Last Click Attribution is Dead: Here’s How to Fix it [MozCon 2025 Speaker Series]

Mid-June, 2024. A full page of indecipherable glyphs runs in The Seattle Times, with the only clue a typewritten-style note at the bottom: “Printed at the request of LONGLEGS.” A week later, a user named Mr_Downstairs leaves strings of glyphs in the comments on Letterboxd. Image Source Billboards pop up; a partially obscured face peers…

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When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not what happened…