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The Road to Higher User Retention - Challenges & Best Practices for Mobile Marketers

Date By Celia Liang, Marketing Specialist, PacketZoom Tags mobile marketing / online advertising / targeted ads / acquisition ROI / mobile applications / user acquisition / customer retention / customer churn / business KPI / lifetime value

The importance of user acquisition to mobile app marketers is not just defined by the number of installs or downloads, but user retention metrics as well. Knowing how to market mobile apps properly and efficiently is a no easy feat. Money spent on marketing can rise to the millions in one day. Read more ...


Does Google Know Better?

Date By Shlomi Gian, PacketZoom CEO Tags quic / tcp / udp / google / streaming / youtube / facebook / snapchat / lyft / uber / ssl / packetzoom / protocol / performance / security

As mobile networking enthusiast, we’ve championed Google’s QUIC since its inception and have considered it a valuable peer in the transition from TCP to UDP for mobile content delivery. However, multiple inquiries led us to believe that some clarifications are needed regarding QUIC, PacketZoom and the similarities/differences between them. In this blog and the associated technical analysis I will try to address some of them.

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Providing Your Players with a Balanced Real-time Experience in Multiplayer Mobile Games

Date By Brandon Moss, Game Developer & Engineering Intern, PacketZoom Tags multiplayer / mobile games / real-time games / online games / peer to peer / networking / synchronization / lockstep / jitter / lag

From trying different products and working through the kinks of implementing online functionality in my games, I found insight to the haunting effects of an unsatisfactory networking structure.

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Case Study: Travelyaari - Improving Business KPIs via Optimized Dynamic Content Delivery

Date By Shlomi Gian, CEO, PacketZoom Tags mobile-first markets / mobile api / dynamic content / mobile app acceleration / mobile networks / static content

Travelyaari, a flagship brand of Mantis Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is the largest bus marketplace platform in India. In addition to bus ticketing service for bus commuters -- delivered through the Travelyaari website and an Android app -- the platform also offers enterprise-level solutions (ERP) to more than 2,000 bus transporters through BusCRS.

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Fortifying Game Performance and Monetization in Mobile First Regions

Date By Shlomi Gian, CEO, PacketZoom Tags mobile games / mobile game performance / game monetization / mobile-first markets / mobile api / dynamic content / mobile app acceleration / mobile networks / static content

Game developers all around the world are struggling to deliver high quality game experiences. These issues are even more challenging in booming “mobile first” markets where the potential to monetize game titles hasn’t been fully unlocked.

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Mobile CDN: What is it and why is it essential for mobile apps?

Date By Shlomi Gian, CEO, PacketZoom Tags mobile services / mobile api / dynamic content / mobile app acceleration / Amazon Cloudfront / mobile networks / static content / mobile app performance

Mobile apps are turning out to be more popular among users than websites. In 2016, usage of mobile apps exceeded the usage of desktop and mobile web combined. Technically speaking, mobile apps are completely different than websites, but unfortunately, many mobile apps are still using the same content delivery infrastructure that was designed for websites over 30 years ago, thereby diminishing the user experience.

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Dynamic Content Acceleration over Mobile Networks - a Low Hanging Fruit for Superior Mobile Experience

Date By Shlomi Gian, CEO, PacketZoom Tags mobile services / mobile api / dynamic content / mobile app acceleration / Amazon Cloudfront / mobile networks / static content / mobile app performance

What is Dynamic Content?

Any modern app / website combines static and dynamic content. Static content such as images, videos and stylesheets can be reused across multiple users, while dynamic content that includes personalized data (think flight search results) cannot be reused. Unlike static content that remains valid longer and hence can be cached closer to the end user to speedup download time, it makes no sense to cache dynamic content.

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3 Reasons Your Game is Slow

Date By Joseph Lewis, Senior Sales Engineer, PacketZoom Tags network performance / mobile app speed / mobile game / mobile game speed / app performance / app analytics / mobile APM

3 Reasons Your Game is Slow (and what you can do about it) Read more ...


Meet Mobile IQ

Date By Shlomi Gian, CEO, PacketZoom Tags Mobile IQ / Mobile APM / Network Analytics / Network Performance / Network Disconnects / Mobile App Speed

A free-forever Mobile APM to analyze, control and troubleshoot all your network performance issues

Join the beta to receive a $100 Amazon Gift Card (more details at the end of this post). Read more ...