Zain Jaffer (left), CEO of Vungle, and Charles Hudson, venture partner at SoftTech VC, speak about the future of monetization at GamesBeat Summit 2017.
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Mobile video ad firm Vungle gets new CEO in leadership shuffle

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Fast-growing mobile advertising firm Vungle today announced that its founder, Zain Jaffer, has taken a leave of absence for personal reasons.

San Francisco-based Vungle said recently that it had reached a $300 million run rate for annualized revenues from its performance-based in-app video ad platform. The company also said it is profitable, which is not an easy feat in the highly competitive mobile ads business.

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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.