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App marketing lead at a mobile game studio. We run Meta and TikTok for broad-reach UA, plus 3 SDK ad networks (Mintegral, AppLovin, Liftoff) for in-app inventory and rewarded video sources. Combined spend is around $250k a month.

The pain we keep hitting is that the SDK ad network world and the social-platform world have almost nothing in common operationally. Meta and TikTok let you bulk-edit campaigns through their managers, share creative libraries, run lookalikes, manage everything in similar shapes. The SDK ad networks are mostly individual dashboards with their own creative requirements (playable formats especially), different bidding mechanics, different campaign structures. Switching context between the two worlds 6+ times a day burns hours.

Most ""ad management SaaS"" tools I've looked at are built for the social-platform side only. XMP is the one I keep seeing positioned around the multi-channel app marketing case specifically, including the SDK ad networks rather than just Meta and Google. Smartly is built around enterprise paid social. Madgicx is Meta-focused.

For app studios actually running this hybrid mix: has anyone consolidated the SDK ad network operations into the same workflow as the social platforms? Or is everyone just accepting that this is a two-stack problem? Curious if XMP or anything similar actually closes the gap meaningfully.

I’m spending a few weeks in Canada soon. I will be going through Toronto and Vancouver, Calgary, Banff, and some smaller towns in between.

I’m planning to buy an eSIM, but still have some concerns. Thus I'm not sure which provider to choose. Most threads focus on price per GB, but not much on real-world consistency. I’ve been looking at a few options like Airalo, Nomad, and Redteago. One thing I noticed is that some plans (like Redteago’s Canada plan) include a local number and SMS, which seems useful for things like bookings or verification codes.

I’ve also had some issues before with travel eSIMs where certain apps (like banking or work tools) didn’t behave normally, possibly because of how the data was routed. So things like native IP or local number started to matter a bit more to me.

I’m not expecting perfect signal in the mountains, but for highways and smaller towns, how reliable is coverage in general? For anyone who used Redteago’s  Canada 75GB plan, how was your experience? What is the actual internet speed like in these areas?

Would appreciate any suggestions before I decide.
Thanks in advance!

Heading to London this May for about two weeks, mainly around the Chelsea Flower Show. I’ll be spending most of my time in Chelsea and Belgravia, probably moving around a lot between different spots.

I’ll have two phones with me, one for livestreaming and the other for the usual stuff like maps, messages, and posting. So I’ll likely rely on hotspot quite a bit to keep things simple while I’m out.

Been comparing a few eSIM options like RedteaGO, Airalo, and Saily, and honestly didn’t expect the price differences to be this big. From what I can tell, they all connect to the main UK networks anyway, looks like RedteaGO runs on EE/Three, Airalo on EE, and Saily seems to use Vodafone, and some mention 5G support as well, but I’m not sure how consistent that actually is in practice.

I get that in theory they’re all just using local carriers, but I’m more curious how that actually feels in real life, especially when it gets crowded. Places like the Flower Show seem like the kind of environment where networks can slow down pretty quickly.

Not expecting perfect speeds or anything, just something stable enough to get through the day without having to think about it too much. If anyone’s used these around central London or during busy events, would be good to hear how it went.