The deprecation of third party cookies is coming. That’s a scary thing for advertisers to hear, and it’s made even scarier by the somewhat unclear recommended solutions by advertising platforms. But with the right reporting and attribution solutions, this change doesn’t need to be as scary as originally anticipated.
Google, Microsoft Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn are doing what they can to mitigate the impact of this change on its advertisers, and, most importantly to them, their advertising revenue. However, it’s still unclear what impact these changes will have on advertisers, and how much the solutions developed by advertising platforms will be able to mitigate any large impacts to targeting and conversion tracking caused by this change.
One thing is for certain and that is that first party data is becoming increasingly important. We’ve spent the last 10 years utilizing our clients’ first party data from systems like #Salesforce, #Mixpanel, #Amplitude, #Hubspot, and other custom CRM/DB solutions to help them understand the value they’re getting from their advertising dollars. We’ve refined our process of connecting our clients’ marketing data to their sales data into one dashboard that shows the full funnel performance of our clients’ ads.
While advertising platforms fight over who should get credit for a conversion and have varying methods of attribution, our full funnel reporting has always served as a source of truth in showing the true value of a marketing channel. With the deprecation of third party cookies, it’s expected that in platform conversions will be even less accurate than they are today. In the coming months, the dashboards we build for our clients will be the one steady thing as everything in the advertising world changes.
If you’re looking for help with how to utilize your first party sales data to support your advertising strategy through these changes feel free to message me.
