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How Ad Geeks Boosted Halyk Bank’s App Engagement with Behavioral Insights

How Ad Geeks Boosted Halyk Bank’s App Engagement with Behavioral Insights

Discover how Ad Geeks helped Halyk Bank go beyond installs and build a smarter mobile experience. Through a two-phase campaign blending creative storytelling and deep behavioral analysis, we improved user engagement, onboarding, and retention - turning insights into real growth.

The Challenge

Halyk Bank is a leading financial brand in Georgia, but their mobile app wasn’t gaining traction. The issue wasn’t just low installs - It was low engagement and unclear product understanding.

We needed to answer:

  • Where do users drop off?

  • What confuses or frustrates them?

  • How can we improve the experience post-install?

Our Two-Phase Approach

Phase 1: Building Awareness & Trust

Before optimizing the user journey, we had to invite users in. We launched a high-impact awareness campaign across:


  • Meta (Facebook, Instagram)

  • YouTube via Display & Video 360

Creative Strategy:


  • Story-driven videos featuring Georgian celebrities

  • Focus on real-life banking scenarios and key app features

Goal: Make the app familiar, trusted, and top-of-mind.

Phase 2: Driving Action & Analyzing the Journey

With attention secured, we shifted to performance and insights. We focused on:


  • Driving installs with value-based “Shadow Ads”

  • Retargeting high-intent audiences

  • Optimizing creatives based on early behaviors

More importantly - we analyzed the full user journey:

  • Where users dropped off

  • What screens caused friction

  • Which features weren’t being discovered

Why This Matters

Most campaigns stop at the install. We don’t. We mapped real user behavior and helped Halyk Bank:


  • Improve onboarding

  • Remove friction

  • Increase app stickiness and feature adoption

What We Delivered

  • Full-funnel campaign across Meta & DV360

  • User journey & behavior analysis

  • Clear UX recommendations

  • Data that shaped app improvements

The Results

  • Significant increase in app visibility

  • Thousands of installs driven by high-value creatives

  • Deep insights into user flow and friction

  • Tangible improvements in onboarding and retention


Ad Geeks in Action

We’re more than media buyers. We help brands understand their users - and act on it.

From campaign to conversion, we combine:


• Multi-channel execution
• Behavioral analysis
• Product-focused growth insights

Let’s build smarter digital journeys - together.


The Results

  • Significant increase in app visibility

  • Thousands of installs driven by high-value creatives

  • Deep insights into user flow and friction

  • Tangible improvements in onboarding and retention

Ad Geeks in Action

We’re more than media buyers. We help brands understand their users - and act on it.

From campaign to conversion, we combine:

• Multi-channel execution
• Behavioral analysis
• Product-focused growth insights

Let’s build smarter digital journeys - together.

Services used in this project

Creating brand-driven experiences that put brand essence at the core of the creation process.

Display & Banner Production

Video Production

Services used in this project

Creating brand-driven experiences that put brand essence at the core of the creation process.

Display & Banner Production

Video Production