First-touch attribution
First-touch gives 100% of the credit for a sale to the very first link a buyer ever clicked — the channel that introduced them to your product. It is the right lens for judging top-of-funnel investments like SEO content, a YouTube sponsorship, or a podcast read, because those channels rarely close the deal on the same visit but are the reason the buyer exists at all. If your last-touch dashboard keeps crediting direct and retargeting, first-touch usually reveals which awareness channel actually filled the pipeline.







