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Too Good To Go's Head of Marketing, Claire Oliverson, joins us to share how the business balances its mission with generating revenue, and what other cause-driven app marketers can do to reach potential users.

 

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Mobile Signal

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Twitter (TWTR) is scheduled to report earnings on 7/22. User sessions of the app are up 13.6% YoY and are down 2.1% QoQ. 

App Acquisitions

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Amazon has acquired Wickr, a secure messaging app. More than two million people open the app every month.

 

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Etsy has acquired Elo7, another crafts marketplace company, for $217M. The mobile app has been downloaded 7.8M times since launch in December 2014.

 

MUSINGS

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A dominant Duo

The language learning app filed to go public earlier this week under ticker DUOL. You can read the S1 here. In two years, the mobile app has grown its IAP revenue market share from 32% to 57%, and it currently holds a 64% share of daily active users for top language learning apps. The product itself puts a lot of effort into gamification and engagement, but does this help people actually learn a new language? Does it matter if they're having fun? 

 

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That's the address of my favorite sushi place. What3words is a navigation app that has mapped every 10 square foot piece of land on earth and given each a unique three word name. The app launched in 2013 but has recently taken off thanks to partnerships and funding from Ikea's investment division. Recent partnerships include police departments in the US and scooter rental company, Lime. Police departments ask citizens to download the app so if they call emergency services, they can provide their precise what3words location to them, rather than pinging cell towers or relying on verbal descriptions. Lime is using the mapping to better locate bikes that people report as incorrectly parked.

 

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INSIGHTS & updates

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Top Downloaded Digital First Banking Apps in the US for H1 2021

Digital first banks are growing nicely while active users of traditional banks' apps are falling slightly.

 

How Too Good to Go is eliminating food waste through strategic app marketing

Too Good to Go's food-waste fighting app has received millions of downloads in just the past year. Head of Marketing Claire Oliverson joins us to share how the business balances mission with generating revenue, and what other cause-driven app marketers can do to reach potential users. As we wrap up the show, Claire points us to the best jelly doughnut in NYC and Adam betrays his family in a game of Underrated/Overrated.

 

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Adam and Madeline discuss the latest news in tech and mobile followed up with a little earnings preview for Netflix and Peloton. This episode has its first ever guest in Chris Radtke of Braze. He discusses their latest guide on reaching your customers in the moments that matter. After that the crew reviews the latest Apptopia insight on Facebook Games and more, followed by our own game of In or Out. Here's the rundown:

Introduction
[2:08] Mobile News Review
[10:43] I know what you did last quarter
[15:38] Discussion w/Chris Radtke of Braze
[41:27] This week on Apptopia
[46:51] In or Out

 

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