If a friend asked how to start app ads, I'd tell them to make a lot of creatives and to A/B test the app screens too, together with whoever owns the product.
Of everything we changed in Meta, the optimization event mattered most. One creative earned around eight times more when it optimized for subscriptions than when it optimized for installs.
@irentdumpsters Our family cleaning business tries something like this with property managers and realtors. It's honestly slow, and replies only come when we write about their own work.
We added subtitles to our ads since many viewers have the sound off. The colors mean something as well: we use red for the problem and green for the solution.
Remove charge offs sounds like an obvious keyword for credit repair. It got us 31 installs, and none of those people started a trial. Credit bureau dispute was our strongest one.
Our top push has very plain wording, a nudge to check your reports, and it fires 24 hours after someone buys if no dispute is open yet. Of everyone who received it, 7.5% opened it.
@Building_Ormy I'd judge them on cost per paying user. Competitor names in our Apple Search Ads got plenty of impressions and almost nobody paying. On the time frame I honestly don't have a number for you.
@Ivan_Borovets We had the reverse on one keyword. It used to bring payers, then its App Store popularity score fell to 1 of 5 while the root term held at 4, and it went quiet.
@TaylorSicard Ad accounts misreport in normal weeks too. Checked against one independent counter, one of ours overstated installs by 43% and another understated them by 47%.
@krzysztofguz2 Renewals are the number I'd stare at, since about two thirds of our subscribers are gone after month one and just 34% get to a second period.
@PeterEsser_ For a chore app I'd look at App Store search first: Apple Search Ads has been our fastest growing channel, since someone typing a problem there already has it.
@HackrLife Expected more trials from our paywall test and got fewer. Whatever extra we earned came from people buying on the spot without touching a trial, which I didn't see coming.