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Tracking & Measurement Specialists

Your ad platforms are
optimising on the wrong data.

The most popular ad platforms use algorithms and automation to drive performance. Performance Max, Advantage+, Smart Bidding, Smart+ — every automated campaign learns from your conversion signals. Feed them incomplete data and they spend confidently toward the wrong outcome, wasting your budget without driving business results. Your data infrastructure is the single most important factor that will determine the success of your paid advertising.

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69%
of visitors invisible to traditional tracking
Dataslayer / Cookie Script · 2024
73%
of GA4 setups have silent misconfigurations
SR Analytics · 2025
70%
of Meta signals lost without server-side tracking
Rockads analysis · 2025
The Tracking Gap

Three things quietly
destroying your data quality

Most brands know their numbers feel off. They blame the platform, the creative, the seasonality. The real problem is almost always the same — the data collection layer was never set up correctly.

01 — Consent

Consent mode done wrong

Most businesses default to Basic Mode — it blocks your tags entirely until users consent, giving you nothing from the majority who decline. Advanced Mode sends cookieless pings that activate Google's conversion modelling, recovering significant signal from users who opt out.

31%average cookie acceptance rate — 69% of traffic blind to your campaigns · Dataslayer, 2024
02 — Ad Blockers

Client-side tracking blocked at scale

Safari, Firefox, and ad-blocking extensions strip or block client-side tracking on a growing share of browsers. Every blocked request is a conversion that never reached Google Ads, never fed your Smart Bidding model, never appeared in your funnel.

36%of UK adults use ad-blocking software — significantly higher for technical B2B audiences · UK Gov., April 2024
03 — Configuration

Silent GA4 & pixel misconfigurations

GTM containers touched by multiple agencies over multiple years. Tags firing on wrong pages. Events duplicated. Old pixels from cancelled campaigns still loading. Missing events leading to signal losses. Those mistakes silently poison your data and hinder your success.

73%of GA4 setups have silent misconfigurations — most businesses have no idea · SR Analytics, 2025
Why It Matters More Now

Your campaigns are only as smart as the data you feed them

Five years ago a misconfigured tag meant an analyst had to manually reconcile a report. Today it means your automated campaigns are teaching themselves to find customers they will never convert — because you are feeding them the wrong data, costing thousands in lost budget and missing huge business opportunities.

71% of advertisers now run Performance Max. Advantage+ handles Meta audience selection automatically. Smart Bidding sets every bid in real time. Every one of these systems depends entirely on the quality of your conversion signals.

Fix your tracking infrastructure and your campaigns get smarter overnight — without changing a single ad.

PMax
Performance MaxAllocates budget across all Google channels automatically. Learns exclusively from your conversion data. Bad signals = budget to wrong audiences and placements.
Meta A+
Meta Advantage+Handles audience selection and placement automatically. Without server-side CAPI, up to 70% of conversion signals never reach the algorithm.
Smart Bid
Smart BiddingSets every bid based on predicted conversion probability. Misconfigured tracking means systematically wrong bids in every single auction.
Smart+
TikTok Smart+Automates targeting, creative testing, bidding, and delivery simultaneously. Needs 50+ conversion signals per week to exit learning phase. 42% of US TikTok performance campaigns now run on Smart+.
+14%
Tag Gateway uplift — Google dataAdvertisers who configured Google's Tag Gateway saw a 14% average uplift in conversion signals — direct proof that tracking quality drives performance.
What We Fix

Three layers.
One complete solution.

All three layers work together — and all three need to be correct for your campaigns to have the data quality they depend on.

01
Foundation

GTM Tracking Audit & Implementation

Most GTM containers have been touched by multiple agencies over multiple years. We audit your entire container, rebuild where needed, and document everything so you own it — not us.

  • Full container audit — every tag, trigger, and variable
  • Duplicate tag removal and dead code cleanup
  • GA4 event schema review and correction
  • Correct conversion and parameter setup per platform
  • Full documentation as future reference for teams
02
Compliance & Modelling

Consent Mode V2 Setup

Mandatory for UK and EEA advertisers since March 2024. We implement Advanced Mode with a certified CMP — recovering conversion modelling from the majority of users who decline cookies.

  • Advanced Consent Mode V2 implementation
  • Certified CMP selection and configuration
  • IAB TCF v2.2 compliance verification
  • Ad_user_data and ad_personalization signals
  • Verified against live conversion data
03
Full Signal Recovery

Server-Side Tracking

Move tracking from the visitor's browser — where it can be blocked — to your own server, where it can't. Higher match rates, cleaner attribution, conversion signals that reach your algorithms intact.

  • Server-side GTM container setup
  • GA4 and Google Ads server-side routing
  • Meta Conversions API (CAPI) integration
  • First-party domain proxying — bypasses ad blockers
  • 30–50% conversion signal recovery
Free Audit

Find out exactly
what you're losing.

Before any implementation work, we show you exactly what your campaigns are missing. We provide you with a detailed audit pinpointing the problems with your tracking infrastructure that are hindering your paid advertising efforts.

No pitch. No proposal until you've seen the gap and decided it's worth fixing.

  • An accurate estimate of your current data loss percentage
  • Identification of which campaigns are most affected
  • A clear explanation of what's broken and why
  • A prioritised fix plan — whether you use us or not
  • An honest assessment of the revenue impact
  • A quote for fixing the identified gaps
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No obligation. We'll show you the gap.
Alex Georgiev — NorthTracking
Alex Georgiev
Founder & Lead Specialist
About
Alex Georgiev
Founder & Lead Specialist

Founder of one of the biggest paid advertising agencies in Bulgaria, later sold to Publicis Groupe. Founder of UK pay-per-click agency in 2006. Member of the Board of Directors in Publicis and Agency lead for Digitas Sofia.

The tracking problems we fix are the same ones we watched destroy campaign performance for brands spending millions per month. The difference between a well-configured tracking stack and a broken one is not marginal — it is the difference between campaigns that learn correctly and campaigns that don't.

Background
Senior management at Digitas / Publicis Groupe — global top-5 advertising network
Specialisation
Digital strategy, data strategy, and campaign measurement across major digital platforms, CRM
Verticals
E-commerce, retail, financial services — high-volume performance advertising
Approach
Business-outcome focus — we speak CMO, not just developer. Tracking fixed in context of campaign performance.
What's coming
EU AI Act compliance — August 2026 deadline requires GTM changes most businesses don't know about yet.
Availability
Limited audit slots per month. UK and international clients welcome.

Your campaigns are spending.
Make sure they're learning.

Server-side tracking and correctly implemented Consent Mode can recover 30–50% of lost conversion signals. For a brand spending £50,000 per month on ads, that is the difference between campaigns that optimise accurately and campaigns that don't.

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// No obligation · No proposal until you've seen the gap