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Reduce Your UA Complexity With Automation

by Brian Krebs | May 20, 2020 | Benefits, Future, Product, UA Strategy

User Acquisition Automation & LTV Prediction For UA Optimization

Unfortunately, complexity is no stranger to mobile UA teams. Every week, they have to contend with large data sets that have to be assembled from disparate sources to then sift and analyze the data and coordinate numerous campaigns that involve a broad mix of ad channels. According to Adjust, “the average marketer runs 19 campaigns with 14 different networks“. Of course, this translates into the bulk of the marketer’s day being spent on data management.

Through numerous client conversations, we have confirmed that data management and the avalanche of tedious, manual tasks are major pain points. Many are struggling with reducing their daily time spent on campaign management which is a collection of manual and often repetitive steps that seem to explode with campaign scaling. These steps are ripe for automation and our clients witness that as early as the first 30 days of using our platform. The added bonus is that these tasks can be executed in real-time based on live monitoring of the click stream by our platform. So it never sleeps on the job! This approach liberates the UA team to focus on the higher value aspects of mobile UA such as devising strategies, setting goals and creatively adapting to fresh changes in the market.

Another area that our clients find ripe for automation is the bid and budget optimization process. This is where our platform uses real-time performance monitoring to adjust bids, reallocate budgets from lower to higher performing ad channels and pause campaigns based on pre-defined automation rules and business goals. Once again, all the manual tasks and repetitive checking across different dashboards and spreadsheets are eliminated to free up large blocks of time needed for the higher value tasks that are critical to successfully differentiating from your competitors.

Rapid Change In UA Presents New Opportunities for Scaling Via Automation

by Brian Krebs | May 8, 2020 | Benefits, Future, Product, UA Strategy

Thanks Joe Kim for posting the great article about the death of performance marketing. We certainly agree that things are changing rapidly in performance marketing/user acquisition but think that it is far from dead. It is actually going through a metamorphosis.

For one, we believe that LTV prediction engines wrapped in automation will save performance UA as real performance and scale are VERY realizable across leading ad channels such as ironSource, Unity Technologies, AppLovin, Vungle and all of the other major SDK networks. When Facebook and Google shift to the new setup (described in Joe’s article), the ability to perform will require any UA team to shift their skill sets to become experts at wielding sophisticated SaaS automation technology like MetricWorks UA Command Center.

Secondly, with a UA automation platform and LTV prediction engine that works seamlessly across all networks, one will be able to quickly and easily predict where the most profitable AND scalable venue is to spend one’s money. Currently, UA teams waste significant amounts of time accomplishing these tasks manually with large error margins. Herein lies a further opportunity to save valuable time, reduce the probability of costly errors and to be agile by responding in real-time to data feeds from the variety of mobile ad channels. This capability becomes even more crucial when teams have shrunk in response to the market changes described in Joe’s article. Once again, it is the skills shift that will be important in order for UA teams to take advantage of these new tools to take their game to the next level.

UA Automation: Reality vs Hype

by Brian Krebs | Apr 30, 2020 | Benefits, Features, Future, Product, UA Strategy

You have probably heard all the buzz about UA automation and are trying to determine the best path forward for your business. As Eric Seufert outlines in his MDM article, The Five Levels of Digital Marketing Automation, UA automation is the ambition of many UA teams but there is still a considerable gap between hype and real-world application. As a partner to some of the leading mobile gaming companies and having spent the last six years in the UA automation and AI space, MetricWorks is firmly planted in the real-world application of automation.

However, if we were to apply Eric’s classification model to our UA automation platform, we find that even our technology most closely resembles Level 3: Marketing strategy automation:

Credit: MobileDevMemo's UA Automation Level 3 by Eric Seufert

In particular, we feel that our innovation over the last six years enabled us to cover the bottom two rows in the graphic above, namely, Campaign setting experimentation (except for budget optimization) and ROAS projection and reporting. So why is that?

Well, firstly, ad creative production has proven to date impossible to automate. As we all know, producing captivating creatives requires human creativity. This production process resists automation. Therefore, UA teams around the world have found it better to spend their budgets on human resources to deliver these tasks that are difficult to automate.

