Mobile Growth: IDFA Deprecation Scapegoat or Reality?

Let's be real. Everyone is blaming IDFA! Listen to the top 3 reasons why any game failed over the past 6 months; it's always IDFA. How real is this?

There is a narrative today that IDFA deprecation has destroyed mobile marketing growth and made new game launches dramatically more difficult to even impossible.

The counter-narrative more often whispered in private conversations, is that the scapegoating of IDFA is false. Bad games, bad forecasts, and fundamental team problems are more to blame than IDFA.

What's the truth? Find out now by tuning into this podcast!

OUTLINE:
0:00 Intro
1:05 The real impact of IDFA deprecation
8:47 Approaches to solving IDFA deprecation
16:18 Quantifying impact of IDFA deprecation by genre
21:48 Aren't we just all back to normal?
25:08 Has IDFA deprecation driven M&A activity?
29:08 Impact on UA teams from IDFA deprecation: big losses
36:13 Apple iOS vs. Google Play for UA
39:15 Operational changes to UA
41:01 The biggest future trends to watch for

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- Warren Woodward, CGO at Upptic: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrendwo...

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