Improved User List Search

May 15, 2013

You may or may not have used the User List area of the CMS to gain insight into your apps’ users. If you haven’t now’s the time to take a look.

Here are the things you can do:

• Search by username (quickly pick out a troublemaker or a VIP)
• Search by city or zip code and distance (target specific users near your next event or location)
• Sort your results! Now you can order the list by who has the most points (top users) and who joined most recently (hi noobs!)
• Return a limited number of results (handy for getting a quick list of top 10 users, say)
• Target by platform (helpful for making announcements to just iPhone, Android, or iPad users, or seeing who uses what)
• Badges won (get a list of users who’ve won a specific badge)
• Golden Ticket won (helpful for seeing who’s won golden tickets in each of your campaigns)
• Polls taken (generate a list of users who’ve taken a certain poll)
• Bulk actions! Select all of the results, or hand pick using checkboxes, and then you can download a CSV file to load into the software of your choice, or send a push notification to your selections

Campaign Wizard

May 10, 2013

Once your apps have been upgraded to our v5 update for both iPhone and Android, you’ll notice something new in your CMS dashboard.

The Campaign Wizard is there to make suggestions for actions you can take based on your marketing goals. We briefly explain your options, and offer links to learn more and see examples so you can easily set up campaigns that will help your apps.

Let us know what you think and if you find it helpful!

All New Analytics!

May 2, 2013

We’ve made some huge improvements to your apps’ analytics!

• The Analytics section has been made a top-level navigation item in your CMS for easier access. Log in and check it out here.
• We’ve created a new Overview page that gives you a glance into your most important stats.
• Drill-down into graphs on individual pages.

On each graph you’ll be able to do the following:

• Adjust time frame to All Time, Past Month, Past Week, Past Day, or a Date Range
• See a numerical result for that time frame
• See the trend (e.g. percentage up or down) during that time frame
• Download a CSV file of that data

Downloads
App Downloads — The number of downloads of your app each day
App Download Sources — Which sources are yielding the most downloads of your app
Downloads By Platform — Total number of downloads per platform
App Gallery Views — The number of hits to your app’s page on Mobile Roadie’s site and where those visitors came from

Media
Total Audio Streams — This is the number of streams per track per day
Top Audio Streams — Your most streamed audio tracks
Video Plays — The number of video plays in your app per day
Most Watched Videos — Your most watched pieces of video content ordered by plays

Sections
Popular Sections — Your most popular app sections as ordered by total hits
Page Views — Total page views across all sections per day
Comments Breakdown — Total number of comments per section

Users
Unique Visitors — Total unique visitors to your app per day
User Demographics — Your overall app users broken down by age range and gender
Email Subscribers — New subscribers to your mailing list

Social
Share Types — Number of shares per type of content
Networks — See how many users over time you have access to through various networks
Comments Breakdown — Total number of comments per section

Engagement
Session Time — Average time spent in each section
Popular Content — Your most popular content by favorites, likes, and shares
Popup Promos Sent — Check the success of your last popup promos
Badges — Your most awarded badges
Push Notifications — Check the success of your latest push notifications
Polls — Check the success of your latest polls
QR Codes — Number of QR scans made within your app

Music Sales
Conversion Rate Over Time — This is the click-to-conversion (purchase) ratio for all of your audio tracks.
Stats Per Audio Track — A list of all your tracks and their sales data
Top Tracks — Hits vs. conversions for your most popular tracks

Monetization
Hits to Links — Number of hits to web links from your app

A note on analytics availability:

• Pro tier customers have access to all graphs, including new ones we’ll be adding soon.
• Core customers will only have access to App Downloads, Downloads by Platform, Popular Sections, Email Subscribers.
• Previous Core customers will only have access to App Downloads, Downloads by Platform, App Gallery Views, Audio Streams Over Time, Top Audio Streams, Video Plays, Most Watched Videos, Popular Sections, Section Views, Comments Breakdown, Unique Visitors, User Demographics, Email Subscribers, Share Stats, Music Sales Conversions, Conversion Rate Over Time, and Revenue.

Post to your Fan Wall from the CMS

January 24, 2013

You can now post to your app’s Fan Wall from within the CMS. This is a great way to reach your audience and lead discussions, set topics, and make announcements. Simply log in to the Mobile Roadie CMS and go to Engage > Post to Fan Wall. The Fan Wall post you make will use your app name and icon for extra official-ness.

Import Photos from your Facebook Fan Page

January 11, 2013

If your brand has a public Facebook fan page, you can now automatically sync those photos with your Mobile Roadie apps!

Log in to the CMS, and go to Build > Add Content > Facebook (at the bottom).
Enter the full URL for your fan page and click Connect. This must be a public fan page, not a default private profile.

We’ll start importing your Facebook photos automatically for your fans to enjoy!

