{"id":6273,"date":"2024-09-12T09:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:25:03","slug":"leveraging-microsoft-clarity-for-paid-media-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarity.microsoft.com\/blog\/leveraging-microsoft-clarity-for-paid-media-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Microsoft Clarity for Paid Media Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Microsoft Clarity is a powerful engagement and behavior analysis tool with broad applications. In this blog post, we’ll focus on how to maximize its value from a paid media perspective. We’ll explore Clarity’s features that are particularly useful for analyzing campaign performance, user interactions with landing pages, and identifying potential drop-off points in your website funnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Landing Page Comparison<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Clarity is great at analyzing individual landing pages, but it also offers a super valuable comparison feature. This is particularly useful when A\/B testing landing pages for paid campaigns. You can use the comparison feature to analyze the performance of two different pages side by side, which is ideal when you’re using different URLs for your tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those using A\/B testing tools, Clarity integrates with platforms like A\/B Tasty, Optimizely, and Kameleoon. If you’re using a different A\/B testing setup – you can build custom tags to filter and compare different variations of the same page. This flexibility allows you to compare and determine which version of a page has more of an influence key actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Leveraging UTMs<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

UTM parameters are crucial for tracking user origins and campaign performance. In Clarity, UTMs are utilized in several ways. The platform offers built-in reports for campaigns, referrers, channels, and sources, which you can easily access from the dashboard. These reports allow you to quickly click into heat maps and session recordings that came from specific campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can also drill down into specific campaigns to view smart events, funnels, and specific heat maps and recordings. The comparison feature I mentioned earlier isn’t limited to landing pages – you can use it to view how different campaigns are performing side by side. This comprehensive view of your UTM data helps you understand the full impact of your campaigns across various metrics and user behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information on how to use UTMs in clarity, view my video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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