Google rolls out new display ads for mobile

Google is introducing new tools and four new mobile advertising formats today, available across Google’s Display Network, the AdMob Network, and DoubleClick.

The company announced the new formats in a blog post and said they’ll roll out over the next few months.

Google’s new hard-to-miss formats include dynamically resizing ads that start out as a smaller ad and can expand to fill the entire mobile screen when clicked. The company will also bring its in-app TruView video ads, previously available only in gaming apps, to more apps. Google is also launching anchored ads that stay fixed at the bottom of a screen as a user scrolls through an article, and magazine-style ads for mobile. Google already offers magazine-style ads for mobile websites but hasn’t made them available inside native apps until now.

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The search giant’s new ad offerings come as Advertising Week, a giant conference with over 250 events, kicks off in New York. This is often a week where companies make big announcements around advertising. Just last night, Facebook relaunched a network called Atlas, bought from Microsoft last year, that offers highly targeted advertising.

Advertisers are keen to see which company will make mobile advertising more engaging for consumers as mobile use continues to grow.