WIP Back to School Webinars - App Downloads: Important, But A Poor Metric

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let’s move beyond downloads jeremia kimelman [email protected]

description

You've built an awesome mobile application and finally made it into an app store. The first day you release it, you get a spike in downloads and your analytics show that sessions are up. Awesome. But as time passes, that graph starts to drop and all of a sudden it's three months out and you have 1% of your user base still keeping their eyeballs in the app. If you monetize through ads, you've got a problem. In this webinar we'll discuss some ways that have worked for increasing engagement and why it's an important metric to monitor.

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let’s move beyond

downloads

jeremia kimelman

[email protected]

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hi, i’m jeremia :-)

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Jeremia Kimelman

Devangelist

@jeremiak

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this crazy app-conomy

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2000 – 38%

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2005 – 69%

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2010 – 96%

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38.1% 26.6%

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200,000 400,000

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show me the

money

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$1.2 billion

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$1,200,000,000

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awe$ome

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100 hours @ $50/hr

$5,000

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$4,883

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dev costs = profit/user * user base

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recap:

• downloads != cashola

• leverage downloads

• build apps for engagement

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thank you

[email protected]

@jeremiak