The marketing secrets of the most popular apps
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Stefan Benndorf, Managing Director & COO, AppLiftThe most successful apps are engaging and well-designed, but that is not the only reason why they’re popular. The Angry Birds and Pokémon GO's of the world owe much of their success to masterful marketing. Americans spend nearly 80 percent of their time on mobile phones in their three...
Strategies for mobile app reengagement
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
AppLift has released an all new infographic to help app developers understand how they can jump on the second wind of re-engagement of their former users. It also goes on to give information on techniques as to rope people back in and insights into keeping current customers in your app. Installs neither necessarily reflect the success of an app, nor do they guide user e...
Programmatic and Mobile: Whats to come in 2017
Thursday, October 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
Programmatic and mobile is an ever growing hot topic, Tim Koschella (CEO and Co - Founder of AppLift), has been at the helm of this industry since it began and has seen the state of the mobile industry rapidly transform into rich opportunities for today’s marketers. Tim believes that with more than 2 billion smartphones and nearly $400 billion in-mobile-triggered transa...
The Impact of Mobile Programmatic Advertising in 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
As more brands continue to shift their advertising investment into mobile, the impact of programmatic trading will also grow as marketers continue to depend upon the technology to reach their target audiences. Tim Koschella, CEO and Co-Founder of AppLift, recently provided his insight what to expect for mobile programmatic in 2016.Koschell has broad expertise in interna...
AppLift New Mobile Game Marketing Platform Leverages Big Data for User Lifetime Value
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppLift, a mobile game marketing platform, has launched DataLift – a new offering that provides what the company is calling “a big data-fueled mobile media buying platform maximizing user lifetime value (LTV).” The platform utilizes technology that optimizes campaign goals, including post-install LTV events, and enables user acquisition for mobile app advertisers.The Da...
PubNative Launches Native Advertising Platform Accessible Through an API
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
PubNative has announced the availability of its new native advertising platform, which provides a supply-side platform (SSP) that can be accessed by developers through an API instead of through the integration of an SDK. The company also has announced a recent investment from AppLift. Through the PubNative platform’s API, publishers can request over 20 adverti...
New Era: Apple Turns On Analytics and Attribution For Developers, Finally!
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Thomas Sommer
Among the myriad of announcements made at WWDC14 around iOS 8, one of them didn't get the attention it deserved. In one of the smaller developer sessions, Apple announced that they had started offering both an analytics and attribution platform to developers through the iTunes Connect console. In terms of analytics, developers will now be able to track the whole user li...
App Annie Announces Two New App Analytic Services
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
App Annie has released its new advertising analytics platform and dashboard out of beta. The platform provides connections to more than 20 mobile advertising platforms including iAd, AdMob, Tapjoy, MdotM, TapIt, Chartboost, AdColony, InMobi, RevMob, AppLovin, Everyplay GameAds, LifeStreet Media, AppLift, Appia, Taptica, Millennial Media, LeadBolt and NativeX.&...
Five Different Types of App User Retention
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
Thomas Sommer of AppLift has posted a nice article discussing user retention.As Thomas mentions on the blog, “The purpose of this article is not to affirm which definition is the right one, but rather to establish a list of the main retention computation methods, and take a look at what they are good for. No method is necessarily better than another in absolut...
Weekly Roundup: 1b Apps on Metaps, Apple Arrives in Brazil, HP Access Catalog, Glass Etiquette, Amazon Coins, And Mobile Privacy
Saturday, February 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile App Privacy Policy: Do You Have One?What’s wrong with collecting personal information? In short – nothing. Commerce has always been about a mutually beneficial exchange; providing products and services in return for cash or an equivalent value exchange. New business models such as free-2-play or ad-funded content have accelerated the growth of the data-fuell...
AppLift’s Customer Lifetime Value Optimization Technology Yields 150 percent Return On Investment For Aeria Games
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift announces that its proprietary Customer Lifetime Value Optimization Technology (LTV) yielded 150% return on investment after recouping the initial investment for Aeria Games’ user acquisition campaigns in over 15 countries. The acquired users achieved break-even in an average time of one and a half months. For the best p...
Monetizing Your App with Game Offers
Monday, December 2, 2013 by Thomas Sommer
Passion is
without doubt the main driver of a developer’s motivation to build great and
beautiful apps. This passion will keep you awake at night and fuel the
creativity and hard work necessary to the completion and perfection of a
beautiful product.However,
passion is not enough.
And
although you may not be in the game for this reason in the first ...
HitFox Group's AppLift Acquires One Million Users Per Month For Top Game Publisher
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
San Francisco (GDC) & Berlin– March 27, 2013 – HitFox Group continues its fast growth in the $25 billion mobile and online game distribution market. Only half a year after its start, AppLift, one of HitFox’s portfolio companies, delivers more than 1M quality users in one month for its largest partner and rapidly executes on mainstream and niche market campaigns all ...