Unified Performance Analytics

Updated 

Brands often invest heavily in content creation, paid media, and organic social strategies. However, without a unified performance framework, they lack a holistic view of how these efforts contribute to brand growth and conversions. This article will help you:

  • Understand the key challenges brands face when using siloed Paid and Owned performance data.

  • Learn how Unified Performance Analytics addresses these challenges.

  • Enable the feature in your environment.

  • Be aware of important channel-specific limitations when using the feature.

Key Challenges with Siloed Paid and Owned Data

When brands analyze Paid and Owned performance separately, they encounter several key challenges:

  • Inefficient Budget Allocation – High performing posts may miss out on budget, while underperforming creatives in paid campaigns continue to receive investment.

  • Difficulty in Measuring ROI – Without a combined view, brands and agencies struggle to evaluate how Paid and Owned efforts impact growth and conversions.

  • Weak Investment Strategy Across Platforms & Markets – Brands may miss platform or market-level opportunities and benchmarks by failing to strike the right balance.

  • Difficulty in Causality Identification – Without a real-time view of paid and owned performance, it is difficult to accurately assess what's working and optimize effectively. 

How Unified Performance Analytics Helps

To overcome these challenges, Sprinklr introduced Unified Performance Analytics, which combines trended performance data from Paid and Social Analytics at the post and ad level. This unified view enables you to:

  • Analyze and understand performance on the actual day insights are available.

  • Make faster, data-driven decisions.

  • Optimize budgets more effectively.

  • Improve your overall marketing ROI through a clear understanding of performance impact.

How to Enable Unified Performance Analytics

To enable Unified Performance Analytics in your environment, you can either contact your Success Manager or submit a request at tickets@sprinklr.com.

Once the data source is enabled, you can:

  • Plot and visualize Unified Performance Analytics metrics in the widgets on your dashboards.

  • Use these metrics to build Custom metrics as needed.

  • Access the supported Unified Performance Analytics metrics under Standard Metrics in Reporting Settings, where you can customize them to fit your reporting needs. To learn more about how to customize these metrics, go to Standard Metrics.

Current Available Support

The following are the supported metrics and dimensions: Supported Metrics in UPA and Supported Dimensions in UPA.

Parameters

Details

Supported Channels

Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
X
Tiktok
Youtube – Google Ads & Google DV 360

Default Backfill Limit

2 Years

Daily Historical Refresh 

30 Days 

Time Zone 

UTC

Primary Asset 

Outbound Post

Sprinklr Entity

Custom Fields & Sprinklr Campaign 

Channel Limitations

Keep the following platform-specific limitations in mind when using Unified Performance Analytics:

Limitation

Impacted Channels

Engagement data may be affected by unlikes, deleted engagements, and differences in sync timing between paid and owned.

All

Only total data is available for some metrics; organic data must be calculated

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X & Google Ads/YouTube/Google DV 360

If a post is edited, data splits across two rows and maps to the new version

All

For PAC & DPA, multiple posts are created with no linkage between them.

Facebook and Instagram

Engagement metrics used in the calculation are updated only for 14 Days from the day of post.

X

Same reporting attribution are not available for video views metrics.

LinkedIn

Concept of posts doesn’t exist on channel for Dark & Organic posts

Tiktok and Snapchat