• Local Mobile Ad Network xAd Raises $9M From SoftBank And Others

    Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

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    Local mobile advertising network xAD has raised $9 million in new funding led by Emergence Capital Partners, with participation from SoftBank Capital, Palisades Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

    xAD, which wants to be wants to be the the “AdMob of Local,” offers a local mobile search and advertising network in the U.S. The company’s patented mobile optimization technology identifies who, what, and where an end user is, and serves the most relevant click, call and check in based advertising.

    Across its network, xAd aggregates and manages nearly half a billion location-specific ad requests per month, billions of business listings, and over one million national and local advertisers.

    In May, xAD hit 2 billion ads served. And in March xAD acquired the remaining assets of Go2 Media, including the direct-to-consumer business as well as the mobile web properties, brands and search sites of the company.

    xAd says the new funding will be used to enhance the startup’s tools for both publishers and advertisers and continue to build and support its mobile ad-serving technology.


    Company: xAd
    Website: xAd.com
    Launch Date: 2009
    Funding: $13M

    Established in 2009, xAd is one of the largest mobile-local advertising networks in the U.S. and the only one offering both targeted search and display. Across its network, xAd aggregates and manages nearly half a billion location-specific ad requests per month, billions of business listings, and over one million national and local advertisers. Its proprietary technology and quality-score algorithm, which takes into account nearly 30 variables such as user behavior and search location, deliver local and contextual relevance for better...

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