Apptivate: App Marketing Explained

The growth and revenue potential of the mobile gaming space continues to explode. Worldwide consumer spending is well into the billions, downloads are reaching record levels, and the time spent in-app has increased. Competition has never been more intense - so how are marketers getting ahead? Welcome to Apptivate’s newest segment on marketing mobile games. Host Brian Altman will be talking to mark...

In this episode of the Women In Mobile series, host Maria Lannon speaks with Vicki Goldman, the Marketing Director at Paramount Streaming under the Media Acquisition and Services Team. Vicki says expanding your network is one of the best things you can do for your career, but admittedly, it can be draining and intimidating. She shares why it’s worth the effort, how to overcome the reasons we give...

For this episode our guest is Brian Krebs, the CEO of MetrickWorks, an expert on incrementality measurement and testing. Brian discusses how the use of incrementality has evolved to its present popularity within the mobile marketing industry and the confluence of issues that make it complex to test incremental lift. Brain says Mixed Media Modeling is the way to fill in the gaps with attribution, b...

Sharon Romang, Vice President of Creative at Headlight, joins Maria Lannon on Apptivate’s Women in Mobile segment for an uplifting conversation about how to keep your creative team engaged with monthly design challenges. Sharon also talks about why dealing with the pain of networking is worth it and how to build an inspiring entourage for your personal and professional growth.  Headlight is a New...

Alexey Gusev is a lead performance marketer at Goodgame Studios, a mobile and browser game developer and publisher based in Hamburg, Germany. In this episode, Alexey shares his team’s journey to adapt its performance measurement strategies with SKAdNetwork, not only for their range of mobile game titles and genres but for each game. He also gets specific about the differences of working with SKAdN...

After five years working for retail industries ranging from fashion and beauty to toys, Tiffanie Chau decided to look for opportunities as a marketer in a new vertical. She landed in the mobile gaming industry, first as the Digital Marketing Specialist at Playtika, and more recently as Senior User Acquisition Manager at Mistplay, a loyalty app for mobile gamers. In this episode, Tiffanie talks abo...

Phil Golas is the Vice President of Technology and Activation in Ad Operations at Spark Foundry, a global media agency brand under the Publicis Groupe. He consults some of the world’s largest brands on advertising technology. In this episode, Phil shares an agency’s perspective on big brands and mobile measurement, including education, dispelling fears, shifts in advertising spend, and key growth...

Mariana D’Avila is a natural at being a leader and confronting inappropriate behaviors towards women in the workplace. In this episode, she shares more than one occasion in which she had to pull a coworker aside to address their disrespectful behavior. She gives her tips on how to address this situation in a productive and compassionate way. Mariana D’Avila is the Head of Growth at Appreach, which...

Joaquín Flores is the Global Online Vice President at Kavak, a digital ecosystem of services for buying and selling used vehicles in Latin America, including financing, maintenance, and auto insurance. Kavak changed the way people buy and sell cars in Mexico and beyond. Joaquín discusses how consumers can adapt to new purchasing habits and why building an app was integral to Kavak’s marketing stra...

Andre Kempe, founder of the mobile app and performance marketing agency Admiral Media, returns to Apptivate to discuss The Growth Loop. The e-book covers the processes and details needed to grow apps through marketing campaigns, from planning and setting KPIs to mapping events and optimizing once a campaign is live. The Growth Loop is for CEOs, senior marketers, and junior marketers alike. Since t...

When the Marketing Director of Brazil’s leading ride-hailing app, 99, went looking for a brand cause, she discovered a significant disproportion between Brazil's percentage of women  versus 99's percentage of women drivers. The more 99 listened to its female users, the more they realized how national domestic abuse, public safety, and financial independence affected them. The app added several fea...

Martijn Lancee is the Director of Business Development and Growth at LinkedIn. His team is responsible for the company’s success in getting the app preloaded on 800 million cell phones worldwide. In this episode, Martijn discusses all things mobile preload programs, including tips on how to succeed, how to optimize once campaigns are launched, how to evaluate your program’s performance, and the di...

