Root Cause Analysis: Meta Ads + LinkedIn Ads
Why did this number change? askotter reads Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads work for a small business?
askotter reads Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind it.
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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 LinkedIn Ads
- Campaign performance, Audience demographics, Lead gen form data.
- Status
- LinkedIn Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Meta Ads or LinkedIn Ads. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our PPC management work.
How Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads records line up
Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.
Shared between the two: the customer email address and the UTM campaign tags.
What root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From Meta Ads that means creative changes and delivery status by ad. From LinkedIn Ads it means audience and bid changes by campaign.
LinkedIn Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
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.
LinkedIn Ads on its own
LinkedIn sees clicks, lead-form submissions and the companies it reached. It never sees whether a lead became a deal.
Timing. LinkedIn reports conversions under its own windows, thirty days after a click and seven after a view by default.
Access. The LinkedIn Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
Related guides
- How to Measure Marketing ROI When You're Not a Data Scientist. The right questions can do the work of a data team.
- LinkedIn Ads and HubSpot Attribution: Why the Numbers Disagree. HubSpot and LinkedIn are both reporting honestly. They just count different events over different windows.
Services that use these connections
Other analyses: Meta Ads + LinkedIn Ads
Questions about Meta Ads + LinkedIn Ads
Do I need a developer to connect Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads?
How is askotter's Root Cause Analysis different from what Meta Ads shows on its own?
Meta Ads + LinkedIn Ads is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.