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First-Click vs Last-Click Attribution: Which Model to Use

First-Click vs Last-Click Attribution: Which Model to Use

TL;DR First-click attribution credits the channel that brought a customer to your brand for the first time; last-click attribution credits the final channel before the sale. First-click gives you discovery signal for top-of-funnel campaigns; last-click gives you closing-power signal for retargeting and direct-response campaigns. Neither model accounts for the touchpoints in between, so any business […]

Google Ads Bidding Strategies and Attribution: How Smart Bidding Depends on Accurate Data

Google Ads Bidding Strategies and Attribution: How Smart Bidding Depends on Accurate Data

Most advertisers think Google’s Smart Bidding is the problem when their campaigns underperform. They’re wrong. I built Hyros after watching the same pattern repeat across hundreds of ad accounts: the bidding algorithm is actually fine. What’s broken is the data feeding it. Smart Bidding is Google’s suite of automated, machine-learning-driven bid strategies that now controls […]