Apple Search Ads
The top slot on a search you can't rank for yet. Run badly it just buys traffic you already had. So we run it next to the ASO, not instead of it.
Four campaign types, four jobs.
Most accounts we inherit have one campaign doing all four badly. Separating them is usually the first win.
Brand
Defends your own name cheaply so competitors can't sit on top of it. Capped, not open-ended.
Generic
Category terms: the volume, and the expensive part. Exact match, tight negatives.
Competitor
Appearing on their searches. Worth it only if your product page can win the comparison.
Discovery
Broad and search-match, run as a keyword mine. Winners graduate into Generic.
What managing it actually means.
Search Ads isn't set-and-forget. Bids drift, competitors enter, seasonality moves. This is the recurring work.
- Weekly bid adjustments against CPA targets
- Negative keywords, so campaigns stop cannibalising each other
- Custom Product Pages assigned per ad group
- Budget shifted to the markets that convert
- One monthly report, in plain language
How we charge
- Flat monthly feeNot a percentage of spend. We have no reason to talk you into a bigger budget.
- Spend goes to AppleYour card, your account. Never routed through us, never marked up.
- You own the accountWe work inside yours. If we part ways, the campaign structure stays with you.
Check the work before you pay for it
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