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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AppLovin MAX

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMoPub was a mobile ad server owned by Twitter since the September 2013 acquisition, acquired by AppLovin, and now part of the MAX mediation platform. MAX gives users a diverse set of auctions for supply.N/A

    Meta Business Suite

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
    Pricing
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Considered Both Products
    AppLovin
    Chose AppLovin MAX
    We've been attempting to make AppLovin Max perform the same way as MoPub had for us. The value we get from AppLovin Max differs from the ROI we get from other mediation platforms. We keep convincing ourselves that AppLovin Max will eventually function similarly to MoPub.
    Incentivized
    Meta Platforms Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    65%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    6.6
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.510 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings6.810 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings6.312 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.212 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings6.310 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.1
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    7.4
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.614 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.212 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings8.812 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of AppLovin MAX and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    AppLovin MAX
    -
    Ratings
    Meta Business Suite
    8.1
    13 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.113 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Small Businesses
    Google AdMob
    Score7 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.7
    (17 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppLovin MAXMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AppLovin
    They have the lowest eCPM of any network. We're using them based on their team's advice, thus their eCPM isn't quite as high as their benchmarks. Since MoPub was retired, we have not seen the same eCPMs as previously, particularly in the US, which was their primary market.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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    Pros
    AppLovin
    • Easy to use platfrom. You can set up QPS management system on your own.
    • They have MoPub Analytics to get inventory stats.
    • Their AM team is very supportive.
    Incentivized
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
    • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
    • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
    • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
    • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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    Cons
    AppLovin
    • Not a lot of inventory in the EMEA region.
    • Not a lot of high impact formats. Mainly banners and not a lot of interstitials and videos.
    • Reporting tools not very advanced. You can't get a lot of granular details from the tool.
    Incentivized
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
    • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
    • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AppLovin
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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    Usability
    AppLovin
    MoPub is a great SSP. It is a trusted partner that can help you scale campaigns as well as educate the client about the benefits of programmatic advertising. They have a lot of inventory and a great support team. I wouldn't say they are perfect because reporting is not very good and some billing issues are not as transparent as they should be.
    Incentivized
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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    Reliability and Availability
    AppLovin
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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    Performance
    AppLovin
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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    Support Rating
    AppLovin
    MoPub's support is really good. Their team is knowledgeable on their product and the programmatic ecosystem in general and they are very helpful. The only 2 things that I would point out would be that their response times are not very fast and that there is a lot of rotation on the account management team.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    AppLovin
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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    Alternatives Considered
    AppLovin
    We've been attempting to make AppLovin Max perform the same way as MoPub had for us. The value we get from AppLovin Max differs from the ROI we get from other mediation platforms. We keep convincing ourselves that AppLovin Max will eventually function similarly to MoPub.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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    Scalability
    AppLovin
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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    Return on Investment
    AppLovin
    • CPMs are very low compared to other mediation partners which has caused a negative impact on our revenue
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
    • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
    • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    AppLovin MAX Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Main ScreenScreenshot of Waterfall PreviewScreenshot of the MAX A/B Test feature, used to test real-time data to test and measure the impact of any change to the waterfall configuration.Screenshot of the Ad ReviewScreenshot of the Network Comparison report.Screenshot of the MAX Cohort Report.