Consumers may be lukewarm about getting promotional messages, but a new study suggests they genuinely welcome more messages if they are useful and timely. Our host Peggy Anne Salz catches up with Jeff Hasen, Director of Communications, Sinch, a company providing personalized messaging and other related services, to discuss how messaging — including notifications, rich messaging and chatbots — can fill voids in customer experience.
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“Retention is the new acquisition” is the mindset that has allowed Eric Ralls, Founder & CEO of PlantSnap,to turn his app — which allows users to capture an image of a plant or flower and identify it within seconds — into a habit for its 33 million users and counting.
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Most app monetization models are focused on driving purchases or delivering advertising--approaches that are a stretch for indie developers with small teams and limited budgets. But now there is a promising and proven alternative. Our host Peggy Anne Salz catches up with Chris Humphrey, VP of Marketing at Calldorado, the company equipping devs to benefit from the way users naturally engage with smartphones to communicate.
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In a market where the average app loses nearly 70% of its users within one week app marketers are on a rollercoaster ride, struggling to plug the leaky bucket, not just fill the top of the funnel. The challenge (and the opportunity) is to re-engage users early in the retention cycle.
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The explosion of smartphones, the advance of commerce and finance, and the growing enthusiasm of young consumers for mobile apps have combined to make Indonesia the fastest growing and “most dynamic market” in South East Asia. But before you take the plunge, you need to do your homework.
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The soft launch is the most crucial stage in the lifecycle of your mobile gaming app. It’s the phase that determines if you are on track to deliver a game that has commercial potential. And it’s when you double-down to validate your product and double-check if...
In a market where the cost to acquire an app user is rising through the roof, and the increase in app abandonment (the number of users who quit an app after one use) is alarming, it’s clear that the traditional focus on top-funnel metrics is fatally...
The advance of high-speed networks and affordable data plans hasn’t only whet audience appetites for unlimited anytime, anywhere access to the content they desire. It has created ideal conditions for data-hungry streaming apps to proliferate, displacing traditional...
Mobile app marketers are the rock stars of the industry, but popularity comes at a price. These marketers are also aggressively pursued by ad partners eager to close a deal and inundated with cold-call emails that are often more annoying than they are convincing.
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Nielsen numbers released last month show media consumption continues to climb with more attention being diverted towards smartphones than ever before. The total percentage of time spent on mobile among 18 to 34-year-olds has reached a new high — 34% up from 29% the...
Tax Day, the deadline for filing 2018 taxes with the U.S. IRS, may have passed, but new data suggest April is a red-letter month for mobile finance app acquisition and use, marking the global start of a productive period when financial institutions and fintech...
How can app marketers operate (and excel) at the intersection of ad creatives and performance marketing? To crack the code marketers don’t need necessarily need algorithms, but they do need to get smart about how they evaluate ad creatives and harness the right format to get the best results for their app.
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User acquisition is advancing rapidly and becoming increasingly sophisticated. This is the key finding of a new study amongst experts in app and performance marketing who are addressing some big challenges in their pursuit of perfection. They are challenges that look...
While app installs are showing signs of a slowdown, the latest data reveals time spent in-app is rising into the stratosphere and set to eclipse TV in 2019. Audiences are clearly addicted to using the apps they love, which would suggest they are also easier to...
