Good Show
Top-performing titles have a 45% higher D7 retention rate
Games live streams generated 11 billion hours in viewship in just over a year
Live And Kicking
The five-year journey of Hill Climb 2 and how Fingersoft is already prepping for a third
Fingersoft's Daniel Rantala discusses the racing sequel
Keep Em Coming
Wappier release player retention guide for developers and publishers
"This guide will be invaluable for helping build an engaged long-term player base"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Taking user acquisition and retention to the next level
"As UA managers, we have the tools to decide what KPIs we pursue"
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: How "understanding the player" lead to a 40% increase in users for Koron Studios
The sevilla-based studio saw massive growth in Idle Fishing through specific updates
Uramagician
Why Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells is "the biggest, most robust game Zynga's ever launched"
Creative director Mark Turmell and lead producer Desiree Makowski take us through the many metagame features of the match-3 puzzler
Two Billion Users
PGC Helsinki Digital: Downloads need to take "five-seconds or less" on Facebook Gaming
Quicksave Interactive CEO and co-founder Elina Arponen spoke about the benefits of developing games for social platforms
Making Of
How F1 Manager achieved 350,000 daily active users
"We had to spend the first couple of months weathering the storm"
Past Experience
Opinion: Fall Guys owes some of its explosive success to Mediatonic's mobile expertise
How understanding mass audiences and player retention helped launch 2020's surprise hit
Smiley Face
Live and Kicking: Why retention is key to the success of Disney Emoji Blitz four years on
"If we don't listen to our players and create something worth playing and investing in, we don't deserve them"
Tie Dye
Seventies fashion trend meets DIY madness in the new hyper hit Tie Dye by CrazyLabs
A dive into the world of gamifying DIY
Order Up
Opinion: I completed Pokemon Cafe Mix in two days, and I probably won't go back
A lesson in making sure you have enough content for your puzzle game
Street Life
How does Forza Street monetise?
Is the racer's mobile debut generous or greedy?
Agora Live Video
Nobody cares about your app idea - here's how to change that
Harness live video for the next generation of gaming & apps
Consent Management
How consent and preference management can increase ad revenue and improve user retention
Ogury chief publishers and strategic data partnerships officer Christophe Bize talks us through it
Keep Spinning
Why are people still playing Coin Master?
A dive into a game where the rewards aren't the main draw
The Flow
Tapjoy launches deep multi-reward engagements ads on Android
More rewards, better engagement
Engaging
The synergetic nature of offerwalls and rewarded video ads
Tapjoy's research sees a 114% revenue boost
Can't Catch 'em All
Pokemon GO is now for the hardcore, not the casual
Niantic has done wonders with Pokemon GO, but it's starting to feel overwhelming
Niche Success
KamaGames' Video Poker game boasts 49% Day-1 retention
US is the key market
Pg Connects London 2020
Retention rate is key to in-game advertisements, says Tenjin lead data scientist
The US creates 10 times more ad revenue
Acquire, Retain, Monetise
Learn all about acquiring, retaining, and monetising users at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020
One of 15 tracks at the conference
Listen & Learn
Join deltaDNA’s free webinar on the reasons F2P games fail and how to avoid them
All happening 11am GMT on Wednesday 27th November
Know Your User
How to keep players in your game via app reviews
Appfollow's Anatoly Sharifulin explains
Blockbuster Numbers
Minecraft surpasses 112 million players each month
Over 176 million physical copies have been sold around the world
Squeezed Funnel
GameAnalytics: Top 25% mobile games have average Day 28 retention of 4%
New report takes data from 1.2 billion monthly active players
High Kpis
Warhammer Combat Cards boasts Day 7 retention of 34% and 15% payer conversion
TCG off to a great start
Retention Guide
The universal guide to retention
Worldwide gaming audiences contain a lot of very different people. The player marketing experts at deltaDNA worked out what unites those players, and how game developers can take advantage
Mobile Monetisation
Facebook study: 57% of mobile developers say in-app ads can improve player retention
Users are six times more likely to make a purchase after seeing a playable ad
Sharp Shiny Things
How does Raid: Shadow Legends engage, retain and monetise?
Plarium cracks the code
Retained
Three billion mobile gamers worth of data says that trivia and word games hold best week one retention
Game Analytics CEO Ioana Hreninciuc delved into the stats at Pocket Gamer Connects London
Helsinki 2018
Jam City's Jeremy Horn: If retention is below 20% on day seven "I would advise to go back to soft launch"
Jam City VP also shared insights into a maturing mobile market
Fighting Fit
How does Badland Brawl monetise?
Frogmind’s latest analysed
Data
GameAnalytics: Fewer than 15% of games retain a third of their players after day one
Analysis firm's latest benchmarking report shows a "winner-takes-all" space
Apponboard’s Tech Is Taking Off
Google Play’s Try Now demos are boosting retention and monetisation by more than 29%
AppOnboard’s tech is taking off
Referred
Mobile gamers referred through organic social channels have up to 67% higher retention
They also have a 63 per cent higher lifetime session count versus non-referred players
Jumping The Shark
How does Hungry Dragon engage, retain and monetise?
Analysing Ubisoft’s franchise spin-off
New Marketing Tools
Facebook reveals new UA tools as it claims 50% of all app revenue will come from ads by 2021
Social network reveals playables, retention optimisation and value optimisation solutions at ChinaJoy
Karma
Can charitable platforms support good causes and also be a driver for player retention?
"Asking your player base to join you in making the world a better place and putting the decision-making in their hands a very powerful message to send to your player community"
Rewarded
More rewarded ad conversions lead to higher user engagement, retention and spend
Tapjoy’s latest report finds that the more rewarded ads a player completes in their first two weeks the better the results
Top Tips
5 ways mobile games developers can engage their communities outside an app
Plarium's Helen Burda on how to foster a community that extends from the game and into other areas
Funding Round
Mobile developer Kixeye raises $20 million for machine learning platform
Tech to help studios optimise marketing, monetisation and retention
The State Of It
Non-organic mobile game installs have grown 3.4% since Q3 2016
AppsFlyer digs deep in its State of Gaming App Marketing report
Arppu Up
Top grossing games on mobile have seen ARPPU increase by over 60% since January 2016
GameAnalytics digs into the data
What Comes Next?
21 months later, why I'm still playing Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
A neverending story
Decoding Design
A wolf in sheepskin clothing: How Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is far more than meets the eye
Exclusive currencies and limited gachas don't stop this game from being fun
Grand Revival
Grand Cru on how it rebooted its business following the failure of Supernauts
Markus Palusa talks smaller teams and killing projects early
Ask Yourself
Oscar Clark suggests nine ridiculous questions every game developer should ask themselves
Silly questions with a serious heart
Monetise, Retain, Acquire
19 talks on mobile game monetisation, retention and user acquisition from PG Connects San Francisco 2017
Learn all you need to know
Gotta Catch 'em All
One year on: How Pokemon GO has proved it’s more than just a fad
The right game at the right time