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When Does Analytics Stop Measuring and Start Interpreting?

When Does Analytics Stop Measuring and Start Interpreting?

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What Does Session Duration in GA4 Actually Measure – and Should You Trust It?

What Does Session Duration in GA4 Actually Measure – and Should You Trust It?

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Which GA4 Fields Should Never Be Used for Business Decisions?

Which GA4 Fields Should Never Be Used for Business Decisions?

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Are You Measuring Retention — or Just Recounting Sessions?

Are You Measuring Retention — or Just Recounting Sessions?

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How to Measure Time-to-Purchase in BigQuery Without Distorting the Customer Journey

How to Measure Time-to-Purchase in BigQuery Without Distorting the Customer Journey

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Can You Rely on GA4’s Attribution Models for Budget Decisions?

Can You Rely on GA4’s Attribution Models for Budget Decisions?

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Why Do Metrics Start Contradicting Each Other — Even From the Same Source?

Why Do Metrics Start Contradicting Each Other — Even From the Same Source?

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Why Does Decision-Making Get Harder When All Data is Available?

Why Does Decision-Making Get Harder When All Data is Available?

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Why Does Analytics Increase Tension Between Marketing, Product, and Finance?

Why Does Analytics Increase Tension Between Marketing, Product, and Finance?

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Why Does a CMO Feel Responsible For Numbers He Doesn’t Actually Control?

Why Does a CMO Feel Responsible For Numbers He Doesn’t Actually Control?

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How to Calculate Retention with SQL Window Functions (Without Mixing Everything Together)

How to Calculate Retention with SQL Window Functions (Without Mixing Everything Together)

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Why Does Having More Data Make Uncertainty More Visible Instead of Reducing It?

Why Does Having More Data Make Uncertainty More Visible Instead of Reducing It?

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Why Do Numbers Stop Helping Teams Agree — And Start Defending Positions?

Why Do Numbers Stop Helping Teams Agree — And Start Defending Positions?

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Why Do Metrics Stop “holding together” Once a Company Grows Beyond One Channel?

Why Do Metrics Stop “holding together” Once a Company Grows Beyond One Channel?

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How to Shift Attribution from Last Click to First Click in SQL

How to Shift Attribution from Last Click to First Click in SQL

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How Confident Are You That GA4 Preserves Your UTM Parameters?

How Confident Are You That GA4 Preserves Your UTM Parameters?

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How Does Blurred Ownership Of Metrics Turn Analytics Into a Source of Anxiety?

How Does Blurred Ownership Of Metrics Turn Analytics Into a Source of Anxiety?

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Why Do Metrics Stop Reflecting Reality When the Business Becomes More Complex?

Why Do Metrics Stop Reflecting Reality When the Business Becomes More Complex?

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Why Does Automation Increase CMO Frustration Instead of Reducing It?

Why Does Automation Increase CMO Frustration Instead of Reducing It?

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Building a Custom Attribution Model in SQL: A More Realistic Way to Assign Credit

Building a Custom Attribution Model in SQL: A More Realistic Way to Assign Credit

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What Breaks When One Team Owns Growth and Another Owns Accuracy?

What Breaks When One Team Owns Growth and Another Owns Accuracy?

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Why Does Adding More Metrics Reduce Confidence Instead of Improving Control?

Why Does Adding More Metrics Reduce Confidence Instead of Improving Control?

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Why Do CMOs Doubt Data Most When Everything Looks “too perfect”?

Why Do CMOs Doubt Data Most When Everything Looks “too perfect”?

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Using ARRAY_AGG in BigQuery to Rebuild User Paths from Raw Events

Using ARRAY_AGG in BigQuery to Rebuild User Paths from Raw Events

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Why Do Different Teams Read The Same Report — And Make Opposite Decisions?

Why Do Different Teams Read The Same Report — And Make Opposite Decisions?

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How Do Deduplication Errors End Up Affecting Careers — Not Just Metrics?

How Do Deduplication Errors End Up Affecting Careers — Not Just Metrics?

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Why Does a CMO Stop Trusting Data During Growth — Not During a Crisis?

Why Does a CMO Stop Trusting Data During Growth — Not During a Crisis?

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How to Calculate Net Dollar Retention (NDR) With SQL Window Functions?

How to Calculate Net Dollar Retention (NDR) With SQL Window Functions?

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How to Track Subscription Renewals in GA4 Export Data?

How to Track Subscription Renewals in GA4 Export Data?

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Can You Really Trust Average Session Duration in GA4?

Can You Really Trust Average Session Duration in GA4?

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How to Track Trial-to-Paid Conversion in BigQuery for SaaS?

How to Track Trial-to-Paid Conversion in BigQuery for SaaS?

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Where Does the gclid Go When Landing Pages and Redirects Get Involved?

Where Does the gclid Go When Landing Pages and Redirects Get Involved?

