What is attribution?
Attribution answers the question: which marketing touchpoints drove this conversion, and how much credit does each deserve?
Common models
- Last-click: 100% credit to the final touchpoint (legacy default)
- First-click: 100% to the discovery channel
- Linear / time-decay / position-based: rule-based distribution
- Data-driven attribution (DDA): ML-weighted credit (GA4, Google Ads)
- Incrementality testing: lift studies vs. control groups
In a cookieless world, deterministic cross-device attribution is harder. C Wire provides modeled lift, persona-level conversion attribution and clean-room compatibility.