App Annie today announced a unique new advertising analytics solution for app marketers, solving a major problem in the mobile advertising space - the challenge of tracking data from multiple ad networks in one place. Advertising Analytics by App Annie provides a platform that can aggregate an app publisher's total advertising spend and revenue from multiple ad networks into one single dashboard. The company has initially made this product available for AdMob, Chartboost, iAd, jumptap, MdotM, Tapit! and Tapjoy, with the long-term goal of allowing any ad network to connect.
Mobile advertising is one of the fastest growing sectors within the mobile app ecosystem. "Making sense of the chaos of networks can be difficult at best, and yet developers are forced to make critical decisions based on data coming from five, 10 or even 30 different ad networks," said Omar Hamoui, Partner, Sequoia Capital and founder of AdMob. "Understanding how much you're making, where it's coming from, or where best to allocate your ad spend requires a single dashboard. Without this you quickly end up in ad hell. It makes perfect sense for App Annie to extend its analytics platform into advertising; not only do publishers get a more holistic view of their products, they get to manage it all in one place. Less running around, more understanding."
App Annie's solution to this analytics problem is unique. Not only does it aggregate your mobile advertising data across multiple networks and countries, but it also ties that data directly to your individual apps and their downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews. It doesn't just track your data, it correlates your ad spend to its ROI and your ad revenues to your app revenues. All without a single line of code or SDK, and all completely for free.
"We have long had the vision of reinventing what it means to offer business intelligence and analytics to the digital content economy," said Bertrand Schmitt, CEO, App Annie. "By creating a platform that can extend to not just other forms of digital content, like our support for eBooks, but other forms of data, like that from ad networks, we begin transforming how app publishers, brand managers and marketers approach their data. With a more holistic platform for all of their data, they can make highly informed and strategic decisions about their apps and businesses."
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