Apple iAd vs. AppLovin Exchange (ALX)

For our organization, we use Apple iAd to facilitate traffic to our appeals for donations for the foundation. This allows ad-based applications on the iOS store to show our ad and refer people to our website, which helps our set and drives up traffic. Donations are key to our foundation, as this is our only source of revenue.

Incentivized

AppLovin is a great app if you are trying to grow your business and want to expand into mobile gaming or the mobile industry in general. It is less appropriate for a business that wants to set up a traditional store and not grow into the mobile gaming industry. This app is very popular in the gaming industry as it boasts over 300 million users as of June 2022.

Incentivized

• Animations with great performance
• Better integration with Apple ads platform
• The workflow is really straightforward and the learning curve is basic

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• Very good quality. Their CTRs are above average.
• Great support team, very personable and helpful
• Exclusive publishers, mostly on the gaming category

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• There were certain features of the mobile devices we weren't able to access, such as vibration, which could've enhanced the overall user experience.
• The development process could've been more streamlined for creatives and marketers not intimately familiar with the platform.
• More functionality in the initial banners could've resulted in increased engagement.

Incentivized

• Support team takes a lot of time to answer
• Not a lot banner inventory
• Really high CPM prices on the platform

Incentivized

AppLovin has been a great partner for us. We have used them through our DSP and gotten great results with them. Their focus is on monetizing publishers' inventory and they could put more resources into their standalone service as an SSP to make sure DSPs can consider them strategic partners for the long term.

Incentivized

AppLovin's support team is their weakest point. They are not very responsive and they tend to provide solutions that do not fix the problem. It seems like they will only be proactive if you are a very big client and by doing that they are preventing the rest of the client base from increasing spend on their platform and growing their accounts

Incentivized

In some instances, we developed an experience for AdMob simultaneously with our iAd experience, working with both teams on a daily basis. While the Google team was skilled, receptive and helpful, Apple device functionality was broader and thus allowed for a little more imagination in bringing intuitive relevance to the creative content we developed

Incentivized

Of all of the competitors above, AppLovin is the one that is more focused on gaming and that has a better pool of users in terms of conversion rate. While PubMatic and Magnate offer better solutions for CTV, AppLovin is better than InMobi and MoPub regarding in-app formats and inventory.

Incentivized

• Ease of scaling the campaigns
• High retention rate
• high LTV of the users

Incentivized

• We have seen good CPAs, increasing budgets and improving ROI.
• We have bid aggressively in most cases reducing our margin.
• Overall positive impact by allowing us to reach more users.

Incentivized