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Unified Apple Ads bid & budget optimization

Let Samba AI combine your historical campaign performance with live market intelligence built on over $2B in Apple Ads spend to optimize toward your portfolio goals – maximizing ROAS while lowering acquisition costs.

Unified Apple Ads bid & 
budget optimization
-54%

-54%

lower costs within a week for a finance app

+36%

+36%

average revenue increase in a week

+62%

+62%

increase in sign ups for a productivity app

612

612

working hours saved in a quarter

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Interactive demo

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 Apple Ads 24/7

Click through SplitMetrics Acquire platform below to see how easy it is to setup 
 AI optimization aligned with your marketing targets.

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SplitMetrics Intelligence

Samba AI v3.5 – predictive AI models designed for Apple Ads

Samba AI is our own suite of AI models designed for marketing performance optimization, powering every decision within SplitMetrics Acquire. Unlike general AI, it forecasts performance, changes bids, and reallocates budget in real time – making 10x more decisions than a human, on 97M+ data points a day.

Our AI Vision explains how winning on Apple Ads is not an automation problem that general LLMs can solve but a prediction problem suited for purpose-built models only.

97M

Apple Ads data points processed daily

By using the largest dataset on the market, Samba AI solves bid and budget allocation across the entire Apple Ads portfolio, instead of independently at keyword level.

10

years of App Store intelligence and research

Known pioneers in the industry, SplitMetrics team has been specialized on apps since 2015. Our models are built by app marketers for app marketers.

60+

predictive signals proven to impact performance

SplitMetrics’ R&D team has found over 60 engineered signals proven to increase conversions, implemented in every Samba AI forecast.

Product capabilities

Make every Apple Ads dollar 
 work harder

Trained on the industry’s most complete Apple Ads campaign data, SplitMetrics Acquire is the only product combining portfolio-level bid and budget optimization. So you get more conversions from the same budget than with other platforms.

Apple Ads AI Bid and Budget Optimization | SplitMetrics Acquire

AI Bid Optimization

Increase ROAS while AI manages your bids

AI Bid Optimization adjusts bids with your keyword portfolio, performance and live market signals. Run complex campaigns for multiple apps and geos while AI handles the daily bid changes.

Optimize your whole portfolio

AI adjusts bids across every keyword in your campaigns toward one goal. No need to adjust keywords one by one.

Bid toward your business goals

Optimize campaigns for CPA, CPI, ROAS, Cohort ROAS, Share of Voice and your own custom and BI metrics.

Control every AI decision

Set bid guardrails, get alerted when the limit is capping performance and trace every change in Change History.

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AI Budget Allocation

Let AI move your budget where it works best

AI Budget Allocation helps you manage multiple campaigns without manually moving budgets every day. It adjusts spend based on predicted performance while keeping budgets and goals in check.

Manage budgets at scale

Set one Shared Daily Budget and let AI distribute spend across campaigns based on their predicted performance.

Scale conversions, not impressions

Run AI Budget Allocation on CPA, CPI, ROAS and Cohort ROAS strategies to manage budgets.

Automate bids and budgets together

AI Budget Allocation and AI Bid Optimization supercharge each other for even better performance.

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AI Bid Simulator

Predict your bids before spending a dollar

See the impact of a bid increase or decrease before making changes. As the only AI Bid Simulator for Apple Ads, the tool models different CPT scenarios to forecast potential outcomes.

Know impact before you bid

Compare CPT bid scenarios and their expected impact on conversions, CPA, CPI, ROAS or Impression Share.

Powered by Samba

The same AI that optimizes live bids and budgets across $2B+ in managed ad spend with proven accuracy.

Move from simulation to optimization

Apply the winning bid scenario in one click or create an AI Bid Optimization strategy.

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AI Decision Transparency

Understand every AI optimization decision

See exactly how Samba AI optimizes your Apple Ads campaigns. Monitor progress toward your goals, understand why every bid is adjusted and track every change from a single workspace.

See the reasoning behind decisions

Understand why AI adjusts bids and budgets based on your goals and campaign data.

Prove AI’s impact to procurement

The Optimization Hub shows conversions, revenue, time and money saved from automatons over the last 30 days.

