Angry Birds · B2C · mobile bird-slinging game
Test holiday-themed screenshots against your standard ones
Standard screenshots beat the seasonal ones; small difference
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What they did
Angry Birds A/B tested a seasonal screenshot set against its standard screenshots (case covered by Apple).
What happened
Contrary to popular belief, the standard screenshots did better than the seasonal ones; uplift was small
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