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Google Analytics 360
What Is Google Analytics 360?
Google Analytics 360 is an enterprise-level analytics platform with in-depth performance indicators, such as ROI analysis reports. The app's primary function is to provide insights into customer behavior interactions with websites and apps to identify effective content. The platform centralized dashboard displays simplified overviews and reports. The system connects with other applications, such as CRMs and POS systems, to provide detailed overviews of customer behaviors.
Google Analytics 360 uses machine learning to discover customer trends and patterns in the data. It identifies users with high revenue potential and identifies content converting the most customers. Shareable reports are generated from intelligent data analyses, with options to produce synoptic overviews and complete details. The platform integrates with other Google advertising and publishing products to extend market reach. Available connections include Display & Video 360, AdSense, AdMob, and AdWords.
Who Uses Google Analytics 360?
Google Analytics 360 is for marketers, BI professionals, and online businesses to gain insights into customer website behavior. It is suitable for enterprise-level companies in every industry sector.
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Reviews of Google Analytics 360
Alternatives Considered:
Google Analytics for Rich Web Insights
Comments: Our advertising agency does custom website builds for our clients so it's imperative that we accurately track acquisitions, referrals and user interactions on a daily basis to improve our advertising campaigns. We analyze time on site, page views, sessions, and bounce rate and the analytics help us improve our overall website UX and UI. The rich analytics provided from Google (especially integrations with Google Tag Manager) enable us to make intelligent improvements to the website to increase conversions.
Pros:
Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools available and it's free. It's very simple to deploy as long as you have backend access to a website. I use Google Analytics on a daily basis to track website analytics, behavior flow, conversion, and goal tracking, and build custom marketing funnels. Google Data Studio is an excellent way to directly pull data from the tool and make a completely customized dashboard with the top metrics that you analyze on a consistent daily basis. The user management and ability to set permissions adds an extra layer of security and the integration with Google Ads and YouTube properties is seamless and makes real-time reporting very dynamic. What we can measure, we can ultimately improve.
Cons:
Google Analytics sometimes reports Facebook analytics differently from the backend of Facebook Ads Manager. However, Google is getting a lot better with tracking user performance, not just cookies (especially for cross-device interactions). The courses for the Google Analytics certification and somewhat bulky - I wish there was a better way to track your coursework and more online video tutorial similar to how Facebook Blueprint has organized their free online courses. Google Analytics can seem very daunting to beginners but there are a lot of great resources available from Google for education and tutorials.
Alternatives Considered:
Basic web analysis tools you use every day
Comments: From the site management point of view, when upgrading from the normal version to 360, the upper limit of PV measurement will be extended from 10 million to 1 billion, and the advantage is that unsampled reports can be used that can calculate accurate raw log numbers. For large sites, accurate numbers are needed for site publication figures and ad ops reports, so non-sampling reports are an essential function for the operation.
Pros:
As this is a site with a large amount of tracking, the data can be analyzed without the need for sampling. In addition to analyzing the website, we are also considering the measurement of store visits as one of the indicators of user trends, as we manage stores.
Cons:
You can check the details of user behavior with the user explorer function, but it is difficult to visually check each one, so I want to visualize the overall behavior (more detailed version of the behavior flow).
Best Analytical Platform
Comments: No other platform honestly compares to Google Analytics
Pros:
Google Analytics 360 is the best platform for tracking marketing performance, product analytics, and monitoring KPIs.
Cons:
Everything is perfect with Google Analytics, there are no issues
Maybe I'm Stupid
Comments: With someone with the proper skills to utilize Google Analytics--or even someone with the time to devote to learning all of the tricks of the Google Trade--this product can be the difference between sinking with a failing campaign, wasting a lot of your clients' money in the process, and being able to quickly and efficiently tailor digital advertising efforts to maximize returns.
Pros:
If you know what you are looking for--and how to find it again after Google makes approximately 300 changes and updates--Google Analytics can be exceptionally useful. In our business, it is extremely important to not only know that a given media product is working for the client, but also to be able to PROVE the success (or failure) of a product to the client. Our clients--the business owners and their staff--want to be sure that they are spending their money on advertising products that work. It is very easy to claim that, yes, this product is working for you, but it is another matter entirely to be SURE and to be able to prove that success. Google Analytics allows us to track digital interactions with the customer's website. Typically, our clients have no idea if their websites are seeing increases in customer traffic following advertising campaigns (such as television and radio), or if the digital ads placed are doing exactly what they should be doing.
Cons:
While the concept behind Google Analytics is great, the actual execution leaves much to be desired, at least for me. Maybe I'm completely stupid (a fair assessment) or too Gen X and not Millennial enough to find Google Analytics easy to use. It surely doesn't help that it seems that the user dashboard/interface changes every time I use it. Knowing how to navigate through the various levels and sections of the monstrosity that is Google Analytics to find exactly what metrics are needed in any given situation is an artform--and I feel like I've only just mastered stick figures and maybe a smidge of finger-painting. In short, I'm not an artist.
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Comments: I would say it's been great using Google Analytics 360. Its robust analytics capabilities have helped us in making data driven decisions.
Pros:
I personally have several aspects I like about Google Analytics 360. It has advanced analytics capabilities. It offers robust reporting and data visualization capabilities.
Cons:
I personally think the platform is a little bit limited when it comes to customization.
