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…

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 …

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 …

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 pre…

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 desig…

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-dri…

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…

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 …

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 w…

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 re…

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 mob…

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…

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…

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 g…

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%…

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 founde…

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 inter…

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…

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…

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 no…

You're not seeing double. It is very meta, but we have a top exec from THE MasterClass ... the one with teachers like Serena Williams, Martin Scorsese, Dr. Jane Goodall, Natalie Portman, and Gordon Ramsey ... on Retention Masterclass, the podcast. In this episode of Retention Masterclass, Thomas Hopkins, who leads performance and lifecycle marketin…

Do marketers have funnel vision? Do they have the right tools, tech, and tactics for customer retention? And the right teams working in harmony? Rebecca Nackson, who led marketing for teams at iHeartMedia, Audible, IBM, and multiple startups, talks to Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier about marketing, retention, and acquisition ... and the changes …

If your brand disappeared tomorrow … would anyone care? Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier interview CleverTap's head of brand Charles Orlando. He's a 25-year veteran of marketing, branding, and telling stories, with stops at Cisco and Intuit as well as Humanity. We talk about: - what does "magnetic" mean for a brand? - how does a brand become magne…

Jessy Hanley has led marketing and retention roles at Uber and Wag, and she's now leading similar efforts at a multi-billion-dollar global brand. In this episode, Peggy Anne Salz and John Koetsier interview her to learn the secrets of retention in on-demand marketplaces, and she shares her insights on cohorts, peeling back the onion of what an app …

According to AppsFlyer, brands are spending $60B this year to acquire new mobile users. But within a week marketers have lost nearly 66% of their users. That means 40 to 50 billion dollars will almost literally just go up in smoke. BUT ... if you just spent a fraction of those billions fixing retention … and building the kind of brand experience th…

The marketing world has gorged on acquisition over the past decade. Cheap VC money and an explosion of marketing technology for measurement and analytics have led brands to over-index on pulling in new users and new customers, and under-index on delighting those customers so that they'll stick around. After all, retention is the path to profit. Thi…