Court Exhibit·23 JUL 2019
When Your Customer Brings Demand, They Hold the Leverage
If a user was already searching for your product before arriving at the platform, the platform didn't create that demand — and both sides know it.
Source document — In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (Epic v. Google) — Exhibit 1537 · In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (Epic v. Google) · 3:21-md-02981 (CAND), Doc. 887-13, filed 2023-12-21 (page 1)
Excerpt · In Purnima Kochikar & Sarah Karam & Brandon Barras & Paul Feng & Sameer Samat's own words
Our team has also created a model to compare the value Play delivers against the revenue share paid by a developer on their consumer spend. Two key points that we believe may underlie Tinder's decision-making:
• Despite generating the highest apps revenue from Play, Tinder severely under indexes on the % of installs coming from Play driven sources vs. dating peers and games. In 2018, only 8% of Tinder's installs came from Play driven sources vs. 15% for OKC and 27% for Meetic. This bolsters their assertion that 'people mostly come to Play looking for Tinder'. • The relative discovery value they have been deriving from Play has decreased since 2017, due to an increasing share of acquisitions coming from Search and Search driven re-installs. In parallel, their revenue has been increasing y/y. Thus the team estimates that if you compare the value of non-Search driven discovery vs. revenue share paid, Tinder is now deriving only 10% of the revenue share value vs. the 30% share they pay.
Paul Feng added: 'The analysis does a nice job quantifying Tinder's "people mostly come to Play looking for Tinder" argument. As part of the Magical Bridge AND Payment Policy efforts, we're looking at ways to tier pricing — we can potentially use this. Consider a pricing tier based for apps / brands that bring an inordinate number of users / FOPs / NPUs to the store.'
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How this surfaced
- Source type
- Court Exhibit
- Case / record
- In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (Epic v. Google)
- Citation
- 3:21-md-02981 (CAND), Doc. 887-13, filed 2023-12-21
- Date authored
- July 23, 2019
- License
- Public domain
- Original
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