The end of August is near and that means only one thing; summer break is out and school is in. The first of September always symbolizes a fresh start filling the air with the sweet smell of fall and bouquets of sharpened pencils. To celebrate the beginning of the school year we decided to “go back to the basics” and give you some ASO tips that will prevent your app from flunking out. Knowledge is power You’ll learn either the easy or hard way that ASO starts with you. In order to gain app discovery and downloads you need to…
Apple and Developers: An Improved Relationship with the App Store Changes?
For years, Apple’s App Store has been a platform to discover new apps and see what’s trending. Never did we expect to see ads in this sacred little space. Well, they arrived and everyone is talking about them. It’s a huge change for the technology giant who reportedly makes less than 2% of its revenue from the App Store. There are tons of questions, reactions and assumptions. Apple has tried to reassure smaller and indie developers that because there is no minimum bid for advertising in the App Store (along with other reasons), they have no reason to worry. However,…
3 Key Components of In-App Monetization Every Mobile Maven Should Know
The phrase ‘there’s an app for that’ has dominated the public vernacular for quite some time now. While apps are constantly being developed and introduced to the mobile market to the tune of a million plus, only the strong will survive if they reach a substantial ROI: as per Vision Mobile’s State of the Developer Nation in 2015’s Q3, a whopping 51% of developers earn less than $500 in revenue per month. While you may have an incredibly developed app with engaged users boasting an attractive UX and a number of other highly important and influential factors, your monetization model…
3 Things the Olympics and App Business Have in Common
Today’s app market is so competitive that much like Olympic athlete’s developers around the globe are struggling to beat the competition, gain exposure, and get “gold” from their apps. With the 2016 Olympics currently taking place we decided to show you 3 things the Olympics and the app business have in common. Ready – get set – Go! Nothing like a little bit of Competition If you think about it, the app business is exactly like the Olympics except the main event doesn’t happen every four years it’s a year-round, daily competition that requires constant maintenance, hard work, blood…
Introducing City Targeting
We are thrilled to announce the official release of City Targeting capabilities to the Appnext self-serve platform. We believe it will help thousands of Appnext developers launch their apps locally, as well as recommend laser-targeted apps and games to their users in over 70,000 cities across the world. The new setup is intuitive and easy, you will see the new field on the “Add Campaign” page, and will be able to both include and exclude specific locations from the campaign targeting. Please note that you should create designated campaigns per each location you would want to appear separately in the reports.…