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Weekly Active Users (WAU)

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What Are Weekly Active Users? WAU, which stands for weekly active users, refers to a type of measure employed in product diagnostics that indicates the quantity of different customers that use a digital media such as a platform or a mobile application within one week. The measurement provides companies with a possibility to determine whether the customers use the offered product on a regular basis instead of just downloading the application or creating an account. WAU is different from the measurements showing the total number of sessions or visits as it measures how many different clients have shown that they have performed the action. For example, even if the user runs the application ten times a week, he will still be regarded as one user for weekly active users purposes. In order to define the action, it is necessary to take into account the type of a mobile application used. For instance, when it comes to a gaming app, the action could be playing a game or finishi...

Push Notification Best Practices: How to Get Taps, Not Mutes

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According to Business of Apps , a typical smartphone user in the US receives 46 app push notifications per day. This implies that the messages you send will contend not only with other mobile apps but also with the user’s patience. After one too many irrelevant notifications, it is likely that the notification will be switched off forever. Therefore, understanding push notification best practices is crucial. This guide will cover the issues of getting permission, crafting effective text messages, sending notifications at the proper time, and analyzing the data to determine which notifications have really re-engaged the user. Following these push notification best practices can help you create concise, relevant, and engaging messages that encourage users to take action without overwhelming them. What Are Push Notification Best Practices (and Why Should You Care)? The best practices of push notifications include tested methods of sending timely, relevant, and authorized...

How to Set Up and Manage Media Sources in Apptrove for Accurate Attribution?

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Media sources assist marketers in determining the origins of app users and determining how various acquisition channels affect the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Apptrove categorizes them into integrated networks, attribution-link networks, and owned media employing various attributing methods for each. Awareness of similarities and differences in importance of the concepts helps marketers read reports correctly and isolate problems of tracking and decision-making. Understanding media sources Every installation of an app is associated with a user’s journey. Users usually discover apps through paid ads, clicking on referral links, or through email marketing campaigns. Each of these instances can be treated as a possible source of acquisition of an app user. Media sources are the platforms, partners, or the processes used to make users aware of the app and interact with it. They help marketers discover where they came from and what channels make the contribu...

OEM Integration: A Practical Guide to Mobile App Attribution and Growth

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OEM integration helps mobile app marketers connect campaigns across smartphone manufacturers’ advertising and app distribution ecosystems with their attribution and analytics setup. It enables businesses to evaluate eligible campaign activity alongside app installs, post-install events and other performance signals, rather than treating OEM campaigns as a separate source of downloads. App discovery happens across more than social media, search advertising and conventional ad networks. Users may discover apps through manufacturer-owned app stores, native recommendations, device setup experiences, preload programmes and other on-device placements. Without an appropriate measurement setup, it can be difficult to understand which activities generate valuable users and which mainly contribute install volume. A well-planned OEM integration connects the relevant partner information with the app’s measurement infrastructure. It establishes how campaign data is passed or rec...

Contextual Deep Links for Relevant Mobile App Experiences

A contextual deep link is a kind of deep link that helps bridge that gap by connecting the destination with the context behind the user’s click. Instead of simply opening the app, it can carry information about the intended page, campaign, referral source, or promotion, allowing the app to route the user and personalise the experience where appropriate. For mobile marketers, this matters beyond navigation. Contextual deep linking can support more relevant acquisition journeys, re-engagement campaigns and post-install experiences. When paired with mobile attribution , it can also help teams understand how campaign traffic progresses towards meaningful in-app actions. The important distinction is that contextual deep linking is not a separate operating system protocol. It describes an approach to using deep links and associated context. The exact capabilities depend on the link infrastructure, app implementation and platform support. What is a contextual deep link?...