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Cross-Platform Attribution in Affise MMP and Affise Performance: Unifying Your Marketing Universe

Cross-Platform Attribution in Affise MMP and Affise Performance: Unifying Your Marketing Universe

In today’s world, your audiences don’t limit themselves to a single device or channel. They engage with brands through smartphones, tablets, desktops, and connected TVs – sometimes all in the same day. As a result, marketers and publishers face the increasingly complex challenge of determining where their most valuable users come from and how to maximize returns on investment across a rapidly growing ecosystem.

Enter cross-platform attribution: the process of tracking users across multiple devices, channels, and touchpoints to understand the entire customer journey from discovery to conversion (and beyond). With the combined capabilities of Affise MMP (Mobile Measurement Partner) and Affise Performance (Performance Marketing Platform), advertisers and agencies finally have a comprehensive toolkit to achieve transparent, accurate, and actionable cross-platform insights.

What is Cross-Platform Attribution?

Cross-platform attribution is about connecting the dots. Users rarely convert on the first interaction with your brand. Instead, they might first see a desktop display ad, later click a mobile ad, then eventually install and engage with your app. Without a holistic attribution model, you risk over-crediting or under-crediting certain channels, leading to misguided marketing spend and suboptimal optimization strategies.

By accurately attributing each conversion to the correct series of touchpoints – whether through web, mobile, in-app, or offline channels – marketers can better understand user acquisition costs, identify their top-performing partners, and enhance the entire customer journey experience.

Affise MMP: Tracking and Measuring Across Mobile Environments

Affise MMP is designed to bring clarity to the complexity of mobile-driven user journeys. As a Mobile Measurement Partner, it provides:

Unified Attribution Logic: Affise MMP uses deterministic and probabilistic modeling to attribute mobile installs, in-app events, and revenue back to specific media sources. It unites channels like paid ads, organic traffic, and re-engagement campaigns in a single, trustworthy dashboard.
In-Depth Analytics: You gain actionable insights into user behavior post-install. From subscription renewals and in-app purchases to churn rates and retention curves, Affise MMP helps you understand where real value is generated.
Robust Integrations: With out-of-the-box integrations to multiple ad networks, social platforms, and analytic tools, you can seamlessly ingest data from all your mobile channels. Plus, you can easily export data to your internal BI systems or other marketing tools.
Privacy and Compliance: Affise MMP is designed to adhere to ever-evolving privacy regulations. With the deprecation of device-level tracking on some platforms, Affise MMP continues to support probabilistic attribution and aggregated reporting methods that help maintain accurate measurement under privacy constraints.

Affise Performance: Scaling Your Partner and Affiliate Networks

While Affise MMP delivers clarity and insight within the mobile ecosystem, Affise Performance extends that transparency across the broader performance marketing landscape, including:

Partner & Affiliate Management: Onboard, track, and reward your network of publishers, affiliates, and influencers through Affise Performance. With a fully customizable interface, real-time reporting, and automated payouts, you can maintain efficient, scalable partner programs.
Multi-Channel Coverage: Affise Performance supports a variety of traffic sources—web, mobile web, mobile app, social media campaigns, influencer networks, and even emerging channels like connected TV. This wide coverage ensures you attribute conversions accurately and fairly, no matter where your audience interacts.
Event Tracking & Analytics: Beyond the initial conversion, Affise Performance allows you to track granular user actions, from clicks and impressions to sign-ups and sales. This enables you to measure full-funnel performance, optimize campaigns in real-time, and uncover new growth opportunities.
Customization & Flexibility: Build custom reports, apply complex targeting parameters, and manage deep linking. Affise Performance is tailored for the unique needs of agencies, networks, and advertisers, providing complete control over attribution models, validation rules, and user journey insights.

The Power of Combining Affise MMP and Affise Performance

When you leverage Affise MMP and Affise Performance together, you create an end-to-end solution that covers all your attribution needs:

Unified View of the Customer Journey: Connect mobile app installs and in-app events (measured by Affise MMP) with web conversions and affiliate campaigns (managed by Affise Performance). This holistic perspective ensures no blind spots, giving you a bird’s-eye view of your entire funnel.
Channel and Partner-Level Insights: Understand the exact contribution of each partner and channel. Identify top-performing affiliates, best-bidding media sources, or the social campaigns that drive the highest-LTV users. With clear attribution paths, you can confidently invest in channels that yield real value and cut down on ineffective spend.
Incremental Improvement & Iteration: Continuous feedback loops between Affise MMP and Affise Performance data allow you to refine attribution models, improve your partner mix, and adjust campaign strategies on the fly. Over time, these incremental improvements compound into significant performance gains.
Consistent Measurement Methodology: Aligning mobile and non-mobile attribution under one framework ensures you apply the same metrics and logic across all platforms. This consistency reduces discrepancies and makes your reporting more reliable and actionable.

Future-Proofing Your Attribution Strategy

The digital landscape is in constant flux. Tracking standards shift, privacy regulations evolve, and new platforms emerge regularly. Affise’s robust product ecosystem is designed with flexibility and forward compatibility in mind:

Adapting to Privacy Changes: As third-party cookies fade and mobile identifiers become restricted, Affise MMP and Affise Performance adapt, offering privacy-friendly attribution methods that preserve data-driven decision-making while honoring user consent and compliance.
Expanding Channel Support: When you adopt Affise, you don’t just get today’s channels; you gain a toolset ready to integrate tomorrow’s hottest marketing trends. Whether it’s optimizing for connected TV or tapping into a new social network, Affise ensures you’re always prepared to measure success wherever your audience moves.
Scalable to Your Growth: From startups to enterprises, Affise scales with you. As you onboard more partners, venture into new regions, or expand your product portfolio, both Affise MMP and Affise Performance accommodate increasingly complex attribution models and larger data volumes without sacrificing speed or reliability.

In a marketing environment defined by complexity and fragmentation, cross-platform attribution isn’t just a nice-to-have -it’s a must. The combined strengths of Affise MMP and Affise Performance empower marketers, agencies, and publishers to move beyond siloed measurement. With a unified, cross-platform attribution strategy, you can pinpoint the sources of your success, refine your marketing tactics, and confidently invest in the strategies that foster sustainable growth.

It’s time to elevate your attribution game: embrace the full potential of cross-platform insights with Affise and set a new standard for performance marketing success.

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Written by

Aleksei Protopopov

Head of Mobile Attribution - Affise MMP

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Cross-Platform Attribution in Affise MMP and Affise Performance: Unifying Your Marketing Universe

What is Cross-Platform Attribution?

Affise MMP: Tracking and Measuring Across Mobile Environments

Affise Performance: Scaling Your Partner and Affiliate Networks

The Power of Combining Affise MMP and Affise Performance

Future-Proofing Your Attribution Strategy

Automate Offer Transfer

Analyse Performance

Mass Pay Affiliates

For Affiliate Network

For Operator

Cross-Platform Attribution in Affise MMP and Affise Performance: Unifying Your Marketing Universe

What is Cross-Platform Attribution?

Affise MMP: Tracking and Measuring Across Mobile Environments

Affise Performance: Scaling Your Partner and Affiliate Networks

The Power of Combining Affise MMP and Affise Performance

Future-Proofing Your Attribution Strategy

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