Posted by Purnima Kochikar, Vice President of Play Partnerships
Hiya everybody,
This 12 months, Google Play celebrated our first decade of partnering along with your companies. So whether or not you simply launched your first app or recreation, or have been with us because the starting, thanks for becoming a member of us — and greater than 2.5 billion customers — on this journey.
2022 was a 12 months of uncertainty, with challenges to the worldwide economic system leaving many individuals and companies searching for methods to adapt to troublesome circumstances. However regardless of these troublesome circumstances, your apps and video games continued to assist individuals handle, stay and revel in their lives.
We launched #WeArePlay this year to doc your tales from world wide and showcase how your apps and video games are bettering individuals’s lives.Certainly one of my favorites is from brothers Kennedy and Duke, who use their ambition to assist small companies with their finance must create Kippa, and are actually serving to to empower entrepreneurs all throughout Africa.
Within the US, Andrew Glantz used his ardour to assist native communities to create GiftAMeal, a implausible app which inspires restaurant clients to take photographs of their meal, following which a meal is given to somebody at an area meals financial institution. Andrew estimates that 500 eating places have donated over 1 million meals so far, which is a tremendous achievement. We’re excited to proceed spotlighting your tales from all around the world all through subsequent 12 months.
Within the mobile-first world we stay in at this time, it’s clear to see the influence of the experiences you construct on individuals’s lives, and it conjures up my workforce day by day.
Serving to you develop your companies extra effectively
In unsure financial occasions, we all know it’s necessary to maintain your prices low, enhance your outcomes, and keep productive. That’s why we not too long ago made a number of enhancements that will help you purchase and re-engage your customers extra effectively, and shared actionable greatest practices by means of our app growth series.
For choose titles, one other environment friendly method to interact with new and current customers is by using Promotional content cards, which video games have been utilizing for some time. It is a nice method to attain customers on Google Play with provides, launches, and occasions. For instance, Three Kingdoms Tactics used the playing cards for publicity on all main occasions like pre-registration, new model launch, and new season. The playing cards launched throughout their first anniversary occasion in Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan elevated their recreation’s publicity within the Play Retailer by 35%.
We’re additionally excited to see apps beginning to use the playing cards. Dwell streaming service Twitch has run virtually 200 Promotional content material campaigns this 12 months, producing 36 million distinctive viewers and over 50 thousand app installs from the playing cards. It’s great to see these outcomes.
On common, companies utilizing Promotional content material playing cards drive +3.6% increase in revenue and a +5.1% increase in 28 daily active users versus related titles that don’t. By measuring your success with the brand new reporting dashboard, you’ll see that the alternatives for optimization are large. Should you’re one of many 1000’s of titles that already use Promotional Content material, search for messages in your Play Console Inbox to search out out extra. We’re seeking to broaden entry to much more apps and video games subsequent 12 months.
Serving to you enter new markets
One nice method to discover new customers is to go world. For cell video games, mature markets like Western Europe present a good growth rate, however the world progress price is even greater because of the number of mobile gamers growing in emerging markets reminiscent of Southeast Asia, Latin America, India, and the Center East & Africa. An growing variety of apps and video games are monetizing efficiently throughout rising markets — for instance, Türkiye has seen a ~70% enhance in client spend on apps this 12 months, and a ~50% enhance for video games.
For these contemplating coming into new markets, local payments and monetization tools might help you enhance purchaser conversion, engagement, and retention. This 12 months we launched strategic guidance in Play Console, which brings you a lot of insights together with peerset comparisons and per-country breakdowns. These might help you shortly establish progress alternatives, like what markets are underperforming and the place you’re a market chief. For extra greatest practices for coming into new markets, take a look at our Google Play Academy courses, with extra coming quickly.
Supporting you to search out customers on extra gadgets
As we glance to the longer term for your small business progress, it isn’t solely about reaching individuals in additional markets, but additionally about reaching individuals on extra gadgets. Customers are more and more investing in related gadgets past their telephones. Simply this 12 months, the variety of energetic non-mobile Android gadgets has grown by virtually 30%. That’s why it’s extra necessary than ever to have the ability to meet your customers the place they’re, no matter their machine.
Supporting multi-platform gaming has been a significant funding this 12 months. We expanded Google Play Games to PCs as a beta expertise throughout extra markets world wide, gathering your suggestions and bettering the product to raised match the wants of your gamers world wide. Our higher goal is that will help you to satisfy gamers the place they’re, and provides them entry to their video games on as many gadgets as potential.
A lot of you’re already creating superb experiences throughout multi-form elements, reminiscent of wearables and foldables. Strava is one nice instance of how constructing these experiences can increase engagement. They tapped into Google’s APIs, libraries and Android instruments to take the app expertise to the subsequent degree for individuals who have invested in a wearable, and located that wearable customers additionally had 30% extra energetic days than those that didn’t use a wearable.
Conserving the ecosystem secure
We all know how arduous you’re employed to construct and develop these superb apps. As you scale your companies, we’re additionally dedicated to serving to you higher perceive the insurance policies that preserve the ecosystem secure for individuals all over the place. Latest policies that will help you navigate belief and security on Google Play embrace increasing the Developer Helpline program to assist navigate coverage compliance points, and launching a Strike Removal program to assist compliance and deeper schooling on generally misunderstood coverage areas.
Rallying collectively into 2023
To maximise your success during times of change, we have to rally collectively. We have been so excited to have a good time 100,000 followers this 12 months on our Google Play Enterprise Group Twitter channel, and welcome you to comply with our group areas on Twitter and LinkedIn to attach along with your friends and construct data.
Handle yourselves and one another — and glad holidays from our workforce to yours.
Purnima Kochikar,
Vice President, Google Play Partnerships
