How Social Features Can Boost Player Retention and Discovery

The number of games in the app stores is staggering. There are over 1.2M apps in Apple’s App Store, almost 1.5M in Google's Play Store and 293K in Amazon’s

How Ad Innovation Is Driving Forward the Mobile Industry

However popular and hyped mobile advertising has become, the truth is that, as a platform and a practice, it is still in its infancy. Advertisers are always looking for

Four Mobile Marketing Insights from PG Connects 2015

Last week AppLift attended and exhibited at PG Connects London, the third instalment of the event organised by Steel Media. As usual it was an opportunity to give out our

Rise (and Fall) Of the Full Stack In Adtech

“Adtech Full Stack” or “Full Ad Stack” is a term used increasingly frequently in the ad tech space. During the past year, hardly a day went by without any

Why 2014 Matters For Mobile Marketing In 2015

Happy New Year to all! As we enter 2015 we would like to reflect back on 2014. Over the past 12 months, there have been developments and milestones that have

Industry Exposed #10: Priori Data “To Say That App Store Revenue Is Skewed Is an Understatement”

To start off 2015 on the right foot, welcome to the 10th episode of our Industry Exposed series! For this first blog post of the year, we interviewed Patrick

AppLift Allstars: Native Advertising, Asian Mobile Marketing, User Retention and So Much More!

Over the past 12 months we have been working hard to make sure that our readers are kept up to date with the latest trends and developments in the

Five Reasons Why YouTube Is an Underrated Channel for Mobile User Acquisition

With over 6 billion monthly video views, YouTube seems to have met our need for continuous visual content. While YouTube is often referred to as merely a media channel

Five Gold Nuggets from the App Promotion Summit Berlin 2014

The App Promotion Summit Berlin is one of the most interesting mobile marketing conferences out there: short but insightful and hands-on talks, uncompromising panels, a (rather) small amount of

Industry Exposed #9: appiris “Mobile retargeting solves a major challenge”

Welcome to the ninth episode of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we interviewed Hugo Gersanois, co-founder of appiris, a fellow HitFox company, about mobile retargeting, customer

New eBook: Mobile Games Marketing in Asia’s Big 3 – China, Japan and South Korea

Asia makes up 48 percent of the total global games market. In order to succeed in your mobile games marketing in Asia, it is crucial to know the numbers

Industry Exposed #8: AppsFlyer “Native advertising provides the most seamless user experience”

Welcome to the eighth episode of our mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we spoke to Ran Avrahamy, who heads up marketing at AppsFlyer, about the latest mobile

8 Mobile Games Marketing Trends for 2015

What a difference a year makes in mobile.2014 has seen the birth of true native advertising within mobile apps from all verticals, emerging markets such as Latin America starting

How to A/B Test App Screenshots Without Updating Your App

App Screenshots Are Key to App Store OptimizationConversion Rate Optimization for the iOS App Store is a hard nut to crack. App screenshots, being the only strong visual assets

Mobile Ad Tech: Buzz or Actual Trend?

“Rich media? Yes! We’re super excited about this and 80 percent of our campaigns are now run on rich media”.If you’ve been around the mobile industry for over two

The Mobile Games Market to Reach $40.9 Billion by 2017

Last August we partnered with games market research firm Newzoo to investigate the growth of the global mobile games market as well as the appeal of various global regions

Industry Exposed #7: Tapstream “Virality as a mobile user acquisition focus is like powering your city with wind”

Welcome to the seventh episode of our Mobile Industry Exposed interview series! This time, we posed questions about mobile user acquisition and app marketing trends to Mack Flavelle, VP

10 Underrated Tactics to Get More App Installs

If you are marketing an app, it pays to take a step back once in a while and reflect upon the acquisition tactics you may have missed to drive