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CHOOSING OPTIMAL EVENTS FOR SKADNETWORK CONVERSION VALUES IN IOS USER
ACQUISITION

 * June 27, 2022
 * Best Practices

Last week Rovio & Singular hosted a webinar to share their experience of a year
with SKAN, it’s an excellent resource that I can highly recommend for anyone
looking to increase the effectiveness in iOS marketing.

Rovio is an institution in the mobile space, at around 500 employees they often
share their expertise and experience with the industry. The problem is, Rovio’s
resources dwarf that of most app developers. In the webinar, they mentioned the
importance of collaboration among their UA teams, UA product teams, BI teams,
and data science teams. Teams being the keyword. They likely have more employees
solving the SKAdNetwork challenge than most app developers have working for the
entire company.

So when Rovio says they’re still not 100% in nailing SKAN marketing, what hope
do the rest of app developers have?

Universally, one of the biggest suggested takeaways in increasing effectiveness
in SKAN is “figure out which event in your app is the most important to your
business” to use for conversion values. First, what is a conversion value?
According to Apple:

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Advertisers can configure conversion values based on their preferences, with
each representing a different type of engagement. For example, they might
configure three conversion values to capture when someone finished an onboarding
tutorial, made an in-app purchase, or purchased a subscription. (Apple)



In short, conversion values are used to send ad platforms signals on successful
users. And while companies like Rovio can throw an army of data scientists at
finding the optimal conversion value strategy, it may seem like an
insurmountable data science problem out of reach for most app developers. We at
AdLibertas have some tips how mobile apps can choose and maintain the most
meaningful events for making your SKAN campaigns effective.


CHOOSING YOUR EVENTS

When choosing events, you’ll want something the user does as early in the app as
possible to maximize signal to the marketing campaign. The general recommended
window for sending back a conversion event is 24 hours, so you’ll need to choose
an event that falls within the user’s first day to maximize effectiveness.
Another consideration is the event density – or, how often the event fires per
user. Too few events and the SKAN optimization won’t see enough signal for
optimization. Of course, the ultimate event is an in-app-purchase conversion,
however since most apps don’t see higher than a single-digit conversion during
the first day, the signal of a “valuable user” will be so low, it’ll likely
prove ineffective.

Therefore the most effective event (1) will be early in the app, (2) fired by a
comparatively large number of users, and (3) will signal a high-value user.
There are three distinct strategies for choosing your events:

1. CHOOSE A DISTINCT EVENT:

Choosing a single event is the most straightforward method to conceptualize, but
it requires a certain type of app design. As mentioned earlier, an in-app
purchase is obvious and straightforward, the problem is volume. Relying on only
purchases to signal high-value users might delay the results of campaign
optimization — or worse, not meet thresholds and limit value signals entirely.

Therefore app developers should also choose a commonly occurring, early app
event that only fires for high-value users, like creating a login, or starting a
trial. Depending on the app, this can be a solid signal for future user value.
As a real-world example, one app developer we work with found users completing
the tutorial indicated users are 2X more valuable.

2. USER THRESHOLDING:

Here, a conversion value is set after a certain threshold of core-functionality
happens in the app. This can be relayed after a threshold that signals a
high-value user. Because this can be set after a sequence or number of events,
the conversion value can be balanced between the maximum number of signals, and
against the thresholds that strongly indicate high user value.

To demonstrate we’ll use an example of a puzzle app: in this case, we have the
event puzzle_completed, which is fired after the completion of each puzzle in
the app. (Obviously this can be applied to levels finished, hands dealt,
profiles swiped, etcetera.) To set an initial threshold to indicate a high-value
user, you can simply compare the number of events fired by top users on day 1
and compare against the average user. In a real-world example, we found the
users who make it to level 10 on day 1 are twice as valuable as those who only
complete 1..

A second widely applicable —but often overlooked—example for setting thresholds
is the time in the app a user spends on their first day. Sometimes engagement
can be most clearly measured by actually measuring how long the user was engaged
during their first day. In a recent case study, an app developer saw 4X the
value of users who reached usage thresholds on their first day.

3. USER REVENUE:

A more sophisticated conversion value is to send the actual revenue earned of a
user on their first day, while IAP conversions might be too rare for reliable
signaling, ad-supported apps can have ten to dozens of ad impressions on a
single day. With real-time impression postbacks, app developers can use actual,
aggregated revenue as a signal for conversion values. And depending on the type
of LTV curve your app demonstrates, some apps will see the majority of revenue
earned from a user on day one.

 



In the thresholding example above, the app developer uses the number of “levels
finished” on day one to predict future value.

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RELATED: HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE DOLLAR IMPACT OF USER EVENTS?

To make the most effective use of your events you’ll need to measure the actual
dollar impact of these events. In other articles, we cover how to (1) segment
and measure the behavior of your top performing users then (2) how to predict
long-term value (pLTV) of these users.

 



PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: SKADNETWORK 4.0

The latest version of Apple’s SKAN – out later this year –will allow you to
assign hierarchical conversion values as well as send multiple conversions per
user. For app developers, this increases the importance of having a, early,
clear understanding of the ascending order of the value of user events. With the
advent of fine vs. coarse-grained values and multiple conversion events, the
level of sophistication – and complexity – available for marketers allow much
more signal with campaign success.



Looking at the example above we see how app developers can choose multiple
measurements in an ascending order of value, sending the three highest
conversion values based on their measurements of historic user activity.

While developing a SKAdNetwork buying model may seem a daunting exercise limited
to those with armies of data scientists the reality with a minimal level of
investment any app developer can start to leverage the benefits of SKAN,
provided they make the initial investments in understanding their users and how
early app actions can influence future behaviors.

Interested in better measurement for your app?
See how customers drive growth with predictive lifetime value
See how AdLibertas pLTV forecasting works
Shortcut confidence in your pLTV projections

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