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Cost per engagement (CPE) VS Retention rate

Description
Cost per engagement (CPE)
CPE is a pricing model in which advertisers pay whenever a user takes a specific desired action within the app.
Retention rate
Retention rate measures the percentage of customers or users your business or product retains (keeps) over a given period.
Target audience
Cost per engagement (CPE)
Advertisers
Retention rate
App owners, marketers and product managers
Benefits
Cost per engagement (CPE)

• Good for driving interactions with an app after it’s installed, improving retention
• Advertisers can pay on a sliding scale depending on the action

Retention rate

• Helps you understand the performance of your app and particular campaigns
• Helps you determine why users leave, so you can reduce churn and increase lifetime value
• Useful in analyzing customer service

How to calculate
Cost per engagement (CPE)
Total advertising cost
Total engagements
Retention rate
Number of users at end of period - Number of users acquired during period
Number of users at start of period
x 100
How to improve it?
Cost per engagement (CPE)

• Identify the most profitable user behaviors to incentivize
• Use predictive marketing to gain behavioral insights
• Combine CPI and CPE campaigns to drive both installs and post-install engagement

Retention rate

• Set realistic user expectations
• Gather user feedback and use product data to analyze behavior
• Map out your user journeys and improve onboarding
• Keep re-engaging with users and reward loyalty

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