App Growth Summit Berlin 2019
in partnership with APPSFLYER
SOLD OUT EVENT!
App Growth Summit Berlin 2019 took place on 23 May, 2019, and was our second event in Germany after last year’s capacity-filled event! AGS Berlin 19 was sold out one week in advance, and contained only 13% vendors out of the 330+ experts in attendance.
The full day of 28 sessions was filled with key learnings from Thought-Leader Presentations, Expert-Led Panels, Publisher-to-Publisher Roundtables, a LiveStream Session, and an 80-minute Master Class Workshop to learn and discuss app growth strategies for Mobile Apps, Brands & Mobile Games!
App Growth Summit Berlin 2019 took place one day after the ASO Conference in Berlin! Together, we offered a combination of content and experts you couldn’t find elsewhere! Attending both great conferences back-to-back in Berlin on 22-23 May and maximized our attendees’ education, connections, and growth strategies!
Retention metric - something we love, fear and cherish at the same time. Analysts and product owners spend numerous hours researching, banging their heads against the wall, obsessing about it. Can it be that sometimes it is in vain? Should you get hung up on a metric and overlook something entirely different and unique? I am happy to share my experience, backed by real examples. Warning: This might hurt a little.
Luca Dell'Orletta, Head of Mobile for the Nestlé Group, will share best practices on how to manage large Portfolios of Mobile applications in different categories. Learn how to stay in control while moving fast, select the best tools and services, continuous measure, learn and implement and much more in an insightful session from a digital leader of one of the biggest companies worldwide!
People-Based Attribution (PBA) has been evolving for years but thanks to mobile and the adoption of mobile-first marketing, we are closer than ever to reaching the Holy Grail. In the session, we'll dive deep into the benefits of PBA and how it's done.
Everyone seems to have growth in their job title these days, but rarely people realize growth comes with a price. Join this discussion if you are interested in the secret behind companies that have scaled up and stayed big for years.
Are you ready to up your mobile programmatic game? Maybe you’re even considering taking programmatic in-house? Before you take that next step, be sure you’re asking the right questions on 5 key topics that will impact your success, including user-level revenue data and in-app bidding. You’ll leave this session ready to return to your company armed with actionable insights that take your programmatic strategy to the next level.
The average person is exposed to 5,000 ads a day, online and off. To be relevant, marketers need data and technology to gauge people’s context, and human creativity to craft the message that resonates. Liftoff will share insights from their first creative ever report, highlighting ad costs and engagement by ad creative format to help you benchmark your mobile ad creative performance. Learn best practices for all ad formats (video, interactive, banner, etc.) and understand the key drivers for designing high-performing ads. first ever creative report.
There are as many UA Channels as there are languages in the world, and it seems like each one is speaking their own dialect. How do you know which ones you should explore? How can you develop the right mix for your UA strategies, and not become overly-dependent on single-channel strategies while at the same time not losing your entire budget on risky alternative channels? Should you dip your toe in the programmatic waters, or just stick to the Facebook/UAC duopoly? Our panel of Mobile App UA experts will help you figure out which channels might perform best for your business, and which you might want to steer clear of.
Sharon Biggar, Chief Growth Officer at goin, will walk through her 5 key takeaways following her journey to bring in-app programmatic media buying in-house last year. From choosing the right tech, to selecting the right inventory sources, to creating custom bidding optimization strategies. The shift didn't come without challenges, but ultimately, in-housing their programmatic strategy empowered the marketing team with insight and yielded better results than Social Point ever expected.
In this 80-minute workshop, there will be NO PHONES OR COMPUTERS ALLOWED. Your expert instructor, Lior Barak from Tale About Data, will dive deep into the question, "How can we drive Automation in our organizations?"
In the session, you will learn:
1. Applying Automation Without Having an Engineer
2. Databases and Data
3. Reporting…Is This Truly Important?
4. Machines to Drive Automation
We will provide you with pen and paper, since there are no pictures allowed during this learning session about how to make Automation a reality in your organization!
