Business of Apps Podcast

Morning. You wake up, go to the gym (hopefully), take a shower and sit at your desk to continue to push the envelope of your app business. You maybe at the very beginning of your app project journey or not - regardless, the notion of monetization is on your mind. Am I using the right tools? Am I missing something? Do I see the accurate picture of what’s going on? In this episode, Alex is here to s...

We carry this small rectangular computer in our pocket or a purse. One moment we complain about how we would like to use it less and wonder how the world span before the smartphone, the next - we’re relieved that it is in hand, pun intended, to help us figure out so many things. We have a bunch of apps on it and sure thing - we see a bunch of ads in those apps or mobile websites. And you know what...

App User Acquisition. Gosh, this topic has been covered so heavily precisely because only via acquiring new users for the app does it becomes possible to build a sustainable app business. Fine. So we’re talking about acquiring new users, and new people to use the app, right? But what happens when app marketers dive deep into their app marketing strategy, their investors’ expectations, and a ton of...

Okay, let’s start with the obvious - nothing is perfect. By the time you get to your 40s, hopefully, sooner, you realize that as much as you try to do your best there is always a margin for error. But that is not to say that you shouldn’t try. Speaking of something you should try harder - mobile ads. To me, it feels like nobody is even trying to make them good. How so? What are we doing about it?...

We all like it when things go smoothly and prefer it to stay that way but the Universe is messy so people’s experience with mobile apps and mobile games can be too. As much as app developers do their best to deliver the best experience to the users, they are just human beings, even if the code is perfect - which is extremely rarely the case if ever, there are maybe issues with how people interact...

ChatGPT from OpenAI, Bard from Google, Llama from Meta, and a decent number of smaller players are firing on all cylinders to power the Generative AI revolution that took off late last year. Of course, for folks who had been watching the AI space, it was not a surprise but for the rest of us - it was. Generative AI based on Large Language Models is changing the business landscape. Today, we want t...

One of the things that set mobile apps apart from desktop software is the scale. Since 2008, when the mobile app stores were launched, and on, scale has been a crucial ingredient for any iOS or Android app project success. For both Apple’s and Google’s app ecosystems to grow mobile apps had to be affordable for lots of people. But for app developers and brands to make app enterprises profitable, t...

Frictions. “The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another” - this is the dictionary definition of what friction means in science. When you ask a mobile app developer “What do frictions mean to you?”, the answer is “any obstacle that prevents my app users from doing with the app what I expect them to”. This notion sounds great but as with everything in our life, mode...

A long-long time ago, 16 years ago to be precise, there was the world before Mobile - the time when if you wanted to read the news, watch movies, pay your bills, plan your next trip and so on you had to sit down at your desktop computer or grab a laptop to open a browser window to go to a website. Then Steve Jobs stood on the stage at Macworld Expo in San Francisco to introduce the iPhone. The res...

I don’t think anybody in the app industry would argue with the fact that growth is what occupies app marketers’ and developers’ minds all the time. From Monday to Friday and, unfortunately quite often, from Friday to Monday as well, people do mental gymnastics for how to make their app’s growth more efficient. But if you don’t measure it properly you can not improve it. What analytics reports are...

In this episode, we’ll be discussing how ChatGPT can help you create more effective digital marketing campaigns. We’ll be exploring the latest advancements in language models and machine learning and how they can be used to generate persuasive marketing content tailored to your target audience. Our guest speakers will share their insights on how ChatGPT can help you improve your digital marketing...

Think about it - whatever product or service you offer on a market your success always hinges on how well you know the people you sell your product to. There is just no other way around it - either you understand their needs and their problems so you can address them and succeed or - not a chance, forget about it. How do we conduct research for mobile app users? It’s a great question and today we...

