Data & measurement · 4 September 2026 · 8 min read

Measure what changed, not what was clicked

A practical introduction to incrementality testing.

Attribution tells you who touched what before buying. It does not tell you whether they would have bought anyway.

Incrementality testing does: show the campaign to one group, hold it back from another, and compare. It is slower than a dashboard and far more honest.

Start with one channel you are unsure about. You will learn more from one good experiment than from a year of attribution reports.

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