在 Sensor Tower 发布的《2025 State of Mobile》报告中,AI 成为移动领域增长最快的技术方向。2024年,全球生成式 AI 应用(包括 AI 聊天机器人和 AI 艺术生成器)通过 iOS 和 Google Play 产生的应用内购买(IAP)收入接近13亿美元,同比增长约180%;下载量接近15亿次,同比增长92%。其中,AI 聊天机器人子品类在2024年Q4的下载量达4.27亿次,同比增长119%,远超 AI 艺术生成器的8500万次。
尽管 ChatGPT 仍以约40%的 IAP 收入和23%的下载量占据领导地位,但市场已出现明显分化。截至2024年底,谷歌 Gemini、字节跳动豆包、Microsoft Copilot 等科技巨头的 AI 聊天机器人相继上线;全年共有16款生成式 AI 应用的 IAP 收入超过1000万美元,25款应用下载量突破1000万。2025年初 DeepSeek 的爆发式增长进一步表明,这一赛道仍在快速演进,开发者需关注竞品动态以调整用户获取(UA)和归因分析策略。
AI 技术的应用已远远超越聊天机器人,扩散至移动生态的多个垂直领域。通过分析应用名称和描述中“AI”“GPT”等关键词的出现情况,可以发现2023年提及 AI 的应用数量较2022年翻倍以上,生产力、工具、教育等品类增长尤为显著。2024年,尽管新增提及 AI 的应用数量有所回落,但仍有超3000款应用首次加入 AI 标签,涵盖游戏、工具、教育等15个品类,包括生活方式、金融、音乐、购物等泛娱乐与商业领域。
2024年,所有提及 AI 的应用全球下载量达到170亿次,约占当年总下载量的13%。这一数据不仅反映了用户对 AI 功能的接受度,也提示广告技术从业者在投放策略中需考虑 AI 标签带来的增量提效潜力。例如,在 ROAS 优化和 LTV 预估时,可结合 AI 功能作为用户分层和定向的依据;对于 MMP(移动测量合作伙伴)和 SKAN 归因框架,AI 应用的转化路径和事件定义可能需要更精细的建模。
总体来看,AI 正从“概念热潮”转向“落地渗透”,成为移动应用用户获取、广告变现和增长运营的核心杠杆。开发者和广告主需持续跟踪各垂类的 AI 创新动态,在合规框架下利用技术缩写如 CPI、ROAS、LTV 等指标评估投放效率,并借助 Sensor Tower 等平台的数据洞察制定差异化策略。2025年,随着 DeepSeek 等新玩家的涌入,AI 赛道的竞合格局将进一步重塑移动广告市场的投放逻辑与变现天花板。
Web-to-app strategies boost conversions by 77% and achieve 13.6% average paying user rate. Brands like adidas saw 2.4x higher ROAS from deep-linked users, while AirAsia improved bookings by 19%. Key challenges include measurement gaps, siloed teams, and onboarding friction. Solutions involve Google Ads Web-to-App Install and Web to App Connect with AppsFlyer Smart Banners and deep linking. Actionable steps: set tracking, import conversions, activate smart bidding, and deep link users.
Mobile app revenue hit $40B in Q1 2025 (+11% YoY), with non-game apps driving growth via AI and short drama. US digital ad spend reached $31B (+12% YoY), with video ads growing 18% while other formats declined 6%. Key trends: ChatGPT (#6 IAP) and short drama apps rising; retail media ad impressions up 31% YoY. Ad ops should prioritize video and AI-driven channels, and monitor Europe and APAC for growth.
The open internet presents unique challenges for performance advertising: fragmented identity, closed first-price auctions, and non-stationary supply. Moloco's CARA compound architecture tackles this with six integrated technical domains—Campaign Automation, Supply, Ad Recommendations, Bidding, Creative, and Signals—running on a unified ML infrastructure. Key insights for ad ops: the system continuously learns from every interaction, uses knowledge distillation to serve real-time predictions under 10ms latency, and validates improvements through rigorous live experiments. In 2025, 65 validated model updates reduced CPA by 17% and improved ROAS by 27%. The key takeaway: compound AI architectures that connect prediction, bidding, creative, and data can unlock measurable performance gains beyond walled gardens.
Cross-channel marketing analytics isn't about putting Meta, Google, and TikTok numbers side by side—they often double-count the same customer journey. Fragmented identity is the real culprit; without a first-party Customer User ID, attribution measures platform credit, not customer value. The article explains that deduplicating conversions across mobile, web, and CTV can lift attributed revenue by 30–60% and improve ROAS by 20%. It walks through attribution models, warns against platform-native analytics, and advises using an independent MMP for true cross-channel measurement. Ad ops takeaway: fix identity resolution first, because AI-driven optimization and budget allocation depend on trustworthy, deduplicated data.
Hybrid monetization, combining in-app purchases (IAPs), in-app advertising (IAA), and subscriptions, is key to maximizing revenue and user lifetime value. By diversifying revenue streams, developers mitigate risk and cater to varied user preferences. The strategy is led by hybrid casual games but extends to finance, e-commerce, and health apps. Best practices include audience segmentation, personalized offers, A/B testing, and balancing user experience with revenue. Analyzing metrics like ARPU, LTV, and churn is crucial for optimization.
Unity's 2025 mobile gaming report highlights key trends including expansion of rewarded marketplaces beyond games and mobile, increased adoption of ad-supported models by subscription apps, resurgence of midmarket titles, hybrid-casual game dominance reshaping ad strategies, APAC developers expanding globally, and long-format playables for scaling. Ad ops decision-makers should focus on diversifying ad formats, leveraging rewarded video, and optimizing for user engagement with longer creatives.
AppsFlyer now attributes AI-driven app traffic on both sides of the funnel: earned organic discovery across 8 AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Manus, DeepSeek) and 13 search engines, plus paid campaigns via a new ChatGPT Ads integration using OpenAI's Conversions API. For ad ops teams, the practical win is deduplication and incrementality: SEO and AEO performance can be viewed side by side, and paid versus organic splits on the same platform (e.g., ChatGPT) reveal the true lift of ad spend rather than cannibalized organic conversions. Setup is low-lift, leveraging existing OneLink, App Links/Universal Links, and Smart Script infrastructure, with no added cost.
Q2 2026 saw US digital ad spend hit $49B (+15% YoY), fueled by a Shopping category rebound (+13% YoY) after tariff uncertainty. Major retail advertisers like The Home Depot and Dick's Sporting Goods leveraged the FIFA World Cup, boosting spend 66% and 93% QoQ. Meanwhile, ChatGPT emerged as a key ad channel, with shopping advertisers taking 31% of its impressions. Global growth shifted from the US (-3%) to China and Europe. For ad ops, prioritize event-driven retail campaigns and test conversational ad units on GenAI platforms.
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