About Adjust's Global Benchmarks
Curious about the competition? So were we. That's why we gathered data from thousands of apps and billions of installs to create this overview of the mobile marketing landscape.
Discover app engagement statistics by vertical
Analyze the statistics most relevant to your app by filtering app categories. Understanding user engagement is key to knowing an app’s audience - ultimately helping to reduce marketing costs and supporting the bottom line of mobile-focused business. With Adjust’s mobile marketing statistics, you can observe engagement averages for each vertical: Just filter between entertainment & news, travel, gaming, social, business & finance, utilities, health & fitness and ecommerce to gain intel on specific verticals.
View average user sessions statistics and retention rate by segment
Our benchmark tool allows you to learn from the mobile industry’s average user sessions, including time spent and frequency of use. Insight into the average user sessions gives a greater impression of user loyalty, which can therefore improve the user experience and maximize retention rates. Unique sessions are counted per day after install, per use, and are separated by at least 30 minutes. Based on retention rates from Q2 and Q3 of 2018, our updated tool provides insight on current users habits after installing an app. Take a look at the likelihood of retaining a user after 24 hours, one week and 30 days.
Gain insight on fraudulent installs per category
Perpetrators of ad fraud will create users who aren’t real in order to create entirely fake engagements. Other methods try to get paid for organic traffic. Our benchmark tool allows you to see the total percentage of installs tracked by Adjust which are known to be fraudulent. If you’d like to see how each vertical is affected by fraudulent traffic, you can also filter by category and check out the statistics. The tool also shows the distribution of various fraud types. With an increase in certain fraudulent activities, you can see what’s most common within the industry. With the updated metrics, you can follow the current scale of SDK Spoofing, Click Injection, Click Spam and Fake Users within the industry.
Compare Cost per Install statistics by app category
We’ve added five new metrics to Global Benchmarks 2.0: Distribution of Fraud Types, Click Through Rate (CTR), Conversion Rate from Click to Install, Cost per Mille (CPM) and Cost per Click (CPC). These metrics allow you to create tailored reports for your specific needs. Whether you’re looking at the Click Through Rates in Europe or Cost per Mille in Latin America, our latest tool gives you customizable reports using a data set of over +4B installs, free of charge.
Behind the Benchmarks
Who we are
Adjust is a global B2B SaaS company. Born at the heart of the mobile app economy and grown out of a passion for technology, the company now has 16 offices around the world.
Adjust's platform includes measurement, fraud prevention, cybersecurity and marketing automation products. Together, they make marketing simpler, smarter and more secure for the 32,000 apps working with Adjust. Global leading brands including Procter & Gamble, Rocket Internet and Tencent Games have implemented its solutions to secure their budgets and improve results.
Last year, the company secured one of 2019’s largest funding rounds in Europe, raising nearly $230 million.
Methodology
A look behind the data
We analyzed data taken between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019*, with a slightly different sample size for each vertical (the maximum sample size for a single category was nearly 8,500 apps!). To ensure a clean data set, we calculated an average retention rate and sessions per user on a per-app basis for every combination of vertical, region, user type and platform (an average of all 31 cohort days’ values). We calculated a permitted range of values using the interquartile range in every case and removed outliers outside of the permitted range for apps of each specific vertical.
After removing the oddballs, we chose to only present data for selected combinations of the available categories if the sample of apps fit three conditions. First, the sample must be greater than 30 apps for at least 75% of days after install for the given metrics. Next, the app cohort size must be at least 2,500 users or more.
For any avoidance of doubt, all data we analyzed was anonymized during this process.
*Adjust analyzed quarterly data taken between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2019.
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