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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
Deal Radar 2009: Cellufun
Today’s Deal Radar shifts its focus back to mobile gaming with Cellufun. Arthur Goikhman, Steve Dacek, and Cary Torkelson founded Cellufun as a single-user downloadable game business in 2006. After creating a few downloadable games, the team learned that not only were they expensive to create, but they also had a hit-or-miss success rate and
