Adknowledge and Ansca Mobile cater to mobile game makers

Adknowledge and Ansca Mobile have teamed up to help mobile game developers make money with their apps.

Adknowledge is a long-tail ad network, with monetization platforms for games and other apps. Ansca Mobile is a game engine that allows developers to create games without knowing much programming.

By combining their platforms, the two companies will make it a lot easier for app makers to monetize their mobile apps on the iOS (iPhone etc.) and Android mobile platforms.

The two companies say that mobile developers will be able to significantly cut the time it takes to develop apps and deploy them across multiple platforms. Ansca users can download the integrated Corona software development kit now. Apps that use Corona have been downloaded more than 13 million times.

In a game that uses Ansca’s Corona tools, game developers will be able to insert Adknowledge’s monetization system, which includes special ads known as offers via Adknowledge’s Super Rewards. Rivals include mobile monetization firms such as Tapjoy.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.