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Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU) VS Return on ad spend (ROAS)

Description
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
ARPDAU shows how much money, on average, a single active user generates in a day. (You define what counts as an active user.)
Return on ad spend (ROAS)
ROAS measures how much revenue was earned from advertising in comparison to how much budget was spent on it.
Target audience
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
App owners, marketers, and product managers
Return on ad spend (ROAS)
App owners and marketers
Benefits
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)

• Shows the impact of your monetization efforts in real time
• Shows how revenue responds to changes, such as a new campaign or a price drop
• Focuses on active users already demonstrating engagement, rather than those with less potential value

Return on ad spend (ROAS)

• Good indicator of overall campaign performance
• Guides decisions on budgets, channels, and creatives
• Provides a snapshot for simple reporting

How to calculate
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
Total daily revenue
Total active daily users
Return on ad spend (ROAS)
Ad spend
Ad revenue
How to improve it?
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)

• Boost ad engagement through offerwalls or rewarded ads
• Delight and entice specific user segments with carefully targeted offers and rewards to drive in-app purchases

Return on ad spend (ROAS)

• Test and optimize your creatives, channels, and landing page
• Lower your ad cost by improving your quality score and using smarter bidding strategies
• Re-engage high-value users
• Analyze user behavior and look to optimize campaigns based on predictive analytics

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