Delivered at Casual Connect Tel Aviv 2016 | While cost-per-install (CPI) may have dominated as the go-to metric for mobile marketers, we’re starting to see media buyers opting for more nuanced metrics like cost-per-engagement or CPE to measure the performance quality of their mobile campaigns. This session will cover the increasing importance of quality based metrics such as CPE, the advantages and disadvantages of the metric, and how you might implement CPE in your app marketing campaigns.
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Media Pricing: Then and Now
1995
Netscape and Infoseek
first adopted CPM
1996
DoubleClick adopted CPM
as its standard pricing
1998
Goto.com pioneered
precursor to CPC pricing
model
2002
Google formally adopted
CPC pricing model
CPC has been the standard pricing
model for paid search ever since
Today
CPA Cost per action
CPE Cost per engagement
CPC Cost per click
oCPM Optimized Cost per impression
CPM Cost per thousand impressions
CPV Cost per completed view
All pricing options are translated into a single
metric on the publisher's side: eCPM
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Effort required to optimize performance vs. efficiency risk
CPA
CPE
CPC
oCPM
CPM/CPV
Risk
Required optimization effort
CPA Cost per action
CPE Cost per engagement
CPC Cost per click
oCPM Optimized cost per impression
CPM Cost per thousand impressions
CPV Cost per completed view
Scale
6. Find your Engagement
by measuring Everything
How do you know what your E should be? Let the machine come to conclusion
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Registered Reached level X Shared Wrote a review Watched RV Many more
...
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7. The right tool
at the right time
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CPE during
soft launch
CPE during lower
funnel conversions
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8. The right tool
at the right time
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The E - Gun IAPPlays a few levels A Bug
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9. Match your call to action
to your engagement3
Playable Ad featuring Fishdom Level 3 The E: Reach Fishdom Level 4
Ad App
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12. Buy on impression to
price your engagement5
$5 LTV $1 LTV $0.5 LTV
Targeting feature
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13. Constantly monitor
Are your LTV predictions still on the right track?
and fine tune your E
Prediction
Actual
LTV
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day7 Day 8 Da9 Day 10
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$1.5
$0.4
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17. 8 A CPE and incent love affair
CPE Users
Incent Users
Combine the two to enjoy the best of both worlds: Low CPI (incent) and guaranteed ROI (CPE)
USERS
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day7 Day 8 Da9 Day 10
$ $ $
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19. 01 Put your E where
Don’t let your engagement get lost in the noise
you can see it
20. 1 Go as granular
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Does your E behave similarly across devices / geos / gender / age?
USA
LTV $1
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21. 11
LTV $1.21
iPhone 7
35-44
LTV $1.25
LG G4
18-24
LTV $0.85
HTC 10
25-34
LTV $0.45
Samsung S3
25-34
LTV $
Samsu
35-
$0.78
G G5
5-54
Go as granular
as you can
Does your E behave similarly across devices / geos / gender / age?
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https://getpocket.com/a/read/701909319
the precursor to the CPC pricing model was pioneered by Goto.com, which later became Overture (and was eventually acquired by Yahoo).
Google formally adopted the pricing model in 2002, and CPC has been the standard pricing model for paid search ever since,
iving rise to CPE (cost-per-engagement) and CPF (cost-per-follower/fan) for social media, along with CPV (cost-per-view) for internet video, and CPI (cost per app install) for mobile.
Ultimately, all pricing options are translated into a single metric on the publisher side: eCPM,
You must have an E to run CPE campaigns
Make sure to measure everything - let the machine come to conclusion
The right message for the right pricing model
Upopa gun ad for buying a gun - banner inside another app leads to the weapon screen
The right message for the right pricing model
Upopa gun ad for buying a gun - banner inside another app leads to the weapon screen
The right message for the right pricing model
Upopa gun ad for buying a gun - banner inside another app leads to the weapon screen
Use buying on impression to get to know your engagement - first buy 1000 m then look at what percentage of that 1000 start converting on engagement, allow you to determine the cost of that engagement value
Use buying on impression to get to know your engagement - first buy 1000 m then look at what percentage of that 1000 start converting on engagement, allow you to determine the cost of that engagement value
Use buying on impression to get to know your engagement - first buy 1000 m then look at what percentage of that 1000 start converting on engagement, allow you to determine the cost of that engagement value
CPE can be deceiving
Example: hack word of mouth
Ad Copy: “if this is the best puzzle game you’ve ever played, promise to say it”
Engagement: app reviews
Example: hack word of mouth
Ad Copy: “if this is the best puzzle game you’ve ever played, promise to say it”
Engagement: app reviews