We believe in putting the right content in front of the right people and driving user acquisition through automation. What does that mean for you? Come join the Google Mobile Apps team on how to find your most valuable customers or players, and make the most of the tools available to you.
Engagement is a key area of true growth. Relying solely on User Acquisition and constantly trying to accumulate new users will result in making your long-term growth strategies more difficult to achieve. Work smarter to grow your app by retaining your users longer through better engagement strategies.
App downloads look great, but do users really end up using your app? Take a look at how onboarding can convert prospects to clients. Suvi's talk will give you five tested tips – with examples!
Join this panel discussion to hear from marketeers about their ways of measuring the incrementality of both UA & App Retargeting. We’ll cover everything including the differences, challenges, and the latest trends.
When you run user acquisition campaigns at scale it’s not always efficient to rely only on the duopoly of Google and Facebook. In this presentation, we’ll see - in a very original way - some suggestions for implementing an omnichannel strategy, and how to take advantage of those channels you might never think could work for your business.
We're going to be giving away an Apple Watch, courtesy of AppOnboard! Must be present to win this present, so see you there right after lunch!
In this session of User Acquisition experts, we’ll dive into the best practices, successes and failures, when working with the 3 major UA platforms very closely with dedicated teams. We’ll discuss how Search Ads (Apple Search Ads) play a huge role in completing the channel mix by helping User Growth and Product Growth Team discover and validate a huge spectrum of intents and potential features. We’ll also discuss when, why and how to diversify your spend in regards to the Google/Facebook Duopoly vs Programmatic vs All Others.
A product manager’s perspective on what viral loops are, where they belong, and how to grow a product through vitality. How to make users drive more users to your app — the process behind engineering for viral growth.
1. Conversion Optimization As Your Growth Driver
Discussion Led by Lott Weigeldt, Head of Growth, formerly with Runtastic
Move the needle on your key product metric to enable successful growth at this roundtable! Growth has often focused on user acquisition, but we need to look beyond those incoming numbers and understand and optimize in-product behavior. In this roundtable discussion, we will talk about your tactics to optimize conversions to engage or monetize users. Depending on your product, this could be uploading a photo, adding a friend, purchasing an in-app product or purchasing a subscription. Sharing best and worst practices about AB tests on conversion points, UI flows, optimization by user segmentation and any other conversion optimization you are currently tackling will allow us to learn from each other’s experience and accelerate growth within product.
2. The Success of an App is Not Only About Marketing
Discussion Led by Raffaele Triggiano, Independent Growth Consultant
Join this panel to hear from marketeers how they leverage the relationship with other teams such as product and engineering to not only achieve app growth but to continuously also improve also the product. Learn what others are doing and share what you are doing!
Launching a new app with 0 users is daunting, but is the starting point for every wildly successful (and not successful) app. In this session, you will learn real world tips for rapid growth on a shoestring budget including ASO, localization, smart media spend, and how to build a roadmap by listening to your customers.
Multi-Touch Attribution in Practice: How do I get my users to convert? How many touch points do I need and which type of touch points should they be?
This is a case study how we used hyper targeted real time campaigns during the World Cup period to try to create most relevant connection between real life events and our User Acquisition campaigns. I will show how we achieved our goals, as well what we learnt to make these targeted campaigns even better for future big events.
1. ASO Roundtable
Discussion Led by Sara Cole, Director of Marketing, Eyecon Global
ASO (app store optimization) is vital for sustainable app growth. Join the roundtable discussion about implementing successful ASO strategies including keyword research, A/B testing, measuring results, the difference between Google Play and Apple and more.
2. Combating Fraud
Discussion Led by Thomas Brooks, Mobile Marketing Specialist, Delivery Hero
Fraud impacts all aspects of mobile marketing. As the market develops so too do more creative fraudsters. Join us to tackle the challenges in a rapidly changing environment. We will cover: What defines mobile fraud, and how do we quantify fraudulent activity. How to identify fraud in your campaigns, from attribution stealing to event spoofing. Finally, how can we counter fraud, and what methods can we take to prevent fraud in the future.
