Overview
Attribution helps marketing teams understand which channels, campaigns, and touchpoints contribute to conversions. Rather than giving all credit to the last click before a purchase, the platform distributes conversion credit across the entire visitor journey — from initial awareness through to final action.
The platform achieves this by maintaining a detailed record of each visitor's interactions across marketing channels. Its scripts set persistent cookies that follow visitors over extended periods, capturing every ad click, organic search visit, email open, and social media referral. This comprehensive journey data feeds into attribution models that calculate each channel's contribution to revenue.
What This Script Does
- Sets persistent first-party cookies to identify visitors across sessions and channels
- Captures page views, referral sources, UTM parameters, and click identifiers
- Records interaction data at each marketing touchpoint in the visitor journey
- Sends collected journey data to Attribution's servers for multi-touch modeling
- Tracks conversion events and maps them back to contributing touchpoints
- Collects device and browser information for cross-device attribution analysis
Consent & Compliance
Attribution's core function is tracking visitor behavior across sessions and channels using persistent cookies — a clear tracking activity under GDPR and ePrivacy. The script collects referral sources, click IDs, device information, and browsing patterns over extended periods. This data is used to build detailed visitor journey profiles for marketing optimization. Consent is required before deploying these scripts in jurisdictions with cookie consent laws.
Should You Block This Without Consent?
Yes. Attribution is a marketing analytics platform that sets persistent tracking cookies and builds detailed visitor journey profiles across channels and sessions for advertising optimization purposes.
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Does Attribution require consent for its tracking scripts?
Yes. Attribution is a multi-touch marketing attribution platform tagged under analytics and marketing. Its scripts set persistent cookies, track visitor journeys across channels, and collect interaction data for conversion attribution. GDPR requires consent for this cross-session tracking and cookie usage.
What data does Attribution collect across visitor sessions?
Attribution sets persistent cookies that follow visitors over extended periods, capturing ad clicks, organic searches, email opens, and social referrals. It records the full journey from initial awareness to conversion, collecting page views and touchpoint data to distribute conversion credit across marketing efforts.
How does ConsentStack handle Attribution's multi-touch tracking?
ConsentStack detects Attribution's tracking scripts and categorizes them under analytics and marketing consent. Without consent, persistent cookies and journey tracking are blocked. Once the visitor grants consent, multi-touch attribution tracking begins capturing touchpoint data across channels and sessions.
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