Apptivate: App Marketing Explained

This week, we bring you an episode from Singular’s Growth Masterminds Podcast about what targeting and retargeting will look like for mobile marketers on the Android Privacy Sandbox, featuring Luckey Harpley (Remerge’s Principal Product Manager), Omri Gal (Singular’s Head of Privacy), and host John Koetsier. Learn about the initial testing and campaigns that Remerge has run with Singular’s new SDK...

How will mobile demand-side platforms (DSPs) and supply-side platforms (SSPs) bid on and sell ad placements via Google’s Privacy Sandbox for Android? Find out as Remerge’s CEO and Co-founder, Pan Katsukis, interviews Verve Group’s Head of Mobile Product, Gaylord Zach, and Google’s Android Privacy Sandbox’s Product Manager for the Protected Audience API, Trenton Starkey. Mobile advertisers and publ...

Amadeus Norén is the Director of Product Marketing at Amity. Amity’s platform provides customizable SDKs for every social feature imaginable so that app-based businesses can launch, grow, and monetize their in-app social community. In this episode, you’ll learn how to leverage this community, and why not doing so could be a missed opportunity for your brand. Questions Amadeus Answered in this Epis...

Catherine Perloff is the platforms reporter at Adweek, an American publication covering news related to the brand marketing ecosystem. In this episode, Catherine gives us the latest news on what’s happening within the murkiness of cookie depreciation and the advertising industry’s no-ID world. She also discusses emerging trends from AI-powered media buying to retail media and more. At Adweek, Cath...

Janos Perei is the Head of Growth for SYBO Games, the mobile game developer responsible for Subway Surfers, one of the most downloaded mobile games on the planet. In this episode, you’ll learn how SYBO is navigating privacy regulations in the U.S. and Europe and the importance of working cross-functionally with your teams. Before joining SYBO, Janos worked for Voodoo and Socialpoint.  Questions Ja...

Gokce Oguz is the co-founder of Playable Factory, a Turkey-based company creating playable ads for gaming studios and brands with apps. Patrick interviews Gokce to learn all about playable ads for gaming studios and brands with apps. Find out what types of games or brands playables work best for, which types perform the best, when to iterate on your ads, and what the future of AI holds for creativ...

Günay is the co-founder of Gamelight, a user acquisition platform for app developers and a game and app recommendation platform for users. Gamelight’s success can be attributed to its powerful AI algorithm. Learn how UA managers are leveraging tech to pair users with mobile games that they’ll love. Questions Günay Answered in this Episode: How does Gamelight work? What technology are you leveragin...

As part of our Women in Mobile series celebrating Women’s History Month, Maria Lannon from Remerge talks to Lana Dubinskiy, an AI product advisor and a co-founder of Women and AI. Women and AI is an initiative highlighting women working in the field of artificial intelligence and providing relevant industry news. It was created so that women could help each other shine within this male-dominated s...

It’s difficult to find female talent in the tech industry, and it’s a real problem. Apptivate’s Women in Mobile series is back this March to celebrate Women’s History Month and to discuss how to close the gender gap in our industry. In this episode, Maria chats with Laura Schwarz, Airship's Senior Director of Sales for EMEA, who joined a handful of other female tech leaders in launching a program...

Sometimes e-commerce apps will notice changes in user behavior that correlate to the time of year. What can app marketers do to incentivize their users to take action during these periods? Find out in this episode of Apptivate’s e-commerce series, featuring Seif Hassan, the Senior Performance Marketing Manager for the inbound unit at Momox.  Momox is a Berlin-based “recommerce” company that buys a...

Do you remember the original “opt-in” for ads on cell phones? It began over 20 years ago. The mobile marketing industry has been on quite the ride over the past two decades, and covering its twists and turns along the way was David Murphy, the editorial director and co-founder of Mobile Marketing Magazine. Join David alongside Maria Lannon from Remerge for some perspective on mobile marketing’s bi...

Staying on top of Apple and Google’s ongoing policy changes to app tracking and user privacy is a business imperative for advertisers and essential for the future of the mobile marketing industry.  It’s also been Allison Schiff’s job. As a journalist, she has covered privacy topics in the marketing technology field for over a decade. In this episode, Allison shares her views on how the mobile adve...

