Ep.3 Thomas Kriebernegg from App Radar on how to position your app for success in App Stores including tips like leveraging movies launches for ASO results.
Dec 19, 2022
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Thomas Kriebernegg, Co-Founder of App Radar, discusses tips for app success including choosing profitable categories, launching in app stores, defining keywords & visuals, creating customized user journeys, and predicting app trends. Topics covered include app market trends, keyword optimization, Apple Search Ads, experimenting with paid user acquisition channels, and the impact of incentivized downloads on rankings.
Gaming and FinTech are trending categories in the App Store, offering potential success for app developers.
Market research using tools like App Radar, analyzing top charts and trending keywords, is crucial before app launch.
Deep dives
Overview of Appradar
Appradar is a company that specializes in App Store Optimization (ASO) tools for apps and mobile games. They provide a tool that helps analyze the visibility and rankings of apps for specific keywords, as well as competitor analysis. Appradar also offers features to optimize app store listings, such as optimizing titles, keywords, and descriptions. Recently, they have expanded their services into app marketing and paid performance marketing analysis.
Trending Categories in the App Store
According to Thomas, the guest speaker, gaming is an evergreen category that continues to perform well, especially in casual and hyper-casual gaming. He highlights the popularity of small games with low time investment that have successfully reached billions of users. Additionally, Thomas mentions that FinTech, including crypto and NFTs, is a trending category in the App Store. Taking advantage of these trending categories can be beneficial for app developers who are planning to launch their apps.
App Store Optimization Strategies
Thomas suggests that before launching an app, extensive market research should be conducted using tools like Appradar. This includes analyzing top charts, monitoring app movement, and identifying trending keywords. He emphasizes the importance of finding a balance between highly relevant keywords, low competition, and decent search volume. Thomas also recommends using Appradar for analyzing keyword rankings and leveraging Apple Search Ads as a shortcut for keyword research. Additionally, he advises optimizing visuals, such as screenshots and app icons, to improve conversion rates and user engagement.
In this episode, together with the Managing Director and Co-Founder of App Radar Thomas Kriebernegg, we talk about how to choose the most profitable category for your app, how to launch your app in Apple Store and Google Play, how to define the perfect keywords & visuals sets, how to create customized user journey and predict upcoming app trends based on retrospective analysis.
Thomas is Managing Director and Co-Founder of App Radar. He is an app enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in online marketing. Among App Radar's clients are big game publishers like Ironhide (Kingdom Rush), Wargaming (War of Ships), and language-learning app Chatterbug
00:45 what is App Radar
02:12 the most trending categories for launching apps (Games & Fintech)
03:35 must have things you should remember when launching an app in app stores
04:11 retrospective trends research to define the best category for your app В ШОРТС ПРО ТРЕНДЫ И ТОП ГАН до 5,11
06:27 how to define the perfect keywords set for both title and description
09:20 tools to use to find keywords
10:40 optimization of visuals (icons, screenshots)
12:11 how to build customized user journeys with custom product pages
14:31 research capabilities of Apple Search Ads
15:31 when is the right time to experiment with other paid user acquisition channels
19:00 whether incentiveced downloads are a good ranking strategy
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