How to get app reviews the right way
Monday, August 23, 2021 by Justin Welter
You’re playing a game on your phone and just finished a tough level. Or maybe you’re not into mobile games, but you are repeatedly swiping left if you know what I mean. Then a pop-up appears. “Like using our App? Rate us!” It stops your experience in its track to wait for a decision. What is driving these rating prompts, and why?
As Apple has ...
5 trends that will shape the future of mobile apps
Thursday, January 14, 2021 by Jon Hudson
COVID has rewritten the rules of user acquisition campaigns for app developers. It has favored specific categories of apps, driving massive boosts in mobile usage and install volume. App marketers had to pivot in a heartbeat, optimizing their marketing mix and responding to volatility with few guideposts available to them. The volatility won’t go away in 2021, and...
App discovery increases coming in 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
COVID-19 has rewritten the rules of user acquisition campaigns for app developers, favoring specific categories of apps, and driving massive boosts in mobile usage and install volume. App marketers have had to pivot in a heartbeat, optimizing their marketing mix, and responding to volatility with very little to guide them. This volatility will not go away in 2021 and ap...
Resilience Grant announced by App Samurai
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
App Samurai Inc announced it is launching a global Resilience Grant, supporting mobile app publishers that, in turn, support the mental, physical and emotional wellbeing of consumers throughout the on-going coronavirus pandemic.
The Resilience Grant will award up to $10,000 per start-up in advertising spend to help support their user acquisition campaigns during this...
Measuring the impact of development campaigns
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 by Austin Harris
Keywee has announced the launch of Loyalty Score, a new feature that measures the true efficacy and impact of publisher audience development campaigns.
Keywee developed Loyalty Score to measure users’ return visits and the number of pages viewed over a given time frame, scoring those visits relative to the performance of other publisher campaigns. Scoring paid ...
Mobile app profitability and user LTV
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 by Alon Golan
According to a recent survey, mobile advertising and app marketing practitioners believe that more and more advertisers will focus on actual profitability this year and move away from the exhausting what-ever-it-takes growth strategy.
Profitability is a rallying cry I hear almost daily from mobile app publishers, and it begins with user acquisition campaigns. If ther...
Game developer tips and insight for 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019 by Richard Harris
2019 offers promising new opportunities for game developers to reach new markets. But how can developers best capture diverse users’ attention and loyalty? Webpals Mobile, a performance-driven mobile-app user acquisition company, recently conducted a study comparing advertising driving gaming app downloads in the United States and Asia. Drawing on insights from th...
Mobile publisher Gismart teams up with Appodeal
Friday, August 17, 2018 by Austin Harris
Gismart partners up with Appodeal to support mobile apps and games chosen for publishing with global monetization reach. Strategic cooperation between companies will allow indie developers to benefit from Appodeal’s ad monetization platform and Gismart’s publishing expertise by improving the application, bringing their mobile product to millions of players, ...
Smart mobile marketing during the holidays
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 by Itamar Benedy
The holiday season is often glorified as the “App Developers’ days”, with dream conditions to send people to the app store and download new apps. The numbers don’t lie. 2016 was the best year yet for apps, with over half a million dollars being spend on mobile apps over the holiday - a 52% increase from the year prior (Sensor Tower). This holiday bump can be attributed ...
Native mobile ads outperform all other mobile ad units says new report
Saturday, December 10, 2016 by Austin Harris
YouAppi has released research findings based on hundreds of mobile user acquisition campaigns in 2016, proving that native mobile user acquisition ads outperform, and more importantly, convert better than other mobile ad units.Despite the challenges of customizing native ads to match the look and feel of the app or mobile web content in which they appear.Native advertis...
How revenue recycling can help you improve capital and fund growth
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 by Martin Macmillan
Almost all app developers face a common financial challenge: Keeping cash flowing during the time between launch of a new app and payout of revenue by the app stores and platform holders.This period of time is referred to in the app economy as the “funding gap.” It’s common in many different industries, especially among manufacturers that have to shell out capital to pa...
Three ways programmatic is changing mobile app monetization
Monday, October 3, 2016 by Ross Barasch
Earlier last month digital marketers from around the world flocked to Germany for DMEXCO, one of the largest digital marketing events in the world. Traditionally, a buy-side focused show, the event now attracts more developers and publishers as programmatic real time bidding (RTB) is becoming a bigger part of mobile app monetization strategies. In fact, the move towards...
