Street Fight: Heard On The Street

Street Fight: Heard On The Street


Latest Episodes

Heard on the Street, Episode 48: Advancing Audience Targeting with Semcasting
April 08, 2020

The mobile advertising world continues to shift dynamically as both public and private sector influences reshape ad targeting and data collection practices. The phasing out of third-party cookies and increased privacy regulations,

Heard on the Street, Episode 47: Header Bidding and Rapid Growth, with Freestar
March 18, 2020

As ad tech continues to advance and programmatic becomes de rigueur, you'd think managing advertising would be easier for publishers. But in some ways, it's gotten more difficult for publishers to monetize content and optimize ad placement through comp...

Heard on the Street, Episode 46: Improving Road Safety with Your iPhone
March 04, 2020

Insurance is typically viewed as an old-school industry that's not very sexy. But Cambridge Mobile Telematics VP Ryan McMahon thinks insurance gets a bad wrap in that respect. As the latest guest on Street Fight's Heard on the Street podcast,

Heard on the Street, Episode 45: Building a Local Video Marketplace, with Stringr
February 19, 2020

Video as a medium continues to gain prevalence given better bandwidth, mobile connectivity, and cultural factors. Creation and distribution tools also continue to democratize "pro-sumer" video like TikTok. But at the professional end of the scale,

Heard on the Street, Episode 44: Retargeting in a Multiscreen World, with Tremor Video
February 05, 2020

Two media consumption trends stick out from the last decade. The first is that video continues to gain prevalence given better bandwidth, mobile connectivity and cultural factors. The second is that our attention is increasingly fragmented between scre...

Heard on the Street, Episode 43: Inferring User Intent with Viral Gains
January 22, 2020

One elusive component of effective marketing is knowing what consumers are thinking. But even with advances in AI, traditional ad targeting practices often commit basic errors like showing people the same ad several times ...

Heard on the Street, Episode 42: Building an ‘Appnostic’ World, with Mobile Posse
January 08, 2020

As much as we love computing, the best technology is that which disappears. Most components of computing are an abstraction layer that stands between you and a given task or experience. That's the case with layers of the typical consumer tech stack inc...

Heard on the Street, Episode 41: Tracking Real-World Intelligence, with Blis
December 19, 2019

One of the most consequential topics to emerge in local commerce in 2019 (and our upcoming editorial focus for the month of January) is the location-based ad industry’s looming privacy winter. Due to regulations like CCPA,

Heard on the Street, Episode 40: Building Location Intelligence, with GroundTruth
December 04, 2019

The location intelligence sector has gotten crowded in the past five years, making it harder and harder to stand out from the crowd. Making matters more difficult, there are looming restrictions such as location tracking in iOS13 and the California Con...

Heard on the Street, Episode 39: Building a Local Merchant Operating System
November 20, 2019

The word "platform" is thrown around a lot these days. It's sometimes invoked for the sake of PR positioning, sometimes to make something sound more sophisticated than it is, but often the technology being described is really more of an application.