In this webinar, advertisers will get a better understanding of the most efficient retargeting strategies for mobile gaming apps. Leveraging Aarki’s extensive experience and relevant examples, and Adjust’s data granularity and accuracy, you’ll be able to take away actionable items to optimize your current retargeting efforts and increase the ROI of your app.
Most Valuable Retargeting Strategies for Mobile Gaming Apps
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● 30 Minutes
● Ask questions at any time via this panel -->
● Q&A at the end
● Recording & slides via E-mail
Housekeeping
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Agenda
1. Introduction & Definition
2. Retargeting Strategy
3. Retargeting Process
4. Case Studies
5. Segmentation
6. The Audience Builder
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What is retargeting for casual games?
What is retargeting
• Reactivate your old or existing user base
into active users by driving them to re-
install your app or complete post-install
actions.
• The ad redirects the user to the app
store if they uninstalled the app, or it
will launch the app if not uninstalled.
KPIs we look at
• CPC, CPI, ROI or ROAS
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Audience segments for retargeting
• Segments pushed directly to bidders
• Segments based on user’s level of spend, time
of last activity, engagement history
• Goals, if available on a segment level
• Segments with can be intersected
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Creative strategies for retargeting
• Formats - Run on additional ad formats and
sizes that maximize match rate
• Messaging - Dynamic creative, sequential
messaging, timely news: new features, levels,
and promos
• Personalization - Based on user’s level reached,
level tries, their gender, spend, and activity state
• Localization - Based on user location
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Creative Types Distribution
Installs: Retargeting Installs: User Acquisition
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The power of creatives: Case study 1
Launched localized creatives Increased targets
on performing
geos
9x increase in
ROAS
Increased install
volume by ~165%
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Hands on campaign management: Case study 2
Used more conservative
target on non-performing
geos and device
Increased ROAS
by ~140%
Increased install
volume by ~95%
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Audiences that drive success: Case study 3
Low spender
segment incurred
500% lower CPI than
high spender
segments
Highest spender
segment generated
50x higher in ROAS
vs the goal
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Benefits of segmentation
Improve CRM
Increase conversion rates
Create tailored marketing programs
Reduce server costs for clients and networks -
no callbacks for segmentation
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Create Exclusion lists
Goal:
Target and acquire new users without targeting existing users
Action:
Exclude all your app users to prevent new networks from targeting your
existing users All users
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Dormant VIP users
Goal:
Bring your dormant users back in the app or get them to make a new purchase
Action:
Re-engagement campaign and/or targeted push messages
Dormant VIP
users
Users who’ve
not opened
the app in x
days
Users who’ve
spent over x
amount of
revenue in
the last x time
period
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Intention to purchase
Goal:
Convert users who showed an intention to purchase, get them back into the app
to have them finalize the purchase
Action:
Target with re-engagement ad or push campaign reminding them about
the item they viewed or added to the cart
Purchase
intentionViewed an
item
Added to cart
but never
purchased
Started the
payment but
did not finish
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Active VIP users
Goal:
Acquire new high value users who will engage with your app
Action:
Leverage Facebook’s Value Based Lookalike targeting and/or deliver
reward via targeted push or re-engagement campaign
Active VIP
users
Users who
opened the
app in the last
x days
Users who
have spent x
amount of
money
Users who
browse in app
longer than
average
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Inactive users
Goal:
Convert your inactive users to get back in the app or complete
The registration/ desired action
Action:
Target with re-engagement ad to entice them to register and
move down the funnel
Inactive
users
Users who
opened the
app in the last
x days
Users with
less than 3
sessions over
1 month
period
Users who
installed the
app 6 months
ago
Users who did
not engage with
the last push
more than 5
months ago
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Use Cases for Segmentation
→ Users who like promotions
Goal:
Convert users with new promotion
Action:
Target users with a new promotion to increase engagement Users who’ve
redeemed a promo
code or voucher
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The Audience Builder
Split segments for
A/B testing
Dynamic
segments
that automatically
update
Download advertiser
IDs and push tokens
directly from adjust
dashboard
Full control over
the data you
share
Segments are
always deduped
Powered by your
own Adjust data
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Q&A
Nicol Cseko
Director of Product
Aarki
Eduardo Ronquillo
Technical Account
Manager
Adjust
Hinweis der Redaktion
Ok so a little bit about Adjust. Adjust has been around since 2012, we were built to simplify the mobile ecosystem - with so many different platforms and ways to measure engagement, it can be a monumental task to do this on your own. We try to take the guesswork out, and give marketers the tools they need to measure, attribute and analyze their mobile engagements.
To date, we've been ranked the #1 mobile attribution SDK used in the top iOS apps, we've been integrated over 22000 times, have over 170 employees over 14 global offices. We track over a 100bn data points a month. We also happen to be integrated with over 1000 partners, which is why we can make this measurement and attribution so seamless.
Actually, up to 94% of marketers have seen an increase of various key metrics by employing personalisation.
This can be done via user segmentation.
Which is technically it’s not an engagement tool, but is has big influence when combined with those.
By segmenting your existing users and understand underlying behavioural patters you are able to reach them in the right moment.
Which brings me to the general benefits…
Not only are you able to improve CRM and CR but also …
Create tailored marketing campaigns to meet needs of various audiences
Reduce server costs on both ends since there is a lesser amount of callbacks involved in order to push user data back and forth.
Here at Adjust when at comes to user segmentation we generally identify four broad scenarios that are linked to it when setting up your campaigns
Cross Promo (vast app portfolio)
Retargeting
Push campaigns to engage with users directly via personalised messages
Lastly there Creating lookalike audiences (user acquisition) (regular and premium in FB + twitter)
Gaming clients —> huge efforts in UA
Then there are dormant VIP users, who are users that … list criteria
In order to get those back into your app and spend more, create a list and retarget them either via remarketing or push messaging
A more specific approach could be to reactivate users, who had an intention to purchase.
For this you would segment for users that fulfil the criteria of … and retarget them accordingly.
The Audience Builder A feature which enables marketers to segment their users in house.
I cannot speak about other measurement partners but Adjust Audience Builder is powered by a specialized data warehouse that operates on top of your Adjust database - giving you the power to create segments based on any of the in-app data that you’re analyzing with Adjust.
Aarki RT Questions:
What can Aarki do to increase/scale reactivation numbers?
What are the most important retargeting segments if we were to run a campaign?
Adjust Questions:
When dividing your user lists in groups, do they have to be equally separated?
Is it possible to include users that have certain apps but don’t have others?