At a glance: Liftoff, an AppsFlyer ad network integrated partner, is one of the top demand partners for brands and app developers. Liftoff offers click-based and view-through mobile attribution, as well as click-based and view-through retargeting which you can record with AppsFlyer.
Setting up Liftoff
To configure the partner:
- One-time prerequisite: After accepting Liftoff's terms, you must also accept Liftoff Mobile Measurement Terms & Conditions
- Go to Configuration > Integrated partners.
- Search for Liftoff.
- Click the Liftoff logo to open the configuration window.
- Update settings according to the following instructions.
Integration tab
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:
- Activate In-app event postbacks
- 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.
- If you choose to manually select events, click Add event to add an SDK Event to the list.
- 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 partnerSend 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).
- Click Save.
Attribution link tab
Generate click attribution links using this tab. More about link structure and parameters.
To generate an attribution link:
- Select a parameter from the Parameter name drop-down list and set a value.
- Click Add parameter and repeat the above step to add more parameters.
- Configure Retargeting settings.
- Set the duration of the click-through/view-through lookback window.
- 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,
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| Subscriber parameters | af_sub1, af_sub2, af_sub3, af_sub4, and af_sub5 |
Use to insert additional useful values.
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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.
Cost tab
AppsFlyer gets cost details directly from Liftoff.
| Media source | Campaign | Adset | Ad | Geo | Site ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Before you begin, ensure that you have Liftoff reporting API credentials, to get Liftoff cost data. To get the credentials, contact your Liftoff CSM.
To enable getting cost details from Liftoff:
- In the Cost tab, enable Get Cost Data.
- Complete the API credentials provided by Liftoff. Note: The credentials differ to those of your Liftoff dashboard credentials.
- In the Site ID mapping dropdown menu, select the desired site ID configuration.
This configures the site ID to match the AppsFlyer site ID macros as they are in the attribution link. - Click Save Cost.
- Click Test Connection.
- Ensure that the Cost API Status indicator is Active.
Ad revenue tab
Ad revenue data is not supported by this partner.
Permissions tab
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
- 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.
- Event sharing permissions - select your preferred option here:
Learn more about working with agencies.
Set up SKAdNetwork integration with Liftoff
To receive SKAdNetwork data from Liftoff:
- To support SKAdNetwork, update your AppsFlyer SDK to the latest version.
- In AppsFlyer, set up conversion events.
- Share with Liftoff your campaign goal and the final event you want to optimize your campaigns with. It's recommended that your final event will correlate with your preferred event and happen close to install time.
For example:- CPA campaigns: Share the required event and CPA goal to be used for SKAdNetwork campaign optimization.
- CPI campaigns: Share the CPI goal to be used for SKAdNetwork campaign optimization.
- Reach out to your Liftoff Account Team to confirm that SKAdNetwork postbacks are being sent with conversion values.
- Turn Share Transaction ID in SKAdNetwork mode on to receive the translated conversion events.
Product feed retargeting with Liftoff
For product event attribution to work correctly, Liftoff needs to receive the product IDs associated with each of your events. For example, the IDs of specific products users purchase or add to their cart.
These IDs must be linked back to the unique IDs you pass to Liftoff within your product feed. Liftoff supports the standard AppsFlyer convention of sharing this data via af_content_id attributes out of the box.
If you have a non-standard event data implementation, please reach out to your Liftoff CSM to see if the integration is possible.