Some app categories are seeing a boom during the COVID-19 crisis and that includes fintech. Whether people are simply turning to banking apps rather than heading to their local branch, or they’re checking in with their investments more regularly thanks to the volatile market, people across the globe are embracing fintech as a way to cope with the challenges of this crisis.
We know that retention rates vary across app categories—as do strategies. While we talk a lot about what’s normal and what works for games, and travel, and even health and wellness apps? But what about apps that provide therapy?
Marketers aren't medical workers. We're not doctors, we're not nurses, we're not healthcare professionals, not first responders. But marketers have a role to play in helping others survive this global pandemic. Our lives aren't on the line, but the economy is critical.
Self-isolation is causing stress, creating big problems for relationships, and huge opportunities for apps that help people improve their relationships. LifeCouple, a relationship empowerment platform, combines a compelling product (a “democratized therapy solution”) and individualized marketing to help couples address, monitor, and improve their relationships.
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Shopping apps are soaring in popularity, but the influx of organics may be too much of a good thing. The opportunity: Costs and conversions are in a rare balance, with install-to-purchase rates rising through the roof. The challenge: Marketers need to make tough choices about the new users they should retarget and retain, and the ones they should let lapse.
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Rattled by unemployment numbers and wracked by the economic fallout of Covid-19, people everywhere are forced to re-evaluate how they will make and save money. Keenly aware of where their paycheck is going and eager to improve financial wellness, record numbers of consumers are looking to mobile finance apps for advice and answers.
Brand management has never been easy. Finding ways to communicate effectively and appropriately in the COVID-19 era, when consumers are deeply anxious about their families and their future, poses an even greater challenge.
Effective marketing and messaging demand a personal touch–but during a pandemic, it’s table stakes. However, showing empathy at scale requires marketers to strike a balance between automation and customization.
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Mobile gaming is emerging as the prime pastime as record numbers of consumers practice social distancing and use their downtime to discover new games or binge on favorites. Players are also congregating on esports platforms, digital safe spaces where they can compete on skill, and win big on prize money.
Mobile gaming is breaking records, and the global esports audience will be just shy of 500 million players in 2020. It’s a dynamic that gets a boost as more users in self-isolation look for ways to pass the time and earn money.
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It’s no secret that COVID-19 has disrupted business as usual across the physical world and the digital realm. A recent analysis from app store intelligence AppAnnie shows that–even though they’re our digital safe places–apps have not escaped the virus’s reach.
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Mobile gaming growth is breaking records. The real action is at the intersection of mobile gaming and esports—an interactive gaming genre that allows multiplayer competitions and powers stadium-packing tournaments—and developers, players and investors are paying attention.
A decade ago, The Power Of Pull described the amazing outcomes possible when we have the tools to find and access the people, content, information, and resources we need. Pull was seen as the mechanism that would put people in control. It would give them more choices and more information to make those choices.
A rigorous analysis of the reams of mobile and marketing predictions for the new year suggests 2020 will be remembered as the year mobile-first marketing finally grew up. The obsession with short-term gains and growth hacks that marked the last decade is fast being replaced by the realization that "fully-baked business models" and strategies that demonstrate financial self-control define the path to profitability and sustainability.
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