User acquisition is a crucial aspect of app growth. Without a solid user acquisition strategy, your app may remain unnoticed in the sea of apps available in the app stores.
February 8, 2022
Mobile game ads serve as a means to achieve both goals, by offering users free access to games while generating revenue through ad placements. To ensure that mobile game ads are effective, developers must consider the preferences and behavior of their target audience.
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Video and playables ads have been leading mobile creatives’ trends for months, especially when it comes to mobile game user acquisition. That’s why Mapendo focused its latest product release on combining both video and playable ads, adding end cards too.
In this article, we’ll delve more into the topic by describing how to analyze a possible drop in your mobile games’ ROAS, and outlining how we at Mapendo work in order to optimize user acquisition towards ROAS.
As promised last week, we’re back sharing the first promising results of our latest product, Mapendo’s ad technology for video and playable ads. Indeed, similarly to what we do with dynamic banners, we’ve revamped our technology, now able to dynamically optimize also videos and playables towards ROI.
In the last few months, we’ve started testing with app developers our latest feature for user acquisition campaigns: dynamic banner technology. In this article we’ll show the first impressive results achieved by the new app install banner ads generated by our technology, their impact on installs and, above all, ROI.
Before launching app install campaigns with new user acquisition partners, mobile game developers always set their KPIs in terms of profitability. Indeed, ROI has become the most important topic about user acquisition for mobile games.
Mobile DSPs have proven a successful user acquisition tool for many mobile games in recent years. Most demand side platform companies help mobile apps grow providing them with sophisticated targeting capabilities, A.I.- powered optimization and automation.
ROI seems to be the holy grail for mobile games’ developers, when talking about user acquisition. Don’t get me wrong, acquiring huge volumes of new users is still the ultimate goal, as long as such users generate revenue and bring value to the business.
Here at Mapendo we work with many mobile game developers, who ask us to bring in big volumes of new users, while constantly aiming at their ROI target. Since it’s not an easy feat, cooperation with game developers is essential to the success of user acquisition campaigns.
In app install campaigns, app developers partner with sources like ad networks, DSPs and affiliate networks to acquire new users for their apps by showing them ads. Advertisers pay their UA partners through 2 different pricing models: CPI and CPA.
App marketing has always been about getting new users and scaling volumes as much as possible, at least until a few months ago. However, with advertising budgets now tightening, ROI and profitability have become the main focus of mobile app marketing campaigns. Therefore, we’ve put together a list of best practices to make your app promotion efforts ROI-positive and acquire new users profitably.
Mobile app marketing campaigns help app developers acquire new users and grow their apps profitably. Here are 5 successful examples of app marketing campaigns run by Mapendo.
App promotion, a.k.a. app marketing or mobile advertising, refers to all marketing activities aimed at increasing the reach of mobile apps. Thus, app promotion is essential for advertisers who want to have their app in as many smartphones as possible.
Moving towards the second half of 2023, mobile games still claim the crown as most downloaded app category. More than 90B new games downloaded, $110B spent by consumers on mobile games and a $336B ad spend on mobile games are just a few of the astonishing numbers cited by data.ai in their latest report about mobile games.
Luni and Mapendo started their partnership with the goal of increasing Omada’s iOS users across multiple countries, mostly in western Europe. When ramping up user acquisition activities, their main concern is to avoid wasting money on users who only give the app a try and quit shortly after having downloaded it.
Mobile user acquisition platforms are essential for mobile app developers who want to grow their user base and increase revenue. Even though 2023 is bringing concerns for the general economic landscape, app developers can’t do without mobile ad platforms in order to survive the fierce competition in the mobile ecosystem.
When looking to increase app installs through user acquisition campaigns, CPI is often the main pricing model employed in such campaigns, and it can be fixed or variable depending on the negotiation between advertisers and app marketers.
Developing and executing a successful app marketing campaign is crucial for ensuring that your app reaches its intended audience and gains traction in a highly competitive app marketplace. However, achieving success in app marketing requires careful planning, strategic execution, and continuous optimization.
In 2023, mobile user acquisition is expected to be a crucial component of any successful mobile marketing strategy. The mobile industry has seen exponential growth over the past few years, and the trend is expected to continue in the coming years. As a result, mobile user acquisition has become more competitive, and companies will need to be more innovative in their approach to stay ahead of the curve.
App Marketing industry registered an impressive growth in the past year, with mobile ad spend 14% higher than 2021. $336B were spent in mobile advertising, confirming its crucial role in mobile user acquisition strategies. As a result, new app downloads grew too, surpassing 250 billion and following the positive trends of the previous years.
App marketing means promoting your mobile app in order to grow your user base and your business too, by getting users to engage with the app and to generate revenues, either through ads or in-app purchases.
Our client is a hyper-fast mobile game publisher, which also helps game developers to create new mobile games and climb the ranks in the app store. We agreed on running app install campaigns for a racing mobile game, which ranks among the top 100 apps in the category.
Tracking and analyzing the correct mobile app KPIs also allow advertisers to optimize their user acquisition efforts, allocating their budget only on the most profitable sources and leveraging high-quality users in order to increase ROI since day 1.
Mobile apps generate a huge amount of data based on users’ in-app activity, from sessions and registrations to purchases and ads views. App developers are able to track and monitor all these post-install events by integrating with Mobile Measurement Partners (MMPs) such as Appsflyer, Adjust and Singular.
The advertiser asked Mapendo to run a CPA app campaign, paying for users who registered and created an account after having downloaded and installed the app.
What is a CPI campaign? Cost per install, also known as CPI, is a predetermined pricing model used in app install campaigns for which every advertiser agrees to pay to the publisher every time a user installs their app.
A major global mobility company turned to Mapendo in order to intensify their mobile user acquisition efforts.
Thanksgiving day provides a great opportunity for some app developers to give a boost to their mobile user acquisition efforts. Betting and fantasy sports apps benefit from Thanksgiving day multiple NFL games, acquiring new users and having the existing ones generating in-app purchases and revenues.
In this guide we’ll describe what it takes in order to design an effective mobile user acquisition strategy, providing suggestions based on our experience with app advertisers from mobile games, shopping and fintech categories.
Since Apple introduced ATT (App Tracking Transparency) and SKAdNetwork with iOS 14.5, back in March 2021, the app marketing ecosystem has been changing dramatically. One consequence we want to discuss and highlight in this article is the absence of lookalike audiences for app install campaign optimization.
In this day and age, mobile app marketers are charged with the difficult task of finding the unbeatable combination of marketing activities to grow their app. We want to provide our help by exploring 3 app marketing strategies which have proven decisive for successful paid user acquisition campaigns we have run in the past quarter.
In this article we will provide a guide for app marketers to the most important mobile app performance KPIs to monitor in order to successfully achieve app growth. We’ve chosen these metrics based on our experience with advertisers from different app verticals such as fintech, shopping, subscription and mobile games. Indeed, please note that advertisers from different verticals may not give the same weight to a specific KPI.
App Install Ads are advertisements which include deferred deep links, bringing users who click on the ads directly to the app store, Google Play or App Store. When users download the promoted apps and open them for the first time the ads have generated a successful conversion.
Mobile App promotion refers to all of the app marketing activities, both organic and paid, designed to bring users to your app and to face the fierce competition in the mobile app industry. There are plenty of app marketing strategies to promote your app and grow your user base.
This is the first time mobile games don’t claim the top spot in terms of consumer spending, and it has a natural impact on mobile user acquisition too. Ad spend from subscription apps, which was already growing during and after the pandemic, is now expected to see a dramatic boost.
Paysend’s challenge was acquiring not just new customers, but users who’d send money via their app. These are high-quality users, who generate money and add value to their clients. Paysend's mission was a North America- and Western Europe-targeted user acquisition campaign for iOS.
App Install Ads are advertisements which contain deferred deep links, that bring users who click on the ads directly to the app store, Google Play or App Store depending on the operating system.
Creatives are important when setting up an app install campaign and can genuinely make a difference if you want to succeed. However, having outstanding and successful creatives alone won't take you over the finish line, you need to optimize your creatives and overall app install campaigns to draw in those high ltv users.
An international game developer entrusted Mapendo with promoting one of their mobile apps, a simulation-based mobile game, available worldwide for both iOS and Android platforms.
We at Mapendo wanted to look at and analyze data in order to understand the impact of big live sport events on algorithms and app user acquisition campaigns. By doing so we will demonstrate how live events such as NBA games have a direct impact on mobile user acquisition for fantasy sports apps.
Mapendo worked with a Chinese-based mobile games developer to promote one of their free mobile apps. The app is a skill-based bingo game where users can play multiple competitive game models and buy power-ups in order to win real money.
In the anatomy of an app install campaign, and especially in programmatic advertising and real-time bidding, Ad Exchanges play a key role between publishers and advertisers.