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How to advertise to mobile developers

To advertise to mobile developers, be where they read every day: daily.dev Ads, Android Weekly and iOS Dev Weekly, r/androiddev and Droidcon. daily.dev gives you a verified company page they follow and puts your posts and releases in the feed of developers who read #mobile, #android and #ios, in one plan we run for you.

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Who are the mobile developers on daily.dev?

What they read, where it comes from, and what else they follow: the signals a campaign is targeted on.

The tags that reach them

Target any mix; your plan runs the campaign on them.

  • #mobile
  • #android
  • #ios
  • #react-native
  • #flutter
  • #swift

800+ targetable keywords in all (daily.dev Media Kit 2.0, August 2026 — targeting).

Where mobile developers get their news

The sources that publish most on these tags, ranked by followers on daily.dev.

  1. 1 Flutter
  2. 2 Ionic Blog
  3. 3 React Native
  4. 4 JavaScript Mastery
  5. 5 iOS Developers
  6. 6 React Native

What they also read

Tags on the same recent posts, as a share of them. Worth adding to a campaign.

  • #swiftui11%
  • #ai-agents8%
  • #dart8%
  • #kotlin6%
  • #tech-news5%
  • #xcode4%

Tags, sources and co-reading: daily.dev public API snapshot.

How do you reach mobile developers?

Developers are the audience that taught the industry to block ads. The way in is not a louder interruption; it is the reading they chose, in the place they open every day. That is why daily.dev Ads exists: to help brands earn a place in that reading, week after week.

13K+
companies whose developers read daily.dev
800+
targetable stacks and topics
2,000+
content sources in the feed

Written by the daily.dev Ads team, which plans and runs every campaign on the platform. Sources on the audience overview.

  1. Native and cross-platform readers want different posts.

    A Swift reader and a Flutter reader skip each other’s examples. Publish for each with the platform named in the first line, and let the tags put each post in front of the right readers.

  2. The SDK footprint is the first question they ask.

    Mobile developers count binary size, startup time and permissions before features. Put those figures in your release posts and on the first page they link to.

  3. A sample app earns more trust than a landing page.

    This audience clones the sample, runs it on a device and reads the integration code. Publish the repository with each post, and keep it building through every platform update.

  4. Follow the platform calendar, not your own.

    Major OS releases and developer conferences set what mobile developers read about. Publish your compatibility notes in those weeks, when they are looking for exactly that.

HubSpot
“Developers want to be marketed to. They just don’t want to be fluffed at.”

Nikita Jotwani

Principal Developer Advocate

Why do developers pay attention on daily.dev?

The team reviews real developer ad creatives and unpacks why developer UI, technical density and humour decide what gets read.

More from the team: the developer marketing series →

What do mobile developers read, and what should your brand say?

A few things they read and discuss

Examples of popular posts on these tags that mobile developers read and talk about on daily.dev. Open any of them to join the conversation.

  1. You don't need a Mac to develop iOS apps anymore — Expo blog Expo Blog 33 232
  2. My old phone is the best dash cam I own, and it uploads the clips when I get home XDA Developers 6 49
  3. Bring your Android game to the car screen today Android Developers Blog 6 6

Each post opens on daily.dev with its discussion.

What that means for your message

Your takeaways from what they discuss. Our team writes the creative with you.

  • Platform updates Publish what changes on the next OS release and how your SDK handles it, the week it lands
  • Cross-platform versus native Say honestly where your product stands; this audience has picked a side
  • App size and startup time State the kilobytes and milliseconds your SDK adds in every release note

How do you target mobile developers on daily.dev?

Targeting is built on what developers read on daily.dev, not a self-declared profile. You set it once with your campaign manager; your plan runs it, and we optimise it every week.

Tags
#mobile, #android, #ios, #react-native, #flutter, #swift, and any of the 800+ targetable keywords
Seniority
Junior, mid-level, senior and leadership, from on-platform activity
Region
Global, or by region and country
In your plan
  • Your verified company page
  • Your posts in their feed
  • Your logo on the daily.dev homepage
  • A weekly report and a campaign manager
Creative

Our team works with you to shape, finish and test your creative, so it reads like the posts around it.

