Best Practices for Mobile Ad Network Performance

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Metrics That Matter: Clarify Goals Before You Optimize

Anchor decisions on a small, balanced set of metrics—eCPM, ARPDAU, LTV, and retention. Tie network changes to cohort outcomes, not vanity spikes. Ask your team weekly: what moved these numbers and why?

Mediation Strategy: Waterfalls, Bidding, and Hybrid Wins

Evaluate fill in your key geos, tooling maturity, reporting granularity, and SDK stability. Prioritize partners with transparent auction logs, robust A/B frameworks, and responsive support that can escalate quickly when revenue-critical issues arise.

Mediation Strategy: Waterfalls, Bidding, and Hybrid Wins

Pilot bidding in high-volume placements first, then expand. Keep a slim safety waterfall for coverage. Measure ARPDAU, latency, and volatility. One studio saw a 7% eCPM lift and fewer timeouts after staged rollout.

Mediation Strategy: Waterfalls, Bidding, and Hybrid Wins

Avoid over-fragmented floors that bloat auctions. Use geo- and device-segmented floors based on recent percentiles, refreshed weekly. Track win rates and bid density; adjust only where auctions show meaningful compression or waste.

Placement Design: Respect the Player, Maximize Revenue

Trigger interstitials after level completion or clear pauses, never mid-action. Align rewarded prompts with meaningful player needs—extra life, currency, hints—so ads feel helpful rather than opportunistic or jarring.

Placement Design: Respect the Player, Maximize Revenue

Set caps by user cohort, not one-size-fits-all. High-value payers might need gentler pacing; ad-leaning users can handle more. Review caps monthly to reflect changing seasonality and catalog performance.

Creative Optimization: Testing That Moves the Needle

Run holdouts, set minimum detectable effect sizes, and pre-register hypotheses. Use sequential testing or Bayesian methods to avoid peeking pitfalls. Always link creative wins to ARPDAU, not isolated eCPM spikes.

Creative Optimization: Testing That Moves the Needle

Test by geo, device tier, and acquisition channel. What works for Tier‑1 iOS may flop on low-end Android. Map results to conversion value ranges to understand downstream retention impacts.

Privacy, Compliance, and Attribution Without Drama

Educate before the prompt, explain benefits, and offer easy settings access. Test copy, timing, and visuals. Even a modest uplift in opt-in can materially improve targeted demand and network competitiveness.

Privacy, Compliance, and Attribution Without Drama

Choose schemas that reflect early value: tutorial completion, day‑1 revenue buckets, or engagement milestones. Version your mappings and monitor postback quality. Validate with sanity checks against limited deterministic data.

Privacy, Compliance, and Attribution Without Drama

Segment under‑13 users, disable personalized ads, and restrict data sharing. Maintain vendor lists, consent logs, and DPIA notes. Compliance guardrails must be testable, automated, and visible in dashboards developers actually use.

Privacy, Compliance, and Attribution Without Drama

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Analytics Loop: Insights to Action, Week After Week

Combine eCPM, fill rate, latency, and ARPDAU with drill-downs by geo, placement, and cohort. Annotate releases and experiments so trends have context, preventing misattribution and rushed reversals.

Analytics Loop: Insights to Action, Week After Week

Run a weekly monetization review with clear owners and next steps. Track hypotheses, outcomes, and postmortems. This rhythm compounds learning and keeps network partners aligned with your goals.

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