Purpose-built ML models for Apple Ads optimization

Samba AI v3.5 forecasts performance, moves your bids and reallocates budget in real time to hit your ROAS target – making 10x more decisions than a human, on 50M+ data points a day.

Purpose-built ML models for 
Apple Ads optimization
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics

Vision

Winning Apple Ads at scale isn't an automation problem

Bids that were right this morning are wrong by tonight. Keyword costs move hourly, competitors shift their spend, seasonality swings demand – and a human managing thousands of keywords can only react a handful of times a week. Rules-based tools fire blindly. Generic AI can describe your campaigns; it can’t predict what a bid will do tomorrow.

Winning Apple Ads at scale isn’t an automation problem. It’s a prediction problem. And prediction is a model problem.

Max Kamenkov
Established in 2022, SplitMetrics AI is powered by a team of highly qualified experts in machine learning and data engineering, including PhD holders in mathematics and champions of Kaggle competitions. This exceptional team has developed Samba, a family of AI models designed for performance optimization. As the foundation for our core solutions, Samba enables continuous advancements in bid, budget and CPP optimization, with even more innovations on the horizon.

Max Kamenkov

CEO & founder of SplitMetrics

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850M

Keywords 
analyzed 
daily

The most comprehensive Apple Ads keyword intelligence

+58%

revenue increase

Helping marketing teams drive growth on scale

97M

data points used for model training

Improved campaign performance through bid & budget predictions

Samba capabilities

Predictive AI models purpose-built for Apple Ads

Built on over 10 years of research and proprietary App Store intelligence, Samba AI is our suite of predictive models for Apple Ads performance – powering optimization across more than 1.6 million campaigns every day.

Business-outcome objectives

Use cases

From reactive optimization to predictive performance

Samba AI understands, forecasts and optimizes your Apple Ads bids across tens of thousands of keywords and campaigns using your historical performance and proprietary market intelligence, helping you stay ahead of changing market conditions.

AI bid management

Improve ROAS without touching your bids

Trained on Apple Ads campaign data since 2022, our AI analyses millions of bid combinations across your historical performance and live market intelligence to achieve your targets without putting in a single manhour.

Improve ROAS without touching your bids

+98%

ROAS uplift achieved in one month by a health app

“We wanted a smarter way to manage our campaigns at scale. SplitMetrics’ AI ROAS Optimization helped us scale our user acquisition and hit our ROAS target. It gave our UA team the space to think bigger without losing sight of our goals.”

Aveola’s

User Acquisition Team

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AI budget management

Let AI move the budget where it performs the best

SplitMetrics has the only AI solution that combines portfolio-level bid and budget management. So you get more conversions from the same budget than humanly possible.

Let AI move the budget where it performs the best

+158%

more targeted actions with 54% lower cost achieved by a finance app one week after enabling AI optimization

“The AI's automatic bid adjustments, based on historical data, have cut our workload and let us focus on managing multiple markets. The target CPA recommendations are consistently accurate.”

Lavanya Sharma

SEM Manager

Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics

AI bid simulator

Analyze and forecast your bids

Accurate daily forecasts based on historical and market data, with performance results like spend, conversion volume and CPA for each bid.

Analyze and forecast your bids

6.5M

forecasts processed every month

“What stood out to me was how easily I could get answers right in Slack. When questions came in – especially about competitors or how a specific app was buying – Iris made it quick and simple to respond, even on the fly.”

Anastasia Shagaleeva

Senior UA Manager

Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics

Workflows

Samba AI specialized scenarios for every Apple Ads optimization job

From accelerating productivity to scaling volume and cutting costs, we built AI into every corner of SplitMetrics Acquire to make your Apple Ads campaigns more scalable, predictable and profitable.

Bids

Popular

Maximize Volume

Recalculates CPT bids daily to generate the highest possible conversion volume from the available budget.

Budgets

Popular New

Daily Budget allocation

Automatically adjusts Daily Budgets within the Shared Daily Budget based on predicted performance.

Budgets

New

Monthly Budget Cap

Sets the maximum campaign spend for the calendar month and is required for Budget Pacing.

Bids

New

Target value warning

Tells when the selected target is too high/low and indicates when another strategy type is more suitable.

Budgets

Limit budget increases

The optional Upper Daily Budget Limit constrains pacing increases.

Bids

Single-campaign AI strategy

Applies AI Bid Optimization to the keyword portfolio of one campaign.

Bids

Bid Limit Alerts

Surfaces keyword- or strategy-level alerts when configured bid limits are too restrictive.

Bids

Popular

Decrease Average CPA

Adjusts portfolio bids with the objective of bringing average CPA below its recent level.

Bids

Popular

Scale Up Conversions

Adjusts bids to increase conversion volume while remaining aligned with the selected target CPA.

Bids

Keyword Upper Bid Limit Alert

Detects a high-performing keyword with additional growth potential but with limiting upper bid limit.

Bids

Maintain CPI

Adjusts bids to keep average CPI around the selected target.

Budgets

New

Automatic pacing

Applies the recommended Daily Budget. When disabled, shows a daily recommendation instead.

Benchmarks

Real innovation backed by Technical Reports

SplitMetrics is ruthlessly exploring new ideas and opportunities at the frontier of AI, with focus on maximizing marketing performance. Our R&D team is continuously improving how we process data, engineer features, and refine our models.

