Global Rebrand Announcement We started S4M in 2012 with a single goal – create the best platform the world has ever seen for driving consumers to stores and proving the results. Ten years later, the top retailers, restaurant chains, and, auto dealerships from around the world look to us as their go-to partner for driving …
Following impressive growth and increased penetration within the world’s top agencies and brands, the company has announced that it is further evolving. NEW YORK, March 3, 2022 – S4M, the leading drive-to-store platform for tier-one retailers, restaurants & auto dealerships, today announced it is rebranding to Ask Locala. The company was founded a decade ago …
S4M names Arnaud Bret as New Global Chief Revenue Officer Bret brings more than 25 years of experience leading sales and business development initiatives for top enterprise technology vendors, including Amazon and Blackberry. New York / Paris February 25, 2022 – S4M, the leading location-based platform for tier-1 retailers, restaurants & auto dealerships, today announced …
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The digital advertising expert comes back to the drive-to-store platform to accelerate its local growth Milan, 21 December 2021 – S4M, the leading location-based platform for tier-1 retailers, restaurants and auto dealerships, today announced the appointment of Benvenuto Alfieri as Country Manager Italy to lead the company’s expansion in the region. Alfieri previously held the …
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Criteo’s former People Partner joins the drive-to-store platform as Chief People Officer to steer its HR actions Paris, 25 August 2021 – S4M, the leading drive-to-store platform for tier-1 retailers, restaurants & auto dealerships, today announced the appointment of Armelle Quenard as Chief People Officer to lead the company’s human resources strategy and development. With …
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The industry veteran joins the drive-to-store platform to lead its global growth New York, 29 June 2021 – S4M, the leading location-based platform for tier-1 retailers, restaurants & auto dealerships, today announced the appointment of Cameron V. Peebles as Global Chief Marketing Officer to lead the company’s worldwide marketing initiatives. With an impressive 22-year career …
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The digital advertising expert joins the drive-to-store platform to impulse its growth in the region London, 14 June 2021 – S4M has appointed Daniel Muñoz as Sales & Business Development Director Spain to help the company scale up its operations and growth in the Spanish market. With a career in digital media spanning more than …
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Coutanceau takes on this new role to develop S4M’s global CSR strategy and initiatives London, June 07 2021 – S4M has appointed Jean-François Coutanceau as SVP Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to lead its efforts to make its business more sustainable while giving back to people and the planet. This new role comes in addition to …
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London, April 9, 2021 – S4M has appointed Benjamin Sekkai as Country Manager Benelux and Sebastien Clement as Country Manager Switzerland to lead the drive-to-store platform and oversee its expansion in local markets. Before joining S4M, both Sekkai and Clement held senior positions at some of the industry’s biggest companies. Among others, Sekkai was Country …
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NEW YORK – December 2, 2020 – S4M announced today the global integration of Integral Ad Science (IAS) targeting segments in its drive-to-store platform Fusio. IAS is the global leader in digital ad verification, offering technologies that drive high-quality advertising media. According to IAS’ latest Media Quality Report, campaigns in which fraud mitigation tools were …
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S4M granted the Drive-to-Trust ‘Right Place’ label for their drive-to-store capabilities PARIS, October 26, 2020 – The Mobile Marketing Association, in partnership with the CESP, has granted S4M the Drive-to-Trust ‘Right Place’ certification for their drive-to-store technology. This certification acknowledges drive-to-store advertising solutions that deliver effective local or geolocated campaigns and guarantees the quality of their …
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Store-level insights help brands make smarter advertising investments LONDON, October 21, 2020 – S4M announced today the launch of Retail Analytics, the latest data enhancement of its drive-to-store platform. This new location intelligence product is designed to help advertisers identify store visit trends on both a nationwide and local level, and make better decisions on …
NEW YORK, October 7, 2020– Bruce Forester has joined S4M as Vice President, Sales, East, a newly created position for the drive-to-store platform’s US market. Bruce joins S4M with over 15 years of experience across the digital advertising space, specializing in location data, mobile, video, and advanced TV. In his new role, Bruce will be responsible for …
