Mobile Dev Memo Podcast

Season 3, Episode 3: How to run an analytics team (with Russell Ovans)


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My guest in this week's episode of the podcast is Russell Ovans, who recently published a book, Game Analytics: Retention and Monetization in Free-to-Play Mobile Games. Russell has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and began his career in academia before transitioning to industry and starting one of the first Western social free-to-play gaming studios.

The topic of my conversation with Russell is the structure and management of successful analytics teams at consumer technology companies. Among other things, we discuss:

  • What purpose an analytics team should serve, and what value it should add;
  • The optimal way to structure an analytics team;
  • The difference between analytics and data science;
  • How analytics teams fail;
  • and Who should "own" the LTV metric in a consumer tech company.
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