After Apple Tightens Tracking Rules, Advertisers Shift Spending Toward Android Devices
As a result, the prices for mobile ads directed at iOS users have fallen, while ad prices have risen for advertisers seeking to target Android users. Those shifts come after many in the digital-ad industry warned that Apple’s changes, which the tech giant framed as part of a broader user-privacy crackdown, would limit advertisers’ access to data about consumers and hurt their business.
Digital advertisers say they have lost much of the granular data that made mobile ads on iOS devices effective and justified their prices. In recent months, ad-buyers have deployed their iOS ad spending in much less targeted ways than were previously possible, marketers and ad-tech companies say. The shortage of user data to fuel Facebook Inc.’s FB -1.38% suite of powerful ad-targeting tools reduces their effectiveness and appeal among some advertisers, ad agencies say.
Source: After Apple Tightens Tracking Rules, Advertisers Shift Spending Toward Android Devices – WSJ
