Mobile gaming industry benchmarks offer fresh look on industry
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Mobile game industry benchmarks report has been released by GameAnalytics, offering a fresh look at how gamers play and pay on their smartphones. The report highlights performance benchmarks for key metrics across the top 16 genres, including retention, session length, stickiness, conversion rate, ARPPU, and ARPDAU. In this report, GameAnalytics has also partnered with ...
Top ranking mobile games earn 10X what other games do
Monday, October 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
A report from Mobvista-owned GameAnalytics has shown yet again just how competitive the mobile games industry is, with a minority of top-performing titles capturing a disproportionate slice of the $70 billion forecast to be spent on mobile games in 2018.
The report, titled "Mobile Gaming Benchmarks", is GameAnalytics’ second global anal...
Facebook playable ads now supported by Bidalgo
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
Bidalgo announced the launch of a new suite of products and services to support Facebook playable ads as well as other ad platforms. The announcement comes as Facebook makes playable ads available on its platform to allow users to sample a game or app before installing it, helping drive higher quality installs. One of the first Facebook Marketing Partners (FMP’s) to sup...
Newzoo offers insight into the app market with new survey report
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Global market intelligence firm Newzoo has announced the release of its first Global Mobile Market Report, a unique publication on the global mobile ecosystem, including global app revenues and forecasts, device brand market share, smartphone penetration, and consumer profiling.
According to the report, global app revenues will reach $44.8 billion in 2016...
Leveraging Mobile Gameplay Analytics and User Psychology For Retention
Friday, March 25, 2016 by Sergei Kovalenko
Ever since Apple introduced its App Store in 2008, game developers have been lining up for their share of the now almost $50 billion dollar industry. However, designing games that stand out from the rest of the crowd can be extremely difficult and is now just as much art as it science. With over 2,000 new apps being added to the App Store and Google Play daily, dev...
New Report Highlights the Monetization Value of Repeat Mobile Game Users
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In its Q1 2016 Mobile Gaming Insights research SOOMLA is reporting that game users who completed an in-app purchase in one game are six times more likely to pay in another game, compared to users who haven’t made a purchase. Also those users who paid $25 or more in one game are 40% more likely to pay in a second game.The research is derived from game play from over 20 m...
Google at GDC 2015 Launches New Tools for Android Development Monetization, Analytics and TV
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has introduced new tools and features for Android developers at its Developer Day during the Game Developers Conference. The new offerings include analytics for Google Play Games, new advertising options for AdMob and a Nearby Connections API for Android TV. Google has introduced Player Analytics, giving developers access to Android analytics repor...
Asia is a Gold Mine for Android App Developers and Here's Why
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Paolo Rizzardini
The Asian consumer and the smartphoneThe Asian market has a strong affection for smartphones, tablets and all manner of other internet-enabled devices, more so than any other region in the world. In a recent survey (Milward Brown AdReaction: “ the daily distribution of Screen-Minutes across countries” published in KPCB report) that analyzed the time consumers spend...
The Secret to a Successful Mobile Game Launch
Monday, February 3, 2014 by Rick Evans
As a mobile
game developer, analytics are without a doubt one of the most important tools
to help you launch your game. Not only do analytics help you understand the
early performance of your game, but they also provide the context necessary to
guide future product developments and optimize your marketing efforts.
When you’re
launching your mobile ga...