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Adweek Announces 2020 Adweek 100: Fastest Growing Companies S4M Ranks No. 2 on Adweek Fastest Growing Solution Providers with Three-Year Revenue Growth of 351% NEW YORK, October 5, 2020– Adweek today ranked S4M no. 2 for Solution Providers in its annual Adweek 100: Fastest Growing feature. Fastest Growing honors the 100 top agencies and 10 top solution providers …
NEW YORK, September 23, 2020 – S4M, the Drive-to-Store Platform, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Best Location Based Marketing Platform” award in the third annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the …
S4M, the Drive-to-Store Platform, announced today an integration with Unacast, an award-winning location data, and analytics firm. With this global partnership, Unacast’s location and audience data will feed into the S4M platform and be leveraged to increase its insights and measurement offering in the US, UK, EU and APAC. Through the integration, S4M will have …
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S4M, the Drive-to-Store Platform, announced today a global partnership with VIOOH, a leading planning and trading platform for the programmatic buying and selling of Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising, allowing marketers to effectively combine mobile and OOH to drive in-store foot traffic. The offer, available initially in several key markets, including the US, UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, …
We’re very pleased to announce our new global partnership with the world’s number one outdoor advertising company JCDecaux. This partnership will allow JCDecaux clients to run their drive-to-store ad campaigns on both JCDecaux’s OOH network, and on mobile with S4M’s platform. By using both mediums at the same time, brands will be able to target …
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JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces today its partnership with S4M, the drive-to-store platform, enabling advertisers to combine their Out-of-Home (OOH) and mobile advertising activations to drive store footfall. This offer, which will be available initially in 8 markets worldwide including France, the USA, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the …
S4M has appointed Sandrine Préfaut as Managing Director France to lead the drive-to-store platform through its next phase of growth. With more than 20 years’ experience in advertising, Préfaut was formerly CEO of Vizeum for 7 years, before joining Adrexo, a leaflet distributor, as co-President, and founding WNR (What’s Next Retail), a consultancy that advised …
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S4M has appointed Paul Thompson as Global Growth Advisor, as it looks to expand its drive-to-store platform across the globe. Thompson, currently Chief Revenue Officer at Silver Bullet and Board advisor to Location Sciences, is widely recognized as a leader in mobile location technologies. Previously CRO at Blis, he helped grow the company from 12 …
S4M, a leading drive-to-store platform, announced today that they have entered into a partnership with zeotap, the global deterministic identity and data platform. The partnership will enable S4M to leverage zeotap’s deterministic audience segments and consumer insights on behalf of their clients for their drive-to-store campaigns across Europe, the US, Canada and LATAM. Zeotap provides …
At the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2019, S4M announced the results of the first worldwide study assessing the market share of drive-to-store advertising investments. Commissioned as an independent research study from IHS Markit, The State of Drive-to-Store Advertising 2019 gives a thorough view of the evolution of drive-to-store ad spend, worldwide and by country, for …
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The commissioned study, The State of Drive-to-Store Advertising 2019, shows that the worldwide share of drive-to-store investments for retailers will reach €55Bn. in 2019 – 58% of the total advertising spend for the industry. This investment is expected to reach 65% by 2023, or €75Bn., a 36% growth driven by digital-to-store spending. On the occasion …
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S4M, a leading drive-to-store platform announced today a strategic partnership with Tapad, a global leader in digital identity resolution, to provide its clients with a holistic view of anonymous customer journeys across digital devices. This move responds to a rising need in the industry as each customer’s path to purchase becomes increasingly complex. Studies have …
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S4M announces today the release of a pioneering global product feature, Uplift Trust, for its FUSIO by S4M platform. FUSIO by S4M is the first SaaS solution to optimize media investments in real-time for drive-to-store campaigns. The Uplift Trust feature is an industry first, allowing marketers to see if the in-store uplift rate of their …
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S4M, Futurs.io, Dentsu Aegis Network’s digital performance agency iProspect, Smart, Mondadori MediaConnect, and Next (Altice) are launching the “Adschain Consortium” to address the persistent fraud in the programmatic supply chain. This ambitious alliance will apply blockchain technology to industry transactions to bring more transparency for all the stakeholders. Online advertising fraud is estimated to cost …
