The data describes the strategies that mobile game developers worldwide plan to use to expand their audience base as of November 2017, ranked by level of importance. According to the results, 29% of developers placed app store promotion as their highest strategized priority in terms of expanding their audience base, while in comparison 57.4% ranked traditional display advertising as their lowest priority.
App store promotion | 29 | 35.3 | 22.2 | 13.5 |
Paid user acquisition | 21.1 | 30.1 | 25.4 | 23.4 |
Social media | 18 | 47.3 | 28.3 | 6.3 |
Video advertising | 13.9 | 37.8 | 34 | 14.4 |
Influencer marketing | 12 | 34.1 | 38.5 | 15.4 |
Interactive/playable ads | 8.8 | 21.5 | 30.7 | 39 |
In-game advertising | 8.3 | 33.3 | 38.2 | 20.1 |
PR activity | 7.7 | 26.6 | 40.1 | 25.6 |
Traditional marketing | 3.4 | 20.3 | 34.8 | 41.5 |
Traditional display advertising | 2.9 | 11.3 | 28.4 | 57.4 |