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Apple Search Ads Brand Keywords: Defend Your App Name

Brand keyword lists, exact-match bidding, and stopping competitors from stealing your searches.

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Your name is your cheapest high-intent traffic

Users searching your app name are ready to install. Brand keywords should be your most efficient ASA spend—and you must run them before competitors do.

Brand keyword list

  • Official app name
  • Common misspellings
  • Name without spaces / punctuation variants
  • “App name + app” patterns if relevant

Bidding strategy

Exact match only. Goal is coverage, not winning every auction at any price. Use ~20% of generic profit cap as a ceiling or lower when CPAs are already tiny.

Brand campaign in 4-tier structure

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