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Countly mentions (6)

• Want your dedicated (and managed) product analytics server?

  Hello HN, founder of Countly (https://count.ly) here. As you might know, we are the creators of one of the first open-source product analytics platforms that has 10+ SDKs for mobile, desktop and web applications. We've been working on a new SaaS, myCountly, to help you launch your own Countly servers in any location, so your user data stays close to home. We are going to do an alpha launch soon, and looking for... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Which crash reporting platform do you use for your Vue apps?

  Is countly still operational? Can't connect to their website https://count.ly/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?

  Always surprised more people don’t use countly. Runs nice in docker or digital ocean. https://count.ly. Been self hosting it for years with few issues. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Open Source Analytics Stack: Bringing Control, Flexibility, and Data-Privacy to Your Analytics

  Countly (website, GitHub) is also an open-source product analytics platform that is designed primarily for marketing organizations. It helps marketers track website information (website transactions, campaigns, and sources that led visitors to the website, etc.). Countly also collects real-time mobile analytics metrics like active users, time spent in-app, customer location, etc., in a unified view on your dashboard. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Google Analytics deleted my entire account because I didn't log in for 60 days

  Self-hosted alternatives to Google Analytics include: Matomo, open core with a broad feature set: https://matomo.org Countly, open core with desktop and mobile tracking: https://count.ly/ Plausible, open source with a simple feature set: https://plausible.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Microsoft Advertising mentions (5)

• What is PPC in digital marketing

  Bing Ads – Although similar to Google Ads, Bing ads have a lower CPC rate at the expense of a wider audience reach. Source: about 1 year ago

• TIL about Ordnance Survey Bench Marks

  That’s how search engines generally make money, including Bing. https://ads.microsoft.com. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Increasing budget

  New campaigns: 1. Video campaign - the most successful in sense of scaling was youtube campaign. Using youtube we could scale account by ~25% which is a lot. 2. Shopping campaign - not sure what you sell, but shopping is a very good channel for some products. 3. New keywords to expand your reach. Probably there is not much you can do here, I believe you have most of you keywords already in your account (?).... Source: about 3 years ago

• Chrome or Edge?

  Anyway, to say that Microsoft does not want to be another Google is hilarious. They too have their own advertising platform (https://ads.microsoft.com) and their own browser which also tracks people for personalized advertising. Pile that on to the worse privacy controls and deals with oil companies, and you have a far worse company than Google ever was. Source: about 3 years ago

• Is discord being sold?

  Microsoft absolutely makes its money selling ads. Not all of it, but plenty of it. They're definitely trying to be another Google. https://ads.microsoft.com/. Source: about 3 years ago