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Apple Search Ads Daily Budget: Splits, Caps, and CPT Traps

How to allocate daily budget across brand, category, competitor, and discovery campaigns.

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Daily budget is a guardrail

Campaign daily budget caps spend per day per campaign. It does not replace keyword-level profit logic—but prevents one tier from eating the account.

Suggested split

  • Brand — enough to never cap out on your name (often smallest % spend, never starved)
  • Category — majority of budget
  • Competitor — hard small cap
  • Discovery — fixed low cap; never auto-scale

CPT vs daily budget trap

Apple rejects or throttles when max CPT exceeds campaign daily budget. On low discovery budgets (~$5–20/day), keep CPT at or below that ceiling.

No impressions troubleshooting

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