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Mobile and Social
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony (Part 5)
Tom Hogan: I was with our clients last week and have had multiple conversations like this in the last two months where they’re waking up and saying, “I better go figure this out. Forget about how to do it. First, we’ve got to figure out what we need to deliver and enable before we figure
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony (Part 4)
Tom Hogan: If you do a click-down into the platform side, it’s okay for people to come to that realization of who’s out there and who do you compete with. You’ve asked about the Apple and IBM partnership. I’ll say a couple of things. The positive is the move that they made is a pretty
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t agree with that at all. We cover e-commerce extensively. I think there’s going to be tons of new brands being built. It’s like how retail and specialty retail have evolved for decades and decades. There are always new brands and user experiences. I think e-commerce will continue to build interesting businesses
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 6)
Steve Wadsworth: There are two reasons why some of the other apps may not get the same level of traction. One is user interest. Games are universal. You get much more user engagement there. Secondly, I think a number of app publishers are leaving money on the table because of the model they’ve chosen. Let
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 5)
Steve Wadsworth: What our analytics is able to do is watch the user behavior in the app, and based on that behavior assess very quickly which bucket a user falls into. We then use predictive analytics to classify users. We also have engagement tools in that same solution that will provide the publisher the opportunity to further
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What trends do you see in the industry’s treatment of the users that are not going to be high-monetizing users. I have one observation about the industry in general. I’m not talking about just mobile. The Internet is really saddled with an incredibly high number of free riders. Steve Wadsworth: I think that’s
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: With that overview, can you double-click down on some of the trends in each of those vectors? Let’s take acquisitions. What are the key trends in mobile app customer acquisition right now? Steve Wadsworth: In the early days, the focus of the publishers was to just acquire as many users as they could. They
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 1)
Tapjoy is a mobile platform that helps monetize freemium apps. This discussion is an excellent overview of the dynamics of app monetization in the mobile world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some context. Tell us who you are. Give us a bit of background and introduce us to Tapjoy. Steve Wadsworth: I’m the President and
