# Season 7, Episode 2: Using AI for audience insights and analysis (with Francesco D'Orazio)

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Podcast: [Mobile Dev Memo Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mobile-dev-memo-podcast-235456)
Published: 2026-01-14T06:52:48+00:00
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## Resource

My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Francesco D'Orazio, the President and Chief Product Officer at Pulsar, an audience intelligence and insights platform. The topic of our conversation is the use of AI to develop an understanding of a product's existing audience for feature planning, marketing, and optimization. Among other things, we discuss: How AI is being applied to audience development and audience insights currently The difference between audience analysis for existing users and audience analysis for advertising targeting, and whether these two use cases converge How a team should balance efforts across optimizing a product for an existing audience versus optimizing the product to onboard new, previously unserved audiences Who in an organization typically owns audience insights, and whether that's optimal How audience insights combine with user-level personalization Thanks to the sponsors of this week’s episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast: ⁠ ⁠ INCRMNTAL ⁠⁠⁠ . True attribution measures incrementality, always on. Xsolla ⁠ . With the Xsolla Web Shop, you can create a direct storefront, cut fees down to as low as 5%, and keep players engaged with bundles, rewards, and analytics. ⁠ Branch ⁠ . Branch is an AI-powered MMP, connecting every paid, owned, and organic touchpoint so growth teams can see exactly where to put their dollars to bring users in the door and keep them coming back Interested in advertising in the Mobile Dev Memo newsletter or podcast? ⁠Get in touch⁠ . The Mobile Dev Memo podcast is available on: YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify

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