Topic
Data
Collection, quality, joins and the gaps nobody mentions until the numbers disagree.
Marketing numbers come from many systems, and each one collects, cleans and joins data in its own way. This topic covers the work under a dashboard: how data is collected, where it loses quality, how records are joined across tools, and the gaps that stay hidden until two reports disagree. The pieces explain the mechanics first, so you can judge the numbers you already have.
Learn
- The most visited US websites, and what AI does to the count
- Your postback URL returned 200. The conversion can still be lost
- Two kinds of click ID, and why they never swap
- Switching ad trackers? Test what it sends back to each ad platform
- A hashed phone number is a phone number with an extra step
- Same three orders, five conversion rates
- Client-side vs server-side tracking: where the event starts
- Server-side tags drop consent unless your code sends it
- Browsers strip your click IDs and leave your UTMs
News
- Google Tag Manager now pushes gtag config into the dataLayer
- Apple confirms Safari 27 blocks identity resolution vendors
- DV360 API v5 drops Customer Match uploads for Data Manager
- Week 43: Safari blocks ID vendors, Google moves uploads
- Safari 27.2 stops capping your own cookies on CNAMEd sites
- IAB's ECAPI rules let clean rooms take unhashed emails
- Week 45: Meta buys Android by default, Google adds call data