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Your platforms disagree. Your budget shouldn't. One source of truth, built to defend every decision.

In 2026 the ad platforms see only 50–70% of real conversions, multi-touch coverage has collapsed, and every channel claims the same sale — so the numbers were never built to agree. RiseUp rebuilds the foundation in order: clean server-side tracking, one unified dashboard, and defensible attribution by triangulating MMM, incrementality and multi-touch — then an AI layer that tells you what to do next. You can't grow what you can't measure.

  • 20–40% conversion signal recovered
  • One number the whole business trusts
  • Built cookieless — MMM + incrementality
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RiseUp data & analytics by the numbers

  • 50–70%of real conversions are all the ad platforms now see — the rest is invisible
  • 20–40%conversion signal recovered by server-side tracking
  • One numbera single source of truth the whole business trusts — not three that conflict
  • 212%YoY rise in MMM adoption as brands rebuild for a cookieless world
Built for multi-channel brands spending £1M+ a year on media — near-essential above £5M, where misallocation is most expensive and a small efficiency gain is a six-figure swing
Why measurement, done properly

Most high-spend brands are flying blind — and don't know it.

Seven- and eight-figure budgets run on dashboards that quietly disagree, and on a model that has quietly stopped working.

The numbers were never built to agree

Each platform claims the same conversion under its own window, GA4 counts it differently, and the CRM tells a third story. You don't have a source of truth — you have sources that conflict by design.

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Last-click is costing you money

It's not just imperfect: last-click-optimised allocations have underperformed a flat even split by 15–30% on incremental revenue. Optimising to a broken model is worse than not optimising at all.

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You're flying on half the data

Ad blockers, ITP/Safari and iOS ATT mean platforms see only 50–70% of conversions and multi-touch coverage has fallen to 30–60%. Pixel-only setups are structurally undercounting.

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What we build

Foundations and intelligence, as one stack.

Clean tracking and a warehouse at the base; reconciled dashboards, triangulated attribution and an AI insight layer on top.

01

Tracking & data infrastructure

GA4 as the event spine, GTM for client-side tags, and an owned BigQuery warehouse capturing clean, consented, durable signal — the foundation every other layer stands on.

02

Server-side tracking & CAPI AI

Server-side GTM on a first-party subdomain feeding Meta CAPI, Google Enhanced Conversions and more — recovering 20–40% of the conversions ad blockers, ITP and iOS now hide.

03

GA4 setup, audit & Consent Mode v2

Correct GA4 measurement, event design and Consent Mode v2 — audited before the June 2026 ad_storage change that can make conversions go dark if banners misfire.

04

Dashboards & BI

One governed source of truth — model once in BigQuery into a summary table, then a fast, blended decision dashboard: rates over totals, segments over aggregates, revenue over traffic.

05

Attribution modelling

Data-driven / multi-touch attribution as the tactical, daily optimisation layer inside validated digital channels — caveated honestly as observed paths, not causation.

06

Incrementality & MMM AI

Marketing mix modelling for budget allocation across all channels including offline, and geo-lift/incrementality testing as the causal gold standard — the cookieless-proof core.

07

AI insights & forecasting AI

An always-on analyst layer — anomaly detection alerting in hours, predictive forecasting that finds spend-saturation thresholds, and narrative insights that recommend the next action.

08

Data governance & quality

Clear ownership, access controls, end-to-end lineage, Consent Mode compliance and continuous tracking audits — because small tracking issues quietly compound into wasted spend.

One source of truth

Three numbers walk in. One walks out.

Your ad platforms, GA4 and CRM each report a different ROAS for the same spend — because each is built to take the credit. We reconcile them in your own warehouse into one figure you can actually defend, recover the 20–40% of conversions the browser hides, and validate it with incrementality. One number leadership trusts, not three that conflict.

Reconciled in your warehouse20–40% signal recoveredIncrementality-validated
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Our approach

How we get to truth.

No single model survives the cookieless era — so we triangulate, and each method cross-checks the others.

  1. 01 · Instrument

    Recover the signal

    GA4 + server-side GTM, Meta CAPI and Google Enhanced Conversions on a first-party subdomain, raw events landing in your warehouse.

    AI-accelerated
  2. 02 · Unify

    One source of truth

    Model once in BigQuery into a governed summary table — one fast, blended dashboard leadership actually uses.

    AI-assisted
  3. 03 · Attribute

    Triangulate, don't pick one

    Data-driven/MTA for daily optimisation, MMM for budget allocation across all channels, geo-lift/incrementality for causal proof before you scale.

    AI-modelled
  4. 04 · Act

    Decisions, not dashboards

    AI anomaly detection flags tracking breaks and spend drift in hours; we reallocate budget off non-incremental channels onto proven growth.

    AI insights
The number that matters

Reported ROAS is the easiest number to fool yourself with.

Every platform takes credit for the same sale, and most of it would have happened anyway. We strip out the noise and measure what each pound actually added — in four layers.

