Hi - We have started using Adobe Analytics and CID as our URL tracker of choice. I am new to using the CID so please excuse my inexperience. I've been assigned to determine the channel, source, medium etc. of about 300 leads by only using their CID that we began capturing since August, via a hidden field on our forms.
We still have GA URL tracker fields hidden in all of our forms -- it was wonderful to easily determine campaigns, channels, source, etc. and easy to report on how many leads came in through the various channels, etc.
And as I mentioned, we have since then added another hidden field to capture CID - this is hell.
Since I am completely new to CID's are these correct statements?
- that there is no industry 'cheat sheet' to reading a CID because each company can organize them any way they want.
- every value is separated by an underscore.
- there can be infinite values depending on the set up of a CID
With that, has anyone out there successfully been able to parse CID data from a column in a spreadsheet, (perhaps using an excel program?) and been able to break it out to channel, source and medium?
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