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App marketing cost inflation keeps getting worse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Inflation is no fun. Especially when costs are rising more than what you can charge for something. That’s the problem facing app developers, based on the latest report by mobile marketing firm Fiksu.

During May, marketing costs rose 17 percent from April and 34 percent from a year ago, as measured in Fiksu’s Cost per Loyal User Index, which measures the cost of acquiring mobile users who open an app at least three times on iOS. That sets the stage for a competitive summer.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.