Capability

General AI (ChatGPT etc.)
Human Operator
Condition-based rules
Samba AI v3.5

Apple Ads bid decisions (per keyword/month)

No proactive changes

2-3 changes

1.42 changes

30 bid changes

Apple Ads data processed (last 180 days)

Public web data

100+ datapoints

Single metrics

56M+ data points daily

Predictive forecasting

No

Yes

No

Yes

Portfolio-level optimization

Limited

Manual

No

Yes, automatic

Market intelligence

No

Maybe

Maybe

Yes

Reaction to changing market conditions

No

Yes, manual

Limited

Yes, automatic

Setup & maintenance

Continuous prompt engineering

Hours to days

30–60 min

1 min

Decision transparency

No

Yes, based on memory

No

Yes

Capability

General AI (ChatGPT etc.)
Human Operator
Condition-based rules
Samba AI v3.5

Apple Ads bid decisions (per keyword/month)

No proactive changes

2-3 changes

1.42 changes

30 bid changes

Apple Ads data processed (last 180 days)

Public web data

100+ datapoints

Single metrics

56M+ data points daily

Predictive forecasting

No

Yes

No

Yes

Portfolio-level optimization

Limited

Manual

No

Yes, automatic

Market intelligence

No

Maybe

Maybe

Yes

Reaction to changing market conditions

No

Yes, manual

Limited

Yes, automatic

Setup & maintenance

Continuous prompt engineering

Hours to days

30–60 min

1 min

Decision transparency

No

Yes, based on memory

No

Yes

AI workflow guide

Download Samba AI workflow guide for Apple Ads

Check out how AI can optimize your workflows and help you achieve your targets.

Download Samba AI workflow guide for Apple Ads

Policies & governance

Our AI policies & governance

Our AI models undergo extensive safety tests and training in sandbox environments before deployment. As technologies evolve, we’ll keep refining our process, always committed to the highest standards of data privacy and security.

Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Samba AI | Purpose-Built ML Models for Apple Ads | SplitMetrics
Certifications

We are certified under SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards, which validate our commitment to rigorous data security and privacy practices.

Data Types

We do not use any personal data for training our AI models. We train our AI models based on data obtained in aggregated form from Apple Ads and MMPs.

1. Campaign Data

We train our AI models using aggregated data from Apple Ads Management API. Importantly, we do not use the actual text of keywords or associate data with specific campaigns or apps. The model operates on keyword-level aggregates, ensuring that no unique or identifiable campaign settings are used.

2. MMP Data

We utilize aggregated data, such as the sum of specific types of events per day, without associating these aggregates with any particular app or campaign. The way we aggregate this data ensures that in-app events or any other information that could potentially identify a specific user, app or campaign are entirely excluded from our training processes.

3. Market Intelligence

We use aggregated market intelligence data (such as keyword popularity, rankings and other metrics) from third-party open sources to enhance our services. This data is not linked to any specific competitor insights or individual account data, and it is entirely separate from the data collected via Apple Ads or Mobile Measurement Partners (MMP).

Data Privacy

Each account functions as a distinct environment, and all decision-making processes occur within isolated contexts. While we may use aggregated data to train our models, this data is anonymized and cannot be traced back to any specific campaign or user. The model applies its learned insights in a way that does not involve cross-referencing data between different ad accounts.

Enterprise governance

Samba is designed to operate across large accounts and organizations with the transparency and oversight enterprise teams require. Every optimization is traceable, while our Customer Success team continuously monitors model performance and helps investigate edge cases.

FAQ

Frequently 
asked questions

Find answers to the questions we hear most about AI models for Apple Ads.

What's the difference between Iris and Samba?
Iris is SplitMetrics' AI agent for analysis and recommendations – it diagnoses what changed in your performance, surfaces opportunities and suggests what to do next. Samba is the AI bidding engine that automates bid and budget optimization across thousands of keywords to hit your ROAS or CPA targets. Iris recommends. Samba executes.
What business impact can I expect from Samba AI?
Samba AI has delivered an average 55% revenue lift on accounts optimizing toward ROAS, and saves teams 40+ hours per month in manual bid management. Enterprise brands managing seven-figure monthly spend rely on it to maintain performance at scale.
How much control do we retain with Samba AI?
You retain full control. You set the bid limits, adjustment caps, exclusion dates and custom targets, and you can override recommendations or pause and revert strategies anytime. Samba AI optimizes inside the limits you define.

How does Samba AI make decisions?
Samba analyzes your historical performance, Share of Voice, impression share and MMP data to forecast revenue and optimize bids at the portfolio level. Iris connects acquisition, ASO and competitive data to generate insights you can act on, linked directly to the source data.
How does Samba AI handle seasonality and unique business context?
Samba AI learns from your account's historical performance and can be configured with exclusion dates, historical analysis windows, and country- or campaign-level targets. For known seasonal events, you can exclude those windows from training so the algorithm optimizes against your normal-state performance, not anomalies.
What prevents costly automation mistakes?
Samba AI operates inside upper and lower bid limits, maximum adjustment caps and portfolio-level guardrails to protect budgets and reduce volatility. You can set alerts for unusual movement and pause or adjust any strategy instantly.
Will Samba AI replace our UA team?
No. Samba AI augments your team, not replaces it. Samba automates bid and budget management, Iris surfaces insights, and your team retains strategic ownership while spending less time on manual optimization and more on strategy.