Interstitial Ads Guide
Interstitial ads have great potential to increase conversion rates and are often displayed in-between levels in mobile games and apps.
Interstitial ads example (Source: AdMob)
Interstitial Ads eCPMs
Here are some of the biggest interstitial ads offers along with their platform and country below.
| Platform/Network | Country | eCPMs/Revenues |
| Admob | US | $11 iOS, $6 on Android |
| Smaato | UK | Up to $10 on iOS, up to $7 Android |
| Epom | US | Up to $4 |
| Exoclick | US | Up to $2 |
| InMobi | UK | $2.5: Androids. For iOS: $2.5 to $7.5 |
| Startapp | US | $3-$10 – US only rate |
Source: AdtoApp
List of interstitial ad networks
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 400 | $192m+ | 25k | 4m+ |
AdColony (formerly known as Opera Mediaworks) is one of the largest mobile ad networks globally. Its reach, 1,4 billion users globally, what sets it apart from other ad networks. Known for its unparalleled 3rd party verified viewability rates, exclusive Instant-Play™ HD video technology, proprietary rich media formats, its global performance advertising business and programmatic marketplace, and the company extensive SDK footprint in the Top 1,000 apps worldwide. A fully-owned subsidiary of Otello Corporation ASA, AdColony is a global organization with over 20 offices worldwide.
- Mobile platforms: Android, IOS
- Campaign types: CPM
- Ad formats supported: Rich Media, Video
- Targeting: Demographic
- Key markets: US
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 500-1000 | +100M$ | 1.5k+ | 2.5m+ |
Smadex is the mobile-first programmatic DSP engineered for growth.
We are a technology company led by engineering and data science, focused on uprising the global mobile programmatic landscape through our ad tech solutions.
Using a combination of our own programmatic advertising technology, machine learning, and first-party data, we have over a decade partnering with apps, brands and performance marketers to achieve their growth goals.
We take transparency very seriously. To guarantee our fully transparent platform remains that way, Smadex programmatic partners with the leading third-party platforms to provide innovative solutions and independent measurement at the very core of our service.
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| Founded | Employees | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 51-200 |
Zoomd is a public traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSXV:ZOMD) with global offices in Canada, Brazil, S.Korea, Singapore, Israel, Mexico and Bulgaria. Zoomd is dedicated to helping advertisers and publishers achieve their key performance indicators (KPIs) through a patented, performance-based advertising platform.
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| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | - | - | 20k | - |
Headway is a leading data-driven app growth marketing company servicing mobile apps, brands, and ad-tech companies worldwide. Headway’s mobile-first DSP, Smadex, integrates with partner platforms to offer brands seamless data-driven digital solutions. Headway provides optimized and targeted ad campaigns, empowered by Machine Learning, and guided by experienced growth experts. Headway is a business unit of Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE: EVC), a diversified global media, data and technology services company.
- Mobile platforms: Android, IOS
- Campaign types: Mobile Ad Network, Mobile DSP
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Content Lock, Interstitial, Native, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Europe, Latin America, Middle East, South East Asia, USA
myAppFree
High Quality Mobile Traffic & Exclusive Placements on SONY Xperia, Native SDK
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2-10 | $8.9m+ | 7k | 1.36m+ |
myAppFree is a performance-based advertising platform, founded in 2015 in Italy by Massimo Caroli and Riccardo Fuzzi, that matches advertisers and publishers. One of the unique features it offers in terms of inventory for advertisers is an access to 40 million plus Sony Xperia smartphone users, as well as own App Discovery that features the best mobile apps for users to discover.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Notifications
- Targeting: Audience, Geo, Interests, OS, Platform
- Key Markets: Asia, Europe, Latin America, USA
| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 11-50 | 3k+ |
Bidease is a mobile DSP platform for mobile marketers. Its built on a foundation of proprietary programmatic advertising technology, Machine Learning, and first party data. Bidease team optimizes campaigns across all major mobile formats for desired post-install behaviors at no risk to its clients’ bottom line.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPI, CPA, CPM
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Rewarded Video, Video
- Targeting: Carrier, Device, Gender, Geo, Interests, IP, OS
- Key Markets: global
| Founded | Employees | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 101 |
mFilterIt is a fast growing global ad-fraud and brand safety solutions company helping advertisers to inspect the performance marketing campaigns and filter BOT propelled and other fraudulent SIVT. Its neutral, platform agnostic, trustworthy and transparent solutions and processes have won trust of some of the leading digital advertisers throughout the globe.
