AppLovin Exchange (ALX) vs. Zeta Marketing Platform

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

• Good for very basic management of a search program.
• Not good for much else since it is buggy and lacks many features that competitors offer.
• Also may be good for someone who is looking for a low-cost DMS.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Good customer service.
• They were flexible in allowing us to access backend data.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Buggy!
• Lacks many features competitors offer (like labeling).
• No clear roadmap for the future with their SEM product.

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

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

Poorly. For example, Kenshoo's offering is fast, customizable, works with all publisher platforms, and more. IgnitionOne just doesn't stack up well against the competition and isn't investing in the product like it used to.

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

• Did push through implementations but was buggy
• Fast UI

Incentivized