What are funnel stages?
To better understand the effectiveness of your advertising campaign and determine where to allocate marketing resources, you may consider the campaign's objective and its position within the sales funnel. By filtering based on the funnel stage, you can more readily recognize campaigns with similar objectives, evaluate their efficacy and compare their performance.
What do the funnel stages mean?
- Awareness: Campaigns that belong to the top of the funnel with objectives like Reach, Brand Awareness, and any objective related to finding new users.
- Consideration: Campaigns that belong to the middle of the funnel with objectives like Traffic, App Installs, Lead Generation, and any other objective meant to engage with users that have been to the site.
- Conversion: Campaigns that belong to the low of the funnel with objectives like Conversions, Sales and Order, and any objective that is aimed to move people over the line to purchase.
In case we can’t automatically match the objective of your campaign to one of the funnel stages, you will find that campaign under 'Other'.
How are the funnel stages decided?
For Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest campaigns, we use the campaign objective to set the funnel stage. For AdRoll web campaigns, we use the campaign type and bid strategy (previously optimization strategy) to determine the funnel staging. See the mapping below:
| Channel | Campaign Objective/Type | Funnel Stage |
|---|---|---|
| Web | Contextual | Awareness |
| Web | Third Party Audience | Awareness |
| Web | Lookalike | Awareness |
| Web |
Retargeting Bid Strategy: Clicks/Impressions |
Consideration |
| Web |
Retargeting Bid Strategy: Conversions |
Conversion |
| CTV | Contextual | Awareness |
| CTV | Third Party Audience | Awareness |
| CTV | Lookalike | Awareness |
| CTV |
Retargeting Bid Strategy: Impressions |
Consideration |
| Reach | Awareness | |
| Brand Awareness | Awareness | |
| App Installs | Consideration | |
| Traffic* | Consideration | |
| Traffic, promoting an Instant Experiences app | Consideration | |
| Traffic, promoting a mobile app | Consideration | |
| Messages | Consideration | |
| Video views | Consideration | |
| Product catalog sales | Consideration | |
| Conversions | Conversion | |
| Brand Awareness | Awareness | |
| Video Views | Awareness | |
| Consideration (formerly traffic) | Consideration | |
| Conversions | Conversion | |
| Catalog Sales | Conversion | |
| TikTok | Reach | Awareness |
| TikTok | Traffic | Consideration |
| TikTok | App Installs | Consideration |
| TikTok | Video Views | Consideration |
| TikTok | Lead Generation | Consideration |
| TikTok | Community Interaction | Consideration |
| TikTok | Conversions | Conversion |
Where can I find this filter?
The Campaigns tab provides a complete overview of your campaigns. Use the Funnel Stage filter to refine this data and focus on campaigns with specific goals, such as 'Awareness', 'Consideration', 'Conversion' or 'Others'.