Gaming https://s34035.pcdn.co/category/case-studies/industry/gaming/ Kochava Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:45:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://s34035.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/favicon-icon.png Gaming https://s34035.pcdn.co/category/case-studies/industry/gaming/ 32 32 Frameplay Powers Intrinsic In-Game Ad Attribution with Kochava https://s34035.pcdn.co/blog/frameplay-powers-intrinsic-in-game-ad-attribution-with-kochava/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:02:45 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=43458 The post Frameplay Powers Intrinsic In-Game Ad Attribution with Kochava appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Frameplay Powers Intrinsic In-Game Ad Attribution with Kochava

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: KOCHAVA PUBLISHER SUITE

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Frameplay is pioneering innovation in the video game industry, helping game studios grow their revenue without compromising the game experience through intrinsic in-game advertising technology. In turn, the Frameplay platform is helping advertisers reach the highly desirable audience of nearly three billion gamers worldwide

Challenge

Frameplay’s intrinsic in-game ads are highly effective in driving engagement. Advertisers need the ability to connect the dots between those ads and conversions across their own apps and websites to measure performance and optimize Frameplay campaigns in the context of their greater omni-channel media strategy.

Solution

Frameplay leveraged the Kochava Publisher Suite, which offers hosted ad measurement solutions out-of-the-box. Rather than building out their own, inhouse attribution infrastructure at a great expense, Frameplay licensed Kochava’s independent solution. A custom, clear-labeled endpoint facilitates the ingestion of all Frameplay ad impressions, while also allowing advertisers to syndicate in-app and web conversion signals to the system via their chosen mobile measurement partner (MMP) or other campaign measurement vendor. Attribution is then performed in real-time with support for claiming conversions cross-device & cross-platform. Attribution outcomes are immediately reported back to the advertiser’s measurement partner to ensure adequate credit is given to Frameplay ads amidst any other active media campaigns. Frameplay also receives valuable optimization signals on which ads and placements are driving conversions, enabling them to drive maximum campaign revenue through their inventory.

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Impact

A major, international power sports company launched a brand awareness campaign with Frameplay. Frameplay signaled over 2.7 million ad impressions across their supply-side partner apps. Every impression was reported to the Kochava Publisher Suite in real-time. Simultaneously, the brand syndicated all website sessions and activities to the system. Across the campaign, real-time attribution tagged over 60,000 web engagements linked to the Frameplay placements. Frameplay was able to optimize toward the highest performing placements and creatives – maximizing revenue and conversions for the brand.

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In-Depth Attribution for Stronger LTV https://www.kochava.com/blog/in-depth-attribution-for-stronger-ltv/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:13:13 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=41546 The post In-Depth Attribution for Stronger LTV appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

In-Depth Attribution for Stronger LTV

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: MEASUREMENT & ATTRIBUTION

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Tap Anywhere develops top-quality casual games across iOS and Android platforms. With millions of installs, their game, Laser Overload, was designed to relieve stress and boost creativity by having users connect laser beams to form patterns and recharge batteries.

Challenge

With so many installs in both the App Store and Google Play Store, Tap Anywhere needed to understand where their quality users were coming from and which ad networks they should prioritize their ad spend with.

Solution

By integrating the Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) software development kit (SDK) into their apps, Tap Anywhere has gained valuable insights into each of their ad network partners and the quality of the users they’re delivering. They can view performance across every network partner and to what extent each cohort of new users engages in the event funnel from Install to Level Complete and Ad View to Purchase. They can further split performance insights by specific campaigns, creatives, search keywords, and more to prioritize the most successful tactics and strategies.

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Impact

With attribution insights into each network and extensive, granular, event data, Tap Anywhere has increased their app users by more than 69% across their entire app portfolio in 30 days by optimizing their ad spend with networks who boost their users lifetime value (LTV) and other key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Optimizing iOS Acquisition Through the SKAdNetwork https://www.kochava.com/blog/optimizing-ios-acquisition-through-the-skadnetwork/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:20:50 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=41190 The post Optimizing iOS Acquisition Through the SKAdNetwork appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Optimizing iOS Acquisition Through the SKAdNetwork

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: MEASUREMENT & ATTRIBUTION, SKADNETWORK

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Black Bears is a mobile game development company that has created over 100 iOS and Android games. One of their games, Towerlands, is a highly rated strategy defense game with millions of installs in the App and Google Play Stores.

