Yes ... this is the first Retention Masterclass in 9 months! But Peggy & John are still doing shows ... just in a different place. And we want you to join us Join the new show here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/clevertap-engage/id1561102284 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6XQFIWtQ5fcswHhLtvuo3m Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81NGQ4MGYyOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== And other platforms: https://anchor.fm/clevertap-engage Plus, you can watch us (you know you want to). YouTube is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTXk2GzdxACgkK72wm1QOZC0z5NaUMMKb

Subscriptions are the new revenue.  The new economy runs on subscriptions. News, games, videos … transportation … homes … meals … almost everything is or can be a subscription. Which means: if you want to win in the new economy, you’d better get good at driving subscription revenue. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier interview Vitaly Davydov, CEO and co-founder of Adapty.

Apps for kids is a totally difference space than games, on-demand apps, or any other part of the app ecosystem aimed at teens or adults. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and I chat with the product manager for Sago Mini World, Brennan Clark. Clark, who's led the company to over 350 million app installs and helped Sago Mini World transition to a subscription monetization model in 2017, shares how to ethically market and deliver apps for kids ... and how to deal with the fact that your user is one person, but your customer is another (parents). Both Peggy and I loved this interview: super-informative, super-interesting, and packed with insights that will be valuable for mobile marketers of all kinds of different apps.

Forecasting leaky buckets is super-helpful whether you're adding new users to your mobile app or new customers to your SaaS startup. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with Lift founder and CEO Dan Hestbaek. He works with companies in 90 countries to reduce church by an average of 30% and is able to predict church with astounding accuracy. But NPS is not a great measure, according to Dan. We chat about why ... the signs of churn ... the causes ... the solutions ... and how to stop churn before it even starts.

Dan Beasley, co-founder of Viker game studio in London, is launching Who Wants To Be a Millionaire on mobile in December 2020. Peggy Anne Salz and I chat with him on this episode of Retention Masterclass. We chat about the new game, about retention-first mobile marketing, typical mistakes in mobile user retention, and his best advice for game designers and marketers. We also talk about aligning app design for retention, what to do after the Corona bump, and what's next in gaming ...

How do you build a viable subscription business? Well, knowing your customers' needs better than they do themselves is a good start. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, we chat with former Google product manager Nick Hobbs about retention, acquisition, and product strategy for subscription-based businesses. Hobbs worked on the Google self-driving car team and led Google's iOS app. In our discussion, he chats about what he's doing with Brief, his new subscription-based news services that is hot among millennials and is doubling in customer size every month organically, without paid advertising. The result: literally startling insights and solid nuggets for anyone growing a subscription-based service or app.

We tend to think of great design as something that captures attention. But is it also something that keeps attention … and fosters retention? In this episode of Retention Masterclass Peggy Anne Salz and I are talking with Tatu Petersen-Jessen, an art director at Rovio, about design and creative in mobile games from acquisition to retention. Rovio’s mission statement is to “craft joy with player-focused gaming experiences that last for decades.” That’s kind of amazing … decades. Most gaming companies don’t think like that … they think of a day, a week, a few months. Rovio’s thinking retention right out of the gate. It seems to be working, too. In 2018, Rovio announced that their apps had been downloaded 4 billion times … and used in places like the International Space Station and Antarctica.  But now … I’m guessing it might be 5 or 6 billion.

As every mobile marketer on the planet knows … iOS 14 will in effect deprecate the IDFA by making it opt-in. The IDFA is likely going the way of the dodo bird and the third-party cookie. The Google Ad ID (GAID) might follow in a year or so. Does that mean the end of mobile marketing measurement? Not according to Brian Krebs of MetricWorks. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with Brian about measurement and retention in the age of privacy.

We almost never talk about utility apps. That's odd, because utilities is a top-5 app category on both Google Play and iOS, and there are many multiple billion-install apps in Utilities … think browsers, VPNs … search apps … and, of course emojis. Today, we’re going to fix that. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and I chat with Oded Onn, the senior VP of growth marketing for AppsFlyer, and a former exec with Gett, an ride-sharing/taxi app.

What can 120 million members and $1.7 billion in cash rewards teach us about retention?  You’ve probably never heard of Prodege. But you’ve probably heard of SwagBucks, or MyPoints, ShopAtHome, CouponCause, or Shoply, or a bunch of other different brands. They’re all brands from Prodege, which connects brands and consumers around coupons and cash rewards for buying or taking action on a company’s offer. Prodege is a customer acquisition giant that has quietly become one of the world’s largest non-social and non-search marketing channels.  With that kind of scale … you’d think they’d know a little about customer acquisition and retention ... so in this episode of Retention Masterclass Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with the company’s VP of revenue and business development, Lenny Rabin. Get a full transcript of this episode here: https://johnkoetsier.com/category/retention-masterclass-podcast/

We all know about the mobile growth tech stack ... but what tech stack do you need for world-class mobile user retention? In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with Christian Eckhardt, CEO of Customlytics. Formerly from Delivery Hero, Christian is a mobile user retention expert. We chat about "CRM" for mobile, the tech that supports it, and messaging formats and channels that help. One quote from the show: "My co-founder and I, well I think it's fair to conclude that we never really have done anything else than mobile marketing in our lives."

