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Technology, simplified.

MakeUseOf.com is the world’s leading destination for learning more about technology and the many ways that it can improve your life. We believe technology should be accessible to anyone, from all walks of life. So our mission is to help readers navigate the complexities of the burgeoning tech sphere.

MakeUseOf launched in July 2006 and now serves over 20 million pageviews every month.

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    • High-Impact (Takeovers, Billboards, Overlays, Sliders, Skins)
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  • Desktop Video
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    • Video Companion Ad
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    • Custom Video Executions
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  • Mobile Display
    • Mobile Rich Media (Including Interstitials & Expandables)
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    • Tablet Traffic
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    • Native & Custom Mobile Executions
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    • Requires SDK Integration
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    Ad Features / Call-To-Actions
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  • Email
  • Desktop Display, Desktop Video, Mobile Display, Social, Email
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    Technology, Simplified
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Entertainment, Financial Services, Gaming, Technology
  • Key Differentiator
    Engaging, eye-catching, and customisable. Display ads are one of the most flexible advertising options we offer. We’re pleased to help drive awareness to your brand on mobile and desktop devices.
Site Traffic
  • 6674 Global Rank
  • 3393
    United States
  • 15.1 M Estimated Visits
Traffic Sources
  • Search
    79.75%
  • Direct
    15.93%
  • Social
    2.27%
  • Mail
    1.03%
  • Referrals
    1.01%
  • Display
    0.01%
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Global Rank 787
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United States Rank 606
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United States Page Views 23.8%
2.3%
Top Countries
Top Search Keywords
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Mobile App Data
MixRank is the most comprehensive database of mobile apps, developers, SDKs, technologies, services, and integrations. Learn more.
  • 50 K Downloads
  • 10 SDKs
  • 3.7 Avg. Rating
  • 304 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.makeuseof.makeuseof
  • App Support: http://www.makeuseof.com
  • Genre: productivity
  • Bundle ID: com.makeuseof.makeuseof
  • App Size: 33.8 M
  • Version: 95
  • Release Date: July 9th, 2015
  • Update Date: February 18th, 2020

Description:

MakeUseOf is the world’s leading destination for learning more about technology and the many ways that it can improve your life. Get even more out of your tech with our daily articles, tips, deals, and reviews

DoubleClick
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Google Search
Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking. Google Search, or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google LLC. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web across all platforms, with 92.16% market share as of December 2020
AdMob Mediation
AdMob Mediation is a feature that lets you serve ads to your apps from multiple sources, including the AdMob Network, third-party ad networks, and AdMob campaigns. ... This guide is your one-stop shop for integrating mediation into your AdMob app.
Firebase
Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications
Google Sign-In SDK
Google Sign-In is a secure authentication system that reduces the burden of login for your users, by enabling them to sign in with their Google Account—the same account they already use with Gmail, Play, Google+, and other Google services. Google Sign-In is also your gateway to connecting with Google’s users and services in a secure manner. You can give your users the opportunity to pay with Google Pay, share with their Google-wide contacts, save a file to Drive, add an event to Calendar, and more. Integrate Google’s user-centric APIs and services inside your app to help your users take action and convert.
Android API
The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system
Google Authorization
Google Play services offers a standard authorization flow for all Google APIs and all components of Google Play services. In addition, you can leverage the authorization portion of the Google Play services SDK to gain authorization to services that are not yet supported in the Google Play services platform by using the access token to manually make API requests or using a client library provided by the service provider.
Google Mobile Ads
Ad Manager uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue. To do so, the default integration of the Mobile Ads SDK collects information such as device information. iOS setup Android setup.
Google Play Game Services
Make your games social with Google Play game services. Add achievements, leaderboards, real-time multiplayer, and other popular features using the Google Play game services SDK. Let players sign in using their Google+ identities and share their gaming experience with friends. Visit developers.google.com/games/services for more information about integrating game services into your app.
Google Play Services
Google Play services powers a broad set of SDKs on Android to help you build your app, enhance privacy and security, engage users, and grow your business. These SDKs are unique in that they only require a thin client library to be included in your app, as shown in figure 1. At runtime, the client library communicates with the bulk of the SDK's implementation and footprint in Google Play services.
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Ad Intelligence
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  • Direct
    4.05%
Ads Seen Recently
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Ads.txt
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Publisher ID
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spotxchange.com
reseller
146631
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smartadserver.com
reseller
2058
adform.com
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1819
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google.com
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telaria.com
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tremorhub.com
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spotxchange.com
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MakeUseOf advertising reaches 15.1M visitors across desktop and mobile web, in countries such as United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong. Pricing models they offer are CPM on channels such as Display, Video, Mobile, Social, Email Advertising on MakeUseOf will allow you to reach consumers in industries or verticals such as Entertainment, Financial Services, Technology, Gaming.

They are headquartered at Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom, and have 6 advertising & marketing contacts listed on Kochava. According to their Ads.txt, MakeUseOf inventory partners include: spotxchange.com, smartadserver.com, adform.com, google.com, telaria.com, tremorhub.com, spotx.tv, advertising.com, rubiconproject.com, pubmatic.com, indexexchange.com, appnexus.com, improvedigital.com, lkqd.net, synacor.com, districtm.io, freewheel.tv, openx.com, didna.io, vidazoo.com, yieldlab.net, 33across.com, sharethrough.com, video.unrulymedia.com, liveintent.com, sonobi.com, advangelists.com, adtech.com, contextweb.com, emxdgt.com, coxmt.com, rhythmone.com, bidtellect.com, gumgum.com, lijit.com, sovrn.com, connectad.io, yahoo.com, aol.com, brightcom.com, aps.amazon.com, media.net, sekindo.com, snigelweb.com, consumable.com, facebook.com, avantisvideo.com, teads.tv, smaato.com, pubnative.net, loopme.com, carambo.la, xad.com, x.fidelity-media.com, distroscale.com, triplelift.com, cedato.com, connatix.com, aolcloud.net, conversantmedia.com, adyoulike.com, beachfront.com.

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