Secondly, automating audience testing requires the machine (or automation platform) to know a lot of different things that may require cross-sectional industry data or domain knowledge that is not easily accessible or is simply not possible to share due to intense competition among gaming companies.

That leaves the bottom two sections that we feel our automation platform brings to life via a powerful range of features:

Cost & data aggregation in a consolidated dashboard
Real-time source-level LTV predictions (95% accuracy with 30 days of historical data)
Automated Bid Management Across All Channels At Source By Country Level
Impact Analysis: Easily conduct detailed analysis of the impact of bid optimizations on performance (volume, ROAS or custom KPIs)
Automation Rules: Automate time-consuming marketing strategies on a near real-time basis and set guard-rails based on ROAS, Retention, DAU or other KPIs
Performance Monitoring: Live monitoring and customizable alerts for designated publisher behavior
Bid History: Visually graph & analyze bid history along with metrics like ROAS or installs
Supply Groups: Customize, manage and analyze traffic groups with shared performance traits
Targeted Micro-Strategies: Execute specific actions on a defined supply group

One of the features that our clients are really excited about is Automation Rules that allow marketers to encode their own user acquisition strategy. However, the heart of our platform and the core feature is our AI-driven mobile LTV prediction (down to the source-level) and how that flows into the automated optimization and execution.

Others have built reporting dashboards and some have even added the ability to take action within these dashboards when it comes to UA execution. While this is a productive step, it is still an incremental one in the traditional direction. In contrast, MetricWorks rethought the entire paradigm and can proudly say that we are the only ones that built our platform from the ground up to seamlessly go from raw data aggregation and analysis across all mobile channels to model/prediction to optimization and finally execution without human intervention.

Of course, the proof is in the pudding and our field success bears testimony to the value of our approach. Learn more about how our clients have realized a ROAS of 145% while generating an unprecedented 22.5 million LTV models and saving 40 hours per month per UA manager.

Break Free Of The Duopoly (Facebook & Google)!

by Brian Krebs | Apr 3, 2020 | AppsFlyer, Benefits, Future, Product, Promotion, Special Offer, UA Strategy

Our partner, AppsFlyer recently released their latest performance index. Please check it out if you haven’t already. As always, the index is packed with interesting insights but the one that caught our attention and should certainly catch yours is what many have said already that digging deeper into the index reveals stories of networks surging up the rankings and presenting opportunities for marketers to diversify their mix and break away from the duopoly.

This ties directly to our core mission, namely, to enable you to profitably scale your UA beyond Facebook and Google. Our solution, the UA Command Center is the leading UA automation and LTV prediction engine and can enable you to diversify your ad channel mix rather than be limited to the costly duopoly of Facebook & Google.

With UA Command Center, diversifying your mix is easy, automated, accurate, cost-effective, highly productive and profitable. No more wasted manual effort, high fixed costs, expensive and error-prone experimentation. Just one platform to automate and scale your UA across all ad networks, DSPs and Affiliates. Everything is automated and driven by AI including our real-time monitoring to ensure that we got you covered even while you catch up on your beauty sleep!

The Future Of Mobile UA Is Here!

by Brian Krebs | Mar 2, 2020 | Future, Promotion, Special Offer

Yes, the future of UA is here! We are MetricWorks and our mission is make it easy for mobile UA (user acquisition) teams to leverage automation and AI in order to realize their full potential. The fruit of our labor arrives in the form of the UA Command Center, the leading mobile UA automation and LTV prediction engine. This engine enables you to easily and simply scale your UA profitably across ALL ad networks, DSPs and Affiliates.

UA Command Center has been proven in the field across a number of types of mobile apps and is trusted by leaders such as Disruptor Beam, Trivago, GameInsight and Rogue Games. For Disruptor Beam, we boosted their ROAS by 145% and their UA team’s productivity by 1000%.

To accelerate our mission and celebrate the field success that we are so grateful for, we are offering a special promotion: for only $250/month, you can start enjoying the powerful benefits of the UA Command Center today. Sign up before May 1st, 2020 to take advantage of this offer and to take command of your UA!

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