Here is AppGrowing's analytics of April 2023 mobile App advertising based on data from 24 global media in 50 countries/regions.   01 Advertising Trends   Looking at the overall data, the number of Apps advertised in April 2023 was 24,648, an increase of 2.1% compared to March. (See the report of March 2023.) The Ad Volume was 3.58M+ and the Creative Volume was 1.05M+, both lower than in March. It can be seen that while more Apps were advertised, developers scaled back their advertising. In addition, both App Volume and Ad Volume peaked on April 25, with the former over 13k and the latter reaching 760K+. Among the Ad Volume of a Single App, 78.96% Apps were concentrated in the […]

Entering Q2 2023, the demand for advertising of mobile games is increasing. According to AppGrowing, the app volume of global advertised mobile games increased minimally in April, but the ad volume increased by 28.2% compared with March, which indicates that game advertisers are further expanding their advertising campaigns and the "battle to acquire users" is becoming fiercer. Meanwhile, April was also a month of intense competition for Chinese games. miHoYo Honkai: Star Rail, Lilith Games Call of Dragons, Eskyfun 魔鏡物語 and other new games were released one after another, becoming new competitors in the market; while "old" games such as Glaciers Game 超能世界 have also boosted their advertising. What about the macro advertising statistics in April? Are there any new […]

2022 was a year of advertising contraction for the global mobile gaming industry, a trend that continues into Q1 2023, with developers showing a more cautious approach to new releases and advertising campaigns. AppGrowing, together with Youxiputao.com and diandian.com, released Q1 2023 Mid Core & Hard Core Mobile Games Global Advertising Report in order to help practitioners in the mobile game industry to better grasp the changes in the global market. The report provides a systematic review and analysis of market revenue and download volume, advertising, game categories and market development. The following are extracts from the report, and the full report is available at the end of this article. 01 Mobile Game Market Summary According to diandian.com, in Q1 […]

Recently, the most awaited new game is undoubtedly miHoYo's Honkai: Star Rail. The turn-based RPG has been available on April 26 on all platforms. According to AppGrowing, Honkai: Star Rail is already in the top 3 of the Google Play Pre-registration list. In the past 30 days, it has released over 2,000 sets of ad creatives, an extremely strong advertising campaign during the pre-registration period. Source: AppGrowing As the second globally released and console-ready game from miHoYo, Honkai: Star Rail is blessed with high expectations. Driven by massive advertising and a wide range of content marketing, it has officially announced that the game has exceeded 10M pre-registrations globally. From Genshin Impact to Honkai: Star Rail, miHoYo's global advertising and marketing strategy […]

Since last year, AI-related applications, represented by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, have been popping up. The extremely high output efficiency and content quality have led more and more industries to attach importance to the productivity evolution that AI may bring. For mobile marketing, the further growth of AIGC will enable a significant increase in ad productivity. AppGrowing has launched the new feature, [AI Voice Generator], which provides automated generation of Ad Scripts and Voiceover with AIGC technology. It greatly improves the efficiency of multilingual copy and audio production, and effectively reduces the threshold of ad creatives' localization.   01 15 Languages Supported   Currently, [AI Voice Generator] can generate scripts in 15 languages and 3 durations including 15s, 30s, and […]

This is AppGrowing's monthly review of global mobile game media buying in March 2023 based on the advertising data of 24 media platforms in 50 countries/regions around the world.   01 Trends in Mobile Game Advertising   On the whole, in March 2023, the number of mobile games advertised was 23,051, the number of mobile game ads in that month was 2,383,288, and the number of ad creatives was 784,943, all higher than February, reflecting a certain extent the rebound of the mobile games’ investment in advertising. The peak of ad volume and the number of apps being advertising in the month is concentrated in the first 20 days. Among them, the ad volume and the number of apps being […]

This is AppGrowing's monthly review of global mobile app media buying in March 2023 based on the advertising data of 24 media platforms in 50 countries/regions around the world.   01 Trends in Mobile App Advertising   On the whole, in March 2023, the number of mobile apps advertised was 24,135, the number of mobile app ads in that month was 3,580,338, and the number of ad creatives was 1,337,002, all higher than February, reflecting a certain extent the rebound of the mobile apps’ investment in advertising. The peak of ad volume and number of apps being advertising in the month is on March 2. 82.32% mobile apps advertised less than 100 ads and 10.51% advertised 100～299. This month, Tools […]

According to AppGrowing, Habby's new game "SSSnaker"(Chinese:蛇蛇貪吃） has generated numerous new ads recently, and now won the Top 5 in the new product list. "SSSnaker" was launched on March 21, and its downloads and revenue have grown rapidly since then. On app store charts, the game has already reached the top of the iOS free charts in the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and South Korea markets, second in Japan and ninth in the United States. In terms of revenue, "SSSnaker" has entered the top 10 iOS revenue chart in Taiwan. Considering that the game adopts a mixed monetization model, the actual income will be even higher.     Right after "Survivor.io", Habby has come up with another "Roguelite +" game. […]

This is AppGrowing's monthly review of global mobile game media buying in February 2023 based on the advertising data of 24 media platforms in 50 countries/regions around the world. 01 Trends in Mobile Game Advertising   On the whole, in February 2023, the number of mobile games advertised was 20,677, the number of mobile game ads in that month was 2,038,121, and the number of ad creatives was 702,782, which was slightly lower than that in January. The peak of ad volume and the number of apps being advertising in the month is concentrated in the last twenty days. Among them, the ad volume and the number of apps being advertising are the largest on February 28, with 553,315 ads and 12,433 […]

The following is AppGrowing Global’s monthly review of global mobile game media buying in January 2023 based on the advertising data of 24 media platforms in 50 countries/regions around the world.   01 Trends in Mobile Game Advertising Judging from the data of mobile game ads in January, there were 21,395 mobile games created 2,270,065 mobile game ads, with 725,884 ad creatives. The peaks of the number of apps and the volume of ads are concentrated in the middle and late ten days, among which the volume of ads on January 21 is the largest, reaching 572,080 in a single day.     The number of apps being advertising throughout the month changes smoothly, while the number of ads shows […]