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The Attribution Report Most Marketers Cite Was Never Built to Answer Their Question

A modern media plan runs Search, YouTube, Meta, and programmatic partners like The Trade Desk, Criteo and StackAdapt at the same time. GA4 sees all of it through one lens, click-based, session-driven, last-touch, and Google itself spent three years refusing to say which of its own channels, PMax, Demand Gen, YouTube, actually produced the results it was claiming credit for. The confident verdict built on top of that isn't measuring what anyone thinks it's measuring.

Last updated 02/11/2026