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$1.5B in ad spend shows iOS 14.5 is driving mobile ad spend to Android
Perhaps it’s not shocking. When you make huge changes in an ecosystem, huge changes result. And Apple’s massive privacy move in iOS 14.5...
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Fintech 2021: top 100 apps and ecosystem overview
Fintech is incandescent. In the first few months of 2021, the sector attracted almost $23 billion in investment: 50% more than all of 2020. And there...
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Zeroing out the Android advertising ID will impact only 2% of devices globally
Google’s doing privacy! Google’s doing privacy! Well, yes, sort of. But the adtech giant’s recent moves to increase privacy on...
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Kid-safe marketing: why Apple’s recent changes are a huge boost
Advertising to kids is controversial, tricky at best, and easy to screw up. Which is why in early 2020, Apple shut down almost all data for brands...
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NFTs are evolving from things to experiences (and here’s the first-ever NBA championship ring NTF)
If we thought crypto was polarizing, NFTs are 10X worse. Are they cool? Are they awesome? Are they nonsense? Are they a cash grab? Are they even...
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Major iOS 15 attribution news: Advertiser access to SKAdNetwork postbacks, App...
iOS 14.5 by the numbers: adoption, ATT permission, ad spend trends, install...
Abstracting Amazon? Fakespot layers AI-based trust over digital commerce
6 macro trends hitting enterprise, work, and talent courtesy of Harvard...
Global Smartwatch market share: Apple 34%, Huawei 8%, Samsung 8%, Fitbit 4.2%
350 CMOs on digital transformation of marketing: the task 2021 demands
Space Inc: 10,000 Companies, $4T Value … And 52% American
IDFA opt-in and iOS 14.5 adoption across 10 major countries: fresh data
No pilot, no problem: Exyn announces level 4 autonomous drones
8 keys to App Tracking Transparency prompts that don’t suck
App Annie CEO Ted Krantz on iOS 14.5, adtech consolidation, super apps, and the...
Your super-simple totally guaranteed 12-step plan to mobile app success in...
14 ways mobile gaming user acquisition is changing in the era of SKAdNetwork
8 limitations of SKAdNetwork for mobile marketing measurement
BOOM: Our low-code, no-code podcast gets a shoutout
1 million creator coins are coming. How they work, and why they matter
Twitter spaces versus Clubhouse: access vs ego?
Why Harvard wrote a case study on Braintrust
Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo all grow phone sales more than 40%
Mobile app attribution in China: Key challenges, requirements, and steps
New AirPod earbuds … or hearing aids? Signia Active is hearing aids...
iOS 14 Is Apple CEO Tim Cook’s big fat kiss to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest...
Reduce, reuse, recycle? Here’s the world’s first robotics venture...
iOS 14.5 and the IDFA judgement day: The future of attribution arrives next week
Apple AirTags: How Apple is preventing creepers from electronically stalking you
Apple just reinvented kids’ allowances with Apple Card Family
Welcome to the Mr. Glass iPhone
China’s mobile ecosystem: an overview of the what’s hot and...
