Nativex

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Nativex, LLC.
Company typePrivate
Industry Mobile games, Advertising
Founded2000
Founders
  • Robert Weber
  • (co-founder)
  • Ryan Weber
  • (co-founder)
HeadquartersSingapore
Area served
APAC, EMEA, North America, Latin America
Parent Mobvista
Website www.nativex.com

Nativex (formerly W3i) [1] is a mobile advertising platform company headquartered in Singapore. Nativex is an authorized ad service provider [2] for closed ecosystem media such as Tencent, Bytedance, UC & Baidu; 3rd-party programmatic platforms such as AppLovin, & Unity Ads; affiliate & influencer marketing partners such as InMobi; mobile OEM such as Huawei; attribution partners such as Google Tag Manager and Tenjin.

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The company was listed in American City Business Journals' Fast 50 as one of the fastest-growing companies in Minneapolis–Saint Paul for 2013. [3]

Core Business

Nativex provides marketing services including media planning, ad placement, creative production, and advertising data analysis. It launched TopWorks Creative Studios in 2020. [4]

History

In 2000, twin brothers Rob and Ryan Weber founded Nativex as a desktop-based advertising company. [5] [6]

On March 1, 2016, Nativex announced that it has been acquired by Mobvista, the largest mobile ad network company in Asia, for $24.5 million. [7]

In September 2020, Nativex launched TopWorks, a global creative network that helps advertisers create localized ad creatives. Since its launch, it has become an official TikTok Marketing Partner. [8]

Nativex has established key partnerships over the years to expand its marketing service. It is now the official marketing partner of Kwai for Business [9] and the official marketing agency for Sina Weibo, [10] Xiaohongshu, [11] Baidu, [12] and BIGO Ads. [13]

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