Vungle Premium is a programmatic private market for brands seeking mobile audiences

Vungle has become a leader in mobile in-app video advertising. Now it wants to make itself more valuable to its customers with Vungle Premium, a programmatic private marketplace that allows brands to reach their target audience in the world’s top apps, as those apps peak in their popularity.

That helps generate more revenue for mobile app makers and get better exposure for the brands as they follow consumers into the huge mobile apps market and the $30 billion mobile game market. Vungle Premium enables brand advertisers to catch an app while it’s hot and climbing up the charts. Those brands can insert advertising campaigns into the apps and scale them up as the popularity grows. Vungle’s video ad technology is used in apps that generate billions of views a month.

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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.