Retention is simple. But simple … doesn’t mean easy. In this episode of Retention Masterclass we chat with Vishal Anand, the CPO of CleverTap. Marketers spend a lot of time focused on how to retain users: what to do, when. How to onboard. What to show first. How to train. What messages to send.  But sometimes, we forget the simplest things. It’s all about the product! It’s all about the user experience … the customer experience. I mean, technique matters and technology matters, but if you don’t have a good product ... TikTok isn’t addictive because they have a better tech stack than you. Facebook doesn’t have a billion users because they send smarter push notifications. (Big hint, they don’t!) Clash of Clans isn’t STILL the top-grossing app because they onboard correctly. Note: Peggy Anne Salz had technical issues, so this episode is just with John Koetsier.

Are fat funnels good, even for medical professionals? Every smart marketer knows that customer retention is about much more than marketing. So today we’re talking to a head of product. She happens to be Dr. Ruth Guthoff-Rechnagel from Doctor Care Anywhere and, as you can guess from the name, she's been pretty busy during the current Covid-19 period. So busy that, she says, her funnels are fat. In this episode Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with Ruth about marketing, product, and -- of course -- retention.

What does acquiring a billion users teach you about retention? In this episode of Retention Masterclass Peggy Anne Salz and I chat about PicsArt, which is a true global phenomenon. It’s in the top .1% of apps in terms of installs, it’s hugely popular, and people have used it to create and share over 100 million pictures and images.  But before you get a billion users, you have to start with one. And that means you need a value proposition that works, a funnel that’s solid, and a user experience that delivers. So we chat with Jeff Roberto, VP of Growth Marketing, to learn more about how PicsArt has become a global phenomenon … with serious staying power.  Somehow, PicsArt, which is now about 7 or 8 years old … has 150M regular active users … and is still growing! In the fast-paced mobile ecosystem, that's impressive.

How do you hook mobile users to maximize retention? In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier interview Fouad Saeidi, the founder of App Growth Network. He's a gamer, he makes games, and he markets games ... so it's kind of the full meal deal. We talk about:  - growth  - monetization  - retention (of course) ... a 40% jump, even  - user engagement  -  gamification  - habit formation  - push notifications  - key learnings  - and, as always ... much more!

Are benchmarks bogus? Is measurement meaningless? In this edition of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier chat with Brian Balfour about the perils of benchmarks and measurement. Brian was the VP of Growth at Hubspot, which now has almost 80,000 customers. He’s been a founder and an entrepreneur in residence. He’s also the founder and CEO of Reforge, maybe the best place on the planet for the best marketers to learn how to be even better.1 We chat about:  - retention  - benchmarks  - measurement  - why retention is an output  - whether you can engineer in retention or not  - some of the best examples of retention he's seen  - keeping marginal audiences you acquired because of COVID-19

How do you grow your mobile business sustainably for the long term? In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier talk about what every mobile publisher wants: great users and great customers. And they don’t just want to get them, they want to keep them. And guess what … they also want to monetize them. So ... we interview a lot of retention heroes on this show and we figured it's time to start talking to some of the radioactive spiders that turn them into heroes.  One company that helps publishers accomplish that better than most is Liftoff. To learn a little bit more, we chat with Dennis Mink, the VP of Marketing at Liftoff. What we talk about:  - evolution of mobile  - users vs customers  - Apple killing the IDFA  - COVID-19 and retention  - the ROI of retargeting  - B2B retention marketing  - biggest mistakes in mobile retention

How do you get people to spend $3,000 online for a sofa they’ve never couchsurfed? And how do you increase sales while decreasing cost of customer acquisition? In this episode of Retention Masterclass Peggy Ann Salz and John Koetsier chat with Ian Leslie, CMO at Industry West. Industry West supplies modern furniture to the likes of Facebook, Airbnb, and Google ... and you! The company has seen consistent 25-30% growth over the past few years, and AOV for repeat visitors is massive. In a pandemic, their online-first retail sales approach is working better than ever. How? Personalization leading to retention.

Any mobile marketer wants better engagement and higher retention. One of the ways to get there is applying the right frameworks with the right tools to build and deepen connection with your users and customers.   (It also helps to have a great mobile app ...) In this episode of the Retention Masterclass video podcast, my co-host Peggy Anne Salz and I interview the godfather of the mobile growth stack, Andy Carvell, a partner at the mobile growth consultancy Phiture. Yes, that mobile growth stack with no fewer than 58 separate boxes across multiple rows like Acquisition and Monetization and pillars like Channels.   Topics:   - engagement   - retention   - mobile growth stack (or blob!)   - AIC   - RRF   - RFM   - Best channels to boost engagement   - and much more ...

You don't get 7 million TED talk views for nothing. Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK and the author of “Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life.” And we had a wide-ranging, crazy, seminal, wonderful, and entertaining discussion! A short list of the topics we hit: Why marketing is not physics Why linear thinking doesn’t make quantum breakthroughs Why brands should START with retention before anything else Alchemy and magic AB testing (yes, he uses data!) What Uber’s killer feature really is How brands really only need to done one thing brilliantly to be successful Hotels and weatherproofing Why Tesla’s dog mode made a non-dog-owner want to buy one DoubleTree’s chocolate chip cookie Rory’s friend Dave Why brands should ask their customers to do them a favor How brands can get COVID-19 era marketing horribly wrong Delivering drinking water in vans Consumer loyalty Brand loyalty to customers What Amazon gets right Why your price should probably be higher to sell more Clock radios Nespresso versus Maxwell House The beautiful insanity of Dyson vacuums and hair dryers Use data to exploit versus using data to explore Data versus common sense P values (in analytics and statistics) Mental lockjaw