When a new feature is published on the products we use, “Which partners can we use this feature for? What will be the effects of this feature? What kind of strategy should we create?” questions are beginning to appear in our minds. If you are a marketing and tech savvy like us, I believe that you are looking for opportunities to be the first to learn about news in the industry and to use these new features.
Since we are a team that does not hide what they have learned, and even a team that is dying to share, we decided to share with you the updates in Google Analytics 360 & Google Marketing Platform products every month. Welcome to Google Analytics 360 & Google Marketing Platform Updates blog series and leave you with the February 2019 updates.
Analytics
Store Visits
Store visits feature enables to understand the online to offline customer behaviour by uncovering which online channels (paid and unpaid) drive the most traffic to physical stores by using the last click attribution model.
How it works
- Store visits are estimates based on data from users who have turned on Location History.
- Only aggregated and anonymized data is reported, and any store visits from individual website visits, ad clicks, viewable impressions, or people are not shown.
- Store visits allows to see:
- What estimated percentage of web traffic end up with store visits
- How store visits are trending over time
- Which channels drive the most store visits or have the highest store visits rate
- Store visits by location (city is the most granular dimension)
Launch
Launching to 100% later in 1st quarter
Resources
Single Search
Single Search unifies search experience in Analytics. Users had to use different search boxes for different purposes before. Now, it is possible to search for reports, get answers from intelligence, or look for articles in Help Center all from one universal search box.
Launch
Launching to all accounts with English language setting on February 20th. It will be rolled out to other languages soon.
Resources
Analytics 360 Audiences in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Analytics 360 clients now see “Salesforce Marketing Cloud” as a new product link option in the Admin panel. Integration SKU cen be purchased from Salesforce and integration can be activated in a few easy steps. With this launch, Analytics 360 audiences can be enabled in Marketing Cloud on Salesforce direct marketing channels (email and SMS).
Good to Know
- When a user clicks to a website from a Marketing Cloud campaign where Analytics auto-tagging is enabled, Analytics automatically detects the Marketing Cloud Subscriber ID and keep it with other Analytics first-party data.
- Any audiences that created in Analytics and published to Marketing Cloud are populated in Analytics and surfaced in Marketing Cloud as a list of Subscriber IDs.
- Audiences that include data derived from Google signals, including age, gender, and interest category, cannot be exported.
- It can take up to 24 hours for audiences to be visible and available for targeting in the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
Launch
Launched
Resources
Salesforce Help Center article
Parallel Tracking in Google Ads impact on Google Analytics
All Google Ads accounts are now opted in to Parallel Tracking. Parallel Tracking removes the dclid parameter from clicks from DDM click trackers that are trafficked in Google Ads. This affects all Search and Shopping campaigns.
What is Parallel Tracking?
Today, when someone clicks on an ad, it may take a few seconds to load the landing page due to intermediary tracking (like 3rd parties such as DS, Kenshoo or Marin). With parallel tracking, the landing page loads immediately after the user clicks on the ad, while tracking is done in the background. This means that the landing page will load faster and users will be less likely to return back after clicking on an ad.
How this change impacts Google Analytics
- Google Ads integration: No impact. Impression time gclid is passed on redirect URL & Analytics joins with the latest click on impression.
- SA360 integration: Campaign Manager dimensions will no longer be populated because they depend on the dclid parameter. SA360 specific dimensions will not be affected because they rely on the gclid.
- DV360/CM integration: Ads that are trafficked through Google Ads will show up in the Acquisition reports as google / cpc. However, Campaign Manager dimensions for these ads will be lost.
Launch
Launched
Resources
Tag Manager
Container Size Usage Information
For containers that have a large number of tags, triggers, and/or variables, or have large custom HTML tags, the information about the container size can be seen in Tag Manager on the Versions page.
Good to Know
- Size (percentage) of each container version created can be seen in the container list and details view.
- The container version size is NOT displayed until one version reaches 70%.
- Container size can only be calculated after a full compile. Therefore, this feature will not explicitly indicate the size of a single tag or workspace.
Launch
Container size information data will be present for versions created after January 15, 2019. However, size data of older versions will take place in a few weeks.
Resources
Data Studio
PDF download includes refinements
Reports can now be downloaded as PDF with filter controls, date ranges, table pagination, and data control settings. Raporlar artık filtre denetimleri, tarih aralıkları, tablo sayfa numaraları ve veri kontrol ayarları dahil edilerek PDF olarak indirilebiliyor.
Axis font size and data label font size settings
Font size of chart axis labels and data labels can now be changed. This new setting are available for bar, line, scatter, and area charts.
Custom date comparison
Custom date ranges can now be compared in charts. Custom date comparison allows to compare the currently selected period to another custom period. Comparison period is fixed by default. It means that chart always compares to the exact dates specified. This can be changed by setting the comparison interval to be a date range that advances over time.
Graphing negative numbers is now easier
Cartesian charts are now using the auto setting for the minimum axis value by default. This option is a better solution for charts that show negative or mixed numbers.
These are the updates about Google Analytics 360 and Google Marketing Platform in February 2019. Feel free to leave a comment if you have any news or updates you want to add or share. See you soon at our “March 2019 – Google Analytics 360 & Google Marketing Platform Updates” post.
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