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People say 'web attribution is broken.' It's better than iOS. Yes it's imperfect — but you can see in hours what took weeks on iOS. For creative testing, for audience testing, for algorithm optimisation — the speed of web feedback has no equivalent on the App Store side.

Web attribution isn't perfect either — but it enables faster feedback loops than iOS ever could

Petit rebuts the attribution-quality objection to web2app: iOS post-ATT attribution is not a high bar. Web attribution (server-side events, first-party cookies, probabilistic matching) is imperfect but delivers purchase signals in hours versus the 14-day SKAdNetwork windows on iOS. For teams running continuous creative and audience experiments, this speed difference is compounding — more learning cycles per unit time means faster improvement.


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Thomas Petit
Independent App ConsultantIndependent consultant managing nine-digit ad spend; started web2app journey in 2016 working with Blinkist, 8fit, and Babbel; consults across hundreds of subscription apps on acquisition, activation, and monetization.
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Understanding When to Use Web2App and How to Do It Well — Thomas Petit, Independent App Consultant· 21:05
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