iOS 14.5

Due to declining paid social traffic, Wildgrain, a subscription box company that built its brand on Facebook, has ramped up its email marketing efforts through a partnership with LiveIntent.

ATT’s impact has been especially hard on game app developers, with the average cost per install on iOS up 88% from Q1 2021, the last quarter before the rollout of ATT. To adapt, app marketers have been using probabilistic data and methods to reach opted-out users.

At this year’s WWDC, Apple announced updates to SKAdNetwork, its privacy-adjusted mobile measurement framework. For marketers, embracing, understanding and developing a robust strategy for SKAdNetwork is essential for user engagement and measurement on iOS. From there, the key will be maximizing the value of first-party data and designing long-term acquisition and measurement strategies – based on user consent for targeted advertising, writes Katie Madding, chief product officer at Adjust.

Facebook’s Q2 advertising revenue soared 56% to $28.5 billion year-over-year, though the company warned investors it expects a revenue slowdown beginning in Q3 – the same time it will feel the full impact of Apple’s recent AppTrackingTransparency changes. The total number of ad impressions served across Facebook increased 6%, while the average price per ad […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Brian Bowman, CEO and founder of Consumer Acquisition. Apple killed the IDFA and Armageddon was upon us – or so we thought. IOS 14.5 was a landmark update that included Apple’s […]

Google will zero out the Android Advertising ID – literally – when users have opted out of personalized advertising starting later this year. The company notified mobile developers Thursday about the switch. Currently, users who have opted out of tracking and personalized advertising are still tagged by the Advertising ID when they open an app, […]

AppTrackingTransparency enforcement officially began in late April. But advertisers, publishers and mobile ad tech vendors are still grappling with a lot of head scratchers – and the dust is far from settled. Until the release of iOS 14.5 last month, among the biggest unknowns consuming the mobile ad ecosystem was the agita-inducing question of timing […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcasting Pays Podcast advertising is set to grow as much in the next two years as it did in the past decade. That’s according to new research prepared for the IAB by PwC diving into 2020 podcast ad revenue. During the fourth quarter of […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Two Google seems perennially mired in litigation these days. The latest legal salvo hurled at the tech giant is a $4.16 billion class action lawsuit in the UK alleging that Google illegally tracked 4.4 million iPhone users nearly 10 years ago in England […]

Blood pressures spiked at around 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday when Apple at long last released iOS 14.5 out of beta and into the wild. Befittingly, it’s been a wild ride since June 2020, when Apple first announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that starting with iOS 14, developers and advertisers would need explicit […]