Maxim Mai, Business Development Manager, Google Play
Maintaining sustainable growth is difficult for even the highest quality apps.
In this video and through the 5 steps below you can find out how some of our
leading Android developers are tackling growth.
1) Understand and define your app's objectives
Depending on your product lifecycle stage you will most likely focus on these 3
growth goals with varying intensity:
- Acquire new users
- Increase engagement and retention
- Grow revenue
2) Track and measure your tactics against each of your
objectives
List out the tactics you're using to achieve each objective and keep track of
their performance. You can visualize it using a scorecard like in the example
below created by Mobile Growth
Stack.
3) Apply your growth tactics.
Here are a few examples of specific tactics developers have successfully used to
drive sustained growth.
Tactic:
a female health app, invests in the Play store listing to increase
conversions.
Results: 24% aggregate increase in install conversion rate over
a period of 6 months.
How they did it:
- Built a continuous flow of global and localised
listing experiments. - Monitored changes in the
acquisition performance report for target countries and channels. - Gathered insights from what users are saying from the
analysis.
Which phone screenshot do you think drove increase in install conversion for
Clue?
Tactic:
a non-profit app developed by the World Food Programme, uses public relations as
a free sustainable acquisition channel.
Results: 50% of their
total installs to date were driven by media coverage.
How they did
it:
- Developed an excellent messaging.
- Boosted installs impact by combining PR with celebrity outreach and
distribution partnership. - Learned that TV coverage has the highest impact on installs but print is a
useful door opener to amplify TV coverage.
Tactic: Viral growth.
Virality is a core
growth tool for apps and games that focus on sharing and usually the mechanic is
built into the core user experience of the product. However, even if sharing
isn't a key component of your app, you can still influence two key variables to
create an appropriate environment to encourage virality.
How to do it:
- Increase the number of additional users that a single user brings to the
app, by boosting the number of invitations sent. - Decrease your "cycle time", how long it takes between inviting a user and
that user sending out the next round of invitations to their friends. - Offer more incentives for users to share the app or its content while
they're using it will help shorten the cycle time and kickstart viral growth!
Tactic:
Nutrition, an app to adjust your nutrition to your individual needs and
goals, uses cross-promotion to accelerate the launch of a new product.
Results: 96% of new Nutrition app sales generated by users who
originally registered for the developer's
training app.
How they did it:
- Surface meal advice in the Bodyweight app's activity feed with the goal of
raising awareness for the approaching launch of their new Freeletics Nutrition
app.
4) Build a strong growth culture
To make sustainable growth work for your app, it needs to be a part of your
culture.
is one of the leading health and fitness app developers in Europe and 95% of
their approximately 76M total app installs on Google Play have been generated
organically. Mario Aichlseder, VP of Growth, believes this is the result of a
strong growth culture and the growth principles according to which all teams
operate. For example, product managers, designers and engineers at Runtastic
deliberately chose a mixture of qualitative and quantitative feedback loops
during the app development process to ensure they stay true to their growth
principles.
5) Adjust along the way
It's important to track your tactics against real metrics to measure your
impact. That will help you make decisions about where to increase or decrease
your efforts. Your priorities will also change based on the evolution of your
business and product lifecycle as well as due to external factors such as new
techniques becoming available, so be open to regularly adjusting your tactics.
Get more tips and best practices in the sessions from
year's Playtime events.
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