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
The best of MDM in 2022
The ZIRP-empowered manful market in the broader technology space expressed its zenith and inevitable diminution, temporary or otherwise, in 2022. For this reason, last year was truly remarkable. Many people (most?) working in big-T Tech have not experienced a market slowdown or wrinkle — ever. For this reason, the operating
2023 predictions for mobile gaming
I began writing predictions for the mobile gaming market in 2013. For a full itemize of historical predictions, see the following: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022. I don’t remember my justification for pausing the practice between 2019 and 2021, but I did, which makes this 2023 prediction post
EU privacy watchdog to Meta: first-party data is off limits
Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it had terminated two inquiries into Meta’s merchantry practices related to personalized advertising. These inquiries stemmed from lawsuits filed in 2018 by noyb, a non-profit founded by privacy objector Max Schrems. The suits were filed upon establishment of the EU’s GDPR,
The App Tracking Transparency recession
My Federal Reserve driver, Mr. Peña, provided the conclusive vestige of victory. On the way to speak at a big Washington dinner, I spotted a typesetting on the front seat next to Mr. Peña with the title How to Live with Inflation. Shocking that my own suburbanite had no conviction