Attribution
topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
Lenny's Podcast
the Official SaaStr Podcast
A Product Market Fit Show
Capital Allocators
Top Founders
the a16z Podcast
20VC
8 statements about Attribution, every show
Standardized marketing attribution software fails due to highly specific company logic
“With attributions, there is a lot of, like, business use cases that are so specific to how you run your business, to, like, intricacies of how you think about doing marketing, et cetera, that building a solution that works for everyone just is not enough.”
CMO Raz Herzberg claims marketing attribution in B2B SaaS is complete bullshit
“I think pipeline numbers and attribution, I think attribution and the whole discussions around attribution is complete bullshit.”
Ramanujam: Rushing into outcome-based pricing without proving attribution causes failure
“Like if you try to rush into an outcome-based pricing model, but cannot prove attribution, you will fail.”
Norton: Channel Attribution Leads to Local Maxima Decisions Over Enterprise Value
“I'm very anti-attribution in general. Like, I think we get into problems where we say, oh, this is a marketing-attributed sourced deal versus a sales-attributed one. You end up making local maxima decisions as opposed to saying, all right, how do we maximize t…”
Paid channel data has never provided full end-to-end attribution understanding
“The issue for most companies is in this incorrect assumption that The data that is provided through paid channels allows you to have full end to end understanding of like attribution, which is wrong. It's never been that way.”
Apple's privacy changes killed the ability to perform proper marketing attribution
“Apple basically deprecated what is called a device identifier that many companies use for marketing tracking. This killed the ability to actually do attribution properly”