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A day in the life of a user acquisition manager
Sometimes I am incredibly stupid … something that the trolls on Twitter never tire of telling me. But this was truly inspired. With my client...
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Elon Musk: Tim Cook’s refusal to meet cost Apple $640 billion
It’s really tough to decide sometimes which meetings to take and which to refuse. Or just ignore. But sometimes those meetings are big...
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Softbank leads $200M investment into printable battery-free IoT startup Wiliot
Remember Wiliot? I interviewed this IoT startup about their printable no-battery Bluetooth-capable tags a few months ago. Now the company has raised...
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Apple just killed (some) app uninstall tracking
Apple’s privacy push continues, as Apple just killed some uninstall tracking in iOS 15 beta 4. Most significant app developers track app...
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Marketing analytics grew 9,400% in a decade. Have we hit peak analytics?
How many marketing analytics tools do we need? It’s a valid question, because there are currently something like 2,400 tools that do some kind...
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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...
The X Shore electric boat is the Tesla of the sea
Everything you wanted to know about Rovio’s iOS 14 mobile user acquisition...
Working anywhere, anytime: what’s next for remote work
Spotify’s ‘Car Thing’ is an iPod Touch with a big knob and a fatal flaw
Testing FightCamp, a smart fitness system with smart gloves, a real punching...
Synthetic humans and AI-generated avatars: is the future of fashion fake?
IBM’s Weather Company has a path to billions in new revenue, thanks to the rise...
I am the CEO of $SMRT
Clubhouse adds direct payment option for listeners to support creators
Apple: iOS 14.5 imminent, developers need to get serious about privacy …...
Adtech upheaval: why Digital Turbine bought Fyber, and what’s happening in the...