  1. Layer 01

    True signal

    Server-side tracking recovers the 20–40% of conversions browsers and iOS now hide, so the denominator is real.

  2. Layer 02

    One reconciled number

    Blend platform, GA4 and CRM in the warehouse — one figure, not three that conflict.

  3. Layer 03

    Incrementality

    Geo-lift answers the only causally clean question: would this conversion have happened anyway? No cookies required.

  4. The score

    Wasted spend recovered

    Budget reallocated to proven growth — decision quality, not chart count.

Certified where it counts

Measurement built on the platforms your spend runs on.

Certified across the channels we measure — so the tracking, attribution and the media buying it informs all speak the same language.

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Award-winning growth UK Paid Media Awards Finalist 2026UK Paid Media AwardsFinalist 2026 Netty Awards Winner 2025Netty AwardsDouble Winner 2025
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Questions, answered

Data & measurement questions, answered.

What does RiseUp's Data & Analytics service actually include?

Four layers that build on each other. First, clean and durable tracking — GA4, server-side GTM, Meta Conversions API, Google Enhanced Conversions and an owned data warehouse — so events are captured reliably and recovered from browser and iOS loss. Second, one unified dashboard: a single source of truth that reconciles platform, GA4 and CRM data. Third, defensible attribution by triangulation — data-driven/multi-touch, marketing mix modelling, and geo-lift/incrementality testing. Fourth, an AI insight layer that monitors continuously, flags anomalies and tracking breaks, surfaces wasted spend, and recommends the next action.

Why don't my ad platform numbers match GA4 or my sales data?

Because they were never designed to agree. Every ad platform claims the same conversion under its own attribution window, GA4 counts with a different model, and your CRM records the actual revenue. On top of that, browsers, ad blockers and iOS App Tracking Transparency mean the platforms now see only 50–70% of real conversions. We build an owned, server-side source of truth that reconciles these into one figure — and recover 20–40% of the signal that's currently invisible.

Is attribution even possible now that third-party cookies are going away?

Yes — but only if you stop relying on cookies. We rebuild measurement around methods that don't need user-level identifiers: server-side and modeled conversions, marketing mix modelling, and geo-lift/incrementality testing that work entirely at the aggregate level. This is exactly why MMM adoption has climbed roughly 212% year on year. Cookie loss is the reason to invest in measurement properly, not a reason to give up on it.

What is incrementality testing and why does it matter more than ROAS?

Incrementality testing — usually via geo-holdout or geo-lift experiments — measures the sales that genuinely wouldn't have happened without a given channel or campaign. Reported ROAS often takes credit for conversions that would have occurred anyway, which is how brands over-invest in channels that merely harvest existing demand. Incrementality is the gold standard for proving causal lift before you scale spend, and it needs no cookies or user tracking — making it the most durable measure of true performance.

What's the difference between MMM, multi-touch attribution, and incrementality — and why use all three?

They answer different questions, so we triangulate rather than pick one. Multi-touch / data-driven attribution is best for daily, campaign-level optimisation within validated digital channels. Marketing mix modelling is best for quarterly and annual budget allocation across all channels, including offline and brand, and works without user-level data. Incrementality testing proves causal lift before scaling. No single model is trustworthy alone — last-click-optimised allocations have underperformed a flat budget split by 15–30% on incremental revenue — so we use the three to cross-check each other into an answer that holds up to scrutiny.

How much marketing spend do we need before this is worth it?

Clean tracking and a unified dashboard pay off at almost any scale — they recover lost signal and remove the spreadsheet guesswork. The advanced attribution layer scales with spend: marketing mix modelling is economically justified from roughly £1M annual media and becomes near-essential above around £5M, because that's where enough data and budget exist to model channels reliably and where misallocation is most expensive. For multi-channel, high-spend brands, the cost of the work is small against the budget it makes defensible.

How is this different from just hiring an analyst or buying a BI tool?

A BI tool visualises whatever data you feed it — if the underlying tracking is broken or the numbers conflict, you get faster wrong answers. An analyst is valuable but usually consumed by business-as-usual reporting. We build the foundation underneath both: the server-side architecture, the reconciled source of truth, and the attribution methodology — then hand your team a cleaner, more defensible system to run, with full knowledge transfer to your team. The deliverable is decision quality, not more charts.

How does RiseUp measure the success of its own Data & Analytics work?

On the same outcomes we ask you to care about: decision quality, marketing efficiency, and wasted spend recovered — not the number of dashboards or reports we produce. Concretely that means a single trusted source of truth leadership actually uses, conversion signal recovered through server-side tracking, budget reallocated from channels that merely harvest demand to those that drive incremental growth, and tracking issues caught in hours by AI monitoring rather than discovered at month-end. If the work doesn't make your budget decisions more defensible and more efficient, it hasn't done its job.

Make every budget decision defensible.

Book a free, senior-led measurement audit — we'll show you where signal and budget are leaking and map the path to one source of truth you can stand behind. We'd love to partner with you and your team. No obligation.

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