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Deceptive and disturbing ads are gutting your game. Recent reports found that nearly 60% of mobile gamers have encountered creatives that blatantly misrepresent gameplay and more than half of all games are uninstalled within 30 days. Simply put, bad ads are bad for business. Alex Yerukhimovich, Head of AppHarbr, likens locating and blocking these creatives as a game of whac-a-mole—exhausting, time-consuming, and ultimately something you can’t win on your own. To get you out of this spiral and back into the driver’s seat, AppHarbr manages and eliminates these ads for you before they hit the screen. Alex takes the mic this week to tell Peggy and Brian how AppHarbr's SDK and ad management platform, powered by GeoEdge, gives power back to the publishers, allowing them to control which ads appear alongside their games. He's joined by Vincent Février, CMO at TapNation. Together, the two break down the types of bad ads, how they affect game performance, and how AppHarbr helps publishers to police and put a stop to poor-quality ads before a user sees them.



CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro 

03:20 - Types of bad ads

07:32 - Most harmful ads for publishers

12:12 - Side effects of bad ads 

20:25 - How AppHarbr helps publishers to police 

26:40 - Putting your foot down

30:05 -  AppHarbr's services to fight bad ads

32:47 - How to create ads policy and audit

35:55 - Games studios should make games

37:56 - Vincent's advice to publishers

40:10 - Favourite games Q&A



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Craig Chapple, Paige Cook and Aaron Astle from the PocketGamer.biz team discuss the latest mobile games industry news from the past week.

We delve into how Lilith Games builds billion-dollar mobile games, discuss the Humble Games layoffs and the confusing messaging about its restructure/closure, and Craig gets angry about the definition of downloads.


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Craig Chapple, Paige Cook and Aaron Astle from the PocketGamer.biz team discuss the latest mobile games industry news from the past week.

We cover the news that Monopoly GO! is now its own board game... plus discuss the future of B2B games media and the closure of Axis Studios - the team behind that famous Dead Island trailer.


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For smaller studios, building long-term relationships with ad networks is crucial. This means asking the right questions, leveraging the right data, and utilising all available resources effectively. Sergey Sukhov, Chief Business Development Officer at AdQuantum—a performance marketing agency that offers unique support to smaller game studios on top of traditional UA services—offers his advice for nailing all three in this episode. Alongside our hosts, Peggy Anne Salz and Brian Baglow, Sergey shares exactly what studios should bring to the negotiating table and how to obtain the right data from ad partners to know for certain whether to keep or kill your game. What's more, he breaks down Ad Quantum's bespoke solutions tailored to studios of all sizes and the creative format that outperforms all others.



CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

02:17 - What does AdQuantum do?

04:35 - Tactics and questions for smaller studios

10:20 - Studios biggest challenges

12:15 - Navigating negotiations

15:20 - Building relationships with ad networks

20:35 - Get creative about creatives

24:15 - Formats that perform well

26:08 - AI for measurement

28:28 - Metrics that matter

30:00 - Emerging trends

32:20 - Favourite games Q&A



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Craig Chapple, Daniel Griffiths and Paige Cook from the PocketGamer.biz team discuss the latest mobile games industry news from the past week.

We cover the big takeaways from the Develop: Brighton conference with advice on how studios can survive to 2025, and ask whether web3 gaming is still all talk.


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Whether it’s webshops, alternative app stores or multiplatform, the race to find more ways to get your game in front of more users is real—and so is the competitive edge you achieve if the channels you choose put the player experience first. In this episode, we zoom in on InMobi Group’s Nostra, a platform revolutionising game publishing and development in Southeast Asia and India by creating snackable, instant gaming experiences—all on your phone’s lock screen. It’s a unique offering and a crowd-pleaser, according to the numbers. Nostra, powered by the Glance, dominates the region, boasting a roster of 500+ games and 100M+ monthly active users. Deepak Venkatramani, Vice President of Business & Operations at Glance, steps onto the show this week to tell Peggy and Brian how Nostra offers any game access to players anywhere in the world, allowing them to scale fast and win big. Felicity, a studio that gained 1M+ MAUs with a three-person team, shares its success story with Nostra. Felicity Founder and CEO Anurag Choudhary joins the episode to share how Nostra’s rapid feedback features and fee-free access to players across the globe literally change the game for his studio and hundreds more across the globe. 



CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

03:55 - What is Nostra?

08:00 - How lock screen gaming increases engagement

10:00 - Nostra scaling games

14:15 - Rapid feedback affecting process

18:00 - Impact on developer ecosystem

22:20 - What makes Nostra different?

25:24 - Going global  

28:50 - Expanding the pie

33:24 - Advice for smaller studios

35:00 - Favourite games Q&A



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