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Ed Silhan joins S4M as the Chief Revenue Officer for North America, a new position based in the New York office. Ed comes to S4M after almost 20 years of experience in the digital space at PayPal, eBay and most recently SITO Mobile where he participated in the dramatic growth of their revenue streams. In …
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S4M announces today the opening of its first Canadian office in Montreal. The expansion follows S4M raising $12 million in series B funding and demonstrates its commitment to growing globally. Hadrien Bailly, a veteran in the mobile industry, will be leading the new team based in Montreal. Hadrien has been with S4M for over three …
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S4M has completed a study analyzing the Cost Per Incremental Visit (CPIV) of more than a hundred marketing campaigns that aimed to increase in-store traffic. Using the proprietary data from the study allows S4M to be the first to provide CPIV benchmarks and to create a new online tool using this data to calculate the …
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S4M announces its participation in Dmexco, a tradeshow bringing together key players in digital business, marketing and innovation. The event will be taking place September 12-13, 2018, in Cologne, Germany. During the event, S4M will be showcasing the latest version of FUSIO by S4M, its drive-to-store technology. Marketers will have complete access to a handful …
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S4M launches a brand new KPI – the Cost Per Incremental Visit (CPIV). Marketers will only pay for additional visits into stores generated by online campaign impressions. Brands can be sure that their drive-to-store results exclude organic visitors and are only measuring visits generated directly as a result from digital campaigns. For digital marketers, it …
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S4M announced last week that it has joined the IAB Tech Lab to be an actively engaged member in driving mobile-first initiatives from the independent consortium. The IAB Tech Lab is made up of digital publishers, ad technology firms, marketers, agencies and companies from around the world with interests in the interactive marketing arena. S4M is …
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S4M today announced that it has raised $12M USD in a Series B round from Sofiouest with participation from existing investors Bpifrance and Entrepreneur Venture. The company launched their platform, FUSIO by S4M, in February this year, in SaaS and will now accelerate their technology developments with an ambitious focus on proprietary real-time features to …
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S4M announces a new data partnership to provide clients with more foot traffic measurement options within their drive-to-store campaigns. This integration with adsquare lets FUSIO by S4M users see and access hourly updates of incremental store visits directly generated from their mobile campaigns. Marketers can optimize campaign budgets in real-time based on the best performing …
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S4M announces today its renewed Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for HTML5 mobile web and in application display and rich media Served Impressions, Clicks, and post-click metrics including Installs, Opens and Landings. Today, the company remains the only platform accredited by MRC for app installs and opens, and continues to advocate for advertisers to choose …
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FUSIO by S4M announced today the integration with Triton Digital®,the global technology and services leader to the digital audio industry, of its audio advertising marketplace, a2x®. This partnership provides S4M clients with programmatic audio inventories combined with the possibility to define dynamic geolocation targeting and footfall measurements in brick and mortar stores. “Audio advertising remains …
S4M announces today moves by senior leadership for offices in the US. Stanislas Coignard, previously Chief Strategy Officer at S4M’s headquarters in Paris, France, will now take over the leadership of the company’s expansion in the Americas as US CEO. Stanislas Coignard co-founded S4M with Global CEO, Christophe Collet in 2011 and has been leading …
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S4M will be showcasing an exclusive premier of FUSIO by S4M at MWC next week. FUSIO by S4M the first SaaS solution to optimize media investments in real-time for drive-to-store campaigns. Marketers will have complete access to a handful of exciting new features that bridge online campaign investments with real-world results, such as visits into …
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James Rogers joins the company as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and will be based in S4M’s Singapore office. Following five successful years at InMobi across two continents, James will now lead S4M’s APAC activities with a focus on growth acceleration and solidifying the company’s presence in an increasingly competitive marketplace. “James …
