Hi. I would like to have ads in my apps. I don't know (nor care really) where they are served from. Apple, Google, someone else... As long as: Apple approves of them I can let users get rid of them with an in-app-purchase They are clean for children of any age. Please advise how to go about this. I have no idea where to begin. I strongly hope there is a first-party solution for this, without having to use Google stuff in my apps and such. Thank you.

Hello I'm writing to the developer forums as a last ditch effort I have been trying unsuccessfully for the last two months to get apple engineering to look at what my App is named = WEEID and that when searching it will attempt to auto correct you to Weed which is not the name of my App and I was informed by apple support that this is normal behavior. I get a cop out answer for support of the following "I am following up with you regarding the issue that you are encountering when searching for your app “WeeID” on the App Store.  App Store search results are based on several factors determined by Apple-confidential algorithms and our engineering team has confirmed that search results are working as expected. The issue that you are encountering is related to the app name “WeeID” being auto-corrected to “weed”, which our engineering team advises is a reasonable auto-correction. I hope this update is helpful and thank you for understanding our support polices. If you have any questions, please reply to this email and I will get back to you quickly. " Which is not only a lie but just terrible customer service to begin with. How do I as a company escalate this request to someone like a engineering manager who has the power to help me get this updated so that my app can be searchable. This seems to be unfair trade practices IMO.

Hello, Here's my question about apple search ads API Are there any options or methods to get an access token that does not expire? the expiration limit;3600 seconds are too short a time and I want to change the limit.

Hi Everyone, We have been facing an issue for 4-5 months from now, When any user search our app - 'Wakau' on the App store the first set of results are shown for 'Waka'. The user is able to only search the app if they click on "Search for Wakau instead". Please help me, how do I resolve this. All keywords have been used properly including 'Wakau'. Regards, Anurvi

I'm trying to pull Ad Attribution data using the AdServices method of pulling an attribution token and using it against the "https://api-adservices.apple.com/api/v1/" REST API. The App Tracking Transparency is not setup because I do not want to pull the device's IDFA. I simply want to record search ad conversions on the app's first open. This was working up until today on my iPhone and iPad however it stopped working today. I was able to pull the data once successfully from the iPad but that has been it. I now receive an "Error posting to Attribution server" error pulling the token and if that succeeds, I then get a "The app is not authorized for ad tracking" error. Nothing has changed in the app's code so I would like to better understand what is wrong?

Hey! I'm following this article: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_search_ads/implementing_oauth_for_the_apple_search_ads_api#see-also I'm now at the "Request an Access Token"-step. Just getting <Response [400]> and {"error":"invalid_client"}. Anyone have an ideas here? If so I would greatly appreciate it! Using the following Python code: (in url I paste in my client_id and client_secret.) import requests url = "https://appleid.apple.com/auth/oauth2/token? grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<insert_client_id>&client_secret=<insert_client_secret>&scope=searchadsorg" headers = { 'Host': "appleid.apple.com", 'Content-Type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", } params = { 'client_id': client_id, 'client_secret': client_secret, 'grant_type': 'client_credentials', 'scope': 'searchadsorg' } response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, params=params)

Hello, I have been automating our daily ASA reporting via the Apple Search Ads Campaign Management API and have not found a solution for automating the impression share reporting. Is this data available in this API or a in different Apple API? I looked into scraping the scheduled custom reports but it appears that would violate the terms of service. We are currently manually extracting this data as a custom report for each app every day (weekends and holidays included) and it eats up a lot of time. Thank you in advance!

According to Apple: "Early next year, you’ll be able to use custom product pages to create ad variations with Apple Search Ads. Custom product pages will be available to select right from your Apple Search Ads account, letting you create more relevant ads for different audiences." Source: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/custom-product-pages/ The time has finally come. We can now create custom product pages. I have created two of them and got them approved by Apple as well. However in Adsearch, under creative set, I only can see the original screenshots that I had submitted to Apple as part of the release. I can't create ads for the product custom pages, that I got approved later on. Any ideas or advice, please? Thanks

Bonjour, Je cherche à associer ma carte bancaire à mon compte Apple Search Ads. Cependant, un message d'erreur apparaît quelque soit le navigateur Internet ou la carte bancaire utilisée. Quel interlocuteur pourrait m'aider ? Merci

Je peux transformer ceci : Marque (nom: "AUDI", modele: "RS3", modele2: "RS5",modele3: "RS6", image: "logo-audi",like: false), J’aimerais faire un seul modele comme cela : Marque (nom: "AUDI", modele: ["RS3","RS5","RS6"] , image: "logo-audi",like: false), Mais ça ne fonctionne pas auriez vous une solution ? Le contexte est plusieurs TableView dans une TableViewController Merci d’avance

I have nearly identical campaigns that only differ in the location and a few keywords, but my UK campaign (which I only recently unpaused) has had zero spend or impressions (running since Monday). This is very strange to me since my US and Germany campaigns always perform comparably. I would expect my UK campaign to be slightly different, but zero impressions is impossible. Is it possible that this is a bug?

