Mobile Growth: IDFA Deprecation Scapegoat or Reality?

GameMakers

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 👇 EPISODE LINKS: - Eran Friedman, CTO at Singular: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranfried... - Levi Matkins, CEO at LifeStreet: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmatkins/ - Warren Woodward, CGO at Upptic: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrendwo... SUBSCRIBE TO GAMEMAKERS: - Newsletter: https://gamemakers.substack.com/ 😃 —CONNECT WITH ME! — • MY INSTAGRAM → @jokim1 • TWITTER → @jokim1 • LINKEDIN → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokim/ — POPULAR CONTENT — 🤑 Economy of the Metaverse with Tim Sweeney • Economy of the Me... ℹ️ How to Build the Amazon of Game Companies • Building the Amaz... 🔮 Gaming Trends | A Look Ahead at 2021 • Mobile Gaming Tre... 🖥️ The Future of PC Gaming • Future of PC Gami... 🔴 Games Industry M&A • Games Industry M&... 🔴 Netcode for Multiplayer Games • Netcode for Multi... 🔴 IDFA Deprecation Product Impact • Apple IDFA Deprec... 🔴 Trip Hawkins on the New High Score • Trip Hawkins | Th... 🔴 LiveOps F2P Best Practices • LiveOps - F2P Sal... Chapters

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