Reputation Management
for Apps & Games
CEO & Co-Founder, AppFollow
Anatoly Sharifulin
Specially for Berlin Meetup
Part 1.
Intro
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What is Reputation Management?
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1. Monitor average rating
types of avg. ratings, overall vs. country, benchmarks
2. Analyze user reviews
types of reviews, key metrics: sentiment score, avg. ratings
3. Reply to reviews
all vs. important reviews, integrations with help desks
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What is Reputation Management?
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1. Average rating is important
for User Acquisition and ASO
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Source: Apptentive
Low average rating "kills" conversion rate
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Lost installs
Lost installs
Lost installs
… but if you’re Facebook, you don’t care about avg. rating 😎
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Average rating of featured apps & games is 4.5
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Source: AppFollow11
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Benchmark for average rating:
min: 4.0, target: 4.5+
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Average rating: Overall vs. Country
Avg. rating is specific to
each territory. You can
reset it when you release a
new version of your app.
Users see a unified
overall rating. Google
switched a lifetime rating
to a new rating system 

in August 2019.
vs.
Avg. rating
by stars
Avg. rating
by reviews
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What is a true rating?
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True rating (= app quality) is an average rating by reviews
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2. Working on reviews is important
for UA, Game Dev & Customer Support
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Featured/Helpful reviews
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Average rating by Featured Reviews
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Dig into reviews to find insights
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Dig into reviews to find insights
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Sentiment score is a new key metric (based on reviews)
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3. Replying to reviews is important
for UA & Customer Support
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Every day, developers respond to more than
100,000 reviews in the Play Console, and when
they do, we’ve seen that users update their
rating by +0.7 stars on average
Google, May 2019
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Source: AppFollow24
Average rating changes with every developer’s reply
If you reply quickly, users can change rating
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Reply time is another important metric
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User reviews is a new channel of getting feedback
1. Featured/Helpful reviews
2. Rating became worse, e. g. 4* → 1*
3. Rating became better, e. g. 1* → 5*
4. Long reviews
5. Updated reviews with the same rating
5 types of reviews to pay attention to:
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Word count:
Long reviews have 2* rating
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Part 3.
Summary
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Recap:
1. Take care about app reputation
2. Track average rating, min: 4.0, target: 4.5
3. Reply quickly to important reviews
4. Dig into reviews to find insights
5. Constantly improve your product
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Read more:
Part 3 Summary
1. How to get featured in App Store
2. How to deal with reviews to increase CR
3. Why and how to respond to app reviews
4. Challenges when working with reviews
5. How to increase user loyalty with review responses
6. How to level up your Zendesk support
7. How to report a concern in Google Play and App Store
Thanks!
Questions?
Anatoly Sharifulin, CEO
anatoly@appfollow.io

How to improve mobile reputation and increase average app rating