Friday, January 29, 2021

Use CM 360 to track impressions and clicks on HTML emails

 An HTML email is essentially a micro site served via email to a user.

It contains an advertiser's images and/or copy along with the web site's content. Your images may or may not be served by CM.

The tracking method for CM involves the use of a 1x1-pixel image, called by a CM ad tag, that alerts the CM ad server whenever a user opens or views the email.

Tracking behavior may be unpredictable across email clients.

How do I know they are working?

Click Tracker:


Paste into a browser and see it if clicks through


Remember if using a dynamic click tracker, it must be turned on and past the start date! 


Impression Pixel:


Loading the tag will generate a blank page - 1x1s are invisible! 


View the tag implemented on a test page, and wait one day for an impression to show up in reporting  


Put the tag on a test page and see if it fires using a proxy sniffer

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