AppGoblin just launched a free mobile user aquisition report showing who saw the biggest W/W install growth from ad campaigns in September appgoblin.info/reports/ad-u...

New research: Most mobile tracker api endpoints are not covered by ad blockers jamesoclaire.com/2025/09/11/mo

Used AppGoblin mobile ads data to uncover some less well known ad tech top level domains where data is sent. Spoiler, they're all well known companies, but still interesting: jamesoclaire.com/2025/08/28/u...

Added a rank of the current top app advertisers as seen by AppGoblin as well as a way to browse app ad creatives appgoblin.info/blog/new-top...

I analyzed the top 4 AI chat apps to see which third party tools they're using. Takeaways: More business and monetization tools than I expected. RevenueCat in there on two apps, and most of them had 3 analytics platforms of various kinds. jamesoclaire.com/2025/05/31/t...

posted a new article today, continuing my research in location data sharing by mobile apps. Check the guide, try it yourself and share the results! timsh.org/everyone-kno...

AppGoblin now has free ASO tools for mobile app marketing with keywords and finding the fastest growing android and ios apps appgoblin.info

How to see the encrypted data android apps send using a man in the middle and an emulator jamesoclaire.com/2025/04/14/2...

Want to know which apps use which companies to track your data? jamesoclaire.com/2025/04/04/w...

Muddy Waters report that adtech company AppLovin scrapes web cookies seems like a small deal when it collects billions of users data every month via apps. muddywatersresearch.com/research/202...

Real reporting on the DDOS attack on X. #DarkSrorm was reported by @puckarks.bsky.social early on yet Musk later tried to blame Ukraine. www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

Posting about Musk/Tesla/Russia is immediately flagged on HackerNews. Sometimes stories break through, but it feels like there is either fervent support of Musk there or bot activity. Example of a blocked post of mine: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332...

Mobile apps use 3rd party tools to track what you do. AppsFlyer and Adjust are the two largest ad tracking tools in 2025, but open source options are coming: jamesoclaire.com/2025/03/11/n...

AppGoblin crossed 30k Android and iOS apps that have been downloaded and analyzed. Unity at a whopping 87% of games is dominating. Godot, I love you, but I could barely find any games using it. Check out the rest here: jamesoclaire.com/2025/02/20/m...

DeepSeek app uses Tencent, Bytedance and ShuMei SDKs to track users from: jamesoclaire.com/2025/02/02/q...

Looked into open source alternatives to Firebase dynamic Links for deferred deep linking in mobile apps. Let me know what I missed. jamesoclaire.com/2024/12/10/o...

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social great clapping back at @profgalloway.bsky.social on Raging Moderates. Standing up for yourself makes your points later stronger. Love the show.

It's pretty incredible that #AppLovin has spiked in value despite having a very similiar size of client base to #UnityAds. AppLovin has long had stronger ties to brands and they've utilized financial advantages as well. They're dominant in non Google/FB #mobileadvertising now

I've been consistently finding that about 20% of the top apps have the mobile #advertising tracking SDKs for AppsFlyer. This turned out to be a lot less than I had expected, though there are a lot of top apps that this makes sense for (Google, FB, Samsung apps etc) appgoblin.info/companies/ty...

Listened to #AdExchanger latest podcast about Google's upcoming #antitrust lawsuit and likely breakup of its #ads business. They mentioned the lack of publisher side adservers and it made me think that someone should work on an #opensource #adserver.. hmm =D www.adexchanger.com/adexchanger-...

@livinawestlife.bsky.social seen you for years on SkyscraperCity, awesome to find you here. Saw you've been posting lots of charts and stuff, awesome. Just curious about CTBUH, I guess you pay for it? I've always wished there were open source resources like CTBUH.