Liftoff campaign configuration in AppsFlyer

The Integration tab is divided into different sections as described below.

Activate partners

The partner must be activated by switching on the Activate partner toggle on the first visit to enable its setup.

General settings

Enable view-through attribution

Activate, if you want to attribute view-through installs from Liftoff. The view-through lookback slider is available in the Attribution link tab.

Default postbacks

AppsFlyer can send automatic postbacks to Liftoff following user installs, rejected installs, and reengagements. Use this section to define the source of the users that allow sending these postbacks.

Select This partner only for events coming only from users attributed to Liftoff.
Select All sources, including organic to have your entire user base available to be reported to Liftoff.

Note

As an ALL-Installs network, Liftoff prefers to receive postbacks for all new installs of your app from ANY source, including organic. It is recommended to select All sources, including organic to send all install postbacks to Liftoff.

In-app events settings

In this section, you can configure in-app event postbacks that are sent to Liftoff.

To configure in-app event postbacks:

1. Activate In-app event postbacks
2. Choose whether to report selected events to the partner or all of them.
   • Note: If you choose to report all events, the af_app_opened event is not reported.
3. If you choose to manually select events, click Add event to add an SDK Event to the list.
4. Fill in the following data:

   Parameter name	Description
   SDK event name (required for manual selection only)	The name of the event, as received by AppsFlyer either from the SDK or from server-to-server events. Tip: If you don't see the event you want in the list, activate this event on a device with a non-organic installation and recheck.
   Sending option	Select the sending option for the event: This partner only for events coming only from users attributed to Liftoff. All sources, including organic to have your entire user base available to be reported to the partner
   Send event data	No values & no revenue: sends only the event itself without the event value. Values & no revenue: sends all the parameters excluding the revenue value. Values & revenue: sends all the event parameters, including the revenue value (if exists in the event).

5. Click Save.

In this tab, you can create the attribution links you want to send to Liftoff for attributing Liftoff's campaigns, ad sets, or even single ads. Note that AppsFlyer DOES NOT save your generated partner's attribution links.

Generate click attribution links using this tab. More about link structure and parameters.

To generate an attribution link:

1. Select a parameter from the Parameter name drop-down list and set a value.
2. Click Add parameter and repeat the above step to add more parameters.
3. Configure Retargeting settings.
4. Set the duration of the click-through/view-through lookback window.
5. Copy the attribution link and add it to your campaign on Liftoff.
   Note: AppsFlyer does not save links.

Attribution link parameters

Typical link parameters

Parameter	Parameter name	Description
Campaign	c	Add it to compare different campaigns running with Liftoff.
Adset	af_adset	Use to differentiate add sets.
Ad name	af_ad	Use to differentiate between creatives within the add set.
Site ID	af_siteid af_subsiteid	Use to attribute installs to specific publishers. Good practice! If there are multiple publishers, Limit the number of site IDs in use. Use the sub-site ID parameter to avoid exceeding the site ID limitation.
Subscriber parameters	af_sub1, af_sub2, af_sub3, af_sub4, and af_sub5	Use to insert additional useful values. Parameters are parsed and included in the raw data report. Use them to perform data aggregation or filtering.

Retargeting settings

When enabled, AppsFlyer recognizes a link as a retargeting attribution link, rather than a user acquisition link, by adding the &is_retargeting=true to a click recording link or an impression recording link.
Attribution link parameter: is_retargeting.

The following setup is displayed when retargeting is enabled.

Standard link vs. OneLink

Select standard attribution link option if:

• You don't need to deep link with the URL or
• Plan to use only URI schemes for deep linking

select Use OneLink for:

• Using a single link for both Android and iOS apps or
• Deep linking using Universal or app links

Note that selecting OneLink changes the click recording link from app specific to a OneLink URL.

Deep link URL

Use this field if the link is meant to deep-link users to any specific activity within your app.
Attribution link parameter: af_dp
You can find more information about AppsFlyer Deep Linking solution in this guide.

