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Episode 7: Mobile Analytics with Greg Dowling
This episode we talk with the newest member of Semphonic, Greg Dowling, as we explore the intricacies of mobile analytics. From the current state of the mobile analytic space to what the future may hold. Greg shares his insight on steps to take to justify a mobile strategy, steps to organize and implement that strategy, and what metrics to look for.
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Hosts: Adam Greco, Rudi Shumpert
Greg Dowling
Vice President of Mobile Strategy & Measurement, Semphonic
An expert in mobile measurement and enterprise analytics with fifteen years in the industry, Greg Dowling heads up Semphonic’s New York office and leads their mobile strategy and measurement practice. Prior to Semphonic, Greg was Head of Analysis for Nokia’s Services Intelligence & Analytics organization responsible for analysis of all consumer data within Services domains of Music, Media, Messaging, Games, and Social Location. Prior to joining Nokia, Greg was Vice President of Strategy & Analysis for Digitas where he led their Web analytics capability supporting clients such as Delta, Kraft, Heineken, and Time Warner Cable. Prior to joining Digitas, Greg was a senior analyst with JupiterResearch focused on the best practices for Web site operations, from staffing and budgeting to vendor selection. His areas of specialization included Web site analytics, site search, content management and usability.
Greg blogs at http://dowling.typepad.com and can be found on Twitter as http://twitter.com/gregdowling
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January 20, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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January 21, 2010 at 11:41 am
Thanks for the Bango mention Greg. You are correct that user ID is the crucial aspect in accurate mobile measurement, without that the remaining metrics fall down. Cookies, IP addresses and subscriber ID’s (MSISDN, Sub Number etc) all have their problems and should not be relied on alone. Cookies are simply unreliable on mobile while a mobile subscriber ID / MSISDN is great for recording visitors on the carrier network but does not cope with WiFi. Which is crucial given the frequency at which consumers switch network connections on their smartphones these days.
The Bango platform solves this by placing a layer above all these methods – which provides a consistent visitor ID for tracking while also leveraging all the best physical IDs below. It’s your shared key across all platforms, sessions, connections, devices etc you mentioned. This is one way in which we deliver our 8x accuracy, our industry partnerships is another.
Best recommendation to anyone is to try us out at http://bango.com/analytics.
Andy.
January 23, 2010 at 11:41 am
@gregdowling
Thank you for the PercentMobile mention.
http://percentmobile.com/page/431/7-reasons-to-consider-mobile-analytics-for-mobile-site-tracking