AppLovin Exchange (ALX) vs. Google AdMob

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)
Score 6.9 out of 10
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AppLovin is a mobile advertising optimization platform from the company of the same name headquartered in California.N/A
Google AdMob
Score 7.7 out of 10
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AdMob is a mobile advertising platform acquired by Google in 2010.N/A
Pricing
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Best Alternatives
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Small Businesses
Google AdMob
Google AdMob
Score 7.6 out of 10
Basis DSP
Basis DSP
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Yahoo Native
Yahoo Native
Score 6.6 out of 10
Yahoo Native
Yahoo Native
Score 6.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Marin Software
Marin Software
Score 9.1 out of 10
Marin Software
Marin Software
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.6
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Usability
8.0
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7.8
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Support Rating
6.8
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User Testimonials
AppLovin Exchange (ALX)Google AdMob
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Google AdMob is the best choice in my opinion for any developer or company looking for a reliable way to monetize their app traffic and generate revenue from relevant ads displayed inside their mobile app, and it can be easily integrated into any IOS or Android App.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Provides a complete ad verification system.
  • Integration with Google Analytics.
  • Transmission customization
  • Ad network mediation is a great feature to manage many ad networks at the same time.
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Cons
  • Support team takes a lot of time to answer
  • Not a lot banner inventory
  • Really high CPM prices on the platform
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  • Admob has very low prices for impressions or clicks on Android.
  • Admob has very low prices for impressions or clicks in many countries including Europe.
  • Admob is still having certain security issues: allowing sensitive ads on G rated apps.
  • Admob allows multiple-choice banners on G-rated apps while this is not allowed by policy.
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Usability
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.
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hard to use, no support
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Support Rating
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
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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No special reason for choosing Google AdMob. Out point is easy to gain appropriate knowledge from youtube.com and people who work with us. We won't have another similar application so far. However, we feel it works well and makes us happy because of easy function and experience. So I recommend this if we need to apply this for our company activity.
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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  • Before I got into it my other friends told me there are way better Ad providers. But being a Google fan I still signed up.
  • Now I remember writing to AdMob, requesting them to give me earning rates... But they never replied. So zero return on investment. They just keep you guessing.
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