Corona Labs by Perk Adds New Monetization Plugins from InMobi, Vungle, and More to Corona Marketplace

AUSTIN, Texas & PALO ALTO, Calif.--()--Corona Labs by Perk.com Inc. (TSX:PER), the leader in 2D mobile game and app development, today announces new monetization partnerships with five of the industry’s top monetization platforms: AdBuddiz, InMobi, MediaBrix, RevMob, and Vungle. These five ad networks will join a multitude of plugins in the Corona Marketplace, giving Corona’s network of 300,000+ developers native access to a growing selection of monetization options.

"We are excited to partner with Corona Labs to increase monetization in the mobile gaming and non-gaming space for publishers," says Sameer Sondhi, VP & GM Business Development at InMobi. "This partnership will focus on high performing mobile ad units such as video and native, display banner ads monetization and will utilize InMobi’s global reach to further serve the Corona Labs publisher base.”

Gustavo Goldenberg, Head of Publisher Relations at RevMob, says “We have thousands of publishers in our network that have Corona as their platform of choice. By working closely with Corona Labs to create an even more seamless integration we are sure that even more developers will join in to build amazing experiences with Corona's versatile and easy-to-use engine."

Roj Niyogi, CEO of Corona Labs, says “We are excited to offer plugins from AdBuddiz, InMobi, MediaBrix, RevMob, and Vungle to Corona developers. Our extensive plugin directory is designed to help our developers create successful 2D games and apps quickly. Plugins from these industry-leading monetization solutions allow us to provide our users with more options than ever before.”

Corona users can access the new AdBuddiz, InMobi, MediaBrix, RevMob, and Vungle plugins from the Corona Marketplace as they become available in the near future. To use the plugins, developers simply add a few lines of code to their Corona apps.

About Corona Labs

Corona Labs is the leader in 2D game and app development and is reinventing how the world builds apps and games for mobile, connected TV, and desktop platforms. Corona’s flagship product, Corona SDK, is the world’s most advanced development platform, empowering developers to build apps faster for iOS, Android, tvOS, OS X, and Windows – all with a single code base. Experienced by more than 300,000 developers around the globe and with hundreds more signing up daily, apps built with the Corona Labs platform enjoy a combined total of over 1.6 billion user sessions each month.

About Perk

As a leading mobile rewards platform, Perk brings together the interests of consumers, advertisers, and publishers by offering consumers rewards such as Perk Points and other digital goods. Perk Points can be redeemed for gift cards, cash, or loaded on to Perk Plastik, a re-loadable branded debit card. Perk works with brands and publishers to reach consumers through truly engaging and innovative formats using rewards as a way to achieve maximum engagement of their brands and products.

Perk currently owns and operates mobile applications and websites that allow members to earn rewards such as Perk Points and digital goods. In addition to offering rewards to members through its own mobile applications and websites, Perk launched its Perk Rewards Platform, powered by Corona Labs, which allows mobile and desktop publishers to utilize rewards to engage and entice users through the publisher’s own applications and websites.

Additional information about Perk.com Inc. can be found at the Company’s corporate website: http://www.ir.perk.com.

About AdBuddiz

AdBuddiz is a leading international mobile ad network focusing on premium advertising. The company helps more than 30 000 mobile developers to monetize their apps via ads that look good and pay well.

AdBuddiz leverages the power of RTB and its direct connections with hundreds of advertisers in the world to maximize the monetization of its publishers.

It provides both CPM and CPI campaigns.

About InMobi

InMobi enables consumers to discover new products and services by providing contextual and curated ad experiences on mobile devices. Through its revolutionary discovery and advertising platform, app developers, merchants and brands can engage mobile consumers globally. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the 2016 Most Innovative Companies in the world, InMobi reaches over 1.56 billion unique mobile devices worldwide. www.inmobi.com

About MediaBrix

MediaBrix delivers emotionally charged brand connections that maximize consumer receptivity during mobile advertising experiences. As the only solution of its kind, we Rescue, Rally and Reward users with our proprietary product suite when they are emotionally available, leading to in-app campaign engagement rates 500 percent higher than all other digital formats. One of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. by Inc.500|5000, MediaBrix is used by hundreds of the world’s top brands and thousands of leading app and game developers, who leverage the MediaBrix platform to deliver over 500 million contextually relevant Breakthrough Moments® to more than 200 million global mobile users each month, all with 100 percent viewability. For more information, visit: www.MediaBrix.com.

About RevMob

RevMob provides a mobile ad platform for global publishers, developers and advertisers. Headquartered in Sao Palo, Brazil, the company provides its publishers with eCPMs significantly above the industry average through a unique algorithm with a simple SDK implementation. For more information, please visit https://www.revmobmobileadnetwork.com/.

About Vungle

Vungle is the leading in-app video advertising platform. Advertisers depend on Vungle's creative optimization technology, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-quality users worldwide. Top publishers rely on Vungle to generate revenue with engaging video ads.

Vungle is trusted by 20,000+ mobile apps worldwide, including top developers, such as Supercell, SEGA, Miniclip and Outfit7. Vungle serves more than 2 billion video views per month on 500 million unique devices, and is consistently ranked #1 for cross-platform user retention by industry mobile performance indexes. Vungle is backed by Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul.

Contacts

Perk.com Inc.
Ted Hastings
Chief Executive Officer
ted@perk.com
or
Jeff Collins
Chief Financial Officer
jeff@perk.com
or
INVESTOR RELATIONS:
The Equity Group Inc.
Adam Prior, 212-836-9606
Senior Vice President
aprior@equityny.com
or
Terry Downs, 212-836-9615
Associate
tdowns@equityny.com

Contacts

Perk.com Inc.
Ted Hastings
Chief Executive Officer
ted@perk.com
or
Jeff Collins
Chief Financial Officer
jeff@perk.com
or
INVESTOR RELATIONS:
The Equity Group Inc.
Adam Prior, 212-836-9606
Senior Vice President
aprior@equityny.com
or
Terry Downs, 212-836-9615
Associate
tdowns@equityny.com