MoPub Success Story: Etermax shows brands have finally embraced apps
1. Success Story | January 2015
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Etermax Revenue
Etermax Ad Requests
Goals
• Maximize massive earning potential
• Retain audience and ensure
positive user experience
• Monetize a truly global audience
• Experiment with multiple ad formats
and advertiser categories
• Add new demand from Real-Time
Bidding
Results
• Tripled daily revenue during month
of December
• Generated 54% of December
revenue from brand advertisers
Trivia Crack provides compelling evidence
that brands have (finally) embraced apps.
Real-time bidding drives brand spend
As a mobile-only real-time bidding (RTB) exchange, MoPub connects
Trivia Crack to demand from 145 buyers primarily focused on apps.
MoPub creates a dynamic market for
apps and advertisers, enabling an
app that surges in popularity to
immediately scale demand in direct
proportion to increased supply.
RTB also enables brands to access
audiences programmatically, making it
easier to include mobile apps as
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• Trivia Crack, Aworded, Bingo Crack
• Over 100MM Downloads
• #1 US App
• #1 in 22 Countries
• Over 150,000 total ratings
AppAnnie Store Stats Dec., 2014
Trivia Crack
By Etermax
Trivia Crack experiences massive growth
Every publisher with ad-supported apps knows to expect a seasonal
uplift in ad revenue during the holiday period. Etermax enjoyed a far
greater lift than usual by owning the top ranked app globally for the
entire month of December. Trivia Crack combined a massive increase in
usage with an organic infusion of new brand advertisers through real-
time bidding, and saw outsized revenue growth as a result.
part of their holiday marketing
strategy. The net result demonstrates
a dramatic shift in buying behavior:
this is the first time brands account for
the majority of spend in an app this popular.
Trivia Crack Daily Revenue vs. Ad Requests
Brand
54%
Performance
46%
% Revenue: Brand vs Performance
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