Hey, you should play this!

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Hey! You should play this!

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User acquisition essons learnt from delivering over 100 million game installs. Delivered at the Social Games Summit at GDC Europe 2011 in August 2011.

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“This is the most promiscuous app audience in the

history of mankind” !Bing Gordon!

VC @ Kleiner Perkins!Ex-Chief Creative Officer / EA!

(CC) Steve Lacey!

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Trivial to try & switch.!!

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How do you stand out?!!

Can you turn "the enemy to a friend?!

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Advertising!

Distribution!Social!

App stores!

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Cross promo!

Press!

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Brand!

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Advertising!

Distribution!Social!

App stores!

Cross promo!

Lots of traffic, scalable, predictable, doable!

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Tips for high performing ads!

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Genres with best ad CTR"(compared to average CTR)!

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Note: !# of sessions is internal metric, not directly same as game sessions! !Data may be skewed due to certain games reloading pages often!

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1. Metrics!

Don’t fly blind!Double down on best channels!

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2. Diversity!

Don’t rely on one channel!Experiment!

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3. Scalable!

Put your resources "into channels that scale!

Play the lottery, "but don’t depend on it!

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4. Own or outsource!

Either dedicate real resources"or get a publisher!

It’s a marathon!

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5. Think big!

Leverage success to new titles!Build a portfolio or borrow one

with cross-promotion!

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