Set up SearchAds.com by MobileAction

SearchAds.com by MobileAction is a SAN campaign manager that manages campaigns for the following self-attributing networks (SANs):

• Apple Search Ads

To run a campaign with a SAN campaign manager, you don't need to create a link. Instead, you need to set up both the SAN whose platform your ads will run on, and the SAN campaign manager who is managing your campaign.

As soon as you start running campaigns with the SAN campaign managers, Adjust shares data for analysis and campaign optimization with both the SAN and SAN campaign manager.

In this article, learn how to set up measurement with SearchAds.com by MobileAction for your app. This includes activating the integration and choosing what data Adjust can share with SearchAds.com by MobileAction.

Before you begin

Requirements

• Admin, Editor, or Custom Editor permissions in Adjust.
• Enable the SAN whose platform your ads will run on.
• Adjust SDK v4.0.0 and later to map SDK parameters to SearchAds.com by MobileAction parameters. Follow the guides linked below to use this feature.

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Credentials

API KEY

• For help finding your credentials, contact your SearchAds.com by MobileAction representative.

Select SearchAds.com by MobileAction and app in Campaign Lab

1. Under Campaign Lab, select Partners.
2. Select New partner > SearchAds.com by MobileAction. Select Next to move to the next screen.
3. In the App selection screen, choose the app for which you want to set up SearchAds.com by MobileAction.
4. Select Next.

Enable data sharing

Enable data sharing to activate the integration with SearchAds.com by MobileAction. To enable data sharing:

1. Enter your API KEY.

Once you enable data sharing with SearchAds.com by MobileAction, Adjust automatically sends SearchAds.com by MobileAction the following data, by default:

• install
• event

Set your data sharing options

If you’re working with a multi-platform app with data sharing enabled for multiple platforms, you can:

1. Separate data sharing options at the platform-level by selecting Use platform-specific settings.
2. Set the same data sharing settings for multiple platforms by selecting Use global settings.

Now, under What will be shared by default?, review the activities that Adjust shares with SearchAds.com by MobileAction by default:

• install
• event

Send additional data

Choose the amount and type of data that you want to share with SearchAds.com by MobileAction through callbacks. SearchAds.com by MobileAction may use this information to optimize performance.

To send additional data, you can review and customize the following:

In-app revenue (from in-app purchases)

Sharing in-app revenue lets SearchAds.com by MobileAction receive revenue amounts along with your revenue event data. You need to map events that generate revenue to share this data.

Map events

Map events that you want to share to the values that SearchAds.com by MobileAction can receive. Data for unmapped events is not shared with SearchAds.com by MobileAction.

Map individual events

If you have a multi-platform app, you can choose to share different events per platform with SearchAds.com by MobileAction. This lets you:

• Set individual events to manage campaign strategies for each platform.
• Customize data sharing per platform.

Under Map events, follow these steps to choose the in-app events you want to directly send to SearchAds.com by MobileAction.

1. Select Map event.
2. In the Adjust event list, choose the Adjust event that you want to share with SearchAds.com by MobileAction.
3. Under Partner event, you need to select the SearchAds.com by MobileAction event that corresponds to the Adjust event.
   1. For single platform apps and multi-platform apps with data sharing enabled for a single platform only, you map events for that platform only. For multi-platform apps with data sharing enabled for multiple platforms, you can:
      • Select Use platform-specific mapping to map separate events at the platform-level or to not map events for certain platforms.
      • Select Use global mapping to map the same events for all platforms.
   2. In the Partner event list, choose or enter a custom event name, that you want to map the Adjust event to.
4. Select Apply.

Now SearchAds.com by MobileAction will receive in-app event data for each of your linked events.

Map all events

If SearchAds.com by MobileAction supports mapping all events automatically, under Map events, select Map all events. This saves time in mapping individual events.

Now SearchAds.com by MobileAction will receive in-app event data for all your linked events.

Enable SearchAds.com by MobileAction for your app

In the Setup review screen, you can review your choices. You can also go back and make changes to:

• Your selected app
• Data sharing options

Select Enable partner to enable SearchAds.com by MobileAction for your app. This also enables data sharing, if you've set it up.

Set up your campaign with keyword in the SearchAds.com by MobileAction dashboard

Set up your campaign in the SearchAds.com by MobileAction dashboard. While setting up the campaign, you need to enter a keyword to the campaign name. Keywords are not case-sensitive.

If you do not add the keyword to the campaign name, Adjust cannot identify the campaigns that you're managing through SearchAds.com by MobileAction. This means the SAN still receives data for the campaign, but you can't see which campaigns are managed by SearchAds.com by MobileAction in your reporting and SearchAds.com by MobileAction will not receive any callbacks from Adjust.

Partner specific setup instructions

To get your API Key, please follow Search Ads.Com support documentation.

List of all parameters forwarded to SearchAds.com by MobileAction

SearchAds.com by MobileAction requires Adjust to send the following parameters (data points) with your callbacks: