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Good afternoon, my name is Eldad and Im the CRO and Co-founder of KIDOZ

In the next 20 minutes Ill briefly go over our view of the kids space today Focusing on how app developers can make a living from their apps.

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SDK For Apps

Content Discovery Network for Kids

Kid Mode For Devices

TinyLab TuToTOONS Bubadu AppQuiz

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Few words about us to understand our prospective of the kids market:

We are a content discovery platform for kids - We help kids find good & relevant content

We have a kid mode solution we give to device makers and carriers, and an SDK we provide to app developers

Our story is in interesting in itself:We started as an app and became a B2B platform as we realized that the bigger problem was not helping kids find content, it was helping content find kids, so we shifted the product towards developers.

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Content Discovery Network for Kids Over 400 Apps

Over 15 MM MAK

20 Team Members

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And it worked. Our SDK is used by 500 apps reaching 15 million kids every month, and we are adding millions each month now. We have 20 people based in Israel.This presentation will share the insight we got from working, talking and questioner we did for this lecture.

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Developing Apps for Kids

75%Want to help kids

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And our first question to developers was why? What led them to develop apps for kids?

Most wanted to make the world better for kids and help them (inspired by their own kids)

Only a few developers started as a purely business decision. And, if they did, Im pretty sure they think differently today. 4

Discovery is Extremely Hard, Unless:You have a huge portfolio (to cross-promote)

Your apps are featured frequently

Will you feature my app?

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The kids space has a few main challenges, the first being discovery:

Kids are not actively seeking apps on apps stores, they dont have the patience and skill Their parents are too busy as well to help, so discovery is super hard unless:You already have big portfolio of 20-30 apps that can boost you new app launch.You have fans in the Google & Apple stores5

Revenue Per User Is Lower Than Cost

~25 C

No economy ~$1.00Life Time ValueCost Of New Install

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And if we thought discovery is hard, monetization is even harder.

The cost of acquiring users is way higher than the revenue you make from each one.The gap between the money you need to bring users and the money you make is preventing the space from becoming a sustainable economy This is the biggest problem of our space today And this is exactly what we (and some others are trying to solve )6

Marketing Effort & Budget

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The challenges are reflected when developers are marketing their appsOnly 21% invest in UA, and their budgets are a few thousands dollars a month so as a general rule, UA is not a common practice in the space.

Most developers focus on store optimization and other free tactics

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Asking Users to Pay (US Market, 2016)

#1 Premium / $104M But user base remain small

#2 In-App Purchases / $49MBut raise complaints, higher regulation, no monetization from most users.

#3 Subscription / $37M But requires heavy maintenance

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So how do apps make money in our space?There are 2 main methodsAds - which will focus on, and asking your users to pay

Direct monetization is extremely hard:

#1 Premium: up front payment for apps is a popular revenue model, especially on iOS,but NOT having the try before you buy concept is keeping most apps with a very small user base, with only well-known brands succeeding in the premium category.

#2: In app purchases: kids buy within apps, the default solution mainly for Android. This raises concerns, for example how many parents send their kids to the mall with their credit cards?So without a handy payment method, a kid needs to beg for purchase, which he will do for an app he is extremely engaged with. Not a simple puzzle, he will play with for 10 minutes.

#3: Subscriptions: probably the best way to monetize today in terms of ARPUbut relevant only if you can maintain the ongoing effort of developing new content for the service.

http://www.slideshare.net/dubit/zynga-online-gaming-usa-report-f-inal-slidesharehttps://www.developereconomics.com/how-much-is-an-active-user-worth

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But What About The Rest?

Paying Non

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So while asking for money may work, it leaves behind a huge potential of the NON paying users And definitely does not optimize potential revenues.

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Kids Are Shifting From TV To MobileAnd Ad spend budget on kids is following

$4B Mobile Display & Video

$17B TV Ads

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And what is the potential?As kids keep shifting from TV to mobile, the ad spend budget is following and the 17 Billion dollars spend on TV campaigns is slowly moving away from the traditional TV space

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Attitude towards ads in apps for kidsNo ads Ok with adsOK with Safe Ads only 22% 37% 41%

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So how do developers feels about ads?

Most of them are OK with ads, or are at least looking to run safe ads.

I believe that the more we see appropriate ads for kids, the higher the trust level from developers.

Developers want to see the process working for them and for kids. rest of the developers will feel better about them.11

So to conclude, lets run over some good, and bad practices of monetizing kids apps. 12

Bad: Being Non-COPPA Compliant

Corona Platform

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One the worst things you can do in the kids space is do nothing, or burry your head in the sand and declare you are not targeting kids.When it comes to COPPA, if you are working with any kids, you need to be compliant.

You may have heard about InMobi, the ad network that was fined recently for tracking kids locations last month.And the FTC is more focused on the developers and publishers.

I think we will see more and more networks and platforms saying to developers, if you are monetizing kids apps, you cannot use the generic ad networks.And need to select a COPPA compliant solution, which happens to be KIDOZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0u85SIPi0

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Bad: Being Non Compliant in App Stores

iOS KidsParental gate is a must

Google Play (Family) No Game Walls

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You thought being COPPA complaint is hard? Wait until you hear what the stores are asking you to do to be part of their kids sectionsEach store came out with a long set of rulesobviously your content and ads need to be safe for kids. And if you think you are in full control, you are wrong. One of our partners enabled Admob, by Google, but was kicked out of Google Play because the AdMob ads were not appropriateFor iOS you need a parental gate (which is a killer if the kid is playing by himself and you promote installs)On Google Play you can only promote one item at a time, this is why Tom the cat and Outfit7 are not in the family category

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Ugly: Being Inappropriate

Popular coloring appshowing inappropriate recommendations for kids

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Last example what can I say, not exactly educational - and this is not a rare sight.

My kid asked me yesterday if I know I could meet women online because he was asked by Smashy Road to watch a Date.com ad.

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Good: Being TransparentNick Jr. clearly marks ads within the feed.

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For a better taste, lets finish with some good practices for promoting things to kidsFirst be clear and differentiate between ads and content

This is not just for the kids, it is for your brands credibility among parents and stores(young kids dont know how to read, and older kids know its an ad without reading).16

Good: Being RelevantPromoting care & style games with related games

CTR of 18% (double!)

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Seek to promote relevant items based on the app theme.When we promote apps around animals within similar apps, or dress up games within baby care apps the CTR was double.

You can do it with kids oriented platforms like KIDOZ or manually control the promotions you are receiving from the networks.17

Good: Respect Kids

Non Intrusive

User Initiated Native & Content Focused

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And lastly, respect kids with an elegant and non intrusive experience.We created a unit that kids open which allows them to explore more, and only then to see the promotionWe found that the ECPM is way higher and kids are coming back to the unit, instead of looking to close it the minute they see it.

And Ill leave you with 1 last minute of self promotion with the touching interview we did with fran, an app for kids.

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Thank Youeldad@kidoz.net

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