The most successful apps in mobile are free. However, to launch future apps, and keep the proverbial doors open, you need revenue. That’s where monetization comes in.
In 2015, opening your app to brand dollars through programmatic advertising is one of the best ways to make the dollars flow, and (most importantly) not totally irritate users.
Monetization was a common theme of my talk today at PG Connects in London. For those of you who can’t join me in person, I’m sharing a few takeaways here on monetization trends to be aware of this year.
24. 24Infrastructure for In-App Video Advertising
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Editor's Notes
Caveat:
All of the trends exist
A lot of ad-tech event had its “coming of age” moment
A shift in marketplace realities
Programmatic buying
Automated marketplace
Any ad buy that gets processed via machines
RTB
Supply and Demand side platforms
fundamental shift in not just how media is bought
Not only that, a shift in how advertisers can engage with consumers more effectively
Brands able to spend across multiple channels efficiently
The programmatic approach is technology-driven as opposed to the historical approach of negotiating price on media inventory.
Marketers can manage their bids for the banners and the pricing for the data that they are layering on to target their audiences.
A demand-side platform (DSP) is a system that allows buyers of digital advertising inventory to manage multiple ad exchange and data exchange accounts through one interface.
Real-time bidding for displaying online ads takes place within the ad exchanges, and by utilizing a DSP, marketers can manage their bids for the banners and the pricing for the data that they are layering on to target their audiences.
In October 2014, 52% of the time consumers spent online occurred within smartphone and tablet apps,
According to comScore Inc.
Programmatic approach enables Premium in-app inventory, at scale
34% of advertisers say they plan to move money away from TV advertising to mobile this year
More brands and advertisers accessing in-app inventory:
Main points for publishers:
Access to Brand marketers, at scale
making inventory available to thousands to top brand advertisers
More competition for the inventory
More diversification of ads running on the inventory
DataScience predicts best possible yielding ad - CPM or CPI - so there's an increased chance at higher revenue yield
Advertiser wants control over what inventory theyre buying
In-App inventory is Safe and Quality
Safe - SDK direct, 100% transparent app name and device ID
Quality - 100% viewable, HD Quality, Targeting via Audio
PMP:
Advertiser wants control over what inventory theyre buying
I want to show my premium brand on these 10-15 apps
simple solution: blacklisting/whitelisting
Publisher point of view:
create a subset of non-competing campaigns running in specific app or apps
Advertiser point of view:
Mandalay’s (candy) buying through programmatic marketplace in appropriate apps only
Advertiser getting behind a specific genre
Access to broader demand - not selling campaigns hand to mouth, campaign by campaign
10000 apps => finding socks in a mall
Programmatic => your app is the sock store
For example, we could create a Racing PMP that includes top Racing games and buyers with products that lend well to that category. That's an example of categorical PMP.
according to eMarketer:
spend on mobile video more than doubled this year to reach $1.5 billion
is expected to quadruple to over $6 billion by 2018.
Opt-in is great for flow, but how can we make it even better
Obviously need to make the value prop clear for the user
But how do we go beyond the dialog box