In-App

• Last-Click Attribution Is Failing Marketers: Q&A with Amit Dar, Taptica

  7 days ago News

  

  User acquisition is evolving. Where it used to be all about the number of installs, developers are becoming smarter and more discerning about campaign metrics and tying acquisition activity back to the bottom line. Now it’s about finding the highest quality users and moving beyond impressions and installs, to engagement and lifetime value. TheGamingEconomy speaks exclusively with Amit Dar, general manager, U.S., Taptica, about why user acquisition for mobile gaming is changing and the importance of setting goals for [...]

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• Consumers Want Benefits from Data Sharing; Video Is Key for App-Install Success

  2 weeks ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Consumers Want Benefits from Data Sharing; Video Is Key to App Install Success; Seven West Media Integrates Lotame DMP & Telaria SSP; New Server-Side & Mobile In-App Solution by PubNative; and Cedato Launches Instream Video Format ‘IntentView’. Consumers Want Benefits from Data Sharing ‘Global data privacy: What the consumer really thinks’ is a report commissioned by the GDMA, DMA UK, and Acxiom. According to [...]

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• How Gaming Developers Can Tackle the Challenges of User Retention & Reactivation

  1 month ago News

  In this piece, Elle Chen, head of strategic partnerships, Simplaex, tells TheGamingEconomy that for gaming app developers, the ultimate goal is not just to have high installs but to build a community of addicted gamers. Think about how expensive it is to invest marketing budgets in user acquisition and then just let users fade away without a sustainable follow-up strategy. App retargeting, the go-to marketing technology for mobile marketers, helps you reactivate existing users as well as keep active [...]

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• Playable Ads Need Emphasis on Creative & Technical Design: Q&A with Jeff Marshall, CrossInstall

  1 month ago News

  

  Arguably, one of the most crucial aspects of performance advertising for in-app gaming is creative. From leveraging the correct ad format – depending on your user acquisition, retention, and reactivation strategies – to multivariate testing of creative across those different target segments, gaming developers need to place a lot of importance on creative output. TheGamingEconomy speaks exclusively with Jeff Marshall (pictured below), CEO, CrossInstall, about its newly launched Creatives as a Service (CaaS) platform, to help gaming developers do [...]

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