Singapore — InMobi, an independent marketing cloud company headquartered in Singapore, has released its annual Mobile Marketing Handbook 2022, entitled ‘The Indisputable Magic of Mobile’. The guidebook underscores the way to navigate towards the current mobile behaviour within Southeast Asia’s digital economy. Aside from that, the handbook also dives into the potential of the metaverse and other technological advancements currently rolling out in the region’s mobile marketing sector.

The handbook goes into detail about salient points in mobile shopping, forecast on the maturity of the mobile market in Southeast Asia, and the reasons behind the hyperconnected consumerism through mobile channels during the pandemic. The guide also offers a way to introduce marketers to gaming in the Web3 metaverse and how they can make cautionary but informed decisions through purpose-led marketing, building programmatic capabilities, investing in data privacy and analysis, and defining clear purchase paths for consumers during this transition to blockchain economics.

Rishi Bedi, vice president and general manager for Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea at InMobi, said that the peak of mobile is potentially upon us as it increasingly becomes the channel of choice for addressing even the most basic of needs in Southeast Asia. He added that as the region’s mobile market rapidly grows and evolves, marketers must keep up with these changes to keep their audiences engaged.

“Our mobile marketing handbook is intended to provide guiding knowledge that may empower marketers to re-evaluate and pivot their mobile marketing strategies to sustain audiences and to try and stay ahead of their competition,” Bedi said.

InMobi has also spent the past year building a number of consumer and industry reports for the industry of mobile marketing. Recently, their report on the insights of mobile gaming’s presence in Indonesia was named MARKETECH APAC’s Insight of The Year.

California, USA – Global mobile marketing analytics platform, Adjust, has elevated Simon (Bobby) Dussart, its former chief customer officer (CCO), to be its new chief executive officer (CEO). The elevation comes after Adjust’s co-founder and former CEO, Paul H. Müller, steps into an advisory role capacity.

Dussart joined Adjust in 2014, as one of the company’s early team members, and has played an instrumental role in Adjust‘s transition from being a standalone mobile measurement partner (MMP) to the platform that powers marketers’ decision-making, while becoming a go-to for clients as CCO. He has also held several roles during his eight-year tenure, including serving as the head of solutions and integrations and as vice president of support. These are all laser-focused on supporting the platform’s customers and understanding the intricacies of Adjust‘s products to ensure they meet marketers’ evolving needs.

Prior to joining Adjust, he also held positions in software development at LaCIME Research Lab and BonGo Innovations, amongst others.

Commenting on his elevation, Dussart said “I look forward to this next chapter as we continue to develop innovative solutions that continue to address the needs of mobile marketers today — bringing added value to even more businesses across the globe, including accelerated growth in China and Southeast Asia, and continued leadership in EMEA and Japan.”

Adam Foroughi, the co-founder and CEO of AppLovin, which acquired Adjust in 2021, shared that Dussart started with Adjust very early and has been fiercely dedicated to the product and its innovation of it ever since. 

“He is passionate about meeting customers’ needs — keeping them at the centre of everything Adjust does — and has natural leadership ability. All of this makes him the perfect person to lead Adjust in this next chapter,” said Foroughi.

Meanwhile, Müller commented that Dussart has been a valuable and trusted partner since the formation of Adjust, with his unique mix of expertise at the intersection of technology development, customer success, and operational management.

“He has an acute understanding of clients’ needs, why they choose to Adjust over other MMPs, and how Adjust’s products are actually built, making him perfectly positioned to execute our vision of becoming the single set of solutions that empower mobile marketers in every aspect of their job,” said Müller.