Google Universal App Campaigns (UAC) were launched in mid-2015 as part of Google’s efforts to utilize machine-learning in the advertising product offerings. The objective was for the machine-learning system to analyze, in real time, millions of signals to put your app in front of the best possible users.
IMVU started testing UAC campaigns in early September 2017, a few months before Google officially forced all AdWords mobile app campaigns on Google Search, Display, and YouTube to transition over to UAC. The biggest challenge for us was giving up control and transparency into optimizing our campaigns vs. trusting Google algorithms to do that for us.
