If your app runs on IAP or subscriptions only, here’s a question worth asking: are you missing out by not having ads? 🤔 Most non-gaming (and plenty of gaming) apps sit on a pile of daily active users who never spend a cent and that traffic could be quietly generating Read more
2021 was definitely an interesting year: iOS14 and the changes it brought, brand ads finally appearing more consistently in mobile games, consolidation of the big players on the market. But what are the ad monetization prediction for 2022? What should we expect during next year? From my perspective I foresee, Read more
An obligatory step for all companies that want to improve their ad revenue is to move from monetizing through a single network to integrating a mediation platform. This upgrade will bring more competition to the waterfall, multiple networks will challenge each other to show a rewarded video and this will Read more
One of the most overlooked KPIs in ad monetization is completion rate for rewarded videos (RV from now on). By definition, a RV is user-initiated, meaning it is the player who decides to watch an advertisement to get a reward afterwards. If a video starts and isn’t watched until its Read more
Without going into too much details (you can find a deep explanation here), the App-Ads.txt file is a list of providers authorized to sell their in-app inventory in the publisher app. This list must be uploaded to the URL the publisher uses on its App/Play Store page and crawlers will Read more
It’s been a couple of years since we heard the buzz word “in-app bidding” for mobile ad monetization as it seems to be the next big thing. In theory, it should lead to more automation, better fill, less integration work (SDK, adapters..) and higher eCPM. But is it going to Read more
While direct optimization is not really an option when it comes to Offerwall, there are still a few tips and tricks which not only can help prevent and solve issues, but can also improve the engagement and performance of this particular ad-type. Reward Delivery: there should be a clear way Read more
When it comes to ad monetization in mobile gaming, a classic setup implies using a mediation platform and integrating several Ad Networks to make them compete in the waterfall, in order to maximize the fill rate and global eCPM. The way the mediation communicate with these Ad Network is through Read more
The acronym eCPM stands for “effective cost per mille” and represents a standard unit of measurement that the publishers will use to compare all the ads run on their apps, whether they be based on CPM or CPI bidding. How does it work? Two advertisers might have very different goals: Read more
When we look at rewarded video KPIs to understand how we are doing with ad monetization, it is normal to dwell on eCPM, revenue and impressions. There is, however, one metric which is very important and improvable without too many complications: fill rate. In general, we calculate fill rate as Read more