Riccardo Fuzzi

CEO & Founder at MyAppFree
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MyAppFree is a cross-device mobile app marketing platform fueled by data and technology. We help companies acquire new users at scale using a portfolio of in-house solutions designed to drive the most engaging ad experiences.

MyAppFree began as a platform promoting applications that allowed its visitors to discover new apps and limited-time offers. The business model was simple: every time a user downloaded an app, we were paid by the developer.

After our initial success, we started licensing our technology to publishers – our partners – which led to more advertisers, new budgets, and contracts. 

Now we have a software development kit (SDK) that is implemented in games and applications, to give advertisers the tools they need for better decision-making.

Within our SDK, we do our own analysis of end-user behavior for our advertisers. When a user sees a banner on our platform advertising an app, we track different data points in order to offer the best match between apps and users and generate value for our clients.

We also developed tools to allow our advertisers to perform ad verification looking at the entire ad digital journey by testing links that are device or location-restricted.

MyAppFree is a unique and focused way of advertising. While social media platforms and Google work on a CPM basis, our model works on CPI (click per install), so the advertiser only pays for new users.

Our focus on performance and the niche focus of our audience allows us to work with our customers to maximize their budgets and create advertisements that satisfy key performance indicators.

This is considering our audience is actively looking and interested in finding new applications, not stumbling upon one as they might do on social media. Therefore, they are more likely to engage with our clients’ apps, as they are willing to discover new products for their smartphone.

We use Bright Data’s Residential and Mobile network to perform ad verification and testing on the 6,000+ campaigns we have running globally for all of our advertisers.

The links we anchor to the advertisements are protected by a country or device target – if you don’t have this device or are not in this country, the link won’t work. 

We coded a custom solution to verify all the links and we plug it directly into the Bright Data network. By doing it we bypass defrauding procedures as the actions utilizing the network are read as real requests. 

Later on, we built Tracey, an automated tool for Skype to track the redirect chains of digital ads and links without leaving the chat. Tracey is currently testing more than 2,000 links per day and became a verified automated tool by Microsoft.

We license out both described solutions to publishers and partners, who then verify their advertisements using our technology.

With Bright Data we were able to scale, run more advertisements and now we can manage multiple campaigns for each of our direct advertisers that run simultaneously alongside one another.

Using the Bright Data network we were able to double the profit of our company, which had not gone unnoticed by the Financial Times who ranked MyAppFree 91st on its list of “Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022.”

In the future we plan to expand our SDK further into the gaming industry, which is suffering from retention drops due to showing excessive advertisements.

We learned a lot in the past years working directly with app developers, and we believe we have the capability to improve advertising for the benefits of both users and advertisers – so we will work to make ads fun again.

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Riccardo Fuzzi

CEO & Founder at MyAppFree
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MyAppFree 是一个由数据和技术推动的跨设备移动应用营销平台。我们使用的内部解决方案组合旨在营造最吸引人的广告体验,帮助公司获取大量新用户。

MyAppFree 最初是一个推广应用程序的平台,访问者可以在上面发现新应用和限时优惠。收费模式也很简单:每当用户下载一个应用程序,我们就从程序开发者那里获得一份报酬。

在平台经营取得初步成功后,我们开始将技术授权给出版商——我们的合作伙伴——这也为他们带来了更多的广告商、预算与合作。

现在,我们拥有一个嵌入到游戏和应用程序中的软件开发工具包 (SDK),该工具可帮助广告商做出更好的决策。

在我们的SDK中,我们自行为广告商分析终端用户行为。当用户在我们的平台上看到应用程序的横幅广告时,我们会跟踪不同的数据点,以便为用户匹配最适合的应用程序,并为客户创造价值。

我们还开发了一些工具,我们的广告商可以通过测试受设备或位置限制的链接来执行广告验证,查看整个广告数字之旅。

MyAppFree 是一种独特而专注的广告投放方式。虽然很多社交媒体平台包括谷歌都基于 CPM(每千次曝光成本)计算费用,但我们的模型是基于CPI(每次安装点击次数)收费,因此广告商只需为点击安装应用的新用户付费。

我们对产品性能和受众的关注让我们与客户合作时,客户预算能得到最大化利用,我们制作的广告也会满足关键性能指标。

这是考虑到我们的受众会积极寻找并有兴趣寻找新的应用程序进行下载,而不是直接下载一些在社交媒体上偶然刷到的应用。因此,他们更有可能使用我们客户的应用程序,因为他们愿意寻找和下载新应用。

我们使用亮数据的动态住宅网络移动网络对我们在全球范围内为所有广告商投放的6000多个广告系列进行验证和测试。

我们锚定到广告的链接受特定国家或设备目标保护——如果您没有此设备或不在该国家/地区,则该链接将不起作用。

我们编写了一个自定义解决方案来验证所有链接,并将该解决方案直接加入亮数据网络。通过这样,我们利用网络的操作被视为真实请求,我们也因此绕过了欺诈识别程序。

后来,我们构建了 Tracey ,这是一个用于 Skype 的自动化工具,可以在不离开当前聊天的情况下跟踪数字广告和链接的重定向链。 目前,Tracey每天要测试超过2000个链接,也是微软验证的自动化工具。

我们将描述的两种解决方案都授权给发布商和合作伙伴,他们再使用我们的技术验证他们的广告。

借助亮数据,我们能够大批量投放更多广告。目前,我们可以为每个直接广告商管理多个广告系列,而这些广告系列可同时投放。

使用亮数据网络,公司利润实现翻番,这项成绩也被英国《金融时报》关注到;在其“2022 年欧洲增长最快的公司”名单中,MyAppFree 排名第 91 位。

未来,我们计划将我们的 SDK 进一步扩展到游戏行业,该行业由于展示过多广告导致用户留存率下降。

在过去几年中,我们在与应用开发者直接合作中学到了很多,我们相信我们有能力改进广告投放模式以造福用户和广告商——因此我们将努力让广告恢复趣味。

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