In 2025, e-commerce app installs declined by 14% year-over-year, while sessions increased 2%, indicating a shift from acquisition to engagement. The shopping app insights report 2025 from Adjust reveals that AI, personalization, and multi-channel journeys are now essential for growth. Key findings include LATAM and APAC leading with 18% and 13% install growth respectively, marketplace apps achieving the longest session length (10.69 min) and highest day 1 retention (24.8%), and rising revenue in LATAM and Southeast Asia despite global ARPMAU declines.
The report offers actionable tips on web-to-app flows, deep linking, and Q4 strategies.
Shopping app installs rose 16% YoY in 2024 but fell 18% in H1 2025, while sessions climbed, signaling a shift to higher-quality users. LATAM showed strong growth (installs +18%, sessions +27%). Marketplace apps lead engagement with 24.8% day-1 retention. Global CPI for e-commerce dropped to $0.99 in Q1 2025, with North America highest at $2.70. Key trends include quick commerce ($195B projected), voice commerce ($151.4B), AI chatbots, privacy-first personalization, and D2C mobile investment.
Seamless linking and UX are critical but often overlooked drivers of mobile growth. As user journeys become omnichannel and cross-platform, broken links cause drop-offs and lost revenue. Deep linking boosts conversions by 20–30%, and owned channels are 3–4x more cost-efficient with 2x higher retention when integrated well. Marketers must prioritize linking infrastructure to ensure every click delivers a smooth experience, ultimately increasing app adoption, retention, and LTV.
Adjust Growth Copilot, an AI-powered tool, helps app marketers quickly assess campaign performance, identify data anomalies, optimize channel efficiency, discover top creatives, forecast spend, and uncover funnel trends. It converts natural language questions into actionable insights, reducing time spent on dashboards and enabling faster, data-driven decisions for smarter app growth.
Dynamic deep linking solves scalability issues in mobile campaigns by generating link parameters in real-time via APIs, enabling precise routing to in-app content without manual overhead. It improves attribution accuracy, supports referral programs, content sharing, product feeds, and web-to-app transitions. Branded short links boost CTR, while automated workflows reduce operational costs and errors. For ad ops decision-makers, this means faster campaign launches, cleaner data for ROI analysis, and consistent user journeys across channels.
Adjust now supports ChatGPT Ads measurement, enabling advertisers to attribute installs and post-install events from campaigns within ChatGPT. The integration provides URL templates for clicks and impressions, and uses the Conversions API to report conversions back to OpenAI. Advertisers can configure the module in Adjust by entering API credentials and mapping events. This allows tracking of key metrics like impressions, clicks, spend, CTR, CPC, and CPM, making ChatGPT Ads a measurable, data-driven channel for user acquisition.
Global app installs rose 13% YoY and sessions 5% in H1 2026, signaling sustained growth despite market saturation concerns. Casual gaming saw a 55% surge in sessions, while e-commerce install day engagement improved across all regions, with North America reaching 1.34 and LATAM 1.4. Finance apps saw installs up 5% but sessions up 29%, underscoring the importance of retention. Ad ops teams should prioritize casual gaming, optimize install day experiences, and prepare for a strong H2 holiday peak, leveraging accurate measurement to allocate budgets effectively.
Adjust expands its Meta integration to include view-through attribution (VTA) for AEM-eligible iOS App Promotion campaigns, rolling out October 27. This update automatically surfaces impression-based installs in Adjust’s reporting, requiring only enabling impression device matching. Ad ops gain richer, privacy-compliant campaign insights without affecting SKAN reporting.
TikTok and Adjust have launched real-time iOS conversion reporting, delivering near-instant performance data to TikTok Ads Manager. This integration combines MMP and SAN signals to provide conversion metrics like CPA and conversion rates with minimal delay, enabling faster campaign optimization, goal-based bidding, and creative testing. Advertisers should note that this complements SKAN data, not replaces it. Activation requires configuring Adjust data sharing and setting up eligible iOS campaigns. The solution addresses iOS attribution delays, empowering UA managers to make timely, data-driven decisions.
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