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need tracker that supports campaign control via api (16)

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basically we are are looking to control the tracker campaign through api, change offer weight, targetting etc.

we are using Voluum right now but its api only supports reporting, no campaign controls.

any recommendations ?

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Best to contact the various tracker companies directly (if they don't chime in on this post) to ask them on this one.

API support is still very much a moving target for all the major trackers. They all have some support, but it's a bleeding-edge area: best to ask the respective companies directly to get an update on exactly what their API supports right now.

As of my last research into the topic, there was no tracker out there offering full control of campaigns via API (I think Funnel Flux comes closest) - but that might well have changed or be changing as I write!

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Voluum has an API for setting up offers, campaigns, changes etc, it's just not documented. If you look at the request when i.e. making a campaign, it's just a post request eith some json payload.

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I second what jessejames is saying. It's quite easy to use it once you get the hang of it.
However, changing the targeting might be a bit more difficult and not that straight forward in Voluum
since they use an SVG to pass the data to their interface... and that needs a bit more work to get what you need
ie: changing operators via the API

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FunnelFlux's API v2 is quite powerful. The data API allows to control absolutely everything and create funnels with conditions, rotations etc the same way the front end does.

Here's the documentation for the data and stats APIs:

http://api.funnelflux.com/data/

http://api.funnelflux.com/stats/

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Took a quick look. That's a really nice API documentation!

I'm not sure about the experience of other tracker vendors.

But the number of people who asked for API support was just not enough to justify putting resources into creating the API.

It was put on the back burner to focus on other functionality that would benefit more end users.

It's something I will revisit again when doing my next major rewrite.

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Thanks much Jessejames, will check that out, appreciate the tip

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Thanks much vitavee, the api looks very well documented and powerful

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Voluum is always your best option unless another tracker is going to give you a huge price cut. Anyways once you have massive volume (think +10 million clicks a month as a bare minimum), then its worth it to start thinking about developing your own technology. Big investment but it will save you a lot of money if you're in this industry for the long haul

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The Prosper202 ClickServer Marketing Cloud has had unlimited clicks on all plans since launch.

It doesn't make sense for marketers to get charged per click. Click values vary so much depending on the traffic source being used and offer being promoted.

When you are testing and losing money, it sucks to know you are also burning cash paying your tracker for clicks you are not yet profitable on.

At one point I had a 30 million clicks a month user grandfathered in a $99 a month plan. (I guess his campaigns died out because he's not doing as much volume anymore.)

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Affiliate Software has a pretty detailed API, and it's also well documented here. It has over 65 methods already, so you should be able to cover all your daily needs easily, including campaign control. If you find that some important methods are missing for your specific business case, we can add them to the platform very soon (only in the last month we have added 4 new methods requested by our partners).

As AdCumulus representative on this forum, I'd be happy to provide more info if needed.

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Voluum has everything you need, the documentation is just hidden on a sub site...

http://developers.Voluum.com/

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check newbidder.com ,they support, you can read this article: http://discourse.newbidder.com/t/wha...e-marketing/47
even they are free with unlimited events

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Hey guys. This is my first contribution to this forum.


Seems like the vollum has API support, but only in the $300+ plan.

I would suggest you take a look in this tracking software:


BeMob -> https://help.bemob.com/api/core.html

It has API support and looks great, low prices, including that you can import your campaigns from Voluum.

Does anyone know it? For anyone testing, share the results.

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Hey nata7x,

one of my friends is using Bemob and he demoed it to me last month.

It looks like an almost 100% copy of Voluum at least for the design.
Of course we don't know what's going on under the hood. I would be a bit skeptic though

Anyway if you are just starting out and need to get your feets wet or you are low on budget you can try it.
As its very similar to Voluum the switch will be much easier later.

Even the API paths looks like it's copied, so it should be easy to rewrite your code.

But take it with a grain of salt, if you are serios into this business I would definitely go with solid trackers that had been already well tested with affiliates.

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Hi nata7x,

Our reporting API is available on every plan, and through the API you can do everything that you can through the front end panel (and even a few things that you can't do through frontend),

The only extra API-related feature that's only available starting from Enterprise plan is a Realtime Routing API (RRAPI), that allows you to override default redirection path in real time - you can set up your own RESTful service that we will 'ping' every time there's a visit, passing all the detected data, and expect your server to respond with a JSON with lander/offer to which the user should be redirected to (If your server fails to respond, the default setup will be applied).

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