Posts Tagged ‘case study’

Portable Zoo fine-tunes mobile game apps with Motally analytics

Friday, January 8th, 2010

At Motally, we love hearing about how clients use our mobile analytics solutions to optimize their mobile sites and applications. When we heard that Portable Zoo was using Motally’s application analytics solution to improve their game apps, we wanted to know more. We were interested in learning about their experience, so we met with Don Traeger, Portable Zoo’s CEO.

Don shared with us how Motally was helping them in their optimization process. “We can see how long our users’ game times are, what levels they are in, and how they are interacting with the game within that level.” He added, “With Motally, we can more effectively hone the game. We know what to drop because it isn’t working, and we can identify each game’s strengths and build on them.”

We learned that Portable Zoo’s developers use the data they receive from Motally as a sort of focus group to learn about their users’ preferences. They then use this information to fine-tune the game levels, ad placements, and the look and feel of the apps. Don explained, “If you are serious about game development, you have got to be looking at your analytics. Having the kind of information that Motally gives you in your toolbox can help you outmarket—and outperform—the rest. It’s going to be an essential tool for pretty much everybody.”

Read more about his experience here – Portable Zoo Case Study

Posted by: Kristine Holst

Yelp Optimizes Mobile Site with Help from Motally Analytics

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

A few weeks ago I sat down to chat with Eric Singley, Product Manager at Yelp, about his experience using mobile analytics at Yelp. I wanted to pick his brain about the different solutions he’d used and the challenges he’d faced with each one. Right off the bat we agreed that web analytics solutions fall short when it comes to tracking mobile sites accurately. Eric explained that he’d tried several solutions at Yelp before using Motally and commented “Web analytics can’t understand the mobile web visitor. We had limited visibility.”

Eric noted that having mobile specific information, such as carrier, device type, and user data, is extremely helpful when optimizing mobile sites. Since our detailed reports show exactly how visitors interact with the mobile site and which content works best, Motally was able to provide Yelp with data to help optimize their site. Eric explains, “Now we are able to tailor the experience all the way to the device-level…” Not only that, Eric felt that it was super easy to get up and running with Motally’s mobile analytics. From his perspective, “Integration was pretty trivial from a technical standpoint.”

Overall, I learned a lot from listening to Eric’s experiences tracking Yelp’s mobile site. In fact, the insights from this conversation were the basis for our latest case study.

Read more here – Yelp Case Study

Posted by: Kristine Holst