Advertisers are still spending on Facebook, but iOS changes will bring ongoing challenges

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Facebook is the No. 2 digital ad seller in the US, after Google. Its net advertising revenues will grow strongly this year amid rising ad prices, with Instagram steadily growing its majority share of those revenues. But Apple's recent iOS changes have created new challenges for Facebook advertisers, slightly dampening ad spending growth. Facebook's growth will begin to decelerate next year.

Since late 2020, Facebook and Apple have been locked in a battle over two paradoxical values: consumers' desire for privacy and personalized experiences. Under ATT, all apps distributed through App Store must show a prompt to users requesting them to opt in to allow advertisers to track them across other sites or apps. Users must opt in for their Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), Apple's mobile device identifier, to be shared.

As a result, Facebook no longer receives information about off-platform actions taken by Facebook and Instagram app users if they've opted out of tracking on devices that use iOS 14.5 or higher. For Facebook, data loss includes...

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