Combined Reporting: Meta Ads + GitHub
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust? askotter reads Meta Ads and GitHub together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does combined reporting with Meta Ads and GitHub work for a small business?
askotter reads Meta Ads and GitHub side by side so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of. One report covering every connected account, cleaned up and answerable by text.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Meta Ads
- Campaign and ad set performance, Creative performance, Audience targeting data.
- From GitHub
- Commits and pull requests, Deployment events, Release tags.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Meta Ads or GitHub. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?
GA4 says one thing, Stripe says another, and your booking system disagrees with both. Matching them by hand takes hours, and the answer is still fuzzy.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Meta Ads and GitHub side by side, so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our PPC management work.
How Meta Ads and GitHub records line up
Meta Ads and GitHub share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in Meta ad clicks can be read against what GitHub recorded in the same hours.
What combined reporting uses from each
Combined reporting needs a shared identifier or a shared time grain.
From Meta Ads that means fbclids, UTM tags and lead-form emails. From GitHub it means deploy timestamps.
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Meta Ads on its own
Meta sees who saw and clicked an ad. It cannot see a sale its pixel missed, and lead-form contacts stop being visible to it once they leave Facebook or Instagram.
Timing. Meta reports conversions under its own attribution setting, seven days after a click and one day after a view by default.
Access. The Meta Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
GitHub on its own
GitHub knows what code changed and when. It cannot tell you whether that change cost you leads or sales.
Timing. GitHub timestamps every commit, merge and deployment to the second.
Access. A GitHub App or token with read access to the repositories you choose.
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Questions about Meta Ads + GitHub
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