"Good enough" misconceptions

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“My data setup is good enough for now” → a phrase that keeps marketers comfortable… and keeps their AI underperforming 👀



In the era of signal loss and privacy shifts, ‘good enough’ is actually a self-imposed 14% growth tax* on your bottom line.



As Kamal Janardhan (Senior PM Director, Google) and Jeff Saurer (CEO, MeasureU) discuss, data strength isn’t a one-time project; it’s a continuous investment of how you make AI work for you.



AI isn’t the strategy; it’s the engine that runs on the quality of your signals. Here’s how to tune yours:

📡 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀: Stop the manual “grunt work” and use Data Manager to unify your CRM, web, and app data into a single “AI fuel system.”

🔋 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀: Combat browser restrictions and signal decay by upgrading to Google tag gateway for advertisers. Resilient server-side tagging can recapture up to 14% of conversions lost to signal degradation.*

🔑 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: When you fuel smart bidding with high-quality first-party data, the results speak for themselves. Advertisers see an average 10% uplift in conversions by simply connecting their unique signals.**



Shift from correlation to causal certainty. What’s your biggest hurdle in moving away from a “good enough” measurement setup?



*Source: Google Internal Data, Global Finance analysis (Jan - June 2025), approved Goliath GTG Incrementality study. Advertisers adopting Google Tag Gateway observed an average 14% conversion lift.

**Source: Google Data, all campaigns types where there were at least 1 biddable Google Click ID-attributed offline conversion, median lift of offline biddable conversions, May 22, 2024- Jun 4, 2024.