2022 Mobile Marketing Trend predictions -From uncovering how privacy will impact campaign budgets to discovering new skills for marketers in the year of privacy, the predictions also explore Gaming, Creative, and Web-to-Apps trends.
Here are some items that marketers can look forward to from the 2022 Mobile Marketing Trend predictions:
- Marketers will likely move budgets away from bigger networks for raw postbacks conversions, to software development kit networks and to smaller social channels;
- Leveling up on understanding and use of different techniques for data analysis (such as portfolio-level data) that will help in allocating budgets efficiently to maximize return on ad spend;
- Leveraging learnings from portfolio-level data to retain and cross promote users to maintain competitive edge to lead the market;
- New ways of measuring marketing effectiveness will arise, with Data Clean Rooms (DCRs) being an effective tool to help marketers identify useful information and act as a catalyst for working with differently-shaped data;
- Placing bigger emphasis on lifecycle marketing to make up for the reduced efficiency from remarketing campaigns;
- Embracing more non-SKAN measurement, using probabilistic measurement, modeled conversions, and incrementality
Since the launch of iOS14, app marketers have seen challenges with campaign trackings. iOS users now have to explicitly consent to granting access to their data on applications (due to the new App Tracking Transparency framework). Therefore marketers are relying more on Apple’s SKAdNetwork (SKAN) to measure the success of their campaigns.
The introduction of SKAN has prompted the rise of mobile measurement partners (MMP) to reimagine campaign measurement solutions by integrating marketing metrics into a single platform. With MMP being the only party with an unbiased view of the entire consumer journey, an MMP will help marketers to understand which media source deserves credit for driving a conversion.
Marketers are able to configure conversion value schemes, simulate and visualize critical performance KPIs through full funnel insights, and predict campaign performance, all by removing the barriers of SKAN. This empowers marketers to make informed decisions regarding budget allocation.
“iOS 14 has set the scene for a new era of privacy-centric marketing within the mobile ecosystem. App developers and marketers, mobile measurement partners, and other players in the industry need to continue testing creative ways, and optimizing campaigns with smart data insights,” said Antony Wilcox, Director of Growth, Australia & New Zealand, AppsFlyer. “ANZ, being an iOS dominant region, we encourage industry players to be on the lookout for more changes that will lean towards privacy-centric technologies such as ‘privacy cloud’. At AppsFlyer, our mission in this region is to empower app marketers and tech partners to create more meaningful interactions and personalized experiences to drive business growth for our clients and partners.”
In summary, according to AppsFlyer’s 2022 Mobile Marketing trend piece, the year ahead is shaping up to be an action-packed year on all marketing fronts: from web-to-app strategies, SKAdNetwork and IDFA-induced limitations, through continued M&A that will lead to the creation of more 1st party data fortresses, and down to data science, data clean rooms, and non-SKAN measurement taking front stage.
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