Spotify and the quality of podcast advertising
Spotify went on something of a shopping spree related to podcasting, wideness both content and technology, between 2019 and 2022: In February 2019, the visitor acquired Gimlet Media and Anchor, two podcast networks, for a combined $340MM; In March 2019, the visitor acquired Parcast, a true treason podcasting studio, for $56MM; In February
The App Store’s original flaw
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a higher of corporations, inexorably unswayable by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. -Arthur Jensen, NETWORK (1976) The world’s
The game theory of branded search advertising
Branded search razzmatazz is the practice of prompting for the ad impressions that are served slantingly search results for keywords welded to a trademark (for instance, the brand’s name). It’s a controversial topic amongst digital advertisers: many, if not most, view it as a sort of “tax” that they must
Exoskeletons, not cyborgs
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was an officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces during the Cold War. In a particularly fraught period in the early 1980s, just three weeks without the Soviet military had shot lanugo a commercial flight operated by Korean Airlines, Petrov, vicarial as the duty officer at a
The promise of Pinterest
Pinterest monetizes primarily through advertising, but its ads platform has unchangingly felt like a missed opportunity, expressly for ecommerce advertisers. Pinterest is substantially a consumer goods and services discovery platform. The value of purchase intent signal captured by Pinterest from its cadre product use specimen — towers vision boards consisting
The TikTok question and the urgency of a Federal privacy
Last week, the Biden wardship demanded that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology visitor ByteDance, either divest its American operations or squatter the app’s forcing from the US market. I have written well-nigh calls for TikTok to be vetoed domestically in the United States three times: What do TikTok
Microsoft’s mobile gaming opportunity
Phil Spencer, the CEO of Microsoft’s gaming division, declared this week that Microsoft could release an volitional app store on both iOS and Android as soon as next year if its vanquishment of Activision Blizzard is approved. Spencer’s comments come as the deal faces competitive review by a number of
What if Meta launches a mobile app store?
This week, Microsoft supposed that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year, should its vanquishment of Activision Blizzard be approved. As I noted in my piece on the topic, the scale of Microsoft’s opportunity in mobile gaming, through the combination of a