Apple’s $500MM bet on Arcade and the future of mobile gaming At Apple's Show time event last month, amongst a slew of new services and product announcements including Apple News+, a… April 15, 2019
Google’s Stadia could make app stores obsolete At this year's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco last week, Google finally pulled the curtain back on one of… March 25, 2019
The problem with the 30% platform fee on mobile in three charts Last week, Apple announced that it will allow developers to discount in-app subscriptions on iOS to current and recent users… March 4, 2019
What is the size of the mobile gaming advertising market? No matter how it is valued, the size of the mobile games advertising market is enormous. Someone recently asked me… February 25, 2019
The State of the App Economy: 2019 and beyond Below is the presentation I gave at the Mobile Growth Summit in San Francisco on February 14th, 2019. The presentation… February 19, 2019
As Glu’s stock price soars, its Crowdstar acquisition looks prescient Back in November of 2016, mobile games developer and publisher Glu made a three-part announcement: that it had promoted former… September 4, 2018
Fortnite skipping Google Play won’t disrupt the status quo on mobile Epic Games dropped a bombshell on the mobile industry two weeks ago when it confirmed that Fortnite, its battle royale… August 13, 2018
The mobile app economy’s second act An altogether predictable fate has seized the mobile app economy and, more broadly, mobile: it has become boring. Or, at… July 30, 2018
The Google Play algorithm change and the peril of ASO Last week, word began circulating within the mobile games development community that many developers had experienced a sudden and dramatic… July 2, 2018
Succeeding with Licensed IP for Mobile F2P Games This is the presentation I gave at GDC 2018 in San Francisco on March 22nd, 2018. The presentation starts with… April 16, 2018
