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Daily active users (DAU) VS Return on ad spend (ROAS)

Description
Daily active users (DAU)
DAU measures the number of unique users who engage with your app within a 24-hour window.
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
Daily active users (DAU)
App owners, marketers, and product managers
Return on ad spend (ROAS)
App owners and marketers
Benefits
Daily active users (DAU)

• Helps you assess the effectiveness of your campaigns
• Helps measure your app’s popularity (its “stickiness”) and user experience
• Indicates your app’s general health and growth potential

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
Daily active users (DAU)
Total number of unique users who meet your defined "active" criteria and interacted with your app in a set 24-hour period
Return on ad spend (ROAS)
Ad spend
Ad revenue
How to improve it?
Daily active users (DAU)

• Optimize your onboarding strategy so users understand the true value of your app
• Engage and re-engage users through multiple channels: push notifications, in-app notifications, emails, and SMS
• Use deep links for a seamless user experience

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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Daily active users (DAU)
Return on ad spend (ROAS)

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