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Your business has a website and an app, and you want to analyze user journeys across these two platforms, as well as see how new users arrive at your website and app. Which of the following should you use for these insights?

Google Marketing Platform
Google Analytics Admin API
Firebase
Google Analytics properties

Correct Answer

Google Analytics properties

Why is this the correct answer?

You should use Google Analytics properties. A single property can collect from a website and from iOS and Android apps through separate data streams, and because all of it is recorded with the same event-based data model, journeys can be analysed across platforms instead of in separate silos. That covers both halves of the question: acquisition reporting shows how new users first arrive on each platform, and cross-platform analysis shows what they do afterwards, including journeys that begin on the web and finish in the app. Adding User-ID strengthens this further by joining a signed-in person's activity across devices. Firebase remains relevant for app development and diagnostics, and Google Marketing Platform covers advertising and measurement products, but the unified journey analysis described here happens in an Analytics property.

Why are the other options wrong?

Google Marketing Platform

Google Marketing Platform is a suite of advertising and measurement tools, not the place where unified web and app journeys are analysed.

Google Analytics Admin API

The Admin API automates configuration of Analytics accounts and properties. It is not a reporting or analysis tool.

Firebase

Firebase supports app development, messaging and crash reporting. On its own it does not analyse website journeys alongside app behaviour.

Real-world example

A retailer adds its iOS and Android apps as data streams alongside the website in one property. Analysis shows customers browsing on mobile web, then installing the app to complete checkout — a pattern that made web campaigns look unprofitable when each platform was measured separately.

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