If you work in the mobile app industry, you may have noticed a mass consolidation of companies taking place across verticals. Today’s guest discusses what factors have accelerated these mergers and acquisitions, how this affects the app ecosystem, and what we might expect to happen next. Satya Vinnakota is the Director of Ads at Vinted, an app for second-hand fashion. He’s kept a pulse on the app...

Lily Dempster is the Founder and CEO of One Small Step, a free app using behavioral science and technology to help people reduce their carbon emissions through personalized carbon reduction plans and lifestyle changes. In this episode of Apptivate’s Women in Mobile segment, Lily takes us on her entrepreneurial journey, pivoting from working as a grassroots environmental campaigner to becoming an a...

Jeff Perkins, CEO of ParkMobile, helped grow America’s most popular parking app from 8 million users to 31 million, and counting. Of all the marketing strategies to throw money at, listeners will be surprised to learn what tactic had the greatest impact. Jeff also shares what he’s learned about engaging with users in a way that’s helpful and not, well, annoying.  Jeff is the author of How Not to S...

Renato Camargo is the Country Manager and Chief Marketing Officer of RecargaPay, one of the biggest fintech companies in Brazil. He left retail to work for the financial services app for two reasons: He saw a business opportunity in democratizing banking in Brazil where over 60 million people can’t access banks; and, the mobile marketing industry provided a space for Renato to be himself and use h...

Laura Spikermann began her career in mobile marketing from the ground up at Customlytics, a full-stack app marketing agency based in Berlin. Today she is responsible for managing the company’s six service departments as the Client Services Lead. In this episode, Laura shares what she’s learned about stepping into a leadership role—from setting boundaries with friends at work and discovering her le...

Liia Palipea, Global Head of Food Marketing at Bolt, joins Apptivate’s Women in Mobile series to talk about working smarter, not harder. Liia brought the ride hailing app’s new food delivery feature to market in over 20 countries and 70 cities in Europe and Africa during the pandemic. This experience taught her how to evaluate what’s important and how to cope with stress when nothing can be cut fr...

When this mobile marketer realized she was the first and only woman in Latin America to work for her company, she knew there was work to do. She is passionate about speaking up, taking action, and building community for the inclusion and representation of women in the mobile space.  Camila Carneiro is the Team Lead of Partner Development for Brazil and Latin America at AppsFlyer, the world’s leadi...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Apptivate’s Women In Mobile series will take over the podcast in March. Maria Lannon, VP Account Management at Remerge, will be our host for the month. Our guest for this episode is Fabiana Ayala, Growth Marketing Manager at Truebill. Fabiana shares her experiences speaking up in the workplace with English as a second language. She also discusses her work "...

Yury Bolotkin is the Marketing Director of StarBerry Games, a mobile games publisher and developer based in Berlin. Prior to StarBerry, Yury was a Growth Specialist at Popcore, a UA Manager at Wooga, and a Senior Account Manager at Fyber. Questions Yury Answered in this Episode: Why were you interested in making the shift from sales and account management to the media buying side of app marketing?...

Questions Hannah Answered in this Episode: What do you think makes a great app marketer? What do you mean by “actionable points” in an Uptime summary? How does the team at Uptime decide where to focus its content development and curation efforts? What’s your first step as the Head of Marketing to bring a new product to market? Was there anything you learned from the first 50-60 customers that was...

Alexander Savelyev is the Vice President of Product at Verve Group. Verve is a privacy-first omnichannel ad platform. It offers  programmatic solutions that connect advertisers and publishers to people in real time. Alexander lives and works in Berlin. Questions Alexander Answered in this Episode: What is your team looking to achieve at Verve? As a VP of Product, is it difficult overseeing 5-6 tea...

Tarik Amzil is the Marketing Growth Manager for EMEA at Binance, the cryptocurrency platform. Prior to joining Binance, Tarik was a growth marketing manager at ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, focusing on growing TikTok within the Arab community.  Questions Tarik Answered in this Episode: Why did you decide to leave TikTok and shift from a social media platform to Binance, a fintech platform? How d...

Pablo Bereskyj is the Marketing Operations Manager for Etermax, an international gaming company headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previously, Pablo worked in business intelligence and financial analysis at Acuris, The Mergermarket Group, and Debtwire. Questions Pablo Answered in this Episode: Did you have any fear or reservation about jumping into the gaming industry coming from a financia...