Why You Should Be A/B Testing Your App Store Pages - Jesse Lempiäinen (Geeklab)
Oct 11, 2023
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Jesse Lempiäinen, CEO of Geeklab, discusses the advantages of A/B testing app store pages and the key metrics to measure. He shares insights on app store optimization, leveraging AI, and the impact of privacy changes. The chapter descriptions touch on the challenges and successes of starting a company, A/B testing in app development, and analyzing user behavior in mobile marketing.
A/B testing app store pages is essential for optimizing app performance and marketing strategies.
Geeklab utilizes AI to streamline app testing processes, improve efficiency, and enhance creative capabilities.
Deep dives
About Eclav and its CEO
Jesse Lampianon, the CEO and co-founder of Eclav, shares his background, having previously worked at Herovio, the makers of Angry Birds. He talks about the inspiration behind starting Eclav, which stemmed from the need to find a tool to test different game names. Lampianon also highlights Eclav's growth over the years, now a team of 19 people based in Helsinki, Finland.
GeekLab's Platform for Creating App Store Pages
GeekLab offers a platform that allows users to create app store pages for various app stores, including Apple, Google Play, and Huawei. This platform is designed to overcome the limitations of native testing opportunities provided by Apple and Google. It offers the capability to test app names and different features before fully developing the app. GeekLab also provides additional tools, such as surveys, to support different testing scenarios and optimize app performance in the competitive app market.
Testing Strategies, Targeting, and Metrics
GeekLab helps developers with A/B testing and optimizing the performance of their ads. The platform enables testing different marketing messages, themes, and creatives, leveraging platforms like Facebook and Instagram. GeekLab emphasizes the importance of key metrics like IPM (installs per thousand impressions) and the distinction between decisive and exploring users. Understanding the different user segments, behaviors, and preferences is crucial in fine-tuning marketing strategies and improving app performance.
The Role of AI and Future Trends in Mobile Marketing
GeekLab actively utilizes AI technologies in its platform, such as image generation and language models like ChatGPT. They leverage AI to streamline visual briefs, generate solid descriptions, and improve the efficiency of their testing processes. Looking ahead, AI is expected to play a significant role in transforming the mobile marketing landscape, especially in areas like video and image generation. While it's challenging to predict the specific changes in mobile marketing over the next three years, AI is likely to drive advancements in speed, efficiency, and creative capabilities.
Jesse Lempiäinen’s agency helps apps test their marketing strategies for App Store, Google Play, and Steam pages before their product launches. In this episode, you’ll learn the advantages of a/b testing your app store pages and take away the key metrics to measure.
Jess got his start in mobile marketing at Rovio working on Angry Bird before co-founding Geeklab where he is the CEO today. Jesse is based in Finland.
Questions Jesse Answered in this Episode:
What have you developed at Geeklab
Do apps need to have different strategies for different app stores?
What have you learned since starting the company?
What are app developers A/B testing in the app store with your platform?
Are there specific creatives that you leverage more than others?
How are you leveraging AI at Geeklab?
What quantitative metrics are you looking at when A/B testing?
Have you found that apps need to scrap their advertising strategies when they see high download volumes but Day 1 retention isn’t there?
How have privacy changes affected the testing that you do?
Timestamp:
1:40 How Jesse co-founded Geeklab
3:52 What does Geeklab do?
6:45 App store optimization for Apple vs. Google Play
7:47 Early startup learnings
10:28 What A/B testing app store pages looks like
14:07 Creatives: efficiency vs. performance
15:32 Leveraging AI at Geeklab
19:07 Key metrics to app store page testing
27:27 What we learned from ATT and IDFA
30:26 Surveys vs. user behavior
Quotes:
(4:04-4:32) “The reason why we need a tool like ours is that there are certain limitations that come with the native testing opportunities that Apple or Google provides. Like I mentioned, coming up with a new game idea or new app idea, and wanting to figure out what to call the app itself would be something that you couldn’t test with the actual testing pages because they don’t support any testing unless you actually develop the app already and have it up and running.”