Apple iTunes Connect Analytics: attribution provider and campaign id value passing to the app delegate

Question

The new iTunes connect has analytics features now. You can specify the provider (pid) id and campaign id (cid) in the url. e.g.

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/candy-cru

Answer 1

Unfortunately these params are not passed into the app. They are only used for iTunes Connect stats.

Here are the two common workarounds:

1. Using a fingerprint to implement deferred deep link and passing the params through that link (Tapstream can do this).

2. Using a provider like Tune/MobileAppTracking to match the link using the ID for advertising (IDFA).

I wrote a blog post to explain the details: https://attributionapp.com/blog/lets-solve-ios-attribution-methods/

I will edit this response in the future if Apple changes their API. If you let Apple know what you want to build and why passing in the params is a better policy they might change their minds faster: https://developer.apple.com/contact/