Since removing IDFA on iOS, Apple has made it clear that probabilistic or fingerprint attribution is not allowed. Any method that lets an advertiser link users between apps is forbidden.
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.
As the economy fluctuates and budgets tighten, 2023 will be a year of adjustment. In the face of these conditions, and the removal of IDFA, app marketers will need new ways to find scale for their app advertising campaigns, writes Levi Matkins, CEO of LifeStreet.
You are not experiencing déjà vu. The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, did indeed issue three separate fines – all to do with consent or the lack thereof – over the course of less than two weeks.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Sorcery Is This The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has been busy lately. The agency fined TikTok earlier this week, Apple a week before that and, on Tuesday, decided a case that could have important ramifications for ad tracking on iOS. What’s […]
The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act and efforts to change Google’s and Apple’s mobile advertising practices would force companies to adopt new practices and technologies to understand and act on consumer identity. Mathieu Roche, co-founder and CEO at ID5, dives into each initiative and its implications.
Back in 2018, Tim Cook said, “The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer—if our customer was our product.” Fast-forward to 2022, and, to deliver the most relevant Apple Search Ads, the company uses “information a customer includes in their Apple ID account” for ad targeting purposes. If that isn’t monetizing your customers, what is, writes Uriah Av-Ron, partner and founder at Oasis Public Relations.
How will the high-stakes game of antitrust chicken between Google and the US Department of Justice play out? It could be a first important proactive step toward true structural change – not just at Google but across many of the biggest players in the industry, writes Arnaud Créput, CEO of Equativ.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fair Share In the years before Apple dropped its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework on the industry’s head like a ton of bricks, the company discussed a possible special arrangement with Facebook to cut Apple in on a slice of Facebook’s revenue, The Wall Street […]
Apple’s ATT rollout triggered an industry-wide freakout among mobile ad tech companies. But surprisingly, over the past year Apple has gotten “more accessible,” says Omer Kaplan, CRO and co-founder of ironSource. Also in this episode: Being a newly public ad tech company in a tricky market.
The app-based phone service TextNow, which offers free calls and texting subsidized by ads, is especially vulnerable to the ongoing deprecation of mobile device IDs. So TextNow started testing alternate IDs, turning to InMobi’s UnifID and LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) and RampID.
Although cookies will soon be off the menu and mobile identifiers are under fire, advertisers are taking their sweet time to cook up alternatives. Two-thirds of marketers say they’ve hit pause on actively transitioning from third-party identifiers, according to a new survey from Advertiser Perceptions.
The past few months have been wild for online advertising. Apple has implemented its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework, and Google announced it would delay the phase-out of third-party cookies in Chrome. A tumultuous ride to be sure. What will be the real impact of these moves on ad tech? AdExchanger examined the Q2 earnings reports of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Pour One Out For The Insta-Brands Facebook surprised most analysts with a powerhouse Q2, despite the rollout of Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) framework and new IDFA rules. But Facebook’s diminished targeting and attribution capabilities are having concrete effects on advertisers. A few years ago, many […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cook Your Goose Apple shattered Q2 revenue records for practically all of its products when it reported earnings yesterday. And its services revenue, Apple’s fees from in-app sales and subscriptions, broke an all-time quarterly record – which is ridiculous, because the lazy summer months […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ATT Impact Deferred Anyone looking for evidence of harm to mobile app giants by Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency move last quarter may well come up empty. Digital advertising is outgrowing other media channels and will likely continue doing so. “The permeable advantage of digital ads should […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Not Chump Change Another day, another fine against Big Tech. And this one could be the largest ever, or at least in Europe. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon faces a potential $425 million penalty proposed by a European Union privacy regulator, the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grace (Period) Under Fire Everyone knows that fingerprinting on iOS 14 is about as kosher as a strip of bacon on a piece of gefilte fish … right? Although Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework explicitly prohibits the use of fingerprinting, some of the largest mobile measurement […]
On-device is so in. On Friday, the mobile ad tech business Verve Group launched an in-app targeting product for Apple devices that uses on-device data to aggregate cohorts of users rather than targeting individuals. The product, dubbed ATOM (Anonymous Targeting on Mobile), collects data from the device and the app when it’s in use, but […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tanya Lee, GM EMEA, Vungle. Change provides opportunity for those who are able to adjust quickly and effectively. Apple’s change to the IDFA in iOS 14 will allow many app publishers to thrive in ways that they […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Half Measure Almost a full year after Apple dropped its AppTrackingTransparency bombshell on the mobile developer world, Google is following suit … well, sort of. On Thursday, Google said that, starting next year, apps on Google Play will have to display details about what […]
The founders of AdGear – a Canadian DSP and ad server acquired by Samsung Ads in 2016 – raised $3.6 million in seed funding to build a SaaS data connectivity platform called Optable. Optable uses specialized algorithms that ensure the secure transmission of encrypted audience data. The cryptographic technology allows for decentralized and secure data […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Chocka-ad-blocker While everyone is freaking about the phaseout of third parties cookies and low IDFA opt-in rates, don’t forget – an estimated 40% of US adults already block online ads on PCs or phones. According to new data from Blockthrough reported by CNET, ad blocking […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All For Me And None For … Thee? Apple’s new privacy restrictions in iOS 14 could give its own small but growing ad business an edge over rivals, The Wall Street Journal reports. For one thing, advertisers targeting iPhone users will get more data […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Rick Webb recently wrote an essay for the Why Is This Interesting newsletter about Apple’s looming App Tracking Transparency release, which will become reality next week. In it, he digs into some less commonly discussed issues with Apple’s […]
This week on The Big Story, the team broadcasts LIVE from AdExchanger’s Innovation Labs: Commerce Day event. And here’s your main takeaway if you weren’t able to attend: the fragmentation in the world of commerce-related media is … insane. An emerging cluster of media networks from retailers such as Walmart, Target, Kroger and numerous others […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vista Acquires TripleLift Stop me if you heard this one: Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in an ad tech firm. This time, it’s TripleLift. Read the release. Ronan Shields of Adweek claims Vista invested $1.4 billion, and the deal is expected […]
“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 Jonathan Stringfield, VP and global head of business marketing, measurement and insights at Activision Blizzard Media and Esports. Since Apple’s announcement of iOS 14 dropping support for IDFA, there has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stating The Obvious Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly acknowledged for the first time that the platform did play a role in the riot at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 that left five people dead. The admission came during last week’s Senate Judiciary hearing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bring It, Joe Google is certainly going through the ringer this week, especially with a House judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing that will look into whether laws should be bolstered to better address monopoly power. But apparently the increased regulator pressure is nothing new. That’s […]
