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Marketing Tips & Tricks
Gift-Oriented Messaging: “Give, Share, Invite”

The holidays are all about connection, generosity, and sharing moments with the people who matter most. For apps, this is the perfect time to lean into messaging that encourages giving, sharing, and inviting others to join in. Who Benefits Most from Gift-Oriented Messaging Some types of apps naturally lend themselves to this approach. Fitness apps, […]

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Seasonal Assets That Help Apps Stand Out

The holiday season is one of the most important times of the year for app store visibility. Traffic rises fast, competition increases, and people enter the stores with a clear mindset around gifting, deals, entertainment, and end-of-year planning. Seasonal assets help an app feel fresh and relevant in this environment. A listing that reflects the […]

Google Tips & Tricks
Tips for Great Google Play Graphics

Tips for Great Google Play Graphics An app’s visuals are often the first thing people notice on Google Play. An app’s screenshots and Feature Graphic quickly introduce what an app is all about and why it’s worth downloading. Google Play allows developers to get creative with aspect ratios that better highlight UI, and improve legibility […]

Apple Tips & Tricks
Boost ASA Performance with SAM

If you’re looking to improve your Apple Search Ads performance and ROI, look no further. Our Apple Search Ads Manager (known internally as SAM) utilizes Apple’s API, along with our technologies to supercharge ASA management. SAM introduces bulk actions, custom automations and rules, MMP integrations and more in order to maximize your ASA results. Apple’s […]

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Apple Arcade vs. Google Play Pass

We’ve previously talked about the pros and cons of both Google Play Pass and Apple Arcade. Both platforms offer exciting opportunities to developers, as well as some potential drawbacks. Let’s say you’ve decided that you want to try to get invited to one of these services (they both are invitation only). Now the question is: […]

Google Tips & Tricks
Play Store Playing with Free Trials

We all know how app stores work. You search for something, a list of options pop up and you download one, two or even three apps. After opening these apps, you might get the option to subscribe to a free trial of their premium services. If you choose to opt-in, you get full reign of […]

Google Tips & Tricks
Is Google Play Pass for you?

Mobile subscription gaming services seem to be having a moment between Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass both launching late last year. If you’re a developer, maybe more specifically a game developer, is adding your game to Google Play Pass worth it? How does Play Pass work? Similar to Apple Arcade, Google Play Pass is […]

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Summer ASO Refresh

Things are heating up and across the U.S., kids are finishing up exams and “chillaxing”. We’re always fans of seasonality and keeping your app relevant top the weather, season, activities, holidays, etc… As summer fun starts to ramp up, it’s time to turn up the heat on your ASO strategy. With kids, teens and college […]

Apple Tips & Tricks
Should you apply for Apple Arcade?

A few months ago, Apple launched their premiere gaming service, Apple Arcade. Apple carefully curates games to launch on the Apple Arcade platform, which costs $5.99/month. They tout their gaming service as containing “Games the redefine games.” Sounds pretty great, right? Any developer can pitch their game to Apple Arcade, but should you? Let’s look […]

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Tricks & Treats for Halloween ASO

Most of the year, your ASO strategy is similar — optimizing and testing different ideas and concepts based on data. You should find what works for your app and iterate on it. However, there are a few occasions for which you should break out special screenshots, descriptions or app icons: Holidays. Holidays are the perfect […]