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S4M announces today the appointment of Andy McNab as the first UK Managing Director. He will lead the expansion of S4M’s activities in the UK with a strong focus on driving sales growth in the region and managing the enlarging team. “We are excited to welcome Andy to the company. UK is one of our …
S4M welcomes Nicolas Saraiva Da Silva as Head of Partnerships at headquarters in Paris, France. This new addition to the team comes in parallel with several strategic partnerships for the company. Prior to joining S4M, Nicolas was based in London for the past three years, working within the Mozoo Group. He joined Mozoo in 2012 …
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S4M announces a global partnership with Integral Ad Science, the measurement and analytics company that empowers the advertising industry. FUSIO, S4M’s full stack programmatic platform, is now integrated with viewability measurement by IAS. S4M clients worldwide can now benefit from IAS’s industry leading viewability measurement on the FUSIO campaign dashboard. IAS’ viewability solution is accredited by the …
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Brands worldwide can now reach mobile consumers in Snapchat with S4M’s 650 different audience segments. These hyper-precise audience segments range from gamers, millennials, music lovers, travellers, to fashion enthusiasts. This new offer also means advertisers can enrich first-party user data and execute precise re-targeting mobile campaigns in Snapchat. “Snapchat is a unique channel where young …
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S4M continues expanding activities in Europe with a new office in Madrid, Spain since early 2017. After only 6 brief months, our Spanish office is already working with more than 15 advertisers and major media agencies in the market. Leading this expansion is Maxime Noizat, Country Manager of S4M Spain. Maxime started his career in London at …
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S4M is now the first SaaS platform for mobile to measure in-store visit attribution for mobile campaigns worldwide. S4M, a leading mobile programmatic technology company, announced today a partnership with location data provider Factual to integrate its location data in S4M’s FUSIO platform for clients worldwide. FUSIO clients will be able to access Factual’s measurement …
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zvelo, the leading provider of categorization services for web content, web traffic and web-connected devices, today announced that S4M – the mobile-native ad tech company providing a premium programmatic platform for advertisers and brands – has successfully deployed zvelo’s new Invalid Traffic (IVT) dataset to combat ad fraud. The IVT dataset – part of zvelo’s …
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S4M is happy to announce the nomination of Chiara Musicco as Account Manager in its Milan office. She will support the fast expansion of the company in Italy and manager the day-to-day with S4M’s principal clients. “It’s a pleasure to welcome Chiara to the family,” says Andrea Pongan, Country Manager for S4M. “Chiara has a …
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S4M recruits Nicolas Rieul as VP Strategy EMEA to join the team in its headquarters in Paris, France. He is a Board Member at the Mobile Marketing Association in France and IAB France. “Nicolas Rieul is a key figure in the mobile advertising market and brings to S4M a wealth of mobile programmatic insights and …
Ipsos, leader des études en France, et S4M dévoilent les résultats du premier baromètre post-test de campagnes mobiles in-app. Dans un climat pourtant peu favorable à la publicité, l’étude révèle que les campagnes mobiles in-app ont un réel impact sur la manière dont les marques sont perçues par l’utilisateur et sur l’incitation à l’achat. Le …
Success for Mobile saw a revenue growth of 81% in the past year. PwC revealed the Top 100 Digital Enterprises in France this week and S4M was recognised as the company with the highest revenue growth among the Top 100! This is not just only a success for us, but for the entire mobile advertising …
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NEW YORK, June 1st, 2017 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a mobile ad tech company with headquarters in Paris, France, has appointed Scott Dornblaser as SVP Sales Americas based in New York City. Dornblaser will lead S4M’s sales expansion across North and Latin America and report directly to Fred Joseph, S4M’s US CEO and Global …
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We conduced a study on 92 mobile programmatic campaigns across Europe, US, and APAC between June 2016 to February 2017. The results were compared to a similar research conducted last year. The study evaluated three key indicators, fully rendered impressions, fraudulent clicks, and mobile landing page arrivals to observe the state of ad fraud in the industry. …