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Why 20 CSV Files Will Never Give You Good Analytics

Why 20 CSV Files Will Never Give You Good Analytics

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How to Attribute Conversions to the First Click (Instead of Last) in SQL?

How to Attribute Conversions to the First Click (Instead of Last) in SQL?

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Why client_id isn’t enough to link offline events to GA4?

Why client_id isn’t enough to link offline events to GA4?

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How to Correctly Calculate Retention Rate with SQL Window Functions?

How to Correctly Calculate Retention Rate with SQL Window Functions?

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How not to blow up on BigQuery bills?

How not to blow up on BigQuery bills?

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How does GA4 conversion rate mislead us?

How does GA4 conversion rate mislead us?

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Can GA4 multi-channel attribution be trusted?

Can GA4 multi-channel attribution be trusted?

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How to Build a Custom Attribution Model in SQL (Without Crying)

How to Build a Custom Attribution Model in SQL (Without Crying)

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Why does Meta Ads attribute to itself customers who bought via email?

Why does Meta Ads attribute to itself customers who bought via email?

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Why do GA4 reports show fewer transactions than the payment gateway?

Why do GA4 reports show fewer transactions than the payment gateway?

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How is CPA defined in Ads Manager and CRM - do they match?

How is CPA defined in Ads Manager and CRM - do they match?

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How does wrong user_id setup break analytics?

How does wrong user_id setup break analytics?

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How Many Purchases Are Lost Due To Browser-Based Tracking — And How Does That Show Up In GA4?

How Many Purchases Are Lost Due To Browser-Based Tracking — And How Does That Show Up In GA4?

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Which Of The Three Conversion Metrics in GA4 Are You Using — And Do You Know the Difference?

Which Of The Three Conversion Metrics in GA4 Are You Using — And Do You Know the Difference?

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Why You Shouldn't Use session_start to Count Sessions in GA4 BigQuery

Why You Shouldn't Use session_start to Count Sessions in GA4 BigQuery

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What Does An “engaged session” in GA4 Really Mean — And What Does It Have To Do With Actual Engagement?

What Does An “engaged session” in GA4 Really Mean — And What Does It Have To Do With Actual Engagement?

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How to Calculate Conversion Rate in BigQuery

How to Calculate Conversion Rate in BigQuery

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How to Calculate Average Order Value (AOV) in BigQuery — Without Fooling Yourself

How to Calculate Average Order Value (AOV) in BigQuery — Without Fooling Yourself

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Why Is Some Of Your Traffic Ending Up in (direct)/(none) — And How Much Is That Costing Your Marketing?

Why Is Some Of Your Traffic Ending Up in (direct)/(none) — And How Much Is That Costing Your Marketing?

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Does SEO Really Drive 60% of Sales? Or Do All Roads Just Lead to Organic?

Does SEO Really Drive 60% of Sales? Or Do All Roads Just Lead to Organic?

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How to Properly Handle Offline Conversions in Meta

How to Properly Handle Offline Conversions in Meta

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What Counts as an Engaged Session in GA4 — According to BigQuery?

What Counts as an Engaged Session in GA4 — According to BigQuery?

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Why Meta Might Be Burning Your Budget — and How to Stop It

Why Meta Might Be Burning Your Budget — and How to Stop It

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Why Does BigQuery Show More Users Than the GA4 Interface — and Who’s Telling the Truth?

Why Does BigQuery Show More Users Than the GA4 Interface — and Who’s Telling the Truth?

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Why Meta’s 7-Day Attribution Window Is a Real Problem

Why Meta’s 7-Day Attribution Window Is a Real Problem

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So... Do You Really Need Raw Data To Get Attribution Right? (Yes, You Do)

So... Do You Really Need Raw Data To Get Attribution Right? (Yes, You Do)

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Launched a Facebook Campaign — And GA4 Suddenly Shows a Spike In Direct Traffic? Weird, Right?

Launched a Facebook Campaign — And GA4 Suddenly Shows a Spike In Direct Traffic? Weird, Right?

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How To Survive Multiple Attribution Models And Keep Your Sanity (And Budget)

How To Survive Multiple Attribution Models And Keep Your Sanity (And Budget)

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META AND YANDEX EXPOSED: Privacy on Android is a Myth

META AND YANDEX EXPOSED: Privacy on Android is a Myth

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Last Click Out Of The Box? That’s a Trap.

Last Click Out Of The Box? That’s a Trap.

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How Do You Train Meta Campaigns When Your Sales Cycle Is Longer Than a Netflix Miniseries?

How Do You Train Meta Campaigns When Your Sales Cycle Is Longer Than a Netflix Miniseries?

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The Aggregated Report Looks Great. The Decisions? Not So Much.

The Aggregated Report Looks Great. The Decisions? Not So Much.

