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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

And even apps that manage to remain sticky despite user friction will see their users struggle to find the intended value in all its features. As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. Gamification is not just for games and entertainment-focused apps. Leverage gamification principles.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Based on our conversations, lag in monetization isn’t due to lack of efficacy of ads. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? Limitations of podcast advertising. Vertical consumer audio apps.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Based on our conversations, lag in monetization isn’t due to lack of efficacy of ads. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? Limitations of podcast advertising. Vertical consumer audio apps.