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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Priciest Ad Channel Grows the Fastest Customers
Aug 24, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Which Way Is Last-Click Attribution Wrong? One Direction
Aug 17, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Last-Click Attribution Cuts Meta's ROAS and Pays Search
Aug 10, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Best ROAS Channels Bring the Fewest New Customers
Aug 3, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Meta Cost Rose but Your Click Price Didn't
Jul 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap
Jul 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The ROAS Trap Held a Second Week — and Got Wider
Jul 22, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Your best ROAS channel costs the most per new customer
Jul 14, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%
Jul 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides
Jul 6, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Jun 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Three Attribution Shifts Every DTC Brand Should Know
Jun 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You
Jun 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How to Track YouTube Ads & Measure Real ROI
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 2, 2018, 8:37:24 AM
HOW TO TRACK YOUTUBE ADS AND MEASURE REAL ROI FROM VIDEO
The oldest problem in advertising still bites hardest on YouTube. As the saying goes, half your ad budget is wasted and you just do not know which half. Video makes that worse, because a YouTube ad so often does its work early — someone watches on their phone during a commute, forgets about it, then searches your brand three days later on a laptop and buys. Last-click attribution gives YouTube zero credit for that sale. If you are judging YouTube on what Google Ads reports, you are almost certainly underrating it. Here is how to track YouTube ads properly and measure their real ROI.
Topics: Wicked Reports conversion tracking marketing ROI YouTube Ads Video Ad Attribution
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The Missing Piece of Ecommerce Growth : Why Stores Guess
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 24, 2018, 4:21:05 PM
THE MISSING PIECE OF ECOMMERCE GROWTH : WHY MOST STORES ARE GUESSING
Growing an ecommerce store is like assembling a puzzle with four critical pieces. Miss any one and the picture never comes together. Most stores nail three of them and are quietly missing the fourth, which is exactly the one that tells them whether the other three are working. Here is the puzzle, and the piece almost everyone is missing.
Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution ecommerce growth marketing ROI people based attribution
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The Wicked Reports ROI Report : See What Marketing Earned
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 4, 2016, 4:09:40 PM
THE WICKED REPORTS ROI REPORT : SEE WHAT YOUR MARKETING ACTUALLY EARNED
Most marketing metrics tools still expect you to do the heavy lifting. They will give you numbers, as long as you handle the coding, tracking, filtering, and analysis yourself. That is like a restaurant serving you dinner only if you do the kitchen prep. So ask yourself two questions.
If a CMS will write HTML for you, a CRM will manage your pipeline, and Google and Meta optimize bids automatically, why do you still put up with a reporting tool that makes you become a data analyst before you can see a result? And do you really want to spend your time mastering data analysis instead of growing your business?

