APPS News & Events

Digital Turbine (APPS) announced a deepened partnership with Google Cloud (GOOG) to expand AI-powered optimization and recommendation capabilities across its global mobile platform. The announcement follows this week's AI reveals at Google I/O and reflects DT's continued investment in AI-driven intelligence and optimization across the mobile ecosystem. The collaboration strengthens Digital Turbine's ability to process and act on millions of real-time mobile signals generated across its ecosystem - helping advertisers and publishers improve targeting, recommendations, engagement, and performance at global scale.

Digital Turbine (APPS) announced a strategic partnership with Orange (ORANY). Through the partnership, Digital Turbine will bring its alternative app distribution platform to Orange subscribers, combining Orange's scale and market reach with Digital Turbine's unique capabilities in specialized app distribution and on-device discovery, delivering superior mobile user experiences at scale. With rollout expected to begin in H2 2026 and gradually expand across devices and countries in Europe, Orange subscribers across Europe will benefit from customized user journeys on their mobile devices, enabling new app discovery opportunities tailored to their needs and preferences. With DT's solutions, Orange will be able to deliver, update, and monetize apps more effectively, unlocking new distribution models, enhancing user reach, and putting greater control over revenue back into the hands of both app developers and telecommunication companies.

Digital Turbine announced its strategic partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, to bring AI-powered intelligence to the rich data from DT's global footprint spanning 80K+ apps and over a billion devices. Through the integration of Databricks Genie Spaces and Databricks Apps into its technology stack, Digital Turbine is accelerating its data and AI strategy to enable smarter and privacy-conscious mobile experiences at global scale. Digital Turbine delivers a robust, signal-rich data infrastructure through its Ignite Graph, which maps real-time device interactions to drive predictive modeling and actionable insights, and DT iQ, which aggregates data for smarter targeting. To accelerate these outcomes, DT will leverage Genie, Databricks' AI agent that lets any employee chat with their data and get trusted answers. By using Genie Spaces to encode business-specific logic and rules, Digital Turbine streamlines collaboration across its device and app-level data, ensuring natural language questions resolve into correct queries for faster, actionable results.

Digital Turbine (APPS) announced the appointment of Ben John as the company's CTO. Joining the company at a period of accelerating growth, Ben will lead DT's global engineering, product architecture, data-first scaling, and AI-driven development to support its momentum. Ben's career is defined by his ability to translate complex technology into real business outcomes. He has successfully built and scaled global engineering teams across multiple continents, navigated multi-billion dollar acquisitions, and built platforms that have shaped the global digital advertising and AI landscape. With over 20 years of experience, Ben brings deep expertise in building large-scale AI and advertising platforms. He most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Microsoft (MSFT) AI Copilot. Previously, he was CTO and co-founder of Xandr, serving as CTO until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2022. Prior to that he was CTO of AppNexus, the world's largest independent programmatic marketplace for digital advertising including buy-side and sell-side advertising platforms. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in machine learning and big data mining and has served as Adjunct Faculty at New York University.