Re-engagement window

Set the time period following the re-engagement, where the user's in-app events are attributed to the retargeting media source. You can set the value in days (1-90), hours (up to 23), or even lifetime.

Attribution link parameter: af_reengagement_window

Click-through attribution

This slider allows you to set the maximum time from click to install. Only installs (first launches) that take place within the lookback window may be attributed to Liftoff.

Liftoff recommends setting the click-through lookback window to 7 days.

Attribution link parameter: af_click_lookback

More details about the click lookback window here.

Click attribution link

This is the attribution link that contains all the setup information you have set for it. Send it to Liftoff to be activated when leads click on a corresponding ad.

View-through attribution

View-through attribution lookback window

This slider allows you to set the maximum time from impression to install. Only installs (first launches) that take place within this lookback window, following an ad impression, are attributed to Liftoff, providing there was no other relevant ad click.

You can customize this value to 1-23 hours or 1-7 days.

Liftoff recommends setting the view-through lookback window to 1 day.

Attribution link parameter: af_viewthrough_lookback

More details about the view-through attribution here.

Impressions attribution link

The impression attribution link contains similar attribution data to the click recording link (besides the different lookback window). Send it to Liftoff to be activated when a corresponding ad is watched, usually for 1 second or more.

AppsFlyer gets cost details by API. See the ad network cost integration table for full details on the supported dimensions, metrics, and features. Note: Cost data requires an Xpend subscription.

To enable the cost API:

• Follow these integration instructions. 

View your cost API status and the last time AppsFlyer managed to pull matching cost data in either the cost (and ad revenue) integration status dashboard, or in the individual ad network dashboard. 

Ad revenue data is not supported by this partner.

In this tab, you can select the permissions to grant Liftoff. Note that even if attribution is disabled for Liftoff, the permissions tab is active and you can grant control to Liftoff.

Ad network permissions

In this tab, you can select the permissions to grant Liftoff. Note that even if attribution is disabled for liftoff, the permissions tab is active and you can grant control to liftoff.

Use these toggles to give the ad network permissions to handle its own configuration for your app:

• Allow to configure integration - permit the partner to set up the integration tab (except in-app event postbacks)
• Allow to configure in-app event postbacks - permit the partner to setup in-app event postbacks mapping to itself on the integration tab
• Allow access to your retention report - only to the partner's own retention data
• Allow access to your aggregate loyal user data - only to the partner's own loyal user data
• Allow access to your aggregate in-app events data - only to the partner's own in-app events data
• Allow access to your aggregate revenue data - only to the revenue data attributed to the partner
• Allow spend ingestion - permit the partner to send ad spend data in files; for this app only.
• Allow access to your Protect360 dashboard - only to the partner's own Protect360 data, and providing the feature is enabled for the advertiser

Learn more about granting ad network permissions.

Agency permissions

If you work with Liftoff as an agency partner, in this section you can give them permissions to handle their own configuration for your app:

• Main toggle - Setting this to ON:
  
  • Reveals the agency permissions options
  • Enables the agency to get attributed with installs for the app
  • Enables the agency to see Facebook and Twitter promoted data
  Warning: Agency installs occurring while the toggle is OFF are not attributed to the agency and don't show up on the agency's dashboard and data (more details).

• Allow access to your Protect360 dashboard
• Allow access to your retention and cohort reports - retention/cohort data created by the users brought by the agency only.
• Allow access to aggregate organic data
• Allow to configure in-app event postbacks - permit the agency to setup in-app event postbacks mapping to itself on the integration tab
  • Event sharing permissions - select your preferred option here:
    a) This partner only - send only events from agency's own brought traffic to the app
    b) All sources, including organic - send events from all sources of your traffic, including other media sources, agencies, and organic users
  • Allow to send event revenue - permit the agency to send events including their monetary value
  • Make sure to select specific events you want to grant the agency permission to. Click Add event and pick the event from the drop-down list. Do this for each event you want to add.

Learn more about working with agencies.