Interview Series

Welcome back to our Mobile Industry Exposed Interview. This week we sat down with Daniele Pelleri co-founder and CEO of AppsBuilder, to discuss the need for programmatic platforms to improve monetization, innovation for acquisition and the importance of proper planning before app store submission as well as during and after you have launched your app.

Daniele is the Co-Founder and CEO of AppsBuilder, a professional, easy to use app development platform that empowers marketers to build powerful apps at their desk. Keen on computer engineering and the Internet industry from a young age, Daniele has been an entrepreneur for as long as he can remember, and set up his first web marketing agency when he was 22 years old. At the helm of AppsBuilder since 2011, his vision was to develop an app building software that eliminates the need for complex technical knowledge or coding, and reduces go-to-market time. In 4 short year, AppsBuilder has become the resource-light solution for any business or brand looking to deploy a native app. Sign up for a free trial or find out more at www.apps-builder.com 

Welcome to our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time we spoke with Ariel Michaeli, co-founder and CEO of appFigures, about entering the Asian markets, taking into account more than mere app localization, the future of app stores as well as the new trends shaping the mobile marketing industry!Ariel has been building platforms and turning them into companies since graduating high school in 2002. appFigures is the 9th start-up founded with his brother, and he’s been CEO for all companies. Before founding appFigures with his brother, Oz, Ariel and Oz ran an interactive agency responsible for the creation of web-based video games for leading brands. In late 2008, they found app development was a huge potential for new business growth. Because the industry lacked business tools at that time, Ariel and Oz built what they needed – an app store intelligence platform. In 2009, appFigures was launched and later that year, Ariel moved all of his focus to appFigures.

Welcome back to the 11th episode of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we interviewed Ted Nash, co-founder and CEO of Tapdaq, about the importance of app store optimization, discoverability and the trends in mobile marketing for 2015 and beyond.Ted is a serial entrepreneur who has been creating online companies from the age of 12. Having raised his first round of funding from a group of angel investors in the UK, he became the first teenager in the world to achieve 1,000,000 App Store downloads.Ted has built many businesses, his latest being Tapdaq, a direct mobile advertising marketplace.Ted was recognized in the prestigious Forbes magazine, as one of the 30 Under 30’s for his work on Tapdaq and, in March 2015, became ‘Global Mobile Innovator Of The Year’ at the Mobile World Congress.Read our interview with Ted to learn more about discoverability in the app stores, the future of apps and the mobile trends that will be shaping the industry in 2015.

To start off 2015 on the right foot, welcome to the 10th episode of our Industry Exposed series! For this first blog post of the year, we interviewed Patrick Kane, Founder and CEO of app store analytics company Priori Data. Read on as we dig into app store revenue and download distribution, the current state of category trends, and much more!

Welcome to the ninth episode of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we interviewed Hugo Gersanois, co-founder of appiris, a fellow HitFox company, about mobile retargeting, customer lifetime value (LTV), mobile trends and more.

Welcome to the eighth episode of our mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we spoke to Ran Avrahamy, who heads up marketing at AppsFlyer, about the latest mobile trends, such as native advertising.

Welcome to the seventh episode of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we posed questions about mobile user acquisition and app marketing trends to Mack Flavelle, VP Business Development at Tapstream.

It is now time for the sixth instalment of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series, which has featured key mobile industry players such as Serkan Toto of Kantan Games and PubNative’s Ionut Ciobotaru talk about everything from Japan’s mobile app market to native advertising.