3. Content as an Acquisition Channel
Discussion Led by John Bonten, VP of Growth, formerly Spotify
John Bonten will share some of his experiences working with companies such as Spotify, Framer, Tinder, and Calm. Together, the roundtable participants will help to identify themes to discuss in depth such as building a knowledge base to improve usage of a product, how content is a very viable and important acquisition channel, and more!
Ask your questions while we stream and discuss the good and bad of remarketing with Anna Yukhtenko, Games Analyst at Hutch, the famous publisher of massive game titles like "Top Drives" or "Hill Dash!"
It’s no doubt mobile marketers can’t rely on Facebook and Google only in 2019. But how to select the right ad networks for testing? What should be the minimum testing budget be and for how long? Should you go after broad or specific targeting to get a meaningful answer if the channel can scale quality traffic...? In this session, three top UA experts will give an in-depth look on how to effectively explore new channels from the perspective of a very different businesses: a mobile game, food delivery service and a mobility app.
Wooga has been investing heavily into playable ads for their games since 2018. Tim Shepherd, Wooga's Creative Director for Playable Ads, will present insights around design best practices, production options, and optimizations for playables, interactive ads, and Instant Games!
In the past 5 years, the requirements for building a Growth function have morphed from being a collection of marketers to one including Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists. Learn about how FoxNext Games has structured their Growth group to operate on a lean and fast basis.
Apple Search Ads offers a unique opportunity as not only a high ROI User Acquisition channel, but also an essential component that can increase your ASO returns. Part one of this session will offer novel techniques for boosting your Search Ads ROI, and part two will explain the overlap between Search Ads and ASO, outlining key actions which can help you drive higher returns across both organic and paid.
"Behind every success, there are multiple mistakes." Gessica Bicego (Blinkist) and Andy Carvell (Phiture) host a special live episode of their Mobile Growth Nightmares podcast, with special guests from the industry sharing their professional nightmare stories of times when they made mistakes, what went wrong and what they learned from them.
Do you consider yourself a mobile marketing expert? Think you have what it takes to distinguish the winning ads from the losers? Find out as we showcase real world, A/B tested ad creatives in this interactive game show! Everyone gets to play so bring your game face. And yes, there are prizes involved!
Retention metric - something we love, fear and cherish at the same time. Analysts and product owners spend numerous hours researching, banging their heads against the wall, obsessing about it. Can it be that sometimes it is in vain? Should you get hung up on a metric and overlook something entirely different and unique? I am happy to share my experience, backed by real examples. Warning: This might hurt a little.
Luca Dell'Orletta, Head of Mobile for the Nestlé Group, will share best practices on how to manage large Portfolios of Mobile applications in different categories. Learn how to stay in control while moving fast, select the best tools and services, continuous measure, learn and implement and much more in an insightful session from a digital leader of one of the biggest companies worldwide!
People-Based Attribution (PBA) has been evolving for years but thanks to mobile and the adoption of mobile-first marketing, we are closer than ever to reaching the Holy Grail. In the session, we'll dive deep into the benefits of PBA and how it's done.
Everyone seems to have growth in their job title these days, but rarely people realize growth comes with a price. Join this discussion if you are interested in the secret behind companies that have scaled up and stayed big for years.
Are you ready to up your mobile programmatic game? Maybe you’re even considering taking programmatic in-house? Before you take that next step, be sure you’re asking the right questions on 5 key topics that will impact your success, including user-level revenue data and in-app bidding. You’ll leave this session ready to return to your company armed with actionable insights that take your programmatic strategy to the next level.
