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App Installs & Registrations

Installs are a vanity metric. We optimise to registration and revenue.

Quick answer

An app install campaign that stops at installs will deliver cheap installs from users who never open the app again. Optimising to registration, activation or first purchase costs more per install and delivers dramatically more revenue per pound spent.

We have delivered 17,420 installs at ₹21.05 for a stock market app and 1,127 installs at ₹14.26 for a B2B jewellery app. In both cases the work that mattered happened after the install.

Event mapping first

Before any budget: SDK check, event taxonomy, and a clear definition of the activation event that correlates with revenue. If the platform cannot see registration, it cannot optimise toward registrants.

Install → registration → revenue

We build the campaign ladder deliberately: broad install campaigns to fill the top, then value-based and event-optimised campaigns targeting the users who actually complete registration and transact.

Cohort reporting

Monthly cohort view showing what each install cohort did in week one, week four and beyond. This is the only honest way to judge whether the acquisition is working.

Frequently asked questions

Can you optimise to in-app purchase directly?

Once you have sufficient volume, yes. Below that threshold we optimise to registration or activation as a proxy, then move deeper as data accumulates.

Do you work with dating, fintech and gaming apps?

Yes, with the caveat that some of these categories face stricter platform policy review. We factor that into the account structure from day one.

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