admin To optimize ads revenue during the Covid-19 pandemic, Google has listed some best ad practices for its popular mobile advertising platform AdMob. While more app usage and more ad impressions would typically suggest more income for app developers, minimized ad spend has reulted lesser overall income in some cases on its AdMob platform.
According to Google, to capture the revenue opportunity from the growth in user engagement , app developers must enable user metrics to help understand changes in how people are using their app, so they can take actions to optimize revenue.
“For example, if you notice an uptick in active users, you could increase the value of rewarded ads to help drive more ad interactions,” Google stated late Friday.
Spreading your ad layout strategy can escalate total ad placements to help drive up income.
Ali Pasha, Group Product Manager, Google AdMob informed, “AdMob offers many engaging ad formats for you to choose from. For example, rewarded ads offer a great user experience. Native ads allow you to customize the look and feel to match the visual design of your app. And, banner and interstitial ads are very easy-to-implement.”
Google stated that developers should consider making changes to apps to further extend user engagement.
PlayDots, the maker of the popular Dots game, gave all users three hours of infinite lives daily for free for a full month in April. This allowed users to enjoy the game fully and boosted the number of levels completed, which led to more ads being watched. “Rewarded ads is another great way to earn additional revenue from increased user engagement for IAP-heavy apps (in-app purchases). Implementing rewarded ads can unlock premium content for non-paying users and keep them more engaged,” informed Google.
If you are concerned about negative impact from ads on paying users, smart segmentation can help you monetize non-purchasers with a personalized experience. This feature uses machine learning to predict and segment these two groups of users and will only show ads to predicted non-purchasers.
“Frequency caps allow you to set the number of times ads appear to the same user,” said Google.
“Relaxing this setting will increase ad density to help you earn more. One thing to note is that higher ad frequency caps may affect user retention. We recommend using Firebase Remote Config to A/B test the changes before rolling them out to all users to ensure a good user experience,” the company clarified.
Ad Network Optimisation feature offers an easy solution to help developers free up time to spend on other areas of their business. “If you are using a different platform to mediate AdMob demand, you can set your ad units to a Google optimized eCPM floor which allows Google to dynamically set the floors based on your preference,” stated Google.
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