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Mobile Apps for Board Games: How ASO can Help Your Sales
Posted on November 10th, 2018
Apps are a part of our lives in every way imaginable, from the way we communicate to the games we play. This extends beyond mobile gaming – even traditional
How to Strategize for Mobile Growth in Q4
Posted on November 8th, 2018
We’ve entered the final stretch of the year, so it’s time to focus on ending 2018 strong. With the holiday season approaching and a year of profits to wrap up, how can mobile app developers ensure that the fourth quarter is a successful one?
Facebook App Installs: Creatives Best Practices
Posted on August 25th, 2018
App developers are always on the prowl for new ways to drive installs and improve their conversion rate. They’ve taken to combining their ASO strategy with paid marketing campaigns such as Facebook Ads to attract and convert the right users. As with any ASO or paid acquisition strategy, the creative presentation and technical guidelines of Facebook Ads campaigns need to be considered. Performance should be also regularly be re-evaluated to make the best results are being achieved. Facebook has a vast userbase that is comprised of a wide range of age, gender, location, and various other demographics that encompass their over 2 billion active users. When creating Facebook Ads, keep the varying interests of their users in mind when determining what images engage best. That means all visuals for Facebook Ads have to optimized to their intended audience as they account for 75-90% of an ad’s performance. It’s crucial that advertisers follow best practices when optimizing their creative assets to ensure that their install and conversion metrics are increasing month-after-month.
5 Tips for Creating Facebook Mobile Installs Campaigns
Posted on August 23rd, 2018
Facebook continues to be a platform ripe for marketing. There are many techniques for using Facebook as a marketing platform, including creating Facebook pages and utilizing influencer marketing. Mobile app ads are another key tool for app developers and marketers, but there are some important things to keep in mind while designing a Facebook mobile installs campaign.
Facebook Ads for Mobile Installs: How to Build Effective Campaigns
Posted on August 18th, 2018
There’s no denying just how large of a reach Facebook has. At the end of the second quarter of 2018, the social network reportedly saw 2.23 billion monthly active users, only furthering its popularity. While 32.8% of its users view their feeds on laptops and desktops, nearly 95.1% of Facebook users are accessing the social site via their mobile devices. Facebook undoubtedly has a mobile-minded userbase, and advertisers have taken notice. Since users often take to Facebook to find the next viral thing, why wouldn’t it be a viable avenue for helping app developers increase their number of installs? With the shift to thinking mobile-first that has come about in recent years, advertisers and developers alike need to take into consideration that running paid campaigns on not only the App Store (Search Ads) and Google Play Store (Google Ads), will help increase their installs. But like all paid search platforms, it’s unwise to go in without a solid understanding. It’s important that developers gain knowledge on what Facebook Ads are before fully diving into ad creation.
Google Mobile Analytics
Posted on February 18th, 2016
In the early days of mobile apps, marketers used Flurry Analytics in their iOS apps and Google Analytics in their Android apps.
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Trends in Mobile Marketing
Posted on February 6th, 2016
Mobile app usage and the enormous volume of apps continues to impact
Facebook Mobile Advertising
Posted on January 19th, 2016
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The Mobile Impact on Holiday Shopping
Posted on December 23rd, 2015
As we leave for our holiday vacations, let’s take a look at how mobile and mobile apps have not only nudged their way into retail, but how mobile shopping is now leading much of the shopping experience. We are not talking about mobile or apps taking over only ecommerce (which they are), but the huge impact mobile is having in “brick and mortar” - meaning the impact of mobile on all retail sales. Until recently, there was a clear divide between ecommerce sales and “in store” sales.
Mobile App Discovery Challenges
Posted on July 3rd, 2015
Apple recently announced there are 1.5 million apps in their app store, Google Play has 1.4 million. Mobile app discovery continues to be a hot topic among mobile app marketers and publishers. From the broad perspective of all search, discovery and marketing , to specific discovery challenges in the app stores - standing out in the app store is becoming more challenging. Recent changes to Apple's App Store make it even harder for apps to gain an initial traction previously found with a listing on the "new to the app store" section.
The Coming Mobile Ad Spend Tsunami
Posted on June 26th, 2015
When we see mobile ad spend charts like this from the annual Internet Trends report from Kleiner-Perkins: The data is clear - digital consumption has caught up with traditional media. Mobile and "internet" or desktop are about even with 24% of the consumption share - adding up to 48% of media share. And while the desktop internet advertising spend almost matches what would be expected based on usage, print is way over represented and mobile is extremely underrepresented. Why aren't more ad budgets being allocated to mobile? Well, mobile ad spend in 2015 doubled from last year - and is still not keeping pace with mobile usage. Check out last year's Internet Trends report. Digital media consumption grew overall from 2013, from 45% share to 48%, but mobile actually took share from desktop internet. In 2013, mobile ad spend was around $7 billion, or 4% of total ad spend. In 2014, mobile ad spend doubled to $13 billion, or 8% of total ad spend, while mobile accounted for 4% more share of media consumption. The ad spend doubles and still can't keep up with the demand. Part of the gap between ad spend and where
Android Passes iOS in Mobile Ad Revenues
Posted on May 18th, 2015
The mobile revenue share continues to trend toward Android. Last year, Android passed iOS in share of mobile ad impressions, or ad traffic. According to Opera Software's latest "State of Mobile Advertising"