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FUTURE OF DIGITAL MARKETING “If Apple put up a walled advertising garden, advertisers will have to user their tools because the market share of iOS is so high. But massive land movements like this also bring opportunities for entrepreneurs.” absolutely has a place in the marketing mix, but I think users are tiring of pre-rolls. The format is a secondary concern in my mind, the message you put in the format is the key. There are significant technology problems we are solving around how to build dynamic messaging into mobile ad formats. If you look at the current mobile banner formats, they’re essentially just static GIF files. Video makes this problem even more challenging. We’ve made big advances in solving some of the inherent technology barriers for our partners. Does the long-running debate over the merits of HTML5 vs native apps still have any relevance when it comes to deciding the effectiveness of mobile advertising, or have technical developments now rendered this redundant? 40 this kind of granularity that excites me, that mas