We recently sat down for a one-on-one session with Medialabel’s Performance Marketing Director Simone Grau. Check out this mobile expert exclusive Q&A in another episode of App Valley Talks. Seems like everyone is using mobile phones for shopping – can you share some numbers and statistics that you see among customers/apps that you work with? “We work with a lot of mobile first companies. 90 percent of their users are mobile users who use their apps daily to activate coupons or shop online when they are commuting to work.” Do you notice a difference in behavior when it comes to…
How to Penetrate Russia’s Expansive App Market
Russia is considered the 5th largest app market for iOS and Android mobile app downloads and is ranked 25th in the world for smartphone penetration. With over 84 million mobile users in the country, this significant number of users offers an attractive opportunity for mobile app owners and brands to monetize the market to gain both downloads and revenue. Key Drivers of Russia’s App Market Expansion Russia’s emerging app market has seen considerable growth tracing back as early as 2009, almost a full year later than the rest of the developed world. Russia is considered the largest smartphone market in…
Appnext’s Founder & CEO Elad Natanson Talks About the App Industry
How long have you been in this office with this perfect view? “We moved here about 2 years ago.” How many people are in the office? “In total, we are about 110. Appnext is about 70. Worldwide, Appnext has 120 employees. We continue to hire.” You call your employees “Appnexters”. Who is the ideal “Appnexter”? “She 🙂 is very creative, ambitious, a team player, agile in many aspects, and one who comes in the morning and knows what he/she wants to do and make sure that whatever he/she does, they do with passion.” What kind of a person would you…
India – The New Land Of Apportunity
Recently, India has emerged as a leader in the technology and mobile application space. Mobile app development and mobile phone use have exponentially increased in Indian markets, and apps are experiencing significant spikes in revenue even in the first quarter of 2018. India’s rapid technological and economic growth has created an attractive opportunity on which publishers can capitalize. India: The Rapidly Developing App Market India has seen rapid growth in mobile app markets over the last 3-5 years, and that growth continues into 2018. With exponential growth in the both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, India’s…
6 Best Ways to Re-Engage App Users and Drive Sales
Audience retention for mobile apps can have a strong impact on ROI. App developers spend a considerable amount of time and resources trying to acquire new users that have never used their apps before, but re-engaging existing users can be a cost-effective, savvy way to get your existing audience excited about using your app again. As an app developer, you know that retention and engagement rates matter and that the number of downloads is not the only important KPI when determining ROI. In fact, MobyAffiliates claims that 1 out of every 4 apps that are downloaded to a device are…
5 Ways We’re Catching Mobile App Fraud and Kicking its Butt!
The Ad Fraud Problem Nobody likes to talk about ad fraud. Companies don’t like to admit that they don’t exactly know how to provide a solution for one of the biggest problems the mobile industry is facing, a problem that’s costing marketers up to $19B. According to the World Federation of Advertisers by 2025, global ad fraud costs could potentially reach $50 billion annually, and with the way things are looking that hardly comes as a surprise. Mobile app fraud takes many forms which doesn’t exactly make things easier. Here are several app fraud types that are costing companies major $$$.…
Getting Ready for the GDPR
Appnext CEO Elad Natanson’s Pillars of Success for Mobile Entrepreneurs
Our awesome CEO is the ultimate mobile entrepreneur. At the age of 21, he created his first company and has been creating successful business since. In this video from Target Summit, he tells us how he came up with Appnext and provides insights into his entrepreneurial mind.
Retailers with Shopping Apps Now See Majority of E-Commerce Sales from Mobile
For many retailers, mobile traffic equals or exceeds desktop traffic. This is not new. What is new is that mobile sales represent the majority of total e-commerce for brands with successful shopping apps, according to Criteo’s latest commerce report (Q4 2017).