Paul Cook, TagMan CEO, has written a detailed blog post on marketing attribution on Econsultancy, explaining exactly how advertisers can attribute proportionate amounts of both credit and commissions to different marketing ‘events’ based on the role they played in delivering a website customer.

In the post he says: “First, it is important to make the distinction between attributing credit to channels in your reports for better planning and dynamically awarding proportions of commission to partners using an attribution model.

“Obviously, Google isn’t about to accept a lower percentage of the CPC because you tell it the click it delivered only played a small part in a sale. But you can attribute different levels of ‘credit’ to it in order to provide you with data that may help determine your future spending plans.

“However, for CPA channels, where the advertiser controls the commission that gets paid, clients really can begin to award percentages of commission to multiple channels, based on insight into the role they played.”

He then explains precisely how attribution works and what it means. Whether using attribution models to attribute ‘credit’ to channels more fairly or to actually reward commission-based channels, it’s the start of a new phase, where the industry can finally move away from ‘last-click wins’.

Tags: applied attribution, attribution management, Attribution modelling, attribution models, marketing attribution

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