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A digital marketer is reviewing performance to understand how their discovery-based ads influenced users who purchased following a different campaign type. Which technical resource provides the specific data needed to demonstrate Demand Gen's additive value to other campaign types like Search or Performance Max?

User acquisition details
Asset strength metrics
Assisted Conversion Report
Channel segmentation

Correct Answer

Assisted Conversion Report

Why is this the correct answer?

The Assisted Conversion Report provides this. It shows conversions where a channel or campaign was involved in the journey but was not the final interaction, which is exactly the situation described: discovery-based ads introduced the product, and the purchase was completed later through a different campaign. Without that view, last-click reporting credits only the closing campaign, and discovery activity looks like it produced nothing. This is the standard evidence for defending upper-funnel budget. Video, Demand Gen and Display often assist many more conversions than they close, and cutting them because of a low last-click count typically reduces the volume flowing into the campaigns that were taking the credit. Attribution model comparison makes the same point in a different way, by redistributing credit rather than counting assists.

Why are the other options wrong?

User acquisition details

User acquisition details show which channel first brought a user to the site, not the assisting role in later conversions.

Asset strength metrics

Asset strength metrics rate creative quality and coverage. They say nothing about conversion influence.

Channel segmentation

Channel segmentation groups traffic by channel but does not isolate assisted conversions.

Real-world example

A retailer's Demand Gen campaign shows 90 last-click conversions but appears in the path of 1,240 purchases that closed on brand search. The assisted conversion view reverses a decision to cut the campaign, and brand search volume is preserved.

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