Mobile Dev Memo Podcast
Mobile Dev Memo Podcast
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Season 5, Episode 20: The scientific approach to advertising measurement (with Andrew Covato)
49 minutes Posted May 14, 2025 at 6:12 am.
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My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Andrew Covato, a veteran of the largest digital advertising platforms -- including Meta, Google, and Snap -- and the founder and managing director of Growth by Science, an advertising measurement and technology consultancy.

Andrew and I discuss the topic of advertising measurement broadly, including:

  • The misconceptions that advertisers have about how the largest walled garden advertising platforms function;
  • The principal mistakes companies make related to marketing-driven growth;
  • The scientific approach to measurement;
  • How companies can future-proof their advertising measurement;
  • The analytical constraints that prevent most advertisers from growing spend;
  • Creative analytics;
  • A systematic approach to channel diversification.

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