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    Sunny Cha

    The Most Interesting New iOS Features

    New iOS Features Every Developer Needs to Know Last year’s iOS update gave developers two new toys: 3D touch and third-party integration for Siri. But this year, the iPhone 8 and X are offering many more additions. Apple’s new hardware and OS features should be interesting both for immediate development and for the future —...

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  • 5 Questions to Help Find Your Indie Niche

    Sunny Cha

    5 Questions to Help Find Your Indie Niche

    Creating a massive hit is every developer’s hope, but it happens far too rarely to be a goal for the majority of indie developers. Successful indies, instead, find ways to thrive without ever rising into the top ranks of the app stores. “You probably don’t know my games, and I make a pretty good living,”...

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    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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  • Scaling Your Freemium App Business: Knowing When You’re Ready, and How to Do It

    Sunny Cha

    Scaling Your Freemium App Business: Knowing When You’re Ready, and How to Do It

    You’re almost there. Your app is ready for the limelight, you’ve tested user acquisition campaigns with platforms like Facebook and Google to figure out your audience and measure conversions, and you’ve soft-launched in test markets to get a sense of install costs and initial monetization metrics. You are starting to get some traction, and you’re...

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    Roman Garbar

    ROI vs. ROAS: Choosing the Right Performance Metric

    When you measure your ad campaigns, you’re going to use either ROI (Return on Investment) or ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). But these measurements aren’t fully interchangeable: each has its strategic uses. A few years ago, most companies wouldn’t have stopped to consider whether switching to a subtly different measurement might be worthwhile. But today,...

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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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