{"id":5269,"date":"2022-07-26T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/google-will-automatically-switch-some-advertisers-attribution-models\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:47:24","slug":"google-will-automatically-switch-some-advertisers-attribution-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/26\/google-will-automatically-switch-some-advertisers-attribution-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Google will automatically switch some advertisers\u2019 attribution models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google sent an email letting advertisers know that their ad accounts would be switched to data-driven attribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google\u2019s message to advertisers.<\/strong> The email tells the advertiser which account(s) qualify for the switch and gives them until August 4 to cancel the auto-switch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-26-at-8.04.33-AM-567x600.png\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" class=\"wp-image-386733\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-26-at-8.04.45-AM-800x510.png\" alt=\"| Craig Hordlow\" class=\"wp-image-386734\" title=\"| Craig Hordlow\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What is data-driven attribution. <\/strong>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/ads-commerce\/data-driven-attribution-new-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> in September that data-driven attribution would become the default model, but advertisers would still have access to the five other rule-based models. Data-driven attribution uses advanced machine learning techniques to more accurately understand how each marketing touchpoint contributed to a conversion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, data-driven attribution takes multiple signals into account including ad format and time between the ad and interaction and conversion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn it off.<\/strong> If you don\u2019t want Google making the switch you can turn it off <a href=\"https:\/\/notifications.google.com\/g\/p\/APNL1TinBDev1pHOcAKc153O0wruoxZy85qD6lIjP3pBAEeUWvVz_XJYuW3y8b0pCAGogdYqaAXiY09CF6uo70Xbc5Sug7usnqBtYqlOJ6SJTNmPx8yCcEwlpKqxNMezvq-gDUBpslmocaK1fY3ezH7WK5wg43zT9d6mH7vSxGfzA8hq9lEwLMdNsKX4qjUtM7m_h7ngudhonfcbCdyJxP0V_XCEyhs8mXeSJhn0S4qCe_E4qAcAXVBUA-HK2hdQw70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we care.<\/strong> I would understand Google making the switch automatically if they were removing the other five rule-based models and this was the only option (Smart Shopping and Performance Max enter the chat), but just to blatantly switch seems a little extreme, even for Google. Nevertheless, I\u2019m not surprised and it seems like they\u2019re going to keep pushing automatic \u201cupgrades\u201d like this to see how much they can get away with \u2013 especially knowing they have market share and advertisers aren\u2019t likely to leave the platform altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Analyze your affected accounts and look into how switching to data-driven attribution would change reporting and conversions. If you want to try data-driven attribution, then you don\u2019t have to make any changes. If you don\u2019t want Google making the switch, be sure to turn it off asap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-will-automatically-switch-some-advertisers-attribution-models-386732\" target=\"_blank\">Google will automatically switch some advertisers\u2019 attribution models<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Search Engine Land<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Google sent an email letting advertisers know that their ad accounts would be switched to data-driven attribution.\u00a0 Google\u2019s message to advertisers. The email tells the advertiser which account(s) qualify for the switch and gives them until August 4 to cancel the auto-switch.\u00a0 What is data-driven attribution. Google announced in September that data-driven attribution would become the default model, but advertisers would still have access to the five other rule-based models. Data-driven attribution uses advanced machine learning techniques to more accurately understand how each marketing touchpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}