Tapjoy’s rewarded video ads grew 80% in the past year

Mobile engagement and monetization firm Tapjoy said its ad platform reached about 581 million mobile consumers at the close of the second quarter. The San Francisco company also said that in terms of daily unique viewers its rewarded video ads grew 80 percent in the second quarter, compared to a year ago.

Unique video views for rewarded video grew 107 percent from June 2016 to June 2017, and quarterly revenue grew 117 percent in Q2, compared to a year earlier.

“Our ad platform experienced tremendous growth during the past two quarters, thanks to several important advances in our technology, a continued supply of engaging ad content from industry-leading advertisers, and of course, our partnership with some of the biggest names in app publishing,” said Shannon Jessup, chief revenue officer of Tapjoy, in a statement. “We are honored to work with many of the most popular titles in the app stores today to bring our fun and highly engaging rewarded ads to millions of additional consumers.”

During the first half of the year, the company added thousands of new apps from nearly 150 new partners, bringing the total number of apps on the platform to over 20,000. Tapjoy’s latest partnerships include big names in mobile publishing, such as Sega, Miniclip, Zynga, ZeptoLab, Jam City, and Atari. New apps added to Tapjoy in 2017 include Seriously’s Best Fiends, Jam City’s Cookie Jam Blast, Flaregames’ Zombie Gunship Survival, ZeptoLab’s C.A.T.S., Sega Networks’ Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire, Zynga’s Crosswords with Friends, Atari’s Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch, Umi Mobile’s Family Feud Live, TinyCo’s Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow, and Etermax’s Trivia Crack.

Tapjoy’s customers helped it grow rewarded video views by 80 percent in Q2.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.