S4M launches a brand new mobile advertising offer, the Adbot, to leverage the rise of chatbots and redefine brand engagements. With this offer, advertisers can reach users across a vast selection of publishers and direct them into the Messenger App to carry out a personalised conversation in real-time. Lancôme France and ZenithOptimedia (Publicis Media) is debuting …
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Milan, Italy, March 29th, 2017 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a mobile ad tech company founded in Paris, France, is growing its businesses in Italy with the opening of a new office and two senior hires. This new development comes as a series of successful expansions for the company to London, Düsseldorf, and most recently …
Paris, March 20th, 2017. S4M reinforces its French team with new hire of Simon Perrot as Head of Sales France. Simon joins S4M from Spafax Networks France where he was the Managing Director. This strategic recruitment complements the rapid growth of the company within in France. Simon Perrot’s principal mission in his role at S4M …
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London, Feb 21, 2017 – S4M (Success for Mobile) acquired Netadge this week in a move to strengthen the company’s offerings in the programmatic industry and enlarge the current R&D team to more than 50 engineers. Netadge is a leading self-service mobile DSP specializing in mobile RTB founded in France with presence in New York. …
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S4M is able to identify users at O’Hare, Hartsfield-Jackson, Heathrow and other global transport hubs London, December 5th, 2016 – S4M announces its new capability to target more than 30 million airport travellers each week. Using enriched geo-localised user behavioural and contextual data, the company can now help brands boost their presences in the top 30 …
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Earlier this year, S4M examined 87 campaigns, composing of 2.3 billion ad requests, between January to June 2016 in Europe, the US, Latin America, and in APAC. The goal of this study was to to investigate the problem of ad fraud and existing buying models. Between the ad request from the ad server and the moment …
Following months of R&D and MRC accreditation, S4M unveils a next generation anti-fraud mobile ad technology with real-time visualisation of mobile campaign KPIs and a simplified user interface London, UK, September 1st, 2016 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a mobile-first advertising technology company, will launch the new FUSIO by S4M platform to provide clients with …
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S4M’s served impressions, clicks, CTR, landing pages, installs and opens on mobile browsers and applications are now MRC accredited NEW YORK, NY June 7, 2016 — S4M (Success for Mobile), a fast-growing mobile ad tech company, has been granted Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for mobile ad metrics, including served display and rich media ad impressions, …
Singapore, 5 April 2016 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a fast-growing international mobile ad tech company today announced their successful launch in the APAC region with commencement of operations in Singapore and the rest of APAC. After successfully raising $8 Million USD in funding last year, the company has accelerated their international expansion following rapid …
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NEW YORK – March 22, 2016 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a fast-growing adtech company has appointed Frederic Joseph CEO of its US operations. Joseph will be based in New York City at S4M’s US office and will oversee all aspects of the company’s North American business. To accelerate their US expansion, the company also …
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Paris, 15 March 2016 – S4M (Success for Mobile), a fast-growing ad tech company announced today that Pierre Gauthier will join S4M in a newly created position, as Head of Publisher Management and Development. Gauthier’s new role is strategically important for the accelerating growth of the company, and he comes on board to help reinforce …
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London, December 17, 2015 – S4M (Solutions for Mobile), the pioneering adtech platform specialising in mobile, announced today it received the 2015 Cristal Festival’s Best Start-Up Award in the Marketing Innovation category. The Cristal Festival Jury, composed of marketing, technology, and media industry experts from around the world, awarded S4M with the prestigious honour due …
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New York – S4M announced today the results of an extensive global study, the first of its kind, conducted on a sample of 1 billion mobile ad impressions across 30 campaigns, which revealed a huge loss of $10 Billion to advertisers through a lack of ad transparency. Ad units analyzed in the study were separated …
London, 4th June 2015 – S4M (Success for Mobile) has today announced an $8 Million Series A round of funding from Entrepreneurs Venture and Bpifrance digital fund to grow its mobile performance technologies globally (www.s4m.io). Already boasting a strong suite of products that make mobile perform more for businesses and an enviable client list including …