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Apps: Friends or Foes?
Agenda
• Why apps matter• Apps are your friend• Apps are your foe• Making money with apps
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Friend: Apps are everywhere!
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Source: App Ecosystems Opportunities; Apps Forecast 2008-2013; Virtual Goods Drive Real Revenue
Apps are your Friend
1. Apps offer an unrivaled direct consumer relationship
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Popular App Categories - iPhone
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Games Entertainment Utilities Photography & Video Social Networks
Asia Pacific Central & Eastern Europe Central & Latin America Middle East & Africa North America Western Europe
Popular Categories - iPad
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Games Entertainment Utilities Productivity Education
Asia Pacific Central & Eastern Europe Central & Latin America Middle East & Africa
North America Western Europe Grand Total
Tablet – More Popular on iPad than iPhone
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Asia Pacific Central & Eastern Europe
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North America Western Europe Grand Total
Productivity Education Books & Reference Business Games
Lifestyle Utilities Healthcare & Fitness Photography & Video Entertainment
Apps are your Friend
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1. Apps offer an unrivaled direct consumer relationship
2. Apps offer a controlled second screen environment
Friend: Apps drive engagement
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Friend: They Drive Engagement?
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Netflix HBO GO Twitter ABC’s Grey’s
Anatomy Sync
Hulu Plus Fandango Movies –Times & Tickets
Bones Shazam for iPad
IntoNow The Walking Dead
Average of Rank Number of Appearances
Apps are your Friend
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1. Apps offer an unrivaled direct consumer relationship
2. Apps offer a controlled second screen environment
3. Apps offer increased revenue opportunities
Four Main Business Models
• Paid Download• Advertising• Virtual Goods• Subscription• Unforeseen revenue uplift• More coming
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Q. Which business models do you plan to use to generate revenue next year?
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A la carte (users pay per download)
Advertising In-App Virtual Good sales
Subscription Not generating revenue
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Increased Revenue Opportunities
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Download Revenue Advertising Revenue Virtual Good Revenue
Source: App Ecosystems Opportunities; Apps Forecast 2008-2013; Virtual Goods Drive Real Revenue
Apps are your Friend
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1. Apps offer an unrivaled direct consumer relationship
2. Apps offer a controlled second screen environment
3. Apps offer increased revenue opportunities
4. Apps enable global distribution without partners
5. Apps provide leverage for content owners
Apps are your Foe
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1. Apps flatten the competitive landscape
Apps are your Foe
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1. Apps flatten the competitive landscape
2. Ecosystem and device fragmentation make apps costly to maintain
There are too many devices needing apps…
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Fragmentation is bad
Android Fragmentation
1.1, 1%1.5, 15%
1.6, 27%
2.0, 3%2.0.1, 3%
2.1, 30%
2.2, 17%2.3, 0%
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Apps are your Foe
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1. Apps flatten the competitive landscape
2. Ecosystem and device fragmentation make apps costly to maintain
3. Difficult to quantify ROI
Apps are your Foe
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1. Apps flatten the competitive landscape
2. Ecosystem and device fragmentation make apps costly to maintain
3. Difficult to quantify ROI
4. Create unreasonable consumer expectation
5. Create friction with MSOs
Quantifying ROI
How does a company quantify the ROI for an app?– Paid apps are easy– Ad supported apps are easy– Purely mobile subscription apps are easy– Social network initiatives become trickier– Hybrid mobile-PC become more difficult– Brand extensions are increasingly difficult
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Driving revenue from apps
1. Do not expect HTML5 to be your savior
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Pure HTML5 is not your savior
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1. HTML5 does not secure your video content
2. HTML5 does not allow for audio
3. HTML5 apps are less capable than native apps
4. HTML5 apps will need to be tweaked per device
5. Finding HTML5 apps will be difficult
Driving revenue from apps
1. Do not expect HTML5 to be your savior2. Invest in new business models
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Top Grossing iPhone Apps that were Free (US)
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Source: App Ecosystems Opportunities; AppTRAX
Driving revenue from apps
1. Do not expect HTML5 to be your savior2. Invest in new business models3. Leverage your brand to offset broken discovery
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250’
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40,000 ft2
A big box store
80,842
Floor Space Needed
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1 copy of each app
2 copies of each app
5 copies of each app
10 copies of each app
Conclusions
1. If not utilized properly apps will be a foe by flattening the competition and reducing available viewer attention
2. …however if utilized properly apps can extend a brand to screens/locations once thought inaccessible
3. Set quantifiable objectives when developing apps and create internal metrics to gauge success
4. Leverage new technology to make engaging apps5. Utilize well known brands to drive users to your apps
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