CHALLENGE
Black Bears needed to adapt their user acquisition strategy on iOS to factor in the SKAdNetwork, Apple’s advertising measurement framework that offers anonymous, aggregated campaign attribution for advertisers, while protecting the privacy of individual users. The marketing team wanted to ensure they utilized SKAdNetwork efficiently and effectively to achieve maximum performance and user quality insights for optimization.

SOLUTION

Black Bears integrated Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) into their iOS apps. The Kochava FAA software development kit (SDK) features out-of-the-box support for SKAdNetwork, enabling the team to make their apps SKAdNetwork-ready without a single line of code. FAA support for SKAdNetwork includes install tracking, conversion value models to understand post-install engagement between the day of install and as far out as day 7, and the ability to run campaigns with any Kochava SKAdNetwork Certified Partner.

Out of the four conversion models available: Highest Value Event, Revenue, User Journey, and Engagement, Black Bears chose to implement the Highest Value Event model which allows them to see how far user cohorts travel in the engagement funnel and what motivates them to continue their journey. They designated the Purchase event as the highest value event. Other events they configured into the model included, Ad View, Tutorial Complete, and Level Complete. Looking to obtain quick performance feedback for optimization, the team set their measurement window to the day of install only.

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IMPACT

FAA enabled Black Bears to quickly onboard SKAdNetwork support for their iOS apps. By utilizing Kochava’s configurable Highest Value Event model, the team was able to optimize campaigns so that 56% of their new Towerlands users completed a purchase event on the same day they installed. Knowing which networks and campaigns drove their users deeper into the user funnel has allowed Black Bears to continually optimize their SKAdNetwork campaign efforts.

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Measuring Millions of Puzzle Gamers https://www.kochava.com/blog/measuring-millions-of-puzzle-gamers/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:22:19 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=41173 The post Measuring Millions of Puzzle Gamers appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Measuring Millions of Puzzle Gamers

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: MEASUREMENT & ANALYTICS

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KochavaCaseStudy Teskin
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Teskin Games is a mobile gaming development company and a leader in casual games with millions of installs in the Google Play Store of their popular Jewels Planet game, a free matching puzzle game with over 700 levels.

CHALLENGE
Teskin Games needed a way to measure their playerbase within one platform to understand key performance indicators that would help them forecast revenue from ad monetization.

SOLUTION

Teskin integrated Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) into Jewels Planet and immediately gained insights into app activity. They can view real-time app installs and session activity as well as daily active users (DAU) and monthly active users (MAU). Access to these metrics enabled Teskin to forecast revenue from in-app ad views and allocate spend to drive new user acquisition campaigns.

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IMPACT

While Jewels Planet users are making matches and winning games, Teskin is winning too. With over 500K users playing their game every day, ad revenue is increasing, enabling new user acquisition initiatives that drove over 1M installs in 30 days.

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Real-Time Analytics for Real-Time Gaming https://www.kochava.com/blog/real-time-analytics-for-real-time-gaming/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:55:20 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=41095 The post Real-Time Analytics for Real-Time Gaming appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Real-Time Analytics for Real-Time Gaming

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: ANALYTICS

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Sandstorm Interactive is a mobile (iOS and Android), PC, and PlayStation game development company that creates strategy board games including Blood & Honor which mixes classic war board games with special features to create a new dimension of strategy and tactics for mobile devices.

CHALLENGE
With a global userbase, Sandstorm Interactive needed a place to collect, view, and understand where their users are coming from, how often they play the game, and what keeps them coming back.

SOLUTION

After integrating the Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) software development kit (SDK) into their apps, Sandstorm Interactive is able to visualize real-time analytics across all mobile platforms and devices where their game is available. Multiple analytics views allow them to see the big picture of their app performance across all titles in their portfolio with easy access to key performance indicators (KPIs) like daily active users (DAU), monthly active users (MAU), retention, and more. They can also inspect user quality and retention by acquisition channel, partner, campaign, creative, and other details to help steer their omni-channel marketing efforts to obtain more high-quality players.

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IMPACT

With the ability to see the entire scope of their mobile app portfolio, Sandstorm Interactive has grown their userbase by over 70K users in the past 30 days and driven strong app engagement, with more than 1.2M Level Complete events measured.

Contact Kochava today to see how we can help.

