App ads from install to payer#

Quick answer: Advantage+ app campaigns buy up to 50 assets at once against install, registration or purchase events. Value optimisation needs 15 attributed purchase-values in 7 days, and iOS measurement runs through SKAdNetwork cohorts.

Reviewed 2026-09-04 by the folkfox bench.

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What are app ads?#

App Promotion campaigns across Meta inventory optimised to install, onboarding or purchase events, increasingly through Advantage+ app automation. Start at the Meta Ads hub.

The same country, language, store and event combination cannot be duplicated as separate automated campaigns, so structure deliberately. Read Meta on Advantage+ app campaigns and our app playbook.

How do you climb the event ladder?#

Optimise to the deepest event with reliable volume: install, then registration, then onboarding, then purchase. Each rung needs roughly 50 events a week to hold learning.

Send values with purchases from day one; eligibility for value optimisation (15 attributed purchase-values in 7 days) arrives sooner than expected. Ask our team for an event audit.

When is the app ready for paid?#

When onboarding converts and paywalls hold: paid installs into a leaky funnel buy churn. Fix activation first, then fund acquisition.

Separate Android and iOS measurement from the start; privacy behaviour differs and blended reporting lies. Playbook sets the split.

Where do app ads deliver?#

Feed, Reels, Stories and Audience Network app inventory with deep links for existing users. Web-to-app journeys need their own creative and measurement.

Re-engagement stays separate from acquisition, and only with enough event volume to learn. Consolidation governs the split.

Why optimise past the install?#

Because installs are cheap and payers are not: a creative that buys installs but no trials is a loss machine with good CTR. Cohort ROAS by install date is the only honest scoreboard.

Because value optimisation finds future payers, not present tappers, once the 15-value eligibility clears. AppsFlyer and Adjust cohorts reconcile what the platform claims.

Event Priority Lab

Pick the optimisation event your weekly volume can actually sustain, and check value eligibility.

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