Branch provides a cross-platform linking and attribution platform, offering solutions that unify user experience and measurement across devices and channels. Branch powers mobile links and cross-platform measurement to more than 3 billion monthly users across the globe. It provides cross-platform marketing, engagement and measurement solution for over 50,000 apps — including Reddit, Buzzfeed, Twitch, Groupon, and many more.
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Singular
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Singular, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their mobile marketing and analytics platform of the same name. The company Singular merged with Apsalar in 2017, and combined technologies to offer a single platform under the Singular brand.
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Our main platform is free to all. Some of the free products that most apps find useful are content sharing, custom onboarding, referrals and organic app search. We have specialized products (Journeys (Smart Banner), Deep Linked Email, Dynamic Ads and Data Integrations) which are typically priced by volume of a company.
Branch's links are the most consistent in the mobile space. They work across desktop and mobile, where AppsFlyer and Deeplink's didn't consistently perform in both places. Branch's measurement is more consistent across all customer touch points as well, which gives our …
Appsflyer has a lot more of clients, and have a very good support team. Adjust on the other hand is loosing clients, and doesn't have a top level support. Nevertheless, Branch is a good platform that delivers good for the price. We still are more use to using Appsflyer as it is …
We ended up selecting AppsFlyer due to its better integration with media and more reliable fraud protection system. Nevertheless, Branch.io is a great app which solves universal linking and mobile app attribution issues by allowing users to see which actions were taken from …
Branch's tracking analytics are not as effective. Currently, Branch Links only show stats for clicks from different platforms (Desktop/iOS/Android, etc.). It would be important if there is a way to know how to collect and show more user profiles such as location, male/female, …
We used to use AppsFlyer but unfortunately, we found errors in their mobile app attribution reporting. Firebase on the other hand, is a basic tool that has a lot of features, but the features are not extremely robust - especially the attribution or funnel reporting. As a result …
Firebase links have many shortcomings which Branch supports excellently like - Support for cross platform development tools, Integrations with marketing channels/platforms, web to app tools etc
Branch is a much lighter solution largely targeted to attribution and deep links that can be available at no cost for the basic service. Adjust is much heaver and supports custom events but has a significant cost to consider so when optimising the costs vs income for the …
Appsflyer is the top of mind MMP, while Singular would be my second choice with Adjust. Appsflyer has a great UX and customer support. While Adjust is still lagging a little bit behind.
As this is my first job after completing my graduation, therefore I do not have any prior experience of working with corporates and organizations. Hence I have only used Singular (formerly Apsalar).
Singular is a different offering than the pure play attribution vendors listed, and also different than Branch. Instead, Singular provides the combination of an automated reporting platform (similar to Funnel) and combines it with an attribution platform (similar to …
Branch is the gold standard linking platform - other services like AppsFlyer or bit.ly aren't able to deliver the consistency Branch does. It is a developer platform as well, so your engineering team will be able to sink its teeth into many different use cases without worrying about how to "hack" it. I believe Branch can continue to become a simpler tool going forward, but the fact that it has a free tier and seeks to fit into YOUR tech stack makes it the easy choice
Singular is perfect for companies that have limited BI developer resources. If you work with more than a few media partners, Singular aggregates all pre-install metrics and automatically connects it to your BI data / MMP provider. This use is perfect for executives/directors that want to have a quick snapshot of their marketing spend. Singular also works well for media buyers that want to export Singular report as a base for creating optimization reports.
Branch Link's Desktop SMS is a very good feature, we use it on our landing page such as: https://acetutor.io/smsBoarding
Branch Link's cross platform support for redirect is another powerful feature. We use it on our main website to redirect users to the correct App Store or Google Play to download our app: https://www.acetutor.io
To my understanding Branch uses a last touch attribution method. Being able to change this setting or view the data between different attribution models would be extremely useful (first click, linear, time decay, etc).
Not like it's a con, but it would be great for Branch to keep running totals on attrition rate and daily active users. Also maybe look into more integrations with data export partners - Appsee, Smartlook, etc.
We have never had any issue with support response yet. In fact, they have a local POC in our city too, who routes the urgent matters to their escalation matrix.
Singular (formerly Apsaler) team is beneficial and provides a quick resolution to all the issues. Not only the online team, but we have also had multiple interactions with the team face to face in the office. To have a better understanding of the platform, the team has helped us by providing training sessions, which included thru and thru the working of the platform.
We used to use AppsFlyer but unfortunately, we found errors in their mobile app attribution reporting. Firebase on the other hand, is a basic tool that has a lot of features, but the features are not extremely robust - especially the attribution or funnel reporting. As a result we decided to give Branch and have been extremely pleased since.
As this is my first job after completing my graduation, therefore I do not have any prior experience of working with corporates and organizations. Hence I have only used Singular (formerly Apsalar).
It's improved sale attribution, which allowed us to spend on more effective channels and decrease spends on less effective channels.
It's saved marketing spends, which were actual fraud through affiliate networks, as we were able to prove the fraud from Branch and avoided paying out to that affiliate.