Compared with the gradually rebounded H1 2023 ad market, the first month into H2 saw an overall downward trend in global mobile game advertising, with publisher's intention to advertise weakening. According to AppGrowing, the volume of ad and app of global mobile games decreased significantly in July, with the former dropping by 14.4% MoM. However, leading publishers and games were not seriously affected, and continued heavy advertising. Matchingham Games, Playrix, Lilith Games, IGG, NetEase, and other well-known publishers having games in the Top 15 by ads. For pre-registrations, a number of mobile games from China made the list, such as XD Games' 《鈴蘭之劍：為這和平的世界(Sword of Lily of the Valley: For This Peaceful World)》. Here is AppGrowing's analysis of the global mobile […]

According to the April 2023 Global Mobile Game Advertising Review by AppGrowing, Glaciers Game's 超能世界(Super World) took the 1st in App Store ad ranking and 11th in Google Play, with a significant increase in advertising. Since 2022, Glaciers Game has been the "dark horse" in the industry. With weirdly hot "Doge Ads", Glaciers Game's X-hero has been revitalized after 2 years of release, and has not only reached the top of the app store in several countries/regions, but also contributed over 120 million in revenue, accounting for 46.21% of Glaciers Game's gaming revenue. The success of X-hero has proven the viability of the "Non-Core Gameplay + Doge" advertising strategy. Glaciers Game rapidly scaled up the replications, as represented by the […]

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 […]

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 […]

2022 is a year when the global mobile game industry enters a downward cycle. Various market research institutions generally predict negative growth in global mobile game revenue in 2022. AppGrowing’s data monitoring of the mobile advertising market outside mainland China also found that the proportion of mobile game advertisers in 2022 declined year-on-year, which reflects the contraction of the global mobile game industry. In order to help practitioners in the mobile game industry more fully understand the changes in the global mobile game market, AppGrowing released the "2022 Mobile Game Advertising White Paper", which interprets the 2022 mobile game marketing situation from the perspectives of market trends, category analysis, and top advertiser cases. The following is a summary of the […]

According to the statistics, mobile accounts for approximately half of the web traffic worldwide. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2021, mobile devices (excluding tablets) generated nearly 55 percent of global website traffic. Being in such an era, the importance of mobile marketing is self-evident. You may have heard of banner ads, In-Feed ads, native ads, and a few other terms, and have been confused by the wide variety. In this article, AppGrowing will give an overview of mobile advertising, introducing both mainstream and emerging forms of mobile advertising. (As you know, the core of AppGrowing's service centered around mobile ad intelligence)     If classified according to the location where the ads appear, mainstream mobile advertising can be broadly classified as follows: App Open Ads Banner Ads Interstitial Ads In-Feed Ads Rewarded Ads Pre-Roll Ads   1. App Open Ads   source: pangleglobal    App open […]

1. Fake mobile game ads are not uncommon today   Typically mobile game ads will show the most exciting features of the game and the gameplay, but not every ad, only the decent ones. What is annoying is that some others don't show the real gameplay in the game, which are the annoying fake mobile game ads. I guess you've already seen many examples of fake mobile game ads when surfing the Internet. Today not only mobile games but also Youtube or some social platforms like Facebook or Twitter, are usually plagued with advertisements for mobile games. The ads appear as long as you're connected to Wi-Fi or mobile data. Let's take a look at some examples.   1.1 Homescapes […]