AppGoblin has now run over 40k apps in an emulator, tracking millions of API calls thousands of advertising domains. Unfortunately, some of them are dark, meaning they have no landing page of any kind, and I’m unclear who controls these domains. news-cdn.site marketingcloudapis.com kickoffo.site onegg.site lazybumblebee.com qa-analytics.com acobt.tech yastatic.net Let’s see if we can figure…
Tag: adtech
Apple App Store Dropped Support for Anti Ad Fraud Specs
First let’s recap, what is app-ads.txt App-ads.txt is a specification by the IAB to help fight advertising fraud. It works by a publishing app (they make money from the ads) linking their developer site with a txt file which has their advertising publisher IDs. Thus a buyer of the publisher’s ads can lookup the ID…
AppGoblin: Free App Stats & Info
Update: 2025 AppGoblin just keeps growing! Now covering >4m apps, thousands of advertising companies, 50k apps scanned for SDKs, and free ASO marketing tools for app marketers. The past few weeks I spent building a front-end for an app store crawler that I made. The end goal is just to provide an open front-end for…