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What is Marketing attribution? Definition and explanations

Marketing attribution shares the credit for a conversion across the touchpoints that preceded it. Models range from last click — simple but blind to everything upstream — to multi-touch and data-driven models. None of them is true: a model is a reading convention, and switching models changes the numbers without reality having moved.

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Attribution shares the credit for a conversion across the touchpoints that preceded it.

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