Unveiling Triumph: Preply's App Sees a 66% Surge in Views and a 44% Rise in Downloads in Just 2 Weeks – The Inside Scoop

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Sector:
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Published:
February 22, 2024
Team:
Yaroslav Vorona
ASO Specialist
Nataliia Kaidanovska
ASO Specialist
Maxim Melnik
Head of ASO at RadASO
Oleksii Volkov
Project Manager

If an app already has a well-known brand name and gets high impressions due to advertising campaigns, marketers have to consider alternative strategies to promote it. In this case, ASO is an effective tool as well. The RadASO team explains how to increase organic traffic using text ASO for an industry-leading app with a well-known branded app.

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The Client

Preply is one of the leading online tutoring platforms that brings together over 50,000 tutors and millions of students from around the world through video communication. Users of the application find themselves in an educational space where they can quickly master a new language.

The Purpose

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To come up with a comprehensive ASO strategy, generate organic traffic, and bring the app to the top ranks, thus creating a leader that stands out in the niche successfully.

The Challenge

To increase organic traffic through ASO, regardless of the client's advertising campaigns, as the client is a leader in the industry with a well-established branded app. To test and improve graphics, even though most users searched for the app by brand name and ignored the graphical aspect.

The Solution

Step 1. The RadASO team analyzed and selected relevant keywords, resulting in the main competitor base. They took the general functionality as a basis, specifically learning foreign languages online with a teacher. Among the main competitors were HiNative, italki, Cambly, Tandem, and others.

The RadASO Tech Boosted Solution tool makes it possible to segment competitors by the following categories (for further collection of the keyword list):

  • 100% competitor (very similar applications);
  • indirect (closely related applications);
  • maybe (at this stage, we do not consider them to be competitors, but they may be needed in the future work);
  • not a competitor.

Therefore, to expand the keyword list, we added language learning apps to the indirect competitor apps, but not necessarily with a tutor.

Step 2. Based on competitor analysis, we analyzed the overall traffic in the niche and selected priority countries for ASO. Our primary focus was on regions with the highest share of traffic, including the United States, Germany, Poland, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

In order to concentrate on the priority regions and achieve the best results for the brand, we have developed a comprehensive six-month plan.

In total, we covered 20 localizations and added extra targets for the US, including traditional Chinese, to expand the app's audience. The current number of locations in the United States can be found here.

Step 3. The RadASO Tech Boosted Solution automatically generated keyword lists for the most relevant search terms and collects data in the following categories:

  • competitors' search terms (by which they are ranked);
  • our competitors' titles and subtitles (with relevant search terms);
  • suggestions from the store.

The team focused specifically on high- and medium-popularity keywords.

Due to the highly competitive niche, there was a lot of focus on search terms with a limited number of competitors in the search results. This method allowed the experts to quickly achieve the result and get quite a lot of positions for the brand.

The Results

The organic traffic rapidly increased after the first release. Just two weeks after the release in the selected countries, impressions increased by 66%, and downloads by 44% (if we compare to the same period before the release).

During the next releases, the growth continued in the countries where the team had already worked on text metadata. Here are examples of post-release changes:

Organic traffic growth in Japan

Organic traffic growth in Australia

Organic traffic growth in Korea

Our team's monthly ASO updates continue to gradually increase the number of installations and views of the Preply app:

  • re-examining and removing keywords that do not bring the app to the top;
  • testing new keywords that were not in the metadata before;
  • updating the metadata according to new keywords that change popularity or positions.

This way, we can achieve top results for the brand on the App Store and Google Play.