The average person is exposed to 5,000 ads a day, online and off. To be relevant, marketers need data and technology to gauge people’s context, and human creativity to craft the message that resonates. Liftoff will share insights from their first creative ever report, highlighting ad costs and engagement by ad creative format to help you benchmark your mobile ad creative performance. Learn best practices for all ad formats (video, interactive, banner, etc.) and understand the key drivers for designing high-performing ads. first ever creative report.
There are as many UA Channels as there are languages in the world, and it seems like each one is speaking their own dialect. How do you know which ones you should explore? How can you develop the right mix for your UA strategies, and not become overly-dependent on single-channel strategies while at the same time not losing your entire budget on risky alternative channels? Should you dip your toe in the programmatic waters, or just stick to the Facebook/UAC duopoly? Our panel of Mobile App UA experts will help you figure out which channels might perform best for your business, and which you might want to steer clear of.
Engagement is a key area of true growth. Relying solely on User Acquisition and constantly trying to accumulate new users will result in making your long-term growth strategies more difficult to achieve. Work smarter to grow your app by retaining your users longer through better engagement strategies.
Join this panel discussion to hear from marketeers about their ways of measuring the incrementality of both UA & App Retargeting. We’ll cover everything including the differences, challenges, and the latest trends.
We're going to be giving away an Apple Watch, courtesy of AppOnboard! Must be present to win this present, so see you there right after lunch!
In this session of User Acquisition experts, we’ll dive into the best practices, successes and failures, when working with the 3 major UA platforms very closely with dedicated teams. We’ll discuss how Search Ads (Apple Search Ads) play a huge role in completing the channel mix by helping User Growth and Product Growth Team discover and validate a huge spectrum of intents and potential features. We’ll also discuss when, why and how to diversify your spend in regards to the Google/Facebook Duopoly vs Programmatic vs All Others.
MTA in Practice: How do I get my users to convert? How many touch points do I need and which type of touch points should they be?
In the past 5 years, the requirements for building a Growth function have morphed from being a collection of marketers to one including Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists. Learn about how FoxNext Games has structured their Growth group to operate on a lean and fast basis.
Apple Search Ads offers a unique opportunity as not only a high ROI User Acquisition channel, but also an essential component that can increase your ASO returns. Part one of this session will offer novel techniques for boosting your Search Ads ROI, and part two will explain the overlap between Search Ads and ASO, outlining key actions which can help you drive higher returns across both organic and paid.
"Behind every success, there are multiple mistakes." Gessica Bicego (Blinkist) and Andy Carvell (Phiture) host a special live episode of their Mobile Growth Nightmares podcast, with special guests from the industry sharing their professional nightmare stories of times when they made mistakes, what went wrong and what they learned from them.
Do you consider yourself a mobile marketing expert? Think you have what it takes to distinguish the winning ads from the losers? Find out as we showcase real world, A/B tested ad creatives in this interactive game show! Everyone gets to play so bring your game face. And yes, there are prizes involved!
Sharon Biggar, Chief Growth Officer at goin, will walk through her 5 key takeaways following her journey to bring in-app programmatic media buying in-house last year. From choosing the right tech, to selecting the right inventory sources, to creating custom bidding optimization strategies. The shift didn't come without challenges, but ultimately, in-housing their programmatic strategy empowered the marketing team with insight and yielded better results than Social Point ever expected.
We believe in putting the right content in front of the right people and driving user acquisition through automation. What does that mean for you? Come join the Google Mobile Apps team on how to find your most valuable customers or players, and make the most of the tools available to you.
App downloads look great, but do users really end up using your app? Take a look at how onboarding can convert prospects to clients. Suvi's talk will give you five tested tips – with examples!
When you run user acquisition campaigns at scale it’s not always efficient to rely only on the duopoly of Google and Facebook. In this presentation, we’ll see - in a very original way - some suggestions for implementing an omnichannel strategy, and how to take advantage of those channels you might never think could work for your business.
A product manager’s perspective on what viral loops are, where they belong, and how to grow a product through vitality. How to make users drive more users to your app — the process behind engineering for viral growth.
