Cross-Platform Ad Attribution Engine
Client
D2C E-Commerce Brand
Region
🇺🇸 USA
Duration
4 Months
BitFleche Role
Lead Data & API Engineering
+217%
ROAS Improvement
$4.1M
Revenue Growth
44%
CAC Reduction
The Challenge
A leading American D2C e-commerce brand was scaling rapidly but faced a critical attribution blind spot. They were spending millions across Google Ads, Meta (FB/IG), TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, X (Twitter), and Pinterest, but their marketing team had no unified way to track cross-channel journeys.
Each ad platform claimed credit for the same conversion, leading to inflated ROAS numbers and approximately 30% misallocation of the monthly media budget. Data was siloed in different interfaces, making it impossible to perform effective channel-mix modeling or true customer lifetime value (CLV) analysis.
To continue scaling profitably, they needed a single source of truth: a custom-built attribution engine capable of deduplicating conversion data across all major ad networks.
Our Approach & Solution
BitFleche built a centralized AdTech operations platform that provides real-time marketing intelligence and automated budget optimization.
Key features of our engineering approach: - **Unified Marketing API Ingestion**: Developed a serverless data collection layer that integrates with 7 major advertising APIs. Ingested raw campaign, creative, and performance data into a high-throughput data warehouse. - **Probabilistic & Deterministic Matching**: Built an attribution engine that combines first-party cookies, email hashes, and behavioral patterns to map the full multi-touch customer journey. - **Real-Time ROAS Dashboard**: A high-performance analytics interface designed with Next.js and D3.js, giving the media buying team a unified view of spend and revenue across every platform down to the ad-group level. - **Automated Budget Reallocation**: Implemented a rule-based engine that identifies underperforming campaigns and alerts the marketing team, with a "one-click rebalance" feature that updates budgets across all platforms via the APIs.
Drove a 217% increase in blended ROAS within the first quarter
Reduced Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by 44%
Unlocked $4.1M in incremental revenue by reallocating budget to top-performing channels
Stopped an estimated $120K per month in wasted ad spend on overlapping audiences
Full data ownership: consolidated all marketing data into their own AWS environment
Automated 12+ hours of manual weekly reporting work for the marketing team
The Impact
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