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by gnopgnip 3555 days ago
How do you account for the users that saw an ad, and then searched on the app store instead of clicking the add?
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What we call this in the industry is "attribution" and there is a whole sub-industry to deal with this bc it is a complex problem. In short, gaming right now uses last-click attribution so the last advertiser gets credit. FB does influence behavior for sure, though that is difficult to quantify.
Facebook Atlas has multi-touch attribution: https://atlassolutions.com/insights/measuring-business-resul...
Yeah, so Apple are essentially putting themselves in as the end-point of the funnel, which will cause advertisers using last-click to attribute more value to them versus FB/other mobile networks.
"View through" conversions are quite a large area, especially in programmatic. MTA is an important field, but would obviously need to be implemented with some form of in-app tracking tied to your ad providers.