AppLovin Exchange (ALX) vs. AppLovin MAX

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

MoPub is perfect for US in app campaigns. They are able to offer inventory worldwide, but clearly the US is their home turf and the place where they feel most comfortable. They work well for performance campaigns, but I would not use them for branding purposes. They are very responsive and keep improving their product offering to stay competitive.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Lightweight SDK with waterfall setup
• Large support for every ad format possible
• Great display of analytics
• Amazing support team

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

Incentivized

• Their take rate is not transparent, its unclear the margin percentage.
• Not a lot of premium publishers on the platfrom, mostly gaming.
• Discrepancies keep arising between impressions served and billing numbers.

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

MoPub is a great SSP. It is a trusted partner that can help you scale campaigns as well as educate the client about the benefits of programmatic advertising. They have a lot of inventory and a great support team. I wouldn't say they are perfect because reporting is not very good and some billing issues are not as transparent as they should be.

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

MoPub's support is really good. Their team is knowledgeable on their product and the programmatic ecosystem in general and they are very helpful. The only 2 things that I would point out would be that their response times are not very fast and that there is a lot of rotation on the account management team.

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

We've been attempting to make AppLovin Max perform the same way as MoPub had for us. The value we get from AppLovin Max differs from the ROI we get from other mediation platforms. We keep convincing ourselves that AppLovin Max will eventually function similarly to MoPub.

• 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

• CPMs are low, which translate into good CPAs and more budgets.
• Possibility of rebate programs for big volumes can also increase ROI.
• Lack of clarity on billing numbers reduces profitability for a few months.

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