PubNative released a report back in April on the impact of COVID-19 on mobile ad spend from before the outbreak until March, looking at behavioral changes during different phases of the pandemic. Tying in with these results at the end of Q1, Continue Reading
Applift
Applift is a leading mobile ad tech company that empowers businesses by creating the next-generation platform for advertisers to reach and convert their audiences on mobile.
Snow capped mountains, pristine countryside and not a soul in sight for miles – an unusual setting for an industry event, but our good friends at Kochava draw in the best of the best every year to this idyllic setting Continue Reading
Applift's parent company Media and Games Invest announced yesterday the acquisition of Verve, a location-based mobile marketing platform that combines location intelligence and premium inventory with display and video advertising experiences. “Applift has been conservative about our US growth in Continue Reading
Blue = existing offices. Green = new countries Applift is entering in 2020. Applift established a global footprint in the early days when it launched in 2012. Local teams bring market insight, client connections and business network that is invaluable Continue Reading
The Advertiser Portal, which allows advertisers to easily keep tabs on the performance of all campaigns running via Applift, now has a new feature to improve visibility into ad placements through trust, validation and insight. With the release of Site Continue Reading
Of all the components of the user lifecycle, retention is probably the most important metric for freemium apps and free-to-play games. Retention is indeed a direct factor in the computation of the lifetime customer value (LTV) of the users acquired. For instance, early retention metrics such as Day 3 retention can serve as proxies to assess traffic quality for ROI-positive user acquisition campaigns. Needless to say, retention is also a strong indication of the general quality of the app and its user experience.However paramount it is for app publishers, retention has a problem.
Applift rolls out new advertiser portal Navigating through all your campaigns and making sense of the myriad of data can be challenging. With Applift’s new Advertiser Portal, this is one less thing for performance marketers to worry about, by providing Continue Reading
Ad fraud is ubiquitous and continues to attract attention and discussions within the industry, with mixed estimates on the depth of financial losses due to ad fraud. All stakeholders within the mobile ad tech ecosystem have a crucial role in combating ad fraud.
Our latest eBook dives in-depth to uncover various prevalent ad fraud types and explain key heuristics for fraud prevention.
We have already explained the differences between first, second, and third party data, and how each of them can be used for mobile advertising purposes. Today, we look into a different category split: deterministic and probabilistic data. Both typologies are independent Continue Reading
For the longest time, mobile user acquisition and retargeting have been viewed as separate stages of the mobile funnel: the traditional mobile advertising approach has taught app advertisers to first start with user acquisition focusing on install volume, and only Continue Reading