AppsFlyer, the global attribution leader, and MMA Global, the industry body dedicated to driving modern marketing and shaping the future of marketing, released the report, Apple, IDFA and iOS14: New Challenges, New Opportunities for Marketers. Analyzing how marketers view the upcoming IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) opt-in requirement, the findings highlight the implication of privacy related updates for business outcomes.
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“Apple’s planned updates represent an inflection point for the marketing industry, impacting the ability to measure and appropriately attribute mobile app advertising”
The survey found that marketers are still unfamiliar with the changes, but those who do understand largely expect a negative impact on their capabilities. Yet, marketers agree that probabilistic data will take on greater weight as a solution for the next era of mobile marketing, especially as privacy becomes more important across the board.
“Apple’s planned updates represent an inflection point for the marketing industry, impacting the ability to measure and appropriately attribute mobile app advertising,” said Brian Quinn, US President and General Manager, AppsFlyer. “AppsFlyer commissioned this survey to help marketers understand the effects of the changes and see how their peers are pivoting to probabilistic data and other tactics that will define the next era of mobile marketing.”
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Key Findings:
- Thirty-seven percent of respondents have little to no understanding of the IDFA protocol, though 28% are very to extremely familiar. The varying degrees of understanding of the IDFA changes in iOS 14 is surprising, given the protocol will dramatically change attribution for mobile advertising.
- Among those who were already familiar with it, a major 73% said the IDFA protocol would have a strong negative impact. Fifty-four percent of respondents believe that at least half of all identifiers will be reduced due to IDFA implementation.
- Spending will change, with 74% agreeing that publishers will suffer revenue losses. Nineteen percent of advertisers are very likely to shift ad spending within mobile, and 33% are somewhat likely to reduce mobile ad spend.
- Confidence in SKAdNetwork is low amid concerns over measurement granularity, absence of KPIs, and fraud risks. Only one third of respondents stated that they were somewhat-to-very likely to adopt SKAdNetwork. The vast majority of marketers remain on the fence about the solution, with 46% stating that they are “not sure” whether they will adopt it.
The industry has to adapt to Apple’s IDFA change, but also acknowledge that it is part of a larger turn towards consumer privacy dictated by GDPR in Europe and CCPA in the US. 80% of respondents find it somewhat, to extremely likely, that other mobile operating systems, such as Android, will enforce similar “opt-in” approaches when it comes to identifiers. Anticipating this, 71% said they somewhat trust probabilistic data for audience targeting and 70% trust it somewhat for measurement and attribution.
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