1) The document discusses how to make apps go viral by leveraging incentives, ego, and emotions. It explains that incentives work best when they reward both the referrer and referee, ego can be appealed to by enabling users to create and share things that make them proud, and high arousal emotions like awe, anger, anxiety, fear, joy, lust and surprise tend to make content more contagious.
2) It provides examples of how emotion in content titles and sharing text can influence click rates, share rates and like rates. Negative emotions tend to drive more clicks while positive emotions lead to more shares.
3) The document advocates for using deep links that drive users seamlessly from web to app, as
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An Introduction to App Virality
1. App Virality – What drives it and how you
can set up your app for success
MADA SEGHETE • Founder, Branch
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2. INTRO
About me
• Originally from Romania
• Designed and built featured app -
Kindred Photobooks
• Mobilegrowth.org - 17k members
• @mada299
Mada Seghete
mada@branch.io
3. • Palo Alto, CA
• 20 months in business
• $53M+ in funding
• 70 full time employees
• 10,000+ apps
• Over 1.5 billion users deep linked
A mosaic of app icons from the
Branch community
INTRO
About Branch
5. Here’s what it takes on an app
User A
engages in app
User A
shares app
User B
clicks on link
User B
downloads app
User B
engages in app
User B
shares app
Double viral loop
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11. 29%
Referral best practices
It’s better to get something than a discount on something.
Give an incentive
If you can only reward one, reward the new user.
Two-sided are best
Make it incredibly easy for users to share.
One-step sharing is best
People share when it makes them look good.
Appeal to ego
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15. Users click and share because
something drives an emotion in them.
In general, positive emotions make
people share (the happier the post, the
more likely it is to be shared)
Negative emotions drive more clicks.
High arousing emotions drive more
shares
EMOTION
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16. The 7 High-Arousal Emotions That
Make Your Content Contagious
EMOTION
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1. Awe 3. Anxiety2. Anger 4. Fear
17. The 7 High-Arousal Emotions That
Make Your Content Contagious
EMOTION
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5. Joy 6. Lust 7. Surprise
18. Emotion: Acceptance and surprise
Title: 83 reasons why cats are the best pet. You won’t believe
number 45
Click rate: 5.1%
Share rate: 0.22%
Like rate: 0.14%
Emotion: Acceptance
Title: 83 Reasons why cats are better
than dogs
Click rate: 4.7%
Share rate: 0%
Like rate: 0.18%
Virality and cats
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19. Emotion: Anger
Title: 83 Reasons why you should not get a cat
Click rate: 5.4%
Share rate: 0%
Like rate: 0%
Emotion: Pride
Title: 83 reasons why you should
date a cat owner
Click rate: 2.4%
Share rate: 0%
Like rate: 0%
Virality and cats
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21. Ego
Enable users to create things they are proud of, and prompt them to share those
creations.
Default sharing text should highlight how awesome the user is. Make sharing
links rich deep links: the actual content should show up in Facebook, Twitter,
SMS, and e-mail.
Create a Brand YOUR users what to be associated with.
From CLICK to DOWNLOAD3
22. Click-to-install Conversions BY CHANNEL
Percentage of clicks that result in an
Install and the app being opened for the first time
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26. Ego
Enable users to create things they are proud of, and prompt them to share those
creations.
Default sharing text should highlight how awesome the user is. Make sharing
links rich deep links: the actual content should show up in Facebook, Twitter,
SMS, and e-mail.
Create a Brand YOUR users what to be associated with.
ENGAGEMENT4