Campaign
Expenditure
Impressions
Taps
Installs
TTR
CR
Installs/Impr
Avg CPT
Avg CPA
Common term
-65.64%
-49.85%
-64.01%
-63.52%
-1.69%
0.81%
-0.98%
-5.13%
-6.06%
Data collection
-44.45%
-29.55%
-44.22%
-50.2%
-0.7%
-6.39%
-0.6%
0%
11.65%
Competitors brand
98.56%
80.41%
103.76%
92.01%
0.38%
-3.58%
0.12%
-2.38%
2.94%
Our brand
21.39%
23.01%
33.84%
32.65%
3.14%
-0.72%
2.27%
-8.33%
-6.82%
Discovery
-100%
-100%
-100%
-100%
-3.61%
-30.16%
-1.09%
-100%
-100%
Total
-0.6%
7.92%
11.72%
12.3%
0.2%
0.35%
0.16%
-11.36%
-12.31%
Group
Spend, $ %
Impressions %
Taps %
Installs %
Installs/Impr October, %
Installs/Impr November, %
Installs/Impr %
Avg CPT, $ %
Avg CPA, $ %
Competitor 1
42,98
83,11
63,3
50,48
3,74
3,08
-0,66
-12,2
-5,66
Common term
3,26
-3,73
3,92
26,67
0,57
0,75
0,18
0
-18,8
Competitors brand
120,26
59,82
47,02
0
0,49
0,31
-0,18
47,37
119,4
Data collection
15,12
-0,55
0,36
73,33
0,5
0,86
0,36
13,73
-33,51
Competitor 2
0,27
13,2
8,47
10,11
1,12
1,09
-0,03
-6,56
-9,02
Competitor 3
21,51
-2,06
-6,67
-8,33
0,43
0,4
-0,03
32
32,95
Our brand
3 575,62
3 646,79
3 544,9
3 553,66
37,61
36,68
-0,93
0
0
Competitor 4
-29,36
-35,77
-24,07
-33,7
0,61
0,63
0,02
-7,46
6,25
Relevant Competitors
69,42
26,03
51,35
48,95
6,3
7,45
1,15
12,2
14,29
Competitor 5
32,21
17,63
57,48
53,16
1,71
2,23
0,51
-15,71
-13,77
Competitor 6
-9,31
9,42
22,92
17,89
5,3
5,71
0,41
-27,08
-23,44
Total
33,96%
13,44%
87,29%
127,08%
1,36%
2,73%
1,37%
-29,09%
-40,74%
Custom region
Impressions
Units
1/7/2021 - 1/15/2021
1/16/2021 - 1/24/2021
Change
%
MoM
1/7/2021 - 1/15/2021
1/16/2021 - 1/24/2021
Change
%
MoM
United States
12 970
39 436
26 466
204 %
88 220
1 116
1 904
788
71 %
2 627
UK + Ireland
8 731
10 197
1 466
17 %
4 887
438
462
24
5 %
80
Germany + AT + CH + LU
1 974
6 235
4 261
216 %
14 203
203
291
88
43 %
293
France
1 500
4 390
2 890
193 %
9 633
182
237
55
30 %
183
Netherlands / Belgium
1 593
3 599
2 006
126 %
6 687
159
201
42
26 %
140
Ukraine
697
4 010
3 313
475 %
11 043
85
189
104
122 %
347
Canada
2 569
3 614
1 045
41 %
3 483
145
178
33
23 %
110
Northern Europe
1 273
2 024
751
59 %
2 503
117
175
58
50 %
193
Australia + NZ
1 754
3 324
1 570
90 %
5 233
137
160
23
17 %
77
Vietnam
352
2 712
2 360
670 %
7 867
32
144
112
350 %
373
Thailand
679
2 016
1 337
197 %
4 457
57
142
85
149 %
283
Arabic World
268
1 745
1 477
551 %
4 923
40
119
79
198 %
263
Spain
844
2 058
1 214
144 %
4 047
78
108
30
38 %
100
Eastern Europe
458
1 070
612
134 %
2 040
63
95
32
51 %
107
Italy
826
2 145
1 319
160 %
4 397
77
94
17
22 %
57
Turkey
338
2 309
1 971
583 %
6 570
34
87
53
156 %
177
Rest of World
426
1 457
1 031
242 %
3 437
48
81
33
69 %
110
Japan
553
5 113
4 560
825 %
15 200
18
80
62
344 %
207
India
234
1 169
935
400 %
3 117
15
75
60
400 %
200
Brazil
294
1 332
1 038
353 %
3 460
34
67
33
97 %
110
Hispanic America
318
784
466
147 %
1 553
42
51
9
21 %
30
Indonesia
206
525
319
155 %
1 063
20
41
21
105 %
70
Korea (South)
308
2 055
1 747
567 %
5 823
22
36
14
64 %
47
Malaysia
119
663
544
457 %
1 813
11
27
16
145 %
53
Taiwan + HK + Macau
145
532
387
267 %
1 290
9
24
15
167 %
50
Rest of Europe
82
287
205
250 %
683
12
22
10
83 %
33
Portugal
17
273
256
1 506 %
853
2
18
16
800 %
53
Israel
23
120
97
422 %
323
3
9
6
200 %
20
China / Singapore
78
134
56
72 %
187
6
7
1
17 %
3
Total
39 629
105 328
65 699
166 %
218 997
3 205
5 124
1 919
60 %
6 397

Testimonials

Oleksii Volkov, Project Manager

Our team faced a difficult task. We had to increase traffic to the application, which already had good indicators and was a well-known brand. Due to coordinated work, we achieved our goals and exceeded the plan and results.

Working with Preply was flawless. We have succeeded due to painstaking work on increasing installs and impressions, constant improvement of screenshots and graphic elements, and the collaboration of two teams.

The RadAso team is looking forward to continuing this successful partnership and is confident that further cooperation will produce even greater results. Experts continue to refine strategies and drive Preply's further success.

Alexandra van der Deure, Marketing Manager Preply

Since we chose RadASO as our main consultant for all ASO-Topics in December 2022, we’ve seen outstanding improvement in our app’s visibility on iOS and Android. The quality as well as the volume of work the agency provided has paid off.

In particular, the RadASO team helped us with recurrent keyword optimization across more than 20 localizations, which has led to a consistent increase in our visibility over time.

We’ve doubled the volume of our ranked keywords. RadASO has also provided critical support for conversion rate and product page optimization. That is why we have more projects planned for the upcoming quarter and year.

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