iOS Install Attribution Challenges and Future Solutions
Apple’s mobile app tracking transparency system has completely redefined the way of how mobile marketers use iOS install attribution . When Apple launched ATT with iOS 14.5, it required users to actively opt in to cross-app tracking, most of them started declining tracking requests and this essentially disrupted the traditional attribution strategies. This radical change led to previous IDFA-based attribution being ineffective almost overnight forcing marketers to re-examine their whole system of measurement. It is not just permission denials. In the absence of deterministic device-level attribution using IDFA, marketers find it difficult to provide accurate attribution of advertising spend to individual app installs and post-install user behaviours. This transparency puts considerable barriers to optimisation of campaigns, allocation of budget and calculation of returns-on-investment that was previously easy with the capability of tracking apps on iOS. ...