Launching a new app with 0 users is daunting, but is the starting point for every wildly successful (and not successful) app. In this session, you will learn real world tips for rapid growth on a shoestring budget including ASO, localization, smart media spend, and how to build a roadmap by listening to your customers.
This is a case study how we used hyper targeted real time campaigns during the World Cup period to try to create most relevant connection between real life events and our User Acquisition campaigns. I will show how we achieved our goals, as well what we learnt to make these targeted campaigns even better for future big events.
Wooga has been investing heavily into playable ads for their games since 2018. Tim Shepherd, Wooga's Creative Director for Playable Ads, will present insights around design best practices, production options, and optimizations for playables, interactive ads, and Instant Games!
1. Conversion Optimization As Your Growth Driver
Discussion Led by Lott Weigeldt, Head of Growth, formerly with Runtastic
Move the needle on your key product metric to enable successful growth at this roundtable! Growth has often focused on user acquisition, but we need to look beyond those incoming numbers and understand and optimize in-product behavior. In this roundtable discussion, we will talk about your tactics to optimize conversions to engage or monetize users. Depending on your product, this could be uploading a photo, adding a friend, purchasing an in-app product or purchasing a subscription. Sharing best and worst practices about AB tests on conversion points, UI flows, optimization by user segmentation and any other conversion optimization you are currently tackling will allow us to learn from each other’s experience and accelerate growth within product.
2. The Success of an App is Not Only About Marketing
Discussion Led by Raffaele Triggiano, Independent Growth Consultant
Join this panel to hear from marketeers how they leverage the relationship with other teams such as product and engineering to not only achieve app growth but to continuously also improve also the product. Learn what others are doing and share what you are doing!
1. ASO Roundtable
Discussion Led by Sara Cole, Director of Marketing, Eyecon Global
ASO (app store optimization) is vital for sustainable app growth. Join the roundtable discussion about implementing successful ASO strategies including keyword research, A/B testing, measuring results, the difference between Google Play and Apple and more.
2. Combating Fraud
Discussion Led by Thomas Brooks, Mobile Marketing Specialist, Delivery Hero
Fraud impacts all aspects of mobile marketing. As the market develops so too do more creative fraudsters. Join us to tackle the challenges in a rapidly changing environment. We will cover: What defines mobile fraud, and how do we quantify fraudulent activity. How to identify fraud in your campaigns, from attribution stealing to event spoofing. Finally, how can we counter fraud, and what methods can we take to prevent fraud in the future.
3. Content as an Acquisition Channel
Discussion Led by John Bonten, VP of Growth, formerly Spotify
John Bonten will share some of his experiences working with companies such as Spotify, Framer, Tinder, and Calm. Together, the roundtable participants will help to identify themes to discuss in depth such as building a knowledge base to improve usage of a product, how content is a very viable and important acquisition channel, and more!
In this 80-minute workshop, there will be NO PHONES OR COMPUTERS ALLOWED. Your expert instructor, Lior Barak from Tale About Data, will dive deep into the question, "How can we drive Automation in our organizations?"
In the session, you will learn:
1. Applying Automation Without Having an Engineer
2. Databases and Data
3. Reporting…Is This Truly Important?
4. Machines to Drive Automation
We will provide you with pen and paper, since there are no pictures allowed during this learning session about how to make Automation a reality in your organization!
Ask your questions while we stream and discuss the good and bad of remarketing with Anna Yukhtenko, Games Analyst at Hutch, the famous publisher of massive game titles like "Top Drives" or "Hill Dash!"
"AGS was a great event with more content derived from real-life practice than anything else I've seen. The idea for smaller expert sessions and forced conversations via roundtables was great!"
Piotr Prędkiewicz, App Growth Expert"App Growth Summit is the right scenario and opportunity to meet experts across different industries around the world, share value and learn from each other! "
Jéssica Llarena, Decathlon UK