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CPVLab for tracking mobile? Surely not. (8)

01-30-2012 08:06 AM #1 ppchound (Member)
CPVLab for tracking mobile? Surely not.

Just seen a tweet from EWA about a report from them on using CPVLab to track mobile campaigns.

Surely CPVLab even on a high speed VPS isn't up to this, or am I wrong? (not for the first time).

01-30-2012 10:30 AM #2 deondup (Member)

The kind of advice from someone who is clearly NOT running mobile

01-30-2012 10:43 AM #3 bbrock32 (Administrator)

CPVLab is the worst solution you can use to track mobile.

All their redirects rely on cookies and most mobile browsers dont' support cookies.

This means that even with the fastest hardware ever you would be losing 50%+ of clicks from the start.

Not to mention the slow internet on mobile phones , that number would increase more.

If you are starting on mobile I would suggest to use subids to track , later if you get profitable invest into something custom.

01-30-2012 10:53 AM #4 ppchound (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by bbrock32 View Post
CPVLab is the worst solution you can use to track mobile.

All their redirects rely on cookies and most mobile browsers dont' support cookies.

This means that even with the fastest hardware ever you would be losing 50%+ of clicks from the start.

Not to mention the slow internet on mobile phones , that number would increase more.

If you are starting on mobile I would suggest to use subids to track , later if you get profitable invest into something custom.
Absolutely! Unless you're looking to scrub your own campaign.

01-30-2012 03:29 PM #5 convert2steve (Member)

What do you recommend as the best solution for mobile tracking? I love Cake Marketing but even with direct advertisers we still experience some click loss on our end.
In addition, I realize that Cake was not built for mobile and they have some rather complex and proprietary business rules built into their redirect logic that also hinders the redirect speed.

So CPV Labs is a big NO...
202 is also not anywhere near perfect...

What do you use for tracking?

01-30-2012 04:25 PM #6 syfy (Member)

has the topic been brought to robert matthews attention? Did he update the cpvlabs's roadmap to test cookie dropping on the majority of mobile browsers?

I've seen articles on google analytics blog, that they've made some big strides on analyzing mobile traffic on their platform, they must have the mobile cross-browser thing nailed down.
Im wondering if one of the big affiliate tracking players(i.e. p202, and cpvlabs) can piggyback off of GA. I know peeps have ported the GA tracking code to php, so its entirely server side.

01-30-2012 04:48 PM #7 brodgers (Member)

From what I hear: HasOffers if you're not going to DL is the best for now. Angry Russian I believe also has something coming out in the future.

01-30-2012 05:00 PM #8 invisible777 (Member)

Mobile you gotta go direct, remove all unneeded hops. Track by subid, or build a lightweight solution that postback's subids into your local db then write some code to slice and dice the stats.

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