Why does engagement matter? Because it drives customer satisfaction, utility and value.

And, according to Walgreens senior director of mobile commerce Tim McCauley, the best way to foster engagement with customers is through a multichannel marketing approach with mobile at its core.

This was a sentiment echoed by, well, nearly everyone who spoke last week at the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2013, organized by Mobile Commerce Daily.

Beintoo, a loyalty rewards and monetization platform for Web and mobile apps, is joining forces with OtherLevels, a leader in A/B split testing and retargeting for push notification, SMS and mobile email messaging, to provide deep actionable analytics that can boost user engagement, conversions and revenues.

Beintoo partners with some of the world’s top app developers and publishers, including Halfbrick Studios, whose mega-hit games including Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride have been downloaded over 500 million times.

When picturing the average gamer, you wouldn’t be blamed if that image depicts a geeky college-aged male with the latest gaming console and the greatest mobile gadgets – loaded with every imaginable app – all but surgically attached.

That image, though classic, would be inaccurate.