Creative specs for every placement

Pick a size

Same work in every size. The size sets your reach.

Plan size
Explore my options →

Prices are quoted per company. See how plans work →

Where else can you reach mobile developers?

Where mobile developers can be reached with paid media, and what each channel is good at. Most teams combine two or three; a plan here is the always-on part.

Compare daily.dev with

daily.dev Ads
Mobile newsletters Android Weekly, iOS Dev Weekly
Format
Your verified company page, your posts in their feed, the newsletter they chose, the homepage One sponsor slot per issue
Target by stack
Yes: #mobile, #android, #ios, #react-native, #flutter, seniority, region By list
How you buy
Managed monthly plan Per issue
Best for
Building a brand developers follow, every week, with creative and reporting done for you Launch-week spikes

Channel facts from each channel's own public pages, October 2026. Prices are not compared.

What do teams build with mobile developers on daily.dev?

Build your brand with them

Show up every day in the reading mobile developers chose, with your posts, releases and point of view, so yours is the name they know when they pick a tool.

Grow a community around your product

Your verified company page is where mobile developers follow you, discuss your posts and come back for your next release.

Strengthen your employer brand

Share engineering stories, culture and open roles with mobile developers where they already discover tools and ideas.

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Brands building with developers on daily.dev

Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Google
Okta
AWS
Vanta
RevenueCat
JetBrains
ClickHouse
Neo4j
Appwrite
Pulumi
OpenRouter
Postmark
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Atlassian
Sentry
Google Cloud
Zoho
QA Wolf
Postman
PostHog
Temporal
dbt Labs
CodeRabbit
Bright Data
Novu
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev
Notion
Datadog
Cursor
Edge Impulse
TigerData
Snyk
LaunchDarkly
Sonar
Retool
Windsurf
Stream
context.dev

Google, AWS, Google Cloud, Cursor, Vanta, Zoho, Atlassian, Notion, Okta, Sentry, Datadog, JetBrains, Postman, Snyk, ClickHouse, Edge Impulse, RevenueCat, QA Wolf, TigerData, PostHog, LaunchDarkly, Neo4j, Temporal, Sonar, Appwrite, dbt Labs, Retool, Pulumi, CodeRabbit, Windsurf, OpenRouter, Bright Data, Stream, Postmark, Novu, context.dev

Postmark drove 12.8× more signups context.dev hit 3× the industry CTR benchmark

Guides on reaching mobile developers

All guides: developer marketing resources →

Advertising to mobile developers: your questions

daily.dev reaches millions of developers, and mobile developers there read about Android, iOS and the cross-platform frameworks in between. We do not publish audience sizes per segment; tell us the regions and seniority you need and your plan proposal comes back with the reach it buys. 75% of active developers across the network are mid-level or senior.

Yes. Your posts can reach only developers who read #android, only #ios, or #mobile with #react-native and #flutter, with seniority and region on top. Split them so each platform gets examples written in its own language.

Your verified company page comes first, with release notes, platform-update posts and the sample apps mobile developers follow. Your plan puts those posts in the feed of developers who read #mobile, #android and #ios, one post per platform. Lead with a sample that builds and runs on a device, and keep publishing over a release quarter.

Yes. Every plan includes a verified company page that developers follow. What you publish there (releases, tutorials, engineering posts) reaches your followers, and your plan puts it in the feed of mobile developers who read #mobile, #android, #ios. The following stays yours between campaigns.

Yes. Engineering stories, culture and open-source work published on your company page reach mobile developers where they already read, which is what makes an employer brand stick. To hire them directly, recruiter.daily.dev matches roles to developers who opt in.

daily.dev Ads is one managed monthly plan in three sizes, Starter, Growth and Scale. Every size includes your verified company page, your posts and releases in their feed and newsletter, creative made with you and a weekly report; the size sets the reach. Prices are quoted per company, so tell us the audience and regions you need and we come back with a size and a quote.

Pick a plan. We reach
mobile developers for you.

Tell us what you sell and the regions you need. We come back with a plan size, the reach it buys and a quote.

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