Smartnews grows CPM’s 200%, adds incremental revenue

SmartNews owns the largest news aggregation apps in the US

Problem
But ad revenue growth stalled because of low value display ads
MAX CPM
$2

“We needed a way to grow ad revenue

 in the app,

display.io
gave us that”

“We needed a way to grow ad revenue in the app,
display.io
gave us that”

SmartNews

solution

App Interscroller

Advertisers bid up to
$6.00
CPM
Interscroller generated an average 203% higher CPM than standart ads

Smartnews wanted test impact on incremental ad revenue and user experience

Cohort A
Would see
regular display
Cohort B
Would see interscroller ads
7%
Incremental lift in total ad revenue
0%
user churn
How to

It took SmartNews only three steps

01
Integrate DIO customer GAM adaptor
02
Set up New Yield Group
03
Set price
floor ($6)

Interscroller was set at 
a priority in the publishers waterfall

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