Season 3, Episode 26: Exploring the future of mobile ad measurement (with Barak Witkowski)
Aug 20, 2024
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Barak Witkowski, Chief Product Officer at Appsflyer, dives into the world of mobile advertising. He discusses how advertisers are adapting to the rapid changes in privacy and signal loss. Witkowski highlights the significance of innovative methodologies, such as AI and data clean rooms, to enhance measurement accuracy. He also emphasizes the role of the web in driving app installs and outlines the transformation of SKAdNetwork into the Ad Attribution Kit. The conversation wraps up with a glimpse into the future trends of mobile ad measurement from 2024 to 2028.
Advertisers are adapting to the evolving privacy landscape by embracing new measurement strategies and integrating AI to optimize campaigns effectively.
The transformation of SKAdNetwork into AdAttributionKit illustrates the need for mobile app advertisers to reassess their approach to attribution amidst ongoing challenges.
Deep dives
Navigating the Omnichannel Marketing Maze
Navigating the omnichannel marketing landscape can be complicated, likened to finding one's way through a maze. Rockerbox serves as a guiding tool that offers insights on tracking and analyzing marketing campaigns across various channels, including digital and traditional media. It helps brands such as Weight Watchers and NutraFold to understand which paths in their marketing efforts lead to success and enables them to invest their resources more wisely. By providing clarity in marketing analytics, Rockerbox empowers companies to optimize their strategies and enhance returns on investment.
Evolution of Mobile Marketing and Attribution
The conversation highlights significant developments in mobile marketing and the critical role of attribution. Barack Wieckowski discusses the founding of AppsFlyer in 2012, which coincided with the launch of numerous successful mobile games and the maturation of the mobile marketing ecosystem. This era marked a pivotal shift in enabling billion-dollar franchises that required robust tracking and measurement infrastructure to gauge performance accurately. The emergence of mobile app growth called for advanced attribution solutions to ensure that marketers could discern the effectiveness of their campaigns amidst an increasingly complex environment.
Challenges of Signal Loss and Adaptation Strategies
Advertisers today face challenges related to signal loss, mainly due to the removal of identifiers crucial for measurement and targeting. Without these identifiers, marketers struggle to justify their budgets and optimize their campaigns effectively. Brands are now adopting various measurement strategies, including media mix modeling and incrementality testing, to create a single source of truth despite the fragmented data landscape. By embracing a multi-platform approach and integrating AI into their measurement and marketing strategies, advertisers can better navigate opportunities even as privacy regulations evolve.
The Future of Marketing with AI
AI is increasingly becoming an integral tool in the marketing landscape, helping advertisers improve their performance by extracting insights from complex data. It enables real-time decision-making, fraud detection, and production of new marketing creatives based on analysis of existing assets. The potential for a full AI growth loop illustrates how AI can optimize the entire marketing ecosystem, from measurement to creative generation. As the ecosystem matures, the focus will be on unifying tools and processes to leverage AI effectively, allowing marketers to operate more responsibly and efficiently.
My guest in this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast is Barak Witkowski, the Chief Product Officer of Appsflyer, a mobile advertising attribution and measurement platform.
In our conversation, among other things, Barak and I discuss:
The prevailing themes in mobile attribution;
How advertisers have adapted to the rapidly evolving privacy landscape, and what separates the most effective advertiser initiatives from those that haven't worked as well;
How the media landscape utilized by mobile app advertisers changed over the past few years;
How mobile app advertisers should view the web as a potential source of installs;
SKAdNetwork's transformation into AdAttributionKit and how should advertisers view that;
How AI will play a role in marketing performance measurement.
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