Mobile Dev Memo Podcast

In this episode of the MDM Podcast, I discuss the future of privacy as it relates to digital advertising with Paul Bannister, the Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia. Paul and I consider why the platforms -- but especially Apple -- are developing new privacy frameworks, how Google's privacy sandbox initiative may perform relative to user-based targeting, and what is meant when we use the word "privacy" to describe how a user behaves or interacts with properties online.

In this episode of the MDM podcast, I speak with Grant Harbin, the founder and CEO of Headlight, a marketing agency. We discuss the topic of user acquisition outsourcing and when and why that might be relevant for an app developer.

In this episode of the MDM podcast, I speak with Stephen Ellis, the founder and CEO of Pipeline.gg, about the economics of game streaming and the future of the games streaming landscape. As a former professional gamer and then an employee at Facebook working on the company's games streaming product, Stephen witnessed first-hand just how difficult it is to aggregate and monetize and audience as a streamer. In this podcast, Stephen and I discuss his journey from gaming enthusiast to professional gamer to entrepreneur, as well as the games streaming ecosystem, the relationship between games streamers and game developers, the obstacles that streamers face in building an audience, and the economic realities of game streaming.

In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with David Philippson and Nebo Radovic about the near-term future of mobile advertising. How will the deprecation of the IDFA -- and of mobile advertising identifiers more generally -- change: the way teams are constructed; demand for various media sources; the degree to which programmatic media buying is viable; ...and other topics that will be relevant for mobile marketers over the next 18 months.

In this episode of the MDM podcast, I chat with Thomas Petit -- better known to those operating in mobile as @Thomasbcn -- about all things subscriptions. We discuss product strategy for subscription products, how to price test, the future of the subscription model (including hybrid IAP / subscription monetization), and a number of other aspects of building a successful subscription business on mobile. 

In this episode of the MDM podcast, I try to unpack the underlying mechanics of the accusations being made against Google from a commercial perspective (in 13 minutes)

In Episode 8 of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Conrad McGee-Stocks, the Director of Growth at Uken Games, which is the Toronto-based studio behind mobile hits like Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and Jeopardy World Tour. In the podcast, we talk about what it means to be a quantitative marketer, and how that role is evolving, especially on mobile, as product and user acquisition converge.

In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Maor Sadra about why the deprecation of the IDFA (announced at this year's WWDC event) should not have been surprising to people who follow the mobile ecosystem, why deterministic app install attribution wasn't as reliable as people thought in the first place, and what the future of mobile looks like without the IDFA.

In this podcast, I speak with David Philippson, the CEO of Dataseat and former co-founder of Ad-X, which was acquired by Criteo, about the underlying mechanics of mobile advertising. David walks through the process of How a Bid Becomes a DAU (inspired by the Schoolhouse Rock animation, How a Bid becomes a Law). We also talk about the future of advertising identifiers and programmatic in-housing.

In this episode of the MDM Podcast, I speak with David Barnard, a vocal developer advocate on Twitter, about whether the App Store's closed nature and its treatment of developers is fair.