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Getting an advantage with MoPub ILRD & Tenjin DataVault: A webinar

Ebony Nicole Simone

4月 20, 2020


We are very ecstatic to share our latest discussion with MoPub on impression-level data (ILRD) and never before seen use-cases of MoPub ILRD with Tenjin’s DataVault.

Tenjin built the Basic ad revenue LTV model in 2017, and the Advanced ad revenue model was launched in 2018. In 2019, Tenjin released our Pro ad revenue model using MoPub ILRD with granular impression-level data. We teamed up with our friends from MoPub to discuss the evolution of ad revenue data reporting and the role impression-level data plays in informing important monetisation strategy decisions. We discussed a few use-cases, and Tenjin offered training for ILRD in the webinar. It’s hosted by Senior Product Manager at MoPub, David Gregson, and Tenjin Platform Director Matthaus Krzykowski.
So, what the hell is ILRD, anyway? Basically, it allows publishers to see an estimation of how much money they’ve earned from each served impression. Impression-level revenue data, as described by MoPub, enables full-platform publishers to leverage data to better understand their users by adhering to three principles: access, clarity, and flexibility.

It’s all about accurate and granular data, and what this data can do for publishers with the new use-cases is continually being discovered. MoPub’s ILRD, combined with Tenjin’s DataVault, is a game-changer.

We discuss one use-case, showing the optimal number of ads with Tenjin Data Exporter (Training #211, Tenjin). This training is one of the three use-cases discussed in the webinar and one that Tenjin Data Scientist, Mei-Han Weng, presented at PGC London 2020. Matthaus and David discuss retention rate and its importance to in-app game impressions.

Other Tenjin training highlighted in the webinar are:

  • #701 Tenjin MoPub ILRD LTV Calculation
  • #705 eCPM Decay Curve Analysis
  • #711 Ad Revenue A/B Testing

You can request the training listed above here.

Lastly, we discuss four predictions on the future of ad revenue tracking. Do we agree on most, all, or none? Additionally, where do you agree or disagree? Let us know on Twitter!

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How to choose the right Business Intelligence Tool for your business

Sunny Cha

How to choose the right Business Intelligence Tool for your business

Update 25.11.22: Regardless of what BI tool you choose, you can always count on Growth FullStack to set up the data pipelines for it. To get a leg up in today’s ultra competitive landscape, most app developers have come to depend on some type of Business Intelligence (BI) software. Whether built by an in-house team or bought and...

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Reported Installs vs. Tracked Installs

Sunny Cha

Reported Installs vs. Tracked Installs

If you use our attribution to track installs by media source, you might notice that there are two types of installs described there: Reported Installs and Tracked Installs. What’s the difference? Why are there differences between Reported Installs and Tracked Installs? Are the networks trying to scam you by overcharging for installs? No, probably not. In very few...

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LTV 201: A Simple Method for Forecasting

Sunny Cha

LTV 201: A Simple Method for Forecasting

Lifetime value is tricky. The simplest — and also the most reliable — LTV calculations tell you what happened in the past: segment X made Y dollars per user. In a perfect world, that would be enough. But usually, you’ll want to know the future, and that means building a more complex model. “Complex” can mean a lot...

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The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

Chris Farm

The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

In my last few meetings with small developers who want to learn about paid User Acquisition, we talked about the paid marketing conversion funnel. It seems like a simple concept at the outset, but when marketers first start buying installs it’s probably the most important concept to understand. Here’s a slide that sums up the...

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7 Tips for Optimizing Mobile App Install Campaigns From Setup to Analysis

Sunny Cha

7 Tips for Optimizing Mobile App Install Campaigns From Setup to Analysis

Mobile app install campaigns are like carefully tuned machines: every part needs optimization to prevent an explosion (in your ad budget, of course). From compiling the creatives to interpreting analytics into actionable insights, you’ve got to get it all right to succeed. We put together a list of seven tips, from the start of a...

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LTV 101

Sunny Cha

LTV 101

I talk to mobile app developers every day. After each conversation, it still amazes me how most of them don’t know what LTV means, and for those that do, they might be fuzzy on the math. This post is intended to get developers up to speed, if not to expert level (a tall order!). What...

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IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

Chris Farm

IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

A few months ago, Apple announced that iOS 10 will send all zeros for itsadvertisingIdentiferfield when the device’s user sets their limit ad tracking flag toON. According to Tenjin’s aggregate records, this represents ~15% of devices where IDFA will not be unique for a specific device. As I noted in my last post about cookies, the...

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Pay Attention to These Overlooked Mobile Metrics!

Sunny Cha

Pay Attention to These Overlooked Mobile Metrics!

High-level KPIs like ARPU and retention are great for getting a big-picture view of your mobile app’s health, but while they might suffice for an executive summary, developers tasked with moving the needle every day know the value of digging deeper. We put together a list of some valuable and overlooked KPIs that are driving...

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Time to profitability is a key metric for a growing app

Chris Farm

Time to profitability is a key metric for a growing app

It’s common for app developers to acquire users for their apps by paying 3rd parties (like ad networks). Paying for users is an investment. To measure the success of an investment, an app developer needs to monitor how quickly they can recoup the invested dollars. Time to profitability (TTP), a.k.a “time to break even”, is...

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Tenjin DataVault: a marketing infrastructure as a service.

Sunny Cha

Tenjin DataVault: a marketing infrastructure as a service.

Tenjin is proud to announce DataVault, a professional, fully managed, direct access SQL Data Warehouse for all your marketing needs. It’s a big step to democratizing mobile app business infrastructure. App developers commonly build business infrastructure once their mobile app shows promise. This is distracting. Tenjin can offload this infrastructure work with DataVault, allowing developers to...

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Building for the Marketing Scientist

Chris Farm

Building for the Marketing Scientist

As marketing goes digital, it starts to share a lot of common ground with data science. At Tenjin, we are seeing people with backgrounds in these two seemingly distinct fields, marketing and data science, emerge with a new role: the “Marketing Scientist”. There are two main drivers for the rise of the Marketing Scientist: These two...

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