Namo Media

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| name = Namo Media, Inc.

| logo = File:Namo Media logo.png

| logo_size = 250px

| logo_alt = Namo Media logo

| foundation = February 2013

| founder = Gabor Cselle, Nassar Stoertz, Tural Badirkhanli

| location = San Francisco, California, USA

| industry = Mobile advertising / Native advertising

| language = English

| website = http://www.namomedia.com/

}}

Namo Media was a technology startup providing in-stream advertisements for mobile applications. It was acquired by Twitter in June 2014 for between $50M{{cite news | last =Lunden | first = Ingrid | title =Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M| publisher =Tech Crunch | date =5 June 2014 | url =https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/05/twitter-buys-namo-media-to-expand-its-native-ads-offering/| access-date =5 June 2014 }} and $100M.{{cite news | last =Koh | first = Yoree | title =Twitter Buys Native Ad Specialist Namo Media| publisher =Wall Street Journal | date =5 June 2014 | url =https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/05/twitter-buys-native-ad-specialist-namo-media/| access-date =5 June 2014 }}

It was founded by former Google employees Gabor Cselle, Nassar Stoertz, and Tural Badirkhanli, who raised $1.9 million in seed funding from investors that included Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Betaworks.{{cite news | last =Ha | first =Anthony | title =DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures | newspaper =Tech Crunch | date =18 March 2013 | url =https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/namo-media-seed-round/ | access-date =3 March 2014 }} Cselle had sold his previous startup reMail to Google in 2010.{{cite news | last =Gannes | first =Liz | title =Google Buys reMail iPhone App for Gmail| publisher =Tech Crunch | date =20 January 2014 | url =https://gigaom.com/2010/02/17/google-buys-remail-iphone-app-for-gmail/ | access-date =8 October 2014 }} Namo Media's advertising SDK for Android and iOS allowed developers to integrate native advertising into applications with streams of content,[http://docs.namomedia.com/ Namo Media: Quickstart integration instructions] and was the first to implement server-side location control of native ads.{{cite news | last =Ha | first =Anthony | title =Namo Media Brings More Flexibility To Native Mobile Ads, Announces Former Facebook VP Badros As Advisor| publisher =Tech Crunch | date =20 January 2014 | url =https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/20/namo-media-ad-placements/ | access-date =6 February 2014 }} In April 2014, Namo Media launched ad carousel upgrade.{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/23/namo-media-carousels/|title=Namo Media Upgrades Its Native Ad Platform With Ad Carousels|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-11-30|language=en-US}}

Namo Media's location control technology was integrated into Twitter's MoPub advertising solutions in October 2014.{{cite news | last =Weil | first =Kevin | title =Easier tools to create and manage native ads via MoPub| publisher =Twitter Advertising Blog | date =8 October 2014 | url =https://blog.twitter.com/2014/easier-tools-to-create-and-manage-native-ads-via-mopub/ | access-date =8 October 2014 }}