Joyent Partners With Traffic Marketplace

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Joyent, a leading global provider of cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Los Angeles-based tmpSocial, a division of Epic Media Group providing premium display advertising, in-game ad integration and virtual currency management solutions to social applications.

The platform delivers targeted and contextually relevant ad units to users, allowing for in-game conversions and embedded branding opportunities. Combined with a targeted ad delivery system, tmpSocial provides direct access to some of the largest branded advertisers worldwide.

"Joyent is an ideal partner for us," said Sheldon Owen, general manager of tmpSocial. "After we moved our own advertising platform over to Joyent and experienced infrastructure cost savings and performance improvements, we quickly realized that Joyent's offering was ideally suited for our customers as well."

"Joyent is excited to be working with tmpSocial," said Adrian Ludwig, vice president of marketing with Joyent. "Our scalable cloud computing architectures combined with tmpSocial's premier advertising and monetization solutions allow for unmatched ease in developing and deploying the next generation social and gaming applications on the web."

Worldwide reach, combined with proven application scalability and performance, have made Joyent the premier cloud computing vendor for social and media applications. Thousands of applications running on Joyent software use automatic vertical scaling to respond to real time load. Simple GUI tools make it easy to create and manage complex virtual architectures, allowing for rapid horizontal scaling to match the needs of dynamic business requirements.

"We have been a customer of Joyent for two years, and we are excited about the partnership between Joyent and tmpSocial," said Brad Dwyer, founder and CEO of Hatchlings, Inc. "Joyent has allowed us to scale our games more cost effectively than other solutions, and now we can integrate in-game monetization from tmpSocial."

For more information about tmpSocial and Joyent, visit www.joyent.com/monetization.

ABOUT JOYENT:

Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent's Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private and hybrid clouds.

ABOUT TMPSOCIAL

tmpSocial is an advertising and virtual currency monetization platform for social media that brings premium advertisers and app developers together, helping advertisers creatively leverage social media and application developers maximize the value of their social traffic.

SOURCE Joyent