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Build excitement for your new app by making it available for pre-order. Your product page will be published on the App Store and customers can order your app before itâs released for download.  New apps on all Apple platforms can be made available for pre-order when you submit your app and metadata for review in App Store Connect. When you opt in, youâll choose a download release date thatâs two to 90 days in the future. Once your app is released for download, customers are notified and it will automatically download to their device within 24 hours.
Todayâs mobile-first world is evolving like never before to serve the clients with specific services required to them. Agencies are capitalizing on every opportunity to recreate their brand image in a whole new light. Being a prominent mobile marketing agency is no cakewalk as branding comes to those who offer what clients ask for. It requires every brand to interact with the clients the way users want the assistance. And the way brands interact with the clients and the prospects impacts their images in the market. Mobile app landscape is highly competitive today but there are brands that are excelling the marked territory with their ever-advancing services.
MobileAppDaily finds immense pleasure in casting such organizations into its list. We have always remained distinguished when spreading nows around mobile app agencies through our reports. This time we descended on the field to search for the best companies owing to their abilities to offer services. We got in touch with some service providers, connected with the clients to know their specific choices and talked to them to know their feedback on agencies to rank the companies in our list. This list includes the global contenders known to provide influential services. Here are the insights from the ground report and this time we have jotted down globally ranked Top Mobile Marketing Agencies based on their services but not in any priority order.
App Promo helps the clients with the business of Apps. App Promo offers a complete suite of services including strategy and monetization services across iOS, Android, and Windows. When it comes to ad campaigns, the agency takes the specific approach to offer the services to the clients. The company holds expertise in rooting the campaign ideas and to deliver growth to the apps from such campaigns. App Promo takes a number of approaches including PR, paid media promotions to offer the services from the industry experts.
App Promo also works to improve the strategies in order to give its clients the work satisfaction. App Promo is prominent to design app promotion techniques, ASO Practices, digital app marketing services and other similar services. The CEO Gary Yentin takes the personal interest in designing and offering the services to the clients.
App Promo Services:Â App Strategy, App Marketing, App Monetization, App Store optimization
Tagline:Â Rapid solutions with lasting results
Appleâs App Store continues to outpace Google Play on revenue. In the first half of the year, the App Store generated nearly double the revenue of Google Play on half the downloads, according to a new report from Sensor Tower out today. In terms of dollars and cents, thatâs $22.6 billion in worldwide gross app revenue on the App Store versus $11.8 billion for Google Play â or, 1.9 times more spent on the App Store compared with what was spent on Google Play.
This trend is not new. Appleâs iOS store has consistently generated more revenue than its Android counterpart for years due to a number of factors â including the fact that Android users historically have spent less on apps than iOS users, as well as the fact that there are other Android app stores consumer can shop â like the Amazon Appstore or Samsung Store, for example. In addition, Google Play is not available in China, but Appleâs App Store is.
Last year, consumer spending on the App Store reached $38.5 billion, again nearly double that of Google Playâs $20.1 billion.
As the new figures for the first half of 2018 indicate, consumer spending is up this year.
Sensor Tower estimates it has increased by 26.8 percent on iOS compared with the same period in 2017, and itâs up by 29.7 percent on Google Play.
The growth in spending can be partly attributed to subscription apps like Netflix, Tencent Video, and even Tinder, as has been previously reported.
Subscription-based apps are big businesses these days, having helped to boost app revenue in 2017 by 77 percent to reach $781 million, according to an earlier study. Netflix was also 2017âs top non-game app by revenue, and recently became ranked as the top (non-game) app of all-time by worldwide consumer spend, according to App Annieâs App Store retrospective.
Many of the other all-time top apps following Netflix were also subscription-based, including Spotify (#2), Pandora (#3), Tencent Video (#4), Tinder (#5), and HBO NOW (#8), for example.
And Netflix is again the top non-game app by consumer spending in the first half of 2018, notes Sensor Tower.
Game spending, however, continues to account for a huge chunk of revenue.
Consumer spending on games grew 19.1 percent in the first half of 2018 to $26.6 billion across both stores, representing roughly 78 percent of the total spent ($16.3 billion on the App Store and $10.3 billion on Google Play). Honor of Kings from Tencent, Monster Strike from Mixi, and Fate/Grand Order from Sony Aniplex were the top grossing games across both stores.
App downloads were also up in the first half of the year, if by a smaller percentage.
Worldwide first-time app installs grew to 51 billion in 1H18, or up 11.3 percent compared with the same time last year, when downloads were then 45.8 billion across the two app stores.
