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Metrics & Dimension Definitions

Definitions of common metrics and dimensions that power your dashboards

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Written by Isobel Hirst
Updated over 9 months ago

Metric Definitions

Name

Description or calculation

Example Output

Market

The geographical market that a row of activity is for, which is identified based on the marketing campaign naming conventions, the ecommerce country of purchase, and the ecommerce setup of each customer.

Markets measured by Fospha are defined by the customer during onboarding to Fospha

UK / US / DE /...

Period

The date granularity by which you are reporting.

Can either be daily / weekly / monthly, and the date shown will be the beginning date of the period chosen

2024-02-19

Channel Group

The overall channel group for an activity. This is taken from the Medium in GA (as a starting point) and then is cleaned up by Fospha via our own traffic source rules, plus any custom traffic source mappings applied during onboarding

Paid Social / Performance Max / PPC Generic

Source

The overall source / platform for an activity. This is taken from the Source in GA (as a starting point) and then is cleaned up by Fospha via our own traffic source rules, plus any custom traffic source mappings applied during onboarding

meta / snapchat / tiktok / pinterest / google / reddit

Campaign Objective

The objective set in ad platforms for your paid social campaigns. Fospha apply groupings to the multiple objectives from ad platforms to report data in one of 3 key objectives in Fospha

Awareness / Consideration / Conversion

Campaign Strategy

The strategy of your paid campaigns, identified through campaign naming conventions - more info on these can be found here

Prospecting / Retargeting / Remarketing OR Retention / Advantage Plus

Campaign Type

The combination of your campaign objective and campaign strategy

Awareness/Prospecting / Conversion/Advantage Plus / Consideration/Retargeting

Campaign

The campaign name of your activity, taken from your utm_campaign and from ad platform APIs.

UTM best practices should be followed to ensure there is a successful match between visit data and ad platform data

UK_AL_PI_PRO_Mother_Day

Ad Set / Ad Group

The ad set or ad group name of your activity, taken from your utm_content and from ad platform APIs.

UTM best practices should be followed to ensure there is a successful match between visit data and ad platform data

Broad / Visitors / Evergreen / All Audiences

Ad

The ad name of your activity, taken from your utm_term and from ad platform APIs.

UTM best practices should be followed to ensure there is a successful match between visit data and ad platform data

new product launch / TikTok made me buy it

Impressions

Number of impressions of Marketing activity pulled in from your ad platform integrations

796 / 5812 / …

Clicks

The total number of clicks on an ad, taken directly from the ad platform

54 / 125 /...

Visits

The total number of visits, meaning someone clicked through and landed on your website. Taken directly from Sessions in GA

1 / 2 / ...

CTR%

The click-through rate of your advertising

Calculation:

Clicks / Impressions

0.25%

Currency

The currency of any monetary KPIs you are measuring, as set by your filters or by your configuration during onboarding

£ / $ / € / ...

Cost

The amount spent on marketing in the selected reporting period, for the channels/sources selected on the dashboard. If none are selected, then this will be the sum of all marketing costs ingested by Fospha.

NULL / £10 / £500 / $0.81 / $267...

Conversions / FA Conversions

The number of conversions attributed to that activity using the Fospha Attribution model, which includes both clicks and impressions

0.06 / 67.34 / …

New Conversions / FA New Conversions

Conversions made by new customers, which we identify by matching a transaction ID back to your ecommerce platform to understand whether this was the first purchase or not.

0 / 1 / 2 / …

% New Conversions

Calculation:

New Conversions / Total Conversions

37%

CPP / FA CPP

Cost Per Purchase using Fospha Attribution.

Calculation:
Total Cost / Total Conversions

£96.96 /$45.50 / …

CAC / FA CAC

Customer Acquisition Cost using Fospha Attribution.

Calculation:
Total Cost / New Conversions

£1.06 / £53.71 / …

Revenue / FA Revenue

The amount of revenue attributed to that activity using the Fospha Attribution model, which includes both clicks and impressions.

£0 / £31.09 / …

New Revenue / FA New Revenue

The amount of revenue from new customers attributed to that activity using the Fospha Attribution model, which includes both clicks and impressions.

£0 / £31.09 / …

ROAS / FA ROAS

Return on Ad Spend using Fospha Attribution.

Calculation:
Revenue / Cost

0.08 / 0.36 / 1.9 / …

GA Conversions

The number of conversions attributed to that activity using Google's Last Non-Direct Click model, accounting for clicks only.

0.06 / 67.34 / …

GA CPP

Cost Per Purchase using GA's Last Non-Direct Click modelling.

Calculation:
Total Cost / Total GA Conversions

£0.09 / £96.96 / …

GA Revenue

The amount of revenue attributed to that activity using Google's Last Non-Direct Click model, accounting for clicks only.

£0 / £31.09 / …

GA ROAS

Return on Ad Spend using GA's Last Non-Direct Click modelling.

Calculation:
GA Revenue / Cost

0.08 / 0.36 / 1.9 / …

Ad Platform Conversions / AP Conversions

The number of conversions attributed to that activity using the Ad Platform's own model, which varies between Ad Platforms.

0.06 / 67.34 / …

Ad Platform CPP / AP CPP

Cost Per Purchase using Ad Platform attribution.

Calculation:
Total Cost / Total Ad Platform Conversions

£0.09 / £96.96 / …

Ad Platform Revenue / AP Revenue

The amount of revenue attributed to that activity using the attribution model from each Ad Platform, which varies between Ad Platforms.

Please note that some Ad Platforms do not provide a revenue attribution; in this case AP Revenue will be blank.

£0 / £31.09 / …

Ad Platform ROAS / AP ROAS

Return on Ad Spend using Ad Platform attribution.

Calculation:
Ad Platform Revenue / Cost

0.08 / 0.36 / 1.9 / …

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