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Mobile Dev Memo Podcast

Mobile Dev Memo is the site of record for mobile advertisers and app developers.

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Season 7, Episode 35: OpenAI's advertising ambitions (with Asad Awan)

29 Sep 2026
42m
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OpenAI’s advertising strategy centers on democratizing access to AI while maintaining strict user trust and independence between organic model responses and commercial placements. Asad Awan, who leads monetization at OpenAI, emphasizes that chatbot advertising represents a distinct paradigm where conversational context...

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Season 7, Episode 34: What if everything turns out alright?

23 Sep 2026
25m
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Season 7, Episode 33: An oral history of mobile user acquisition (with Nebojsa Radovic)

16 Sep 2026
52m
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Season 7, Episode 32: The CAPI revolution

09 Sep 2026
32m
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Season 7, Episode 31: Understanding the privileged position of chatbot advertising

02 Sep 2026
33m
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Season 7, Episode 30: MDM Mailbag #8 (with Thomas Petit)

26 Aug 2026
54m
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Season 7, Episode 29: AI's impact on the labor market (with Brian Albrecht)

19 Aug 2026
51m
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Economic principles offer a grounded framework for evaluating the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence and the ethics of personalized pricing. The "horse" analogy—suggesting AI will render human labor obsolete—fails to account for the economy's ability to reallocate labor toward new services as productivity ...

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Season 7, Episode 28: Digital Advertising's M&A Resurgence (with Maor Sadra)

12 Aug 2026
47m
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Season 7, Episode 27: Applying AI to human intimacy (with Offer Yehudai)

04 Aug 2026
42m
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Season 7, Episode 26: Demystifying open source MMM (with Michael Kaminsky)

28 Jul 2026
48m
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Season 7, Episode 25: Quantifying the impact of AI Overviews on outbound clicks (with Ananya Sen and Saharsh Agarwal)

21 Jul 2026
46m
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Google’s AI Overviews significantly disrupt the digital ecosystem by reducing downstream publisher traffic by approximately 40% while failing to provide measurable improvements in user experience. A randomized field experiment utilizing a custom browser extension reveals that users perceive no difference in search qual...

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Season 7, Episode 24: Understanding rewarded user acquisition (with Tricia Han and Sampsa Jaatinen)

15 Jul 2026
44m
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Season 7, Episode 23: Building ad tech for the chatbot era (with Tal Shoham)

08 Jul 2026
48m
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The Prosperous Society

03 Jul 2026
2h 53m
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Artificial intelligence functions as an economic nervous system, fundamentally shifting the binding constraint of modern society from production to distribution. While historical models like John Kenneth Galbraith’s "Affluent Society" viewed advertising as a tool to manufacture demand for standardized goods, the digita...

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Season 7, Episode 22: Quantifying the advertising value of cookies (with Garrett Johnson and Shunto Kobayashi)

30 Jun 2026
45m
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Season 7, Episode 21: The AppsFlyer investment and the new dynamics of mobile attribution (with Olivia Kory)

24 Jun 2026
49m
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The $1 billion investment in AppsFlyer by a consortium including Meta, Google, Unity, and Moloco aims to preserve an independent, neutral arbiter of truth in mobile measurement. This strategic move creates a firewall against potential consolidation, ensuring stability for app advertisers who rely on attribution as esse...

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Season 7, Episode 20: Shopify as a marketing operating system (with Venkat Prabhu)

17 Jun 2026
37m
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Season 7, Episode 19: Can AI Save Journalism? (with Peter Stuart)

10 Jun 2026
47m
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Season 7, Episode 18: Understanding Amazon's advertising advantages (with Adam Epstein)

04 Jun 2026
48m
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Season 7, Episode 17: The New Economics of Building an Audience (with Danny Frankel)

27 May 2026
53m
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