The company validates over 2 billion transactions every year saving more than $35 million of advertisers money. Headquartered in India, the company has presence across key markets of US, Middle East and South Asia and is serving customer operations in more than 16 countries.
| Employees | Social | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-10 | 100 |
Adsperfection is an ad tech company that helps brands and developers with users acquisition and in-app monetization. With Adsperfection advertisers can acquire engaged and paying users for their app/product/service, as well as buy media at scale and get advanced solutions for preventing fraud. Publishers can boost their eCPM with flexible ad formats, use high impact monetization solutions and arrange direct deals from most recognizable app developers worldwide.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI, CPL, CPM, CPS
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, UK, USA
Everyads is an international mobile marketing agency. We\'re based out of Moscow, New York and Shanghai and connect the best, largest advertisers with top tier publishers. From mobile media planning to celebrity endorsement we are the 1 stop-shop for anything you need for your Apps and Games.
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Startapp is a mobile advertising company. It provides a self-serve platform for advertisers to quickly build and launch ad campaigns, controlling audience, creatives and budget aspects of their campaigns. Among features that sets it aside from other ad networks are uniquely designed animated and interactive ads, data-enhanced targeting, using data derived from over 300,000 mobile apps and native ad units.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: App Icon, Full Page Ads, InApp Ads, Interstitial, Video
- Targeting: App, Carrier, Competitors, Connection Type, Device, Gender, Geo, OS
- Key Markets: Global
Bidsopt is a leading Mobile Demand Side Platform connecting advertisers and users in real time. Key features of Bidsopt Mobile DSP include. Large Scale Native, Rich Media, Video and Standard Banner inventory from leading exchange/ssp and direct publisher relationship.
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Splicky is the new Demand Side Platform (DSP) for the mobile channel using proprietary Real-Time Advertising (RTA) technology. Their technology makes it simple to buy mobile ad impressions and clicks within mobile sites and apps - in real-time.
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Zucks is a Japan-based mobile advertising platform strong in the Asian mobile market. They offer a large number of campaigns supporting iOS and Android, driving app downloads as well as CPI,CPA and CPC.
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SmartyAds is cutting-edge programmatic advertising platform tailored to the needs of supply and demand partners, data management platforms, ad networks, and agency trading desks. SmartyAds technology allows to create, launch, manage, and analyze digital ad campaigns in the most convenient way.
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Mobile ad planning, execution and analysis are complicated for startups because they cannot reach all available app marketing tools. App Samurai makes it easy for them without requiring in-depth mobile advertising knowledge! Thanks to App Samurai, you can easily create, manage, and measure acquisition campaigns, boost campaigns, and video campaigns to acquire qualified users.
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ironSource is the leading in-app video advertising platform. It is one of the biggest and oldest mobile advertising platforms launched in 2010. Focusing on mobile games, it makes free-to-play and free-to-use possible for over 1.5B people around the world. Over 80,000 app developers use its technologies to grow their businesses, among these such leading companies like Kongregate, Zeptolab, Big Fish Games, Zynga and Playrix.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Cocos, Amazon, AdobeAir
- Campaign types: CPC, CPE, CPA, CPV
- Ad formats supported: App Wall, Interstitial, Offer Wall, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: United States, Israel
Digital Turbine is a mobile app advertising platform for app delivery and discovery. The company is double down on a mobile native format to allow advertisers cut through the noice and reach out their target audience. Digital Turbine bypasses app stores and partners with major global telecom companies to introduce apps to mobile users with sponsored recommendations and native preloads.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPC, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Native, Offer Wall
- Targeting: Geo, OS
- Key Markets: Asia, Europe, USA
Facebook Audience Network
Expand the power of Facebook advertising with Audience Network.
| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11-50 | 2k+ |
Persona.ly is a tech product company driving mobile user acquisition for brands and app developers, operating world-wide. Using their proprietary bidder and machine-learning algorithms Persona.ly team offers transparent, performance-based, highly-targeted app install and retargeting solutions.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS
- Campaign types: CPA, CPE, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Offerwalls, Rewarded, Rich Media, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: US, South Korea, Japan, Russia, South East Asia and India
Adsterra Network
Best Advertising Network, High Quality Traffic, Self-Service Platform for advertisers
Tapjoy is an advertising and app monetization platform that offers a novel way for users to engage in mobile advertising.. The Tapjoy mobile ad network services lineup are focused on helping premium mobile app publishers to increase revenue on each user they have. Tapjoy offers users virtual currency for watching video ads, subscribing to services, and downloading promoted apps. Users can then spend that virtual currency on unlocking in-app content from publishers. The key benefit that the company brings to the table is that it allows app developers and brands monetize users who do not have credit cards or do not wish to spend real currency on app content.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Mobile Web
- Campaign types: CPC, CPD, CPI, CPM
- Ad formats supported: Content Lock, Interstitial, Offerwall, Rewards
- Targeting: custom
- Key Markets: Europe, India, Japan, Kenya, South Africa, UK, United States
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 201-500 | - | 450 | 100,000+ |
| Founded | Employees | Revenues | Social | Traffic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 152 | $6m+ | 8k | 90,000+ |
Leadbolt is a high performance mobile advertising platform for user acquisition and in-app monetization. The company is focused on helping mobile advertisers to reach and acquire loyal users at scale, leveraging its direct relationships and dynamic ad-serving technologies. Leadbolt’s AI and Machine Learning based algorithms assist advertisers with advanced targeting that captivates best-fit audiences to achieve deeper user engagement with maximum ROI.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone
- Campaign types: CPC, CPM, CPI, CPV
- Ad formats supported: Native, Video, Interstitial
- Targeting: country, region, carrier, connection type, mobile platform, OS version, device, category
- Key Markets: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Global, India, Russia, UK, USA
| Founded | Employees | Social | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11-50 | 1k+ |
DGTG is a digital marketing company that is dedicated to helping businesses looking to reach new audiences in Tier1 and Tier2 countries with mobile and desktop advertising solutions. DGTG has an in-house media buying team along with tech and design teams. It also uses premium networks and direct partners to drive relevant traffic. DGTG has built healthy partnerships with almost all attribution platforms and integrate-able with all tracking platforms.
- Mobile platforms: Android, iOS
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC, CPI, CPL, CPM
- Ad formats supported: Video, MRAID
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Global
Taptica is a mobile user acquisition platform, offering ML algorithms powered advertising solutions to brands and app developers. With a big network of approved publishers, Taptica is capable to reach more than 200 million mobile users worldwide. On the advertising side of things, the platform focuses on generating relevant and loyal audiences for apps and games and also offers a high volume of media, including RTB exchanges.
- Mobile platforms: Android, IOS
- Campaign types: CPA, CPC
- Ad formats supported: Banners, Interstitial, Text, Video
- Targeting: Custom
- Key Markets: Latin America, USA
unity Ads is the premier ad monetization solution for mobile games, it was launched by Unity Technologies in 2014. The mobile ad platform was designed to advertise mobile games and it’s catered to help game developers to monetize on their games more efficiently using video ads. Th unity Ads team is focused on delivering native video ads solution that allows game advertisers to get much more of game players making in-app purchases than industry standard 3% on average.
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Campaign types: CPM, CPI
- Ad formats supported: Banner, Video, Interstitial
- Targeting: device, connection, operating system, country
- Key Markets: United States
Axonix help app developers and mobile publishers maximize their ad revenues. Unlike some of their competitors, they don’t have their own inventory - so your ad space is always their top priority.
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