Facebook led the way on this front with WhatsApp, Messenger, Facebook and Instagram as the top four apps across both the App Store and Google Play combined. The most downloaded games were PUBG Mobile from Tencent, Helix Jump from Voodoo, and Subway Surfers from Kiloo.
Google Play app downloads were up a bit more (13.1 percent vs iOSâs 10.6 percent) year-over-year due to Androidâs reach in developing markets, reaching 36 billion. Thatâs around 2.4 times the App Storeâs 15 billion.
Despite this, Appleâs platform still earned more than double the revenue with fewer than half the downloads, which is remarkable. And it canât all be chalked up to China. (The country contributed about 31.7 percent of the App Store revenue last quarter, or $7.1 billion, to give you an idea.)
Sensor Tower tells TechCrunch that even if China was removed from the picture, the App Store would have generated $15.4 billion gross revenue for first half of 2018, which is still about 30 percent higher than Google Playâs $11.8 billion.
Image Credits:Â TechCrunch
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Job: App Store optimization (ASO) specialist
The role: Similar to a search engine optimization (SEO) specialist, only confined to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store environments, ASO specialists are responsible for landing their clients as close to the top of the results page in relevant searches as possible.
A relatively new discipline within the mobile marketing industry, ASO specialists can increase an appâs search ranking by adjusting the description, icon, video and image previews as well as other elements when presented in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
âItâs a lot of data analysis; youâre comparing the app with its peers,â explained Gary Yentin, chief executive and founder of Toronto-based mobile marketing agency App Promo. âIf youâre an application in the calendar space, youâre going to be mapping yourself against competitors in the calendar space, seeing what their keywords are, seeing how they rank, seeing what they wrote in their description, each of which is a data point you can use to evaluate your own application and hopefully increase its ranking.â
While there are some Canadian firms that specialize in ASO services, the majority of the industry operates within larger mobile or digital marketing agencies.
Salary: As a specialty within the mobile marketing industry, ASO specialists typically command a higher than average salary. âIt would probably start around $50,000 [a year] and it can go up to $150,000, but itâs based on what you bring to the table,â said Mr. Yentin, explaining that an employeeâs results are very easy to measure. âItâs driven by success, because you can show what youâve achieved based on your campaigns. If they can show positive results they can [command a] higher salary.â
Education: The Apple App Store and Google Play Store are themselves hardly older than 10 years, and ASO has only really become a stand-alone profession in the past three or four, Mr. Yentin said , meaning there are few formal standards and educational programs.
Instead, the industry typically requires practitioners to have a university-level education in either computer science or marketing, and some experience in either SEO or mobile marketing more generally. âThe best training in this field is hands-on training,â Mr. Yentin said.
Job prospects: While there are few companies that only offer ASO services, many larger mobile marketing firms have incorporated the service in recent years.
âThereâs a lot of technology, app development, app marketing companies in Canada, but the reality is to have a successful business you need to be global. There just isnât enough business in ASO in Canada to sustain a company of three to five people,â Mr. Yentin said.
Mr. Yentin does, however, believe that career opportunities will only increase as practitioners further establish their services as a competitive necessity within the wider mobile marketing industry.
Challenges: There are two primary challenges that ASO specialists contend with, first and foremost being the gradual nature of the work. âPeople want to see instant results, and like SEO, ASO takes time,â Mr. Yentin said.
Another significant challenge, according to Mr. Yentin, is the ever-evolving arena in which ASO specialists work, as Apple and Google can make changes to their search algorithms at any time.
âYouâre at their beck and call,â he said. âYou really have to be up to date on what theyâre doing ⌠If youâre static in this environment, youâll fail.â
Why they do it: ASO specialists typically have a passion for digital marketing and enjoy the added challenges that come with the confined space of the App Store and Play Store. âYou can make small suggestions that have big results,â Mr. Yentin said. âItâs very rewarding to see how what you recommend produces results.â
Misconceptions: Mr. Yentin says many still confuse ASO and SEO, even within the digital marketing industry. Furthermore, he suggests many in the industry fail to appreciate how the practice differs from other roles that fall under the mobile marketing umbrella.
âItâs a specialty, you canât just generalize it as mobile marketing, you need experience to do it,â Mr. Yentin said. âSaying any mobile marketer can do it is a misnomer; you need to earn your stripes by doing it on a regular basis.â
“We partnered with App Promo because of their exhaustive knowledge of the industry and exceptional track record. Working with them was truly an educational experience and we found them extremely helpful and accessible. Their results-driven method completely fulfilled our expectations and I wouldnât hesitate doing business with them again.”