PR - what does this acronym mean to you? If you moving from one country to the other, it’s definitely about Permanent Residency, if you’re launching a product, in our today’s conversation, a mobile product, it is about Public Relations and making a splash to grab mobile users' attention. How big of a splash you can do with it? The size of a splash from the meteorite that killed off the dinosaurs i...

Here is a question you may not expect - do you remember yourself when you were 15? And the tough one for all parents - do you remember your kids when they’re 15? Today we’ll be talking about the very special 15-year-old “kid” - the App Store from Apple. Time runs really fast, we all have passed wondering about the App Store as a unique mobile software ecosystem, we have other things to wonder abou...

Remember your first day in the office at your first job? Now switch mentally to today, think about what your work on a project looks like now. What’s the difference? Why do you feel way more confident now? It’s your experience, the body of knowledge in your brain allows you to be sure about your next move and avoid anxiety. In today’s episode, I have Lisa to tell you about her 5-point approach to...

There are roughly 5 million mobile apps between iOS and Android (roughly speaking - the population of Norway) and of course every single of those apps has its own purpose and they collectively help all of us work, study, improve our health, entertain ourselves, and more. But as you know only a handful, compared with the total number, are really popular and welcomed. In marketing there is such a no...

Six months ago, ChatGPT sounded like yet another high-tech gibberish for people who were in the know, today well more than 100 million people around the world use this cutting-edge Generative AI tool for everything under the sun. Well, social media is obviously a part of that “under the sun” and on this episode I have Jason to talk about its implications for social media, how people use it, influe...

Are you on TikTok? Who isn’t on TikTok? Although it’s popular with younger audiences, it is possible to attract multiple generations with TikTok’s advertising platform. The story of early adoption by teenagers of YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat repeats itself with TikTok. Ask anybody on the street “Who is using TikTok?” and they would reply “Of course teens!”. The thing is – it is not necessary tr...

Do you take your smartphone for granted? Even though you’ve had it for years and use it every day? What personal and private data is collected about you and the apps you use? For the last couple years the importance of an internet user privacy, as well as collecting and using mobile users personal data has grown significantly. The mobile industry has come a long way from the time when these matter...

To make an app business sustainable, app marketers need to have a robust strategy to secure their apps growth. When app growth slows down, should marketers try advertising on a new channel? If yes, what channel? TikTok, of course. Today TikTok app marketing is one of the hot topics that you can see in agenda of so many mobile marketing online summits, webinars, and workshops. App marketing profess...

Today the very next goal on every app marketer’s agenda, after acquiring app users, – to retain them. According to multiple sources, the app industry 90 days retention rate varies from 32% to 4% percent, meaning, within three month period, at least every third app user stops using the app. In this episode, we talk with Marco about how to retain app users using geo-localized ads. Today’s Topics Inc...

When you are looking for a new car to buy, chances are you may check how long it takes for your future ride to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour (for non-American listeners I mean 100 km/hour). Obviously you, as an app marketer, don’t accelerate apps in space, you accelerate their growth in time. Today, I have Yoann to tell you a story of what it took for him and his team to acquire 300k user...

This episode is different, recently we hosted a webinar featuring Perform[cb] team talking about how to scale user acquisition in 2023 and we’re releasing a recording of this conversation with Matthew and Lee. It was a lively discussion that covered a lot of ground, including: Competitive optimizations for efficient ad spend Maximizing reach through top traffic channels Campaign strategies to test...

The retail market, and fashion in particular, has been going through some dramatic changes. The impact of COVID-19 on fashion brands was huge - people were forced to start using mobile apps to buy their new outfits sitting at home and it triggered a lot of changes in how fashion retailers do their business. On the other hand, we see the rising fashion brands like Chinese SHEIN, which has an impact...

First-party data. Spoiler alert - we aren’t gonna be talking about what data you can collect from your first party in college or your political affiliation. No - today the topic on the table is how the mobile advertising industry is switching to using data about mobile app users collected internally. How the industry is moving away from relying on mobile user data providers and to tell us about it...