I am using apple search ads api v4 to find keywords by keyword name. when fetching targeting keywords in a campaign’s ad groups. I get [ { messageCode: 'INVALID_INPUT', message: 'field not filterable', field: 'conditions[0].field' }] the field is 'text', how can i search by keyword name? this problem also happens in campaigns and adGroups

I am individual developer and I am trying to promote my free app that works on Mac OS ( https://tonfotos.com ) in google paid ads, however Google is consistently banning my ads due to usage of Mac trademark in it, even though it is only used to indicate compatibility of my App with Mac OS (like 'Download Tonfotos for free for Mac OS', etc.) So what are Apple guidelines for independent developers in promoting their app on Google? Should we avoid mentioning that our apps are for Mac OS? Or is Apple OK with trademark usage in that context? Are there any official guidelines published somewhere so I can refer to?

Hi,I've been running a Search Ads campaign since January this year and have already spent quite good money. Overall, the experience and the results are both satisfying (less satisfying the former, more - the latter.) Throughout the months I'm getting about 9% TTR and 45% CR. There is, however, one bug that is continuously annoying me a lot.My daily cap is $45, and therefore I expect the daily amount to be around this number. Logically, why should it be otherwise? But there are quite a few occurrences since March when some days I see sudden spikes in spent amount. The first occurrence happened on 20th of March when $225 were burned just in a single day. It led to blocking off my card, as it has transaction limits, followed by suspension of the campaign because Apple could not charge the card. Not good for planning, right? Here is the graph: https://pasteboard.co/HsJsDSg.pngI wrote to Apple support team and got the following reply: "...We identified an issue that temporarily caused an overspend of your daily spend cap beyond the normally expected parameters. We have since implemented a fix, and you should no longer experience this issue. Please note that Search Ads may on occasion slightly exceed your daily spend cap, but will never charge you more than your total campaign budget."Despite the fix, two other occurrences followed in May - $85 and $127: https://pasteboard.co/HsJt3tB.pngAnd even more in June - $75, $95, $197, and $103: https://pasteboard.co/HsJtces.pngI was quite frustrated that it was happening again and made me unable to plan campaign budgets properly. So I went back to their support and wrote: "We have noticed that there is again an overspend, which is over 4 times than our daily cap set in the campaign settings (about $200 instead of $45), and the day is not over yet. In your last message, you wrote 'We identified an issue that temporarily caused an overspend of your daily spend cap beyond the normally expected parameters. We have since implemented a fix, and you should no longer experience this issue.' Unfortunately, we still experience the issue. Please help and fix ASAP."For this, I've got the following reply: "Thank you for your patience during this process. Our Technical Teams have concluded their investigation. It was determined that the behavior that you encountered was an isolated occurrence and the behavior has been readdressed to help prevent further occurrences. As a result a refund for the daily cap overspend accrued against your campaign will be applied to your account for this occurrence. The credit in the amount of $152.29 will be applied within the next 48 hours ... We appreciated your patience during this process. Thank you for your understanding and thank you for being a Search Ads customer."Well, you are welcome, but how about stopping spending 2x, 3x, 4x of the daily budget? (I am not even mentioning that the refund hasn't arrived yet). And guess what happened recently? The second day in July cost me twice as much - $84: https://pasteboard.co/HsJtkHJ.pngNow I have no clue what to do, except just stopping the whole campaign and move to other, more predictable means of app advertisement. I am really sick of this abruptness. Has anyone by any chance experienced same trouble and managed to resolve the issue with Apple guys? Would be great if you could share your experience.Best,Roman.

Hi ! I am using the search ads API (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_search_ads/using_apple_search_ads_api_functionality) but I did not find any sandbox or any way to test my code before sending it on a real account. I saw someone ask the question 3 years ago and did not have any response, it's why I am asking. Thanks !

Virtual Teleprompter app for Mac Does anyone know when search-ads will be available for MacOS? The app meets all the relevant policies and guidelines so I am suspecting MacOS support is still pending from Apple.

I have a MacOS app and it is not appearing in search ads. From the help section it says "To set up an Apple Search Ads account, you must have an app for iPhone or iPad currently on the App Store". What about people who only have MacOS apps? Will search ads support be be added in the future for MacOS? I dont plan on adding any iPhone or iPad apps (only MacOS). Thanks

Hello! I am a developer of several Apps. Now I want to launch ads for my Apps. To make an App Store search show my app to the user. What wiil be the correct algorithm of actions?

Hi, I have been seeing a huge drop in conversion rate for the install to Free trial and Free trial to Paid subscriptions. Has iOS 15 impacted these conversion rates? Is anyone else facing a similar issue?

Hi, I have been running creative sets on my campaigns since 15th September and they were performing well but suddenly there has been a huge drop in spends on the new creative set since the 8th of October. Has anyone by any chance experienced the same trouble and managed to resolve the issue with the Apple team? Would be great if you could share your experience.