Improved Image Uploaders & Croppers

We fixed up our image uploaders throughout the entire CMS, so it’s even easier for you to crop down any sized image into the correct dimensions we require to build assets for your app.

Smart App Banners

November 9, 2012

Apple has created Smart App Banners that are used in iOS 6 Safari to encourage your site’s visitors to download your app, resulting in better conversions from a more elegant popup.

We’ve given you an easy way to promote your app on your site to iOS 6 visitors by installing a code on your website.

Log in to your CMS and go to Engage > Promotional Tools to get your Smart Apps Banner. You must have an iPhone app and correct iOS Developer Account information to receive this code. Our custom created popup is still available for other apps if this doesn’t fit your needs.

Google Analytics for Mobile Web

October 22, 2012

If you have a Mobile Roadie provided Mobile Website, you can now add in a Google Analytics ID to track analytics on the site.

You can find this under Manage > App Vitals. You’ll need a Google Analytics account set up for this URL.

Services Feeds

October 17, 2012

We’ve made some changes to improve how you connect to other services and feeds when adding content in our CMS.

• You can manually update certain feeds if you’d like it refreshed more immediately
• Importing will happen more often and more consistently
• We’ll let you know the last time the feed was updated
• We’ll let you know if something goes wrong with your feed so you have an opportunity to resolve it

Improved Instagram Importing

October 15, 2012

We’ve supported Instagram hashtags for awhile now — but now we’ve added account importing! By connecting an Instagram account, previous images will be imported, and every upcoming photo you post there will automatically be pulled into your app for your users to see.

To set up Instagram importing, log in to the Mobile Roadie CMS, then navigation to Build > Photos > Add Content.

Sorting Speakers

October 5, 2012

If your app has a Speakers section that you’re using to list people involved with a conference, event, or other project, we’ve given you more sorting options.

Using the Mobile Roadie CMS, go to Build, then Speakers (or add a new Speakers section). Under Appearance you can now select a sort order, either by first name alphabetically, by last name alphabetically, or manually by dragging and dropping items in the Manage Content list.

When new speakers are added, they’ll be automatically sorted in your apps according to this preference.

Sonic Notify

Customers with our Advanced Views Package have the ability to integrate Sonic Notify into their apps, allowing them to send exclusive content to app users via sound waves.

If you have this package, you can now hook up your Sonic Notify account via the Mobile Roadie CMS. Simply navigate to Manage, then Sonic Notify. You’ll be able to input your Sonic Notify GUID here, and you’re on your way!

Disable the Footer

If you’ve ever wanted to disable the footer in your smartphone app that displays a rotating activity stream and music player on the home screen, now you can!

Sign in to the Mobile Roadie CMS and navigate to Design, then Home Styles, then scroll down to the Footer area.

The footer is enabled by default, but now you can turn it off. Turning off the footer won’t yet be reflected in the app preview.

Design Area Reorganization

September 26, 2012

For our customers creating and editing custom themes, we’ve made some big changes to the Design area of the CMS to make it even easier for you.

Instead of digging around to find the settings you want to adjust, there are now more options available to you in a friendlier arrangement.

• Pick Theme/Your Theme — Pick a new template theme provided by us to use as a jumping off point, or get a quick preview of the theme you already have selected.

• Colors — Pick a new color scheme for the interior views of the app, or define the colors of individual elements. Select from a color wheel or paste in a color HEX code.
• Arrange Sections — Drag and drop to reorder sections as you’d like them displayed using your home screen navigation buttons. Quickly hide sections you no longer want available in your app.

• Smartphone Home Styles — Upload a header image, choose a footer color, disable the footer, or upload a home screen background image.
• Smartphone Navigation Styles — Upload a custom button background image for all buttons or choose one of ours. Adjust color options just for navigation buttons. Pick an all new icon set for buttons. Upload a new canvas image that sits underneath navigation buttons.
• Smartphone Interior Styles — Pick a new font and upload a new header bar or pick one of ours. These choices will be applied to every interior view of the app.
• Smartphone Backgrounds — Upload a background image on a per-section basis.
• Smartphone Pre-Roll Video — Available as part of our Advanced Design Package, here’s where you can upload a video to play upon launch of your app.

• iPad Home Styles — Upload a home screen header image, and select one of our global backgrounds. More self-serve iPad design options will be coming soon!
• iPad Widgets — Choose a widget style, or edit individual widget options (such as renaming, or uploading a custom background).
• iPad Interior Navigation — Set your navigation bar height, upload a navigation bar image or choose one of ours, and choose from one of our icon sets.
• iPad Background — Upload a background image on a per-section basis just for your iPad app.

• Mobile Web Home Styles — Select navigation button options and upload your own header image.
• Mobile Web Background — Select one of our tiled background patterns.