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Racing Towards Stronger Revenue Insights https://www.kochava.com/blog/racing-towards-stronger-revenue-insights/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:48:50 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=41021 The post Racing Towards Stronger Revenue Insights appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Racing Towards Stronger Revenue Insights

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: REVENUE MEASUREMENT

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ODD Games is a video development company that partners with leading motorsport brands to expand their customer base by creating top-ranking video games across multiple platforms including Trucks Off Road and Monster Truck Destruction.

CHALLENGE
ODD Games offers a range of in-app purchases to improve the user’s experience by removing in-app advertisements or upgrading game features. ODD Games wanted a way to measure those in-app purchases and keep track of what type of user is most likely to make a purchase.

SOLUTION

ODD Games integrated the Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) software development kit (SDK) into their Trucks Off Road iOS and Android apps and gained insights across installs, ad views, purchases, and more. By configuring a purchase event to measure revenue, ODD Games can view total revenue, revenue per user (RPU), and many other data points all in one platform. They can even dive deeper into their revenue data by refining the purchase event by the name of package SKU, the purchase price, and many other filters including geo, device type, and source of user acquisition.

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IMPACT

By measuring their in-app purchase revenue and tracing it back to the acquisition source, package SKU, type of device, etc., ODD Games can optimize their user acquisition efforts and in-game promos to maximize in-app purchase rates. ODD Games has measured over $100K in new revenue in just 30 days while also increasing their user base by over 200K new users.

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This use case is one example of the impact of Kochava solutions for advertisers. Kochava makes no guarantee of individual results.

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Bolstering the Marketing Strategy with Mobile Measurement https://www.kochava.com/blog/funovus-case-study/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:24:50 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=40781 The post Bolstering the Marketing Strategy with Mobile Measurement appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Bolstering the Marketing Strategy with Mobile Measurement

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: MEASUREMENT & ATTRIBUTION

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Funovus provides a platform for game creators to design and publish their games regardless of programming skills or artistic abilities. Creators can also make money by incorporating in-app purchases and ads into their games. The Funovus community has developed top-rated arcade and strategy games including Wild Sky and Wild Castle available on the Google Play and App Store.

CHALLENGE
With a large portfolio of iOS and Android gaming apps, Funovus needed a way to gather and view app data across their entire app portfolio. Additionally, they hoped to gain a better understanding of where their users go once they download the app and how far they get in each game.

SOLUTION

After integrating the Kochava Free App Analytics® (FAA) software development kit (SDK) into their apps, Funovus is able to view performance across all of their apps in a single dashboard and gain real-time, cross-device analytics. They can examine all of their data in detail with multiple analytics metrics including daily active users (DAU), monthly active users (MAU), revenue per user (RPU), total ad views, and more.

The team implemented key post-install events throughout the engagement funnel, including Install, Tutorial Complete, Registration, Achievement, Level Complete, Ad View, Add to Cart and Purchase. This enabled the team to identify key user drop-off points to focus on gameplay improvements and reengagement efforts.

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IMPACT

Funovus has grown its user base by over 200K users in the last 30 days and achieved an impressive engagement KPI of over 30 million level completes. With in-app purchase revenue climbing north of $125K and over 5 million Ad Views registered, their monetization efforts are proving successful.

Contact Kochava today to see how we can help.

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Traffic Verification Cleans up Ad Fraud in Gaming Campaigns https://www.kochava.com/blog/traffic-verification-case-study/ Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:19:56 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?p=39339 The post Traffic Verification Cleans up Ad Fraud in Gaming Campaigns appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

Traffic Verification Cleans up Ad Fraud in Gaming Campaigns

VERTICAL: GAMING   |   SOLUTION: TRAFFIC VERIFIER

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CHALLENGE
The app team of a major advance deposit wagering (ADW) platform for betting needed to weed out fraud from their app during their peak season.

While they expected a surge of installs during their main event in the spring, an exorbitant volume of clicks and also non-performing installs from states where online gambling is prohibited, and the team knew they were being targeted by ad fraud.

SOLUTION
Using Kochava Traffic Verifier, the team set filtering rules to block any campaign traffic originating from states where gambling is illegal. This real-time traffic filtering ensured that the wagering platform only paid cost-per-install (CPI) bounties for app install conversions within the target states where their ADW app was usable. With attribution proactively blocked, the team was also able to avoid time-consuming make-good negotiations with paid media partners.

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IMPACT
The wagering platform’s team proactively eliminated CPI payouts for install conversions in the states where gambling is prohibited. With Kochava prevention tools blocking the payout incentive behind the fraud, the percentage of fraudulent clicks and installs in their campaigns was reduced dramatically.