Here's How to Maximize Your App's Potential Using Data
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Itamar Benedy
Congratulations! Development and testing are done, and your app is ready to release. Before you enter the highly competitive mobile market, you need to realize that over 2,500 apps are submitted to the 3 biggest stores daily, and 70% of apps generate less than 5,000 downloads each. In the PC era, we couldn’t update a game or any other product after its release, nor...
Developers Need to Think About Immersive Mobile Experiences
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 by Erica Deas
In today’s app landscape, it is difficult to reach and acquire quality users in a way that’s truly cost-effective. Without users – and the revenue opportunities they create – all of the time and money invested in building an app goes to waste.Developers looking for a new acquisition opportunity that offers value in exchange for users’ engagement should consider mobile v...
Advertising Apps on TV is Growing In Popularity
Friday, August 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
App publishers continue to look at every potential opportunity to reach new users and the inclusion of traditional media is becoming more prevalent among mobile app and games, as companies are running app marketing campaigns across mobile, web, TV and print.Quaid Media works with companies to launch TV campaigns and the company that it has booked more than 12,000 TV spo...
Kochava Adapter Framework Offers Developers an Omniview Glance at Marketing
Thursday, July 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Kochava mobile attribution analytics and optimization platform will now offer a new class of integration through the Kochava Adapter Framework, integrating push and in-app messaging insight from Localytics and other providers. Kochava has also introduced a new Audience Attribution service that provides the ability to view and correctly attribute installs to ads serv...
MakeMeReach Social Media Advertising Platform to Become Part of GrowMobile
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Perion, which owns the GrowMobile automated mobile marketing platform, has acquired Paris-based MakeMeReach and its social media advertising platform. MakeMeReach will be added to the capabilities of GrowMobile to include the social media space, to help developers scale user acquisition campaigns on a centralized platform.MakeMeReach's AdsOptim platform provides the opp...
Learn How To Use App Analytics With This Report
Monday, October 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Launching your app is only one step on the way to being successful. Whether you’re a mobile first startup or an enterprise company just entering the mobile space, analytics are the key to discovering what works to achieve your goals through mobile.But analytics alone won’t provide useful insights if not evaluated with an eye on your particular situation. Your app analyt...
Updated Google Play SDK Provides App Developers with Enhancements to Analytics, Drive and Fit
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has released the latest version of its Google Play SDK with 6.1 adding enhanced ecommerce analytics support from Google Tag Manager and offers new improvements to the Google Drive Android API. Google is also including a refresh of the Google Fit developer preview.Here are the major updates:Analytics: Enhanced ecommerce is an analytics extension designed...
Perion To Purchase Grow Mobile to Grow its Lightspeed Mobile Advertising Platform
Monday, June 30, 2014 by Richard Harris
Perion Network is snapping up Grow Mobile, a provider of mobile advertising that enables developers to buy, track, optimize, and scale user acquisition campaigns from a single dashboard. Grow Mobile will become part of Perion Lightspeed, which was recently created by Perion to address the advertising needs of mobile app developers, and will enable Perion Lightspeed...
What’s in the New Google Play Services 5.0 Announced at Google IO
Thursday, June 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
At Google I/O a new version of Google Play services was revealed that brings new capabilities and the latest optimizations to devices across the Android ecosystem. Here is what Google says about the New Google Play Services 5.0:Services for Android wearables: Apps can more easily communicate and sync with code running on Android wearables through an automatically s...
New Startup Pollen to Offer App Developers Advance Funding for App store Receivables
Thursday, May 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pollen is a new company that is offering app developers advance payments for app store receivables. The company calls the funding opportunity “Velocity Capital” and plans on offering $150 million to developers in 2014. The company is currently offering the funding opportunity in closed beta.Pollen provides funding by advancing the value of a publishers app store re...
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...
Facebook Announces Video Ads and CPA Model for Buying Mobile App Ads
Friday, October 25, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
It seems that Facebook just won’t slow down in expanding/enhancing its advertising opportunities for app developers. This week the company announced new opportunities for video ads and CPA buying for mobile app ads. The new services are targeting developers need to increase app installs and maximize resources targeted to user acquisition campaigns.
According to the Fa...