Lana Dubinskiy is an app product advisor and full-time consultant specializing in helping brands leverage AI and machine learning to optimize their workflows and increase revenue. In this episode, Lana breaks down how e-commerce brands can improve the customers’ shopping experience in their app using AI, and how to get started with the AI journey! Questions Lana answered in this episode: What type...

With so many deals to choose from during the holidays, how do app marketers win the attention of consumers? Patrick Eichmann, General Manager for the Americas at Remerge, kicks off a new series on the Apptivate Podcast, talking to marketing experts from e-commerce brands about strategies and best practices. In this episode, guest Matt Hudson, co-founder of BILDIT, helps eCommerce marketers conside...

TikTok is one of the fastest-paced and most competitive social media ad networks for mobile marketers to keep up with. Are you up to speed on the platform's newest marketing features? In this episode, you’ll learn all about current TikTok trends, winning marketing strategies, and how to leverage its newest features, like TikTok Spark and Shop Ads, to boost your next campaign. Pedro Arias is the Pe...

Remerge host Maria Lannon talks to Anna Gruzina about her career as a Performance Marketing Manager for a mobile gaming developer and publisher. Together, they discuss why speaking up with confidence in the workplace is necessary – and how to do it. You'll also learn the worst and best career advice Anna ever received. Anna Gruzina works at InnoGames, a German video game developer and publisher ba...

Are you considering whether to use influencer marketing for your mobile app’s brand or performance strategy? Today’s guest is an expert in influencer marketing for app businesses and shares important considerations for running such campaigns. Nadia Bubennikova is based in Poland and is the Head of Agency at Famesters, an influencer marketing agency. Questions Nadia Answered in this Episode: How di...

Jesse Lempiäinen’s agency helps apps test their marketing strategies for App Store, Google Play, and Steam pages before their product launches. In this episode, you’ll learn the advantages of a/b testing your app store pages and take away the key metrics to measure.  Jess got his start in mobile marketing at Rovio working on Angry Bird before co-founding Geeklab where he is the CEO today. Jesse is...

How do you make a mobile game stand out when there are half a million games in the app store today? Today’s guest is an expert in helping apps find their unique position in the market, develop their creative strategies, and grow their revenue. In this episode, he shares his approach to designing app marketing strategies for creatives and revenue growth.  Peter Fodor is the founder and CEO of AppAg...

Simon Thillay is the Head of ASO at AppTweak, an app store optimization platform. In this episode, he shares how his team helped SoundCloud nearly double the conversion rates of an Apple Search Ad campaign and decrease its CPI by 40 percent. Plus, find out why Simon is excited about Europe’s Digital Markets Act. Simon is the co-author of the book, Advanced App Store Optimization. He is based in Br...

Can you guess which subcategory of mobile games generated the most revenue in the first half of this year? How about the top three countries for mobile game downloads? Get the scoop on the latest data and trends in the mobile industry’s largest-grossing vertical from our guest Ksenia Yurkina, the Head of Marketing at Apptica. In this episode, Ksenia reveals the highlights from her report, “Mobile...

Who is writing your mobile marketing copy: a human or artificial intelligence? Now with ChatGPT, it can be hard to tell the difference. In this episode, we discuss ChatGPT use cases for mobile marketing, the evolution of User-Generated Content platforms, and how AI might be used in the future to express ourselves in virtual worlds.  Jenny Pollock is the Lead Monetization Program Manager at IMVU /...

In this episode, app marketers will learn about a product manager’s perspective on the process of building an app product: how to prioritize various requests for product features, and the keys to fostering excellent collaboration and communication among all stakeholders throughout the journey.  Reut Lazo is the Senior Product Manager at Akili, an app to help kids with ADHD. Akili is the first FDA-...

Amanda Vandiver is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Branch, a mobile attribution provider. In this episode, Amanda explains the importance of deep linking for user experience, measurement, and attribution in this post-IDFA era. She also discusses retention strategies that mobile marketers can leverage across owned and earned channels. 

Today’s guest says IDFA only ever gave mobile marketers the illusion of certainty. In this episode, John Koetsier, the CEO of Sparkplug9, discusses how to use the measurement tools available today, like SKAN, to arrive at what he calls “truthy,” or within the parameters of an accurate perception of reality. John encourages marketers to move on from the past and embrace the reality that’s always ex...