Trace every change

Change History logs every bid, budget and keyword update, showing when, why and who did it.

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Automation Rules

Automate your daily routine with Automation Rules

Automation Rules take repetitive campaign management off your hands. Optimize bids, keywords, budgets and campaign actions automatically, with custom workflows.

Build any workflow, your way

Set your own conditions, triggers and schedules, or start from 200+ templates and tweak it to fit your team.

Automate beyond bids and budgets

Pause or enable, boost impressions, move search terms, negate irrelevant ones or get alerted on spikes and drops.

Stay in control

Monitor Automation Score, review rule activity and manage every automation from a single place.

Global success stories

Leading mobile marketers scale Apple Ads with AI Optimization

Taylor C.
“The automated bidding feature has saved me a significant amount of time, and the platform delivers competitor insights that I haven’t found elsewhere. Since switching from manual campaign management, we’ve seen a noticeable increase in revenue. Additionally, their representatives and customer service have been excellent.”

Taylor C.

Digital Marketing Manager

Mick Noya
“What I like best about SplitMetrics Acquire is how much time it saves our team, especially when it comes to scaling our ASA campaigns. The automation and smart bid rules are a total game changer and we’ve been able to automate a huge amount of the routine, daily optimisation work, which allows specialists to focus on high-level strategy and creative testing.”

Mick Noya

Performance Marketing Lead

Frequently
 asked questions

Find answers to the questions we hear most about AI Bid & Budget Optimization for Apple Ads.

Will I lose control of my Apple Ads campaigns if I use automation?
No, you stay in full control of your Apple Ads campaigns when using SplitMetrics automation. You set upper and lower bid limits, the CPA or ROAS target and the campaigns each automation strategy runs on. You can start in observation mode – where Samba suggests changes without executing them – before turning on full automation. Override or pause at any time.
Which campaigns are eligible for AI bid optimization?
Campaigns are eligible for AI bid optimization once they generate at least $500 in monthly revenue or 300 monthly conversions, with 90% of revenue arriving within 62 days of a user tapping the ad. These thresholds make sure Samba has enough reliable data to forecast outcomes. Smaller campaigns can run on Smart bidding (3-5 conversions per keyword per day) or condition-based rules instead.
How is AI bid optimization different from standard automated bidding?
AI bid optimization forecasts before it acts. Standard automated bidding tools react to past performance using fixed rules. Samba predicts expected spend and revenue before each bid goes live, then adjusts bids based on projected outcomes. Bids move ahead of the auction instead of catching up to it.
How often are bids updated?
Bids are updated once every 24 hours through Samba's AI bid optimization cycle. Samba evaluates your full keyword portfolio against your target each cycle and recalibrates accordingly. Condition-based rules can fire more frequently based on the conditions you set – useful for brand defense, dayparting, or fast competitor response.
What results can we expect?
Customers running ROAS optimization see an average 55% increase in revenue. Daily manual bid work typically drops from 2-3 hours to 10-15 minutes of oversight. Exact outcomes depend on account size, vertical and conversion volume.
Can SplitMetrics handle complex business requirements?
Yes, SplitMetrics Acquire is built for complex business requirements. The platform integrates with any MMP (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Kochava, Branch), connects to BI systems for custom metrics and supports custom rule logic for compliance, multi-app portfolios and industry-specific workflows. ISO and AICPA SOC compliant.
Can I use automation for some campaigns and manage others manually?
Yes, you can use automation on some campaigns while managing others manually. Most customers run this kind of hybrid – AI bid optimization on high-volume campaigns, Smart bidding on lower-volume ones, condition-based rules for specific strategies and manual management for testing or unique situations.
Can automation scale across large keyword portfolios?
Yes, SplitMetrics automation is built to scale across large keyword portfolios. Samba works on single campaigns and multi-campaign portfolios, optimizing thousands of keywords at once while holding portfolio-level performance steady. Multi-campaign strategies let you group campaigns by shared KPI for broader AI coverage.
Apple Ads AI Bid and Budget Optimization | SplitMetrics Acquire
Apple Ads AI Bid and Budget Optimization | SplitMetrics Acquire

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