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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Firebase

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers the Firebase suite of application development tools, available free or at cost for higher degree of usages, priced flexibly accorded to features needed. The suite includes A/B testing and Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging (FCM) and in-app messaging, cloud storage and NoSQL storage (Cloud Firestore and Firestore Realtime Database), and other features supporting developers with flexible mobile application development.

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    Impact

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AImpact Radius is a partner management platform from the company of the same name in Santa Barbara, California. The platform touts tag management without technical assistance for marketers, tracking of all media channels for multi-channel and mobile marketing, call tracking for inbound calls, and affiliate / partner program management capabilities. Central to the platform is the Partner Manager, with its pay-for-performance affiliate management capabilities.N/A
    Pricing
    FirebaseImpact
    Editions & Modules
    Phone Authentication
    $0.01
    Per Verification
    Stored Data
    $0.18
    Per GiB
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FirebaseImpact
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    FirebaseImpact
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Firebase and Impact
    Feature
    Firebase
    -
    Ratings
    Impact
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Firebase and Impact
    Feature
    Firebase
    -
    Ratings
    Impact
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Content sharing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of Firebase and Impact
    Feature
    Firebase
    -
    Ratings
    Impact
    6.4
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Lead distribution00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Co-op advertising00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Referral tracking00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Journey builder00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FirebaseImpact
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    FirebaseImpact
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (31 ratings)
    6.9
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FirebaseImpact
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Firebase should be your first choice if your platform is mobile first. Firebase's mobile platform support for client-side applications is second to none, and I cannot think of a comparable cross-platform toolkit. Firebase also integrates well with your server-side solution, meaning that you can plug Firebase into your existing app architecture with minimal effort.
    Firebase lags behind on the desktop, however. Although macOS support is rapidly catching up, full Windows support is a glaring omission for most Firebase features. This means that if your platform targets Windows, you will need to implement the client functionality manually using Firebase's web APIs and wrappers, or look for another solution.
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    Impact
    Any publisher looking to monetize their blogs would be a great fit. The size of the publisher probably doesn't matter. They have a wide selection of advertisers and publishers can sign up for free. Advertisers that are looking for great partners for their affiliate programs would be good fits. One of the benefits is that Impact really focuses on recruiting high-quality publishers.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Analytics wise, retention is extremely important to our app, therefore we take advantage of the cohort analysis to see the impact of our middle funnel (retargeting, push, email) efforts affect the percent of users that come back into the app. Firebase allows us to easily segment these this data and look at a running average based on certain dates.
    • When it comes to any mobile app, a deep linking strategy is essential to any apps success. With Firebase's Dynamic Links, we are able to share dynamic links (recognize user device) that are able to redirect to in-app content. These deep links allow users to share other deep-linked content with friends, that also have link preview assets.
    • Firebase allows users to effectively track events, funnels, and MAUs. With this simple event tracking feature, users can put organize these events into funnels of their main user flows (e.g., checkout flows, onboarding flows, etc.), and subsequently be able to understand where the drop-off is in the funnel and then prioritize areas of the funnel to fix. Also, MAU is important to be able to tell if you are bringing in new users and what's the active volume for each platform (Android, iOS).
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    Impact
    • There are no hidden charges and tracking is instant and automated.
    • As an affiliate, Finding relevant offers and managing the programs is quite easy.
    • It has a great user interface which is quite easy to use and manage.
    • There is nearly zero downtime, which makes it much more efficient and reliable.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Attribution and specifically multi-touch attribution could be more robust such as Branch or Appsflyer but understand this isn't Firebases bread and butter.
    • More parameters. Firebase allows you to track tons of events (believe it's up to 50 or so) but the parameters of the events it only allows you to track 5 which is so messily and unbelievable. So you're able to get good high-level data but if you want to get granular with the events and actions are taken on your app to get real data insight you either have to go with a paid data analytics platform or bring on someone that's an expert in SQL to go through Big Query.
    • City-specific data instead of just country-specific data would have been a huge plus as well.
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    Impact
    • User interface could be improved a little, as it is a quite difficult task to find the content or links
    • Approval from the advertisers sometimes takes a huge amount of time. If they can somehow reduce the response time, it will be great
    • New affiliates might find the onboarding process a little difficult
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    I don't use the Firebase UI much, but rather connect it to GA4. GA4 has a great event model but the GA4 UI and analysis capabilities are limited. It's harder to measure product usage type of engagement but if you have the time and resources to leverage the GA4 to BiqQuery export you'll have all the raw event data you'll need for deep analysis, segmentation, and audience activation.
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    Impact
    Impact has had a major impact on our business. It is pretty easy to use if you don't have multiple accounts with them, so be sure you keep things streamlined. Otherwise, it can be confusing if you have to bounce between different accounts you've applied to. While they are managed under a single login, they can be difficult to distinguish between when trying to see how successful your campaigns are.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Our analytics folks handled the majority of the communication when it came to customer service, but as far as I was aware, the support we got was pretty good. When we had an issue, we were able to reach out and get support in a timely fashion. Firebase was easy to reach and reasonably available to assist when needed.
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    Impact
    We've been reaching out requesting support for two months and no one has responded. They completely ghosted us. We've emailed the original sales rep, our account manager, our sales rep and account manager's bosses, and others. Still no response, though I can see the emails have been opened multiple times. I've never experienced worse support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Before using Firebase, we exclusively used self hosted database services. Using Firebase has allowed us to reduce reliance on single points of failure and systems that are difficult to scale. Additionally, Firebase is much easier to set up and use than any sort of self hosted database. This simplicity has allowed us to try features that we might not have based on the amount of work they required in the past.
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    Impact
    First promoter has been a phenomenal affiliate platform to use. It has everything I need from a reporting perspective. It has everything I need from a payout perspective. It has all the links, tips, and tools I need for promoting products. Overall it is a far better tool to use
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Makes building real-time interfaces easy to do at scale with no backend involvement.
    • Very low pricing for small companies and green-fields projects.
    • Lack of support for more complicated queries needs to be managed by users and often forces strange architecture choices for data to enable it to be easily accessed.
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    Impact
    • By using Impact we were able to increase the number of advertisers on our platform.
    • Delayed payments on the part of advertisers or Impact creates so many execution issues.
    • Multi regional campaigns helped us to increase our presens in the market.
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