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Mobile Marketing Trends

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  • How Subscriptions Are Driving App Revenue & Retention

    Sunny Cha

    How Subscriptions Are Driving App Revenue & Retention

    Subscriptions are more than a niche: services like Spotify and Headspace prove that users are willing to shell out money for content they regularly use. App Annie’s chief marketing officer, Al Campa, predicts that subscription-based monetization will be the future of games. Non-gaming apps are already seeing success with subscriptions: this month Tinder reached the #1 top...

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  • How Non-Gaming Apps Are Improving Retention

    Sunny Cha

    How Non-Gaming Apps Are Improving Retention

    For mobile app developers, retention is hard. An average of just 7.5% of mobile users stay active 30 days after downloading an app. And while mobile game developers have spent countless hours trying to crack the retention code, there are plenty of lessons they can learn by looking at their non-gaming peers. Below, we examine four ways...

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  • Growth Analytics vs. Product Analytics: What’s the Difference?

    Sunny Cha

    Growth Analytics vs. Product Analytics: What’s the Difference?

    We often get asked how Tenjin compares to analytics companies such as Mixpanel, Amplitude, deltaDNA, and others. The short answer is that the best way to describe those other analytics solutions is as product-centric tools, while Tenjin can best be categorized as a growth-centric tool. What do we mean by product vs. growth analytics? Product-centric...

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  • The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

    Chris Farm

    The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

    In my last few meetings with small developers who want to learn about paid User Acquisition, we talked about the paid marketing conversion funnel. It seems like a simple concept at the outset, but when marketers first start buying installs it’s probably the most important concept to understand. Here’s a slide that sums up the...

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  • IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

    Chris Farm

    IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

    A few months ago, Apple announced that iOS 10 will send all zeros for itsadvertisingIdentiferfield when the device’s user sets their limit ad tracking flag toON. According to Tenjin’s aggregate records, this represents ~15% of devices where IDFA will not be unique for a specific device. As I noted in my last post about cookies, the...

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  • Pay Attention to These Overlooked Mobile Metrics

    Sunny Cha

    Pay Attention to These Overlooked Mobile Metrics

    High-level KPIs like ARPU and retention are great for getting a big-picture view of your mobile app’s health, but while they might suffice for an executive summary, developers tasked with moving the needle every day know the value of digging deeper. We put together a list of some valuable and overlooked KPIs that are driving...

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