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Channel Group
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Written by Alex
Updated over 4 months ago

About channel group

In Attribuly, a channel group is a way to categorize and group different marketing channels or sources of traffic to your website.


For example, common channel groups might include organic search, paid search, social media, direct traffic, referral traffic, and email marketing.


The purpose of channel groups is to provide a more organized and consolidated view of your website's traffic sources. It helps you understand which channels are driving the most traffic, conversions, and engagement.


Let's say you have a website selling fitness products. You might group traffic coming from Google Search as organic search, traffic from Facebook ads as paid social media, and traffic from other fitness blogs linking to your site as referral traffic. By grouping these channels, you can easily compare their performance and make informed decisions about your marketing strategies.


This feature allows you to analyze the effectiveness of different marketing efforts and allocate resources accordingly to optimize your website's performance and user acquisition.

Default group

Channel

Definition

Meta Ads

dm_net=facebook, or automatically verified after integration.

Google ads

dm_net=adwords, or automatically verified after integration.

TikTok ads

dm_net=tiktok, or automatically verified after integration.

Microsoft Bing ads

dm_net=bing_ad, or automatically verified after integration.

Linkedin ads

dm_net=linkedin, or automatically verified after integration.

Criteo ads

dm_net=criteo

Pinterest ads

dm_net=pinterest, or automatically verified after integration.

Snapchat ads

dm_net=snapchat, or automatically verified after integration.

Influnecer

The "dm_int" parameter is present, as it is the Attribuly's influencer parameter
or
utm_medium=influencer

Affiliate

Integration with Impact, UpPromote
or
utm_medium=affiliate

Email

utm_source is a email service provider(klaviyo、mailchimp、omnisend)
or
utm_medium=email

Social media

Referring domain is a social network site
or
The "utm_medium" parameter is “social” and the "utm_source" is exactly the name of a recognized social network.

Organic search

Referring domain is a search engine:google、bing、Startpage、Qwant、Brave 、You.com、Swisscows、Cốc Cốc Search、Seznam、sogou、Petal、Haosou、Shenma、Dogpile、yahoo、yandex、ecosia、naver、aol、baidu、ask、duckduckgo、wolframalpha、webcrawler

Referral

Referring domain is not a social media site or search engine.

Direct

No referring domain or tracking URL.

Facebook Shop

Purchase happens in Facebook shop

POS

Purchase happens in offline POS

Custom channels

Attribuly supports custom channels on top of the default group. Create a new channel based on source/medium/campaign.

For example, you run both Impact and UpPromote affiliate programs. The default channel group mixes them into an affiliate channel. You may want to create 2 custom channels "Impact" and "UpPromote" to distinguish both channel performances.

Want to custom your own channel group? Feel free to talk to us.🤝

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