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Apps Seek To Keep The New Users They Acquired During The COVID-19 Boom

Users flocked to apps during the first few months of lockdown. Paid acquisition was a bargain thanks to lower ad demand, while entertainment apps, games, fitness apps and delivery apps saw massive upticks in organic usage. Global downloads for hypercasual games, for example, shot up 103% between December 2019 and March of this year, according... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // July 29th, 2020 //
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IAC’s Mosaic Group: Games Get All The Attention, But Utility Apps Are Super Lucrative

Mosaic Group, IAC's global app division, is probably one of the biggest mobile app developers you’ve never heard of. It owns 40 utility apps, including RoboKiller, the largest spam call blocker in the United States; iTranslate, the translation app with the greatest penetration after Google Translate; and the hugely popular Daily Burn fitness app. Mosaic... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 10th, 2020 //
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YouAppi Rolls Out Retargeting Tool To Bring A Retention Mindset To Growth Marketing

The online travel search engine Kiwi.com wants to retarget users in a personalized way that’s ROI positive, said Mark Calzaverini, the company’s head of performance. “At the very least, we need to be able to identify users, make sure we’re not selling them the same thing twice,” he said. For the last year and a... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // December 16th, 2019 //
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Axios Has A Game Plan For Growth, And It’s All About Engagement

The Axios Sports newsletter recently hit a major milestone: 100,000 subscribers, up nearly tenfold in less than nine months. But this is not just growth for growth’s sake, said Ernesto Arrocha, associate director of growth and engagement at Axios, which publishes just under 20 daily and weekly newsletters. Its sports newsletter maintains a 42% open... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // September 3rd, 2019 //
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Madison Reed Enriches Its Data Strategy With A Focus On Lifetime Value

Cost per acquisition (CPA) on Facebook has increased over the last few years as news feed ad load nears saturation. That’s a big problem for advertisers like DTC hair care and coloring company Madison Reed, which spends a large portion of its budget on Facebook. The company is always on the hunt for ways to... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // August 19th, 2019 //
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EMarketer: Snapchat’s User Base Is Shrinking, But ‘All Is Not Lost’

Story updated to include a comment from Snap. Snapchat is on track to lose US users for the first time this year, according to eMarketer, thanks in part to continued aftershocks from its disastrous 2018 redesign. And Snap’s loss could be Instagram’s gain. Monthly users are set to decrease 2.8% year over year at Snapchat... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // April 10th, 2019 //
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Machine Learning Sits At The Heart Of Google’s New App Ads Products

Machine learning is becoming central to user acquisition and app advertising at Google. On Wednesday, Google introduced five game developer-focused ads products, four of which are powered by some form of machine learning. The first new release, called pre-registration ads, for example, allows developers to reach Android users across the Play store, YouTube, search and... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // March 13th, 2019 //
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Data Helps Dating App WeMeet Spark A Long-Term Relationship With Users

The best-laid plans of app developers are often belied by the actions of actual users. When Guy Tal, CEO of Bel Media Group, an Israeli app publisher with around 100 gaming, social and utility applications, soft-launched Tinder-like Android dating app WeMeet, he and his team assumed users would be easily attracted to the service because... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 23rd, 2017 //
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Lucktastic Taps Playable Ads To Snag Users Who Keep On Playing

Developers like Lucktastic, a F2P sweepstakes app, play a seemingly never-ending game of balancing quality vs. scale when acquiring users. Increasingly, they’re turning to mobile video and playable ads to find users who stick around after the install. “In a category like ours, you need scale to succeed, but we also really have to care... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // June 5th, 2017 //
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Retention And Monetization Don’t Have To Be Mutually Exclusive

User retention, good user experience and monetization can coexist, they just require a deft touch. But for devs that monetize mainly through ads, there’s an inherent tension between their retention and re-engagement efforts and the bottom line. They make the bulk of their money through a means that could easily turn off the users they’re... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff // February 14th, 2017 //
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