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  • User Acquisition Strategy: Looking Beyond Day-7 ROAS

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    Tara Meyer

    User Acquisition Strategy: Looking Beyond Day-7 ROAS

    User acquisition (UA) is not just about purchasing installs from a network. It involves finding patterns amongst different audiences and matching them to a product feature, a promise, encouraging engagement, return visits, and any sort of user behavior that can create value over time.  As the nominal amount of apps rise in app stores, the...

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  • Plan Mix Changes Everything: Measuring Monthly vs Annual Subscriptions

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    Tara Meyer

    Plan Mix Changes Everything: Measuring Monthly vs Annual Subscriptions

    Campaigns vary in their types of success: they can spend the same amount of spend and get a similar number of paying users. However, each campaign produces its own patterns of user behavior and revenue streams. One campaign could bring in mostly annual subscribers and receive bigger payments upfront. The other campaign might attract mostly...

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    How to Measure App Subscription Business Models 

    Roman Garbar

    How to Measure App Subscription Business Models 

    App subscriptions turn a one-time install into ongoing revenue, where users pay regularly (weekly, monthly, or yearly) for continued access to the app or premium features. For app publishers, subscription business models are particularly valuable. This is because a single successful acquisition produces recurring revenue, which is more predictable than one-time purchases or pure ad...

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  • 5 Subscription KPIs to Scale Paid User Acquisition 

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    Tara Meyer

    5 Subscription KPIs to Scale Paid User Acquisition 

    Getting an install can feel like progress. Acquiring more trials feels like a build up in momentum. However, neither of these KPIs tell you whether it’s time to stop, pause, or spend.  There are some basic rules for subscription apps and growth. Apps are ready to move into paid acquisition when there are three concurrent...

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  • Subscription App Models: Free Trial vs. Freemium vs. Paid

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    Tara Meyer

    Subscription App Models: Free Trial vs. Freemium vs. Paid

    Every subscription app eventually asks the same question: how much should we give away before we ask someone to pay? Get it right, and the app builds a steady base of subscribers who stick around. Get it wrong, and user acquisition (UA) teams end up chasing installs that never turn into revenue. However, that question...

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  • Tenjin Subscriptions Reporting: Campaign-Level Visibility for Subscription Revenue

    Roman Garbar

    Tenjin Subscriptions Reporting: Campaign-Level Visibility for Subscription Revenue

    If your app monetizes through subscriptions, you probably already know that installs only tell part of the whole story. Trials, conversions, renewals, and cancellations each have their own impact on revenue. Connecting those dots back to your user acquisition (UA) data has meant pulling from multiple sources and stitching it together manually. Tenjin Subscription Reporting...

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