TRACKS

TRACKS is a marketing intelligence platform for gaming that offers full-funnel attribution tracking and media analytics, delivering holistic views of ROAS, media performance, creative performance, brand health and more for PC and console games in a single environment.

TRACKS
Unlock full data insights

TRACKS offers holistic data tracking and analysis, allowing you to fully understand your marketing performance at every stage of the funnel. This ensures your media spend planning and reporting are both precise and insightful.

Boost ad efficiency

With full attribution tracking, TRACKS enables precise targeting of high-impact audiences and strategically optimized ad placements. This maximizes your Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), ensuring every marketing dollar is effectively utilized.

Leverage Marketing Intelligence

Leveraging data-driven insights, TRACKS empowers publishers, developers, and advertisers to seamlessly integrate marketing intelligence for gaming into their campaigns. This advanced approach drives superior results, enhancing your overall marketing strategy.

GAIN DEEPER INSIGHTS AND OPTIMIZE YOUR CAMPAIGNS WITH GAMING INTELLIGENCE
  • Integrated full-funnel attribution tracking for PC and console.

  • 65+ platform data integrations for media, analytics, social & influencer performance.

  • Individual modules for install tracking, media performance, creative performance, brand health and more.

  • Custom configurations for individual games at every stage of their lifecycle.

  • Updates four times per day.

  • Export to Excel CSV, PDF.

The Perfect Data Blend

TRACKS integrates ad, website and attribution data into an holistic view to enable easy comparison between channels, GEOs, beats and more at a glance. Created using the combined experience and perspective of performance media and gaming experts over the years, our reports are designed to show each dimension combination to provide clear picture to campaign performance.

  • Media Performance Data

  • Website Data

  • Attribution Data

Attribution Tracking

With TRACKS Attribution, our inhouse solution to track full-funnel attribution, we can measure Cost-per-Install and ROAS effectively and improve targeting algorithms towards valuable in-game activated segments.

If required, TRACKS also integrates with third-party solutions from partners such as Appsflyer, Gamesight or Singular.

Creative Performance

In TRACKS, the Creative Performance feature shows detailed performance of individual creatives and helps to optimize towards best performing creatives and avoid ad fatigue.

Key Dimensions
  • Display and Video Performance

  • Creative Performance by GEO, Audience

  • A/B Comparison

Audience Insights

TRACKS is able to provide granular insights into audiences based on day-to-day campaign performance, providing detailed socio-demographic information on the userbase of your game.

Key Dimensions
  • Users per country / city / gender / age

  • Campaign KPI per age and gender

  • User interest and engagement

Awareness Tracking

To deliver granular reporting on top-of-funnel activations, the TRACKS Awareness Tracker delivers detailed breakdowns on metrics such as Impressions, Views, Engagement Rates or Viewability.

Key Dimensions
  • Ad Viewability

  • Ad Engagement

  • Reach & Penetration Rates

Brand Health Tracking

The TRACKS Brand Health Tracker allows to highlight top-of-funnel awareness from social, media and UGC and enables to make data-driven key decisions on strategic direction and timings.

Key Dimensions
  • Presence Score vs Competition

  • Share of Voice (SoV)

  • Social Buzz

Why Choose Tracks

A solution for every campaign

TRACKS offers multiple tiers tailored to meet the diverse needs of your campaigns. Whether you’re a small studio or a large gaming enterprise, our customizable plans provide the right level of insights and analytics to optimize your game’s success. Choose the tier that best suits your goals and start harnessing the power of gaming intelligence today.

Why Choose Tracks
Bronze

2 month minimum duration

  • Modelled Install Tracking (Steam)
  • Campaign Performance
  • Week vs Week Performance
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Silver

6 month minimum duration

  • Full Funnel Attribution Tracking (PC & Console)
  • Campaign Performance
  • Week vs Week Performance
  • Creative Performance
  • Audience Insights
  • Landingpage Analytics
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Gold

6 month minimum duration

  • Full Funnel Attribution Tracking (PC & Console)
  • Campaign Performance
  • Week vs Week Performance
  • Creative Performance
  • Audience Insights
  • Landingpage Analytics
  • Awareness Tracker
  • Brand Health Tracker
  • Influencer Conversion Tracking
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Platinum

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  • Full Funnel Attribution Tracking (PC & Console)
  • Campaign Performance
  • Week vs Week Performance
  • Creative Performance
  • Audience Insights
  • Landingpage Analytics
  • Awareness Tracker
  • Brand Health Tracker
  • Influencer Conversion Tracking
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FAQ

Second Stage TRACKS is a marketing intelligence platform specifically designed for the gaming industry. It offers media analytics and includes full-funnel attribution tracking, providing a holistic view of Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), media performance, creative performance, brand health, and more for PC and console games—all within a single environment.

