do competitor analysis and App Store Optimization in the App Store.

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Delivery Agent

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Delivery Agent is a provider of e-commerce services for major entertainment and sports properties.

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Wrapify

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Wrapify is an omni-channel advertising company for brands powered by the gig-economy.

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Partnered

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Partnered provides sponsorship management solutions.

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Polymorph

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Polymorph is a white-label SaaS monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs and deliver better ad experiences.

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Kaizen Platform

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Kaizen is a full-service digital customer experience optimization platform that scales data-driven creativity.

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Rosebud AI

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Rosebud AI uses deep learning to create photos and videos of virtual models for brand advertising and entertainment.

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Synapbox

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Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.

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Whisk

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Whisk powers the creation, discovery, personalization, and monetization of food content online, in-store, and at home.

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MoPub

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MoPub is a mobile monetization platform that helps publishers drive more revenue from advertising and mobile transactions.

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ZypMedia

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ZypMedia is a programmatic media buying platform for local advertising.

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Art19

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Art19 provides tools for hosting, distribution, and monetization of podcasts.

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App Samurai

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App Samurai is a mobile marketing technology company providing pinpoint solutions with in-house technologies.

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RadiumOne

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RadiumOne features a software platform that automates media buying, making big data actionable for digital marketers.

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Linqia

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Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.

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AdStage

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AdStage is an advertising technology startup powering paid marketers to understand the business impact of their campaigns.

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BrightTALK

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BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.

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Tubi

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Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand (VOD) service. Available on Connected TV devices, Mobile, and the Web.

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Bizo

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Bizo is a marketing platform enabling B2B marketers to identify, reach and engage their target audiences online.

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Metamarkets

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Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising.

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NeoReach

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Influencer Marketing For Big Brands

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Virool

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Virool is a programmatic video marketing platform.

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ChefsFeed

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Expert-powered food and drink discovery, inspiration, and experiences.

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Appodeal

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Leading publisher centric app monetization platform.

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AdEspresso

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AdEspresso offers services for advertisers and media agencies to create, analyze, and optimize their Facebook advertisements.

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The Ticket Fairy

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Full-stack event marketing, ticketing, analytics and advertising platform

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VigLink

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VigLink is a platform for monetizing content-driven commerce for publishers, bloggers, forums, social networks and apps.

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SAY Media

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SAY Media is a digital media company that provides a technology platform and media services for brands to engage with their audiences.

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Tenjin

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Tenjin brings transparency and insight into your mobile marketing.

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Boost Media

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Boost Media is a startup that uses crowdsourcing and split testing to help businesses find effective words and images for their online ads.

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Vidible

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Vidible is a multi-platform, programmatic video exchange platform for discovering and distributing video content.

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ClearBrain

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ClearBrain provides self-serve predictive analytics for growth marketers

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adRise

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AdRise is an internet TV ad platform that distributes and monetizes TV shows and movies by partnering with premium content owners.

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500Friends

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500friend provides loyalty marketing solutions for internet retailers and brands.

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Visually

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Visually is the content creation platform that enables businesses to connect with their audiences through premium visual content

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Heyzap

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Heyzap is a premier mobile ad network that helps millions of users discover apps they love.

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PlayHaven

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PlayHaven offers tools for mobile developers to manage player acquisition, engagement, and monetization.

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Flite

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Flite is a creative management platform that powers creatives and marketers from top-tier brands, agencies, and publishers.

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Evensi

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Evensi is a platform to discover, experience, ideate, and promote events.

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Motimatic

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Motimatic platform blends the latest advances in online advertising technology and motivation science.

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FeedMob

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FeedMob is a mobile ad platform that specializes in honest, post-install KPI driven mobile advertising at scale.

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Apsalar

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Apsalar is now part of Singular. Singular’s platform delivers attribution, cost aggregation, creative reporting & workflow automation.

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CrowdOptic

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CrowdOptic uses algorithms and real-time sensor data from electronic devices to enhance security, social media sharing, and advertising.

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Velti

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Velti provides mobile marketing and advertising technology and solutions for brands, advertisers, mobile operators, and media groups.

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RTB-Media

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RTB-Media is a cross-channel trading desk and reporting platform for brands and agencies.

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Optimal

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Optimal is a social media advertising and analytics platform. Acquired by Brand Networks in Oct 2013.

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isocket

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isocket offers a technology platform that is focused on buying and selling fixed price inventory.

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Common Sense Media

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Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.

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Sprout

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Sprout provides a platform integrated with mobile ad networks and publishers, enabling professionals to create media HTML5 ads.

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Boostable

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Boostable provides a cooperative digital advertising solution that enables ecommerce businesses to offer digital advertising as a service.

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Placecast

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Placecast is a location intelligence platform that leverages carrier data to deliver better audience, verification, and insight solutions.

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Federated Media

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Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions.

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