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🎮 Game Investing, Taking Back Control from SANs - and More 💼
Hi [FULL_NAME GOES HERE]
In today’s newsletter, we talk about,
🕹The State of Game Investing
🔫 Taking back control of self-reporting platforms
📈 Improving your app campaign performance
📓 Privacy Manifests
📞 Web to App Connect
🧸 Crafting awesome TikTok ads
From the Mobile UA Show:
OTHER RESOURCES
🤔We all know self-reporting platforms can make sh!% up. 😬
But can you take back control? Yep, we’ll show you how.
🚀How to make a substantial difference in your app campaign performance on Facebook.💪
Our Senior Mobile Marketer Viren has audited 100s of ad accounts and shares his conclusions with us.
🔒All you need to know about privacy manifests. 📜
Apple's introduction of Privacy Manifests can disrupt fingerprinting/probabilistic. In this post, we explore what’s impending and what you need to know.
The link between web and app ads - via Virendra Shekhawat.
How to structure that Hook-Body-CTA for extra clicks.
🚀 Daily Ad: Oddly satisfying ads and ads featuring visual metaphors 📱🎉
In this edition, we’ve included ‘oddly satisfying’ gaming ads and non-gaming ads showing visual metaphors.
That's it for this week.
Cheers -
Shamanth.
Welcome to The Mobile Growth Lab, your weekly dose of insights to help you win in a post-identifier world.
The Mobile Growth Lab features hard won insights from the front-lines of mobile marketing - delivered straight into your inbox. For free.
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