Measuring the impact of misleading ads
summary
User reviews tagged by Gemini show misleading ads appear in 25% of the top 500 games, a 40% YoY rise, and 87% of those reviews are one star. Short-term upper-quartile lifts look real—impressions +34% and installs +18%—but long-term damage scales with exposure: games running >25% misleading creatives halve day 28 retention, see store ratings drop ~0.4, and six-month revenue trails traditional ads by ~17%.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to misleading ads
- 1:04Defining and tracking the data
- 2:51Methodology for analysis
- 4:40Market trends and motivation
- 7:55Performance and long-term impact
- 12:22Comparing ad strategies
- 15:49Actionable takeaways
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