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Low CPA, No Money. Amazing, Right?

Low CPA, No Money. Amazing, Right?

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Meta Says 170 Conversions. Google Ads Shows 85. GA4 Lands at 110. So... Who’s Telling The Truth?

Meta Says 170 Conversions. Google Ads Shows 85. GA4 Lands at 110. So... Who’s Telling The Truth?

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“Our Attribution is Very Complex” — Why That’s Often Just an Excuse

“Our Attribution is Very Complex” — Why That’s Often Just an Excuse

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Unlock the Power of Google Cloud with the VS Code Extension!

Unlock the Power of Google Cloud with the VS Code Extension!

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Which Python Package to Use for Attribution Calculation?

Which Python Package to Use for Attribution Calculation?

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How to Send Data to BigQuery with SGTM: Easy and Stress-Free

How to Send Data to BigQuery with SGTM: Easy and Stress-Free

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Stop A/B Testing!

Stop A/B Testing!

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LOGICAL_OR and LOGICAL_AND in BigQuery: segment your data without losing your mind

LOGICAL_OR and LOGICAL_AND in BigQuery: segment your data without losing your mind

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Deduplicate This Immediately!

Deduplicate This Immediately!

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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO!

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO!

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When Conversions Don't Match Sales

When Conversions Don't Match Sales

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How to Evaluate Ad Campaigns in Google Analytics (Without Losing Your Mind)

How to Evaluate Ad Campaigns in Google Analytics (Without Losing Your Mind)

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Debugging sGTM used to be a pain - until I found this

Debugging sGTM used to be a pain - until I found this

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Consent Mode in GA4 – What It Is and Why It Might Melt Your Brain a Little

Consent Mode in GA4 – What It Is and Why It Might Melt Your Brain a Little

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New video! From first click to repeat purchase - reporting for eCommerce that actually makes sense

New video! From first click to repeat purchase - reporting for eCommerce that actually makes sense

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When the GA4 community builds the features Google forgot

When the GA4 community builds the features Google forgot

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The GCLID Issue in BigQuery and How to Solve It

The GCLID Issue in BigQuery and How to Solve It

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Why is update=true Important in Google Tag Settings for SPAs?

Why is update=true Important in Google Tag Settings for SPAs?

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Quickly Analyzing Revenue Distribution by Customer with GA4 and BigQuery

Quickly Analyzing Revenue Distribution by Customer with GA4 and BigQuery

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How to Recover a Deleted Table in BigQuery?

How to Recover a Deleted Table in BigQuery?

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Common Mistakes in ROI Calculations Due to Attribution Model Specifics

Common Mistakes in ROI Calculations Due to Attribution Model Specifics

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Traffic Attribution in Single Page Applications

Traffic Attribution in Single Page Applications

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Attribution Models Cheat Sheet

Attribution Models Cheat Sheet

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Custom Channels Groupping in BigQuery

Custom Channels Groupping in BigQuery

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How to Debug Measurement Protocol Requests in GA4?

How to Debug Measurement Protocol Requests in GA4?

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Why Use Custom Channel Groups in GA4?

Why Use Custom Channel Groups in GA4?

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Leading and Lagging Metrics - What's the Difference in a Nutshell?

Leading and Lagging Metrics - What's the Difference in a Nutshell?

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What is the Top Score Attribution?

What is the Top Score Attribution?

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GA4 and Google Sheets Integration

GA4 and Google Sheets Integration

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Why Can't You Rely on Facebook Ads Analytics?

Why Can't You Rely on Facebook Ads Analytics?

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How to Fix "(no set)" in Google Analytics 4 Reports?

How to Fix "(no set)" in Google Analytics 4 Reports?

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User Data Import without Website Visits

User Data Import without Website Visits

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What's Available for Marketing Attribution in 2024 Besides GA?

What's Available for Marketing Attribution in 2024 Besides GA?

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New traffic_source parameter in BigQuery

New traffic_source parameter in BigQuery

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Where to Find Ideas for A/B Tests?

Where to Find Ideas for A/B Tests?

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Everything Old is New Again

Everything Old is New Again

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What's the Deal with STRUCTS and ARRAYS in BigQuery?

What's the Deal with STRUCTS and ARRAYS in BigQuery?

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BigQuery now has Workflows!

BigQuery now has Workflows!

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Data Export Limits in GA4 Have Increased!

Data Export Limits in GA4 Have Increased!

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New Traffic Fields in BigQuery: Enhanced Channel Analysis

New Traffic Fields in BigQuery: Enhanced Channel Analysis

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How to Create a Sequential eCommerce Funnel in BigQuery

How to Create a Sequential eCommerce Funnel in BigQuery

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Custom Event Data Import in GA4

Custom Event Data Import in GA4

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How to calculate session attribution in BigQuery?

How to calculate session attribution in BigQuery?

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