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Netflix Q1 2024 earnings: the end of subscriber and ARPU metrics

Netflix released its Q1 2024 earnings results last Thursday, beating analyst estimates on subscriber and revenue growth: $9.37BN in revenue (up 19.3%, year-over-year) and…

The EDPB invalidates Meta’s use of Pay or Okay. What next?

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) yesterday adopted an opinion on the valid use of the "Pay or Okay" model…

Mobile gaming’s haves and have-nots

Last month, the CEO of Scopely, the developer behind the mobile game MONOPOLY GO!, revealed performance metrics for the title…

Podcast: The perilous mythology of Brand Marketing for digital products

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ipTksMfdzXSE86kNtC4Co?si=9aace399d7b349f4 MDM Canon is a new podcast series from Mobile Dev Memo in which co-hosts Eric Seufert and Stewart Johnson…

Chase and the consumer finance advertising opportunity

Chase Bank is launching a retail media network called Chase Media Solutions that will allow advertisers to target its 80MM…

Apple’s privacy “nuclear option”

Since Apple revealed its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy policy at WWDC in 2020, speculation around any new privacy initiatives…

Podcast: Cookie deprecation and Privacy Sandbox (with Paul Bannister)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3eT4C7kpFDblW9ZYwtdFXd?si=808b4a311b384aa2 In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I discuss third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome, as well as…

Using cohort ages for product optimization

It's tempting to view a product's user base as a monolith, naturally leading to the circulation of DAU graphs within…

The big economy of small advertisers

In July 2020, more than 1,000 advertisers joined a boycott of Facebook's advertising platform organized by a group of civil…

Podcast: What’s the purpose of a competition regulator? (with Tom Fish)

My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Tom Fish, the Head of Public Policy and Research at…