Apple’s data protection feature App Tracking Transparency, or ATT for short, is intended to ensure that users can determine for themselves whether their iPhone and iPad actions can be tracked across apps. To this end, the group has built in new software features that integrate an opt-in loop. There has been a lot of criticism of the function from the app providers and advertisers – they fear that they will lose income if there is no tracking. This seems to be the case, while one thing is benefiting: Apple itself. This is evident from analyzes carried out by advertising experts.
Tremendous search ads business in a short amount of time
As the Financial Times reported, Apple is said to have tripled the market share of its advertising business – in about the same period of time as ATT has existed. However, this has a lot to do with the fact that Apple is now fully relying on search ads in the App Store. When you enter search terms, sponsored results will appear there.
According to the mobile marketing specialist Branch, Apple is now responsible for almost 60 percent of all iPhone downloads via said advertising, while a year ago the group – albeit with less advertising – was still responsible for 17 percent of all installs. This, in turn, has a direct impact on in-app advertising from third-party providers who had previously generated no small part of their income from advertising for other programs.
Is Apple breaking the rules?
The “Apple Search Ads” are now Bundesliga, so branch expert Alex Bauer. Apple is said to generate around 5 billion US dollars from the advertising business this year, and in three years this sum could rise to 20 billion, according to the economic research firm Evercore ISI. Some of Apple’s search ads use personalization, even if Apple claims that this is always anonymized. Above all, there is criticism because it looks as if Apple takes itself out of ATT and the associated rules. No other advertising network is allowed to do something like this. Among other things, Apple delivers real-time data to advertisers.
The impact of ATT on app operators can be seen in the latest figures from the messaging service Snap. This just had to accept a three million dollar lower turnover, which the company justified with the introduction of ATT. Nevertheless, the company is still behind Apple and ATT, according to boss Evan Spiegel. Some business disruption is expected because the (ATT replacement) solutions currently “do not scale as expected”. Basically, however, Apple’s data protection policy is correct. Recently, however, there have been reports that ATT is actually not working as well as Apple had hoped.
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