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doda attracts a younger audience.

The doda team structured Apple Search Ads campaigns by brand, category, competitive, and discovery keywords to more easily monitor and optimize results. They actively tracked performance at the keyword level and gained valuable insights about reaching a younger demographic than the audience for their other online channels. Recommendations within Apple Search Ads also helped the team optimize bidding for high-opportunity keywords, increasing the likelihood of doda’s ads showing for the most relevant searches. 

“Apple Search Ads quickly became more efficient than other online ad platforms in driving user acquisition and improving return on ad spend,” says doda App Ads Manager Satoshi Akagi. “The quality of the audience was higher and we were reaching younger people, which broadened our customer base.”

To save time and effort, doda’s agency used the Apple Search Ads Campaign Management API to create daily performance reports and set up automated bid management. One report revealed that acquisition efficiency is particularly high during evening and late-night hours, presumably when people search for new jobs at home. The doda team and CyberAgent adjusted their strategy based on this insight, increasing bidding at particular times of day. 

“When we optimized our bidding approach by time of day, we were able to improve cost-per-install by about 15 percent while also increasing the number of installs,” says CyberAgent Apple Search Ads Department Chief Consultant Shingo Sato.

With granular, ongoing optimization of keywords and bidding, Apple Search Ads became doda’s best channel for driving conversions and one of the top channels for return on ad spend.