Alternative Data Podcasts

Today’s episode features an interview with Jonathan Kay, Founder, and CEO of Apptopia – a global leader in mobile market intelligence. Jonathan founded Apptopia in 2011 as a competitive intelligence tool for companies with few avenues to digitally benchmark themselves against peers. Now, Apptopia provides accurate estimates of downloads, revenue, and usage for all mobile apps to a wide range of clients, with financial services being the fastest-growing client segment. Jonathan explains Apptopia’s data gathering process, partnering with app developers and collecting billions of publicly available metadata points for their relational algorithms. Additionally, they talk about growth in private markets, the importance of a robust compliance process when dealing with data sources in the media spotlight, regional variations for mobile app data, and what’s to come in 2022. Please enjoy this dialogue between Jonathan Kay, and your host, Niall Hurley.

Once a quarter, Eagle Alpha’s director of data strategy and analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha’s client-only monthly legal workshops. In this episode, Peter and Ben discuss this quarter’s most pertinent topic in the alternative data industry surrounding mobile app data provider, App Annie, and the SEC’s decision to charge them with securities fraud. The group addresses the confusion surrounding the use of insider trading law in this securities fraud case, its impact on the decision on the wider market, and provides expert advice for app data buyers following the SEC’s decision. Please enjoy this dialogue between Peter Greene, Ben Kozinn, and your host, Ronan Crosson.

Hello and welcome to Eagle Alpha’s Profiting from Data podcast. Today’s episode features an interview with Vikram Srimurthy and Elizabeth Badolato from EPFR. EPFR provides fund flows & allocations data to the broader market and is a subsidiary of UK firm, Informa...

Once a quarter, Eagle Alpha's director of data strategy and analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter Greene and Ben Kozinn from New York law firm, Lowenstein Sandler. These conversations are part of Eagle Alpha's client-only monthly legal workshops. In this...

This episode features an interview with Omri Orgad, Managing Director, North America at Bright Data. Omri has worked with Bright Data for 7 years, witnessing the evolution of the firm from a startup to over 200 employees today. On this episode, Omri talks about...

This episode is a provocative discussion on the challenges and fallacies within ESG including greenwashing, social washing and measuring true changes without data and transparency as a result of flaws in frameworks and scoring. Hosted by Niall Hurley, CEO, Eagle...

Hello and welcome to the Profiting from Data podcast. Today’s episode is a brand-new segment focusing on legal and compliance issues surrounding alternative data. Once a quarter Eagle Alpha’s Director of Data Strategy and Analytics, Ronan Crosson, is joined by Peter...

Today’s episode features an interview with John Farrall, Co-Founder of 90 West Data. John has a background in fundamental equity research and following his time at Cleveland Research started 90 West to take customer transaction data to institutional markets. 90 West...