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TapBlaze Maximizes User LTV with Kochava https://www.kochava.com/blog/tapblaze-casestudy/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:54:54 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?page_id=33794 The post TapBlaze Maximizes User LTV with Kochava appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

TapBlaze Maximizes User LTV with Kochava

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Founded in 2013, TapBlaze is an agile, innovative gaming company whose app titles have been downloaded over 150 million times. Hit games include Gummy Gush, Good Pizza, Great Pizza, and Homecraft.

CHALLENGE

Competition in mobile gaming is fierce and being a self-funded company, TapBlaze needed to focus their ad spend on acquiring quality players who deliver solid lifetime value (LTV). However, calculating user LTV, knowing which campaign strategies (, eg, advertising partners, creatives, targeting, etc.) are profitable, and optimizing campaigns for increased return on advertising spend (ROAS) was a challenge.

SOLUTION

Looking for a complete solution, TapBlaze integrated Kochava as their mobile measurement partner (MMP) to provide attribution of app installs and in-app purchases back to their campaigns across Facebook, Google, Unity Ads, and other advertising partners.

Using the Kochava software development kit (SDK), TapBlaze tracked every in-app purchase with built-in purchase receipt validation for the Apple and Google Play stores. With the Kochava SDK, TapBlaze sent postback events to their advertising partners for campaign optimization. This combination provided holistic revenue tracking to accurately calculate and optimize user LTV.

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IMPACT

Accurate LTV metrics along with precise attribution enabled the TapBlaze team to understand what partners and campaigns were delivering the highest quality users with the best LTV. In turn, the marketing team redirected ad spend toward the highest-performing campaigns, and optimized future efforts with similar strategies for a higher overall ROAS.

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“Quickly understanding what campaigns are delivering the highest LTV is vital to our success, and Kochava allows us to do that.”

— Anthony Lai, CEO, TapBlaze

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MobilityWare Wins Battle On Fraud With Kochava Prevention Tools https://www.kochava.com/blog/case-study-mobilityware/ Wed, 20 May 2020 02:44:58 +0000 https://www.kochava.com/?page_id=29241 The post MobilityWare Wins Battle On Fraud With Kochava Prevention Tools appeared first on Kochava.

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CASE STUDY

MobilityWare Wins Battle On Fraud With Kochava Prevention Tools

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The innovative minds at MobilityWare brought the first-ever Solitaire game to both the App Store and Google Play Store. They followed with other mobile gaming hits including Hot Streak Slots, Match and Rescue, and Blackjack, which entertain players around the world on connected mobile devices.

PROBLEM
Gaming is one of the most heavily targeted verticals for mobile advertising fraud. The most common tactic is click flooding, where nefarious parties pose as legitimate publishers and spam campaigns with high volumes of fake clicks. These fake clicks try to steal attribution credit for conversions driven from valid publishers and ad partners – even capturing credit at times for organic installs. MobilityWare was witnessing excessive click volumes and unreasonable click-to-install (CTI) ratios, which serve as an indicator of click flooding. These tactics were threatening to siphon off ad spend from the partners of MobilityWare that were delivering true value and growth.

SOLUTION
MobilityWare activated the Kochava Global Fraud Blocklist, which uses machine learning to dynamically identify & block traffic from publishers and sub publishers committing click flooding, as well as other forms of ad fraud at scale. Going a step even further, the team was able to monitor suspicious trends in their campaigns via Kochava’s Fraud Console, curate a custom blocklist with tighter fraud thresholds for what MobilityWare was willing to accept as legitimate campaign traffic. This unparalleled customization enabled tighter restrictions and even more savings through fraud prevention.

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IMPACT
The scalable fraud defense offered by the Global Fraud Blocklist, combined with the customization enabled through the Fraud Console, defended MobilityWare’s campaigns from billions of fraudulent clicks. Through blocking fraudulent traffic from stealing attribution credit, plus eliminating sources of repeated fraud from their overall media mix, MobilityWare achieved a 4X ROI from use of Kochava’s Fraud Prevention tools.

“Because most of our revenue comes from ads, it’s important to us to get clean traffic. Without that, the people who buy from us are affected by fraud as well. Kochava really helped us know that our traffic was clean so we can ensure our buyers about it.”
—Lead Marketing Manager, MobilityWare

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