FAQ
ASO, user acquisition, subscriptions, and when to scale, answered with examples from our published case studies.
Alchemy Avenue’s mobile app marketing covers five connected areas: app store optimization (ASO), paid user acquisition (UA), retargeting and re-engagement, retention and monetization, and analytics. In practice, that means keyword, visual, and metadata testing for your store listing; campaigns on Meta, Google, TikTok, and CTV; email, push, and in-app journeys that bring lapsing users back; subscription and in-app purchase flows; and dashboards for installs, engagement, retention, and monetization. The goal is engaged, high-LTV users, not just installs.
We test widely, cut losing channels fast, and give more budget only to channels whose users pay back. In our Eyecon case study, more than 10 acquisition platforms, including Google App Campaigns, Meta, TikTok, and OEM partners, were tested under a strict “test, optimize, scale or stop” model, with cohort-level measurement in Adjust and Singular. Payback fell from over a year to 2–3 months, and monthly UA investment grew from $10,000 to approximately $600,000.
We run ASO as an ongoing growth program, not a one-time listing update: keyword and metadata optimization, plus controlled store experiments on icons, screenshots, feature graphics, and video. Our Eyecon case study shows what that means in practice: market-specific listings and culturalized assets for each target country, not just translations, backed by continuous creative testing and refinement of the short and full descriptions. Organic acquisition grew 15% year over year, and the Google Play listing reached a 69% store conversion rate: 69% of store visitors installed the app.
Yes. We build the go-to-market system before any spend is scaled: user personas, an analytics event map that tracks meaningful in-app actions rather than downloads, and a phased acquisition plan. For SwiPik, an AI-powered marketplace app for second-hand selling, we delivered that strategy in three weeks, compressing work that normally takes six to twelve months. The plan acquired sellers before buyers so the marketplace had inventory, and the launch brought in SwiPik’s first 1,000 users and validated the seller-first model in its initial target markets.
We test the structure of your offer, not just the price. In our Eyecon case study, a five-cell pricing experiment across India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh tested different ratios between monthly and annual prices, localized for each market. The winner paired a lower-friction monthly entry point with a higher-value annual plan. During the experiment period, gross revenue rose 29% and new subscriptions 50% versus the previous period. Even after refunds rose 53% and cancellations 17%, total subscriptions grew 15%, and the winning structure was rolled out globally.
When your current spend already returns more than it costs, because scaling a loss-making setup only scales the loss. In our DarioHealth case study, performance marketing ran at about $100,000 a month and returned only about $0.60 per dollar. The fix came first: audiences split by market and user need, ads aligned with landing pages and onboarding, and budget moved to the strongest markets. Return rose to about $1.20 per dollar (ROI 0.6 to 1.2), and only then did monthly spend scale to $750,000. See our Acquisition & Retention service.
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Two decisions every app team faces: when to kill a channel, and when a feature users ask for isn’t worth building.
Know your kill number before you spend: set payback and ROI thresholds up front, then pull budget from losing channels, sometimes within days.
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