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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full interview here, and check out the truncated text version below.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

This affects comparisons between apps and may overstate the traction of listening apps that auto-download shows. If traction among consumer listening apps appears highly concentrated among a small number of apps, the same can be said of podcast creators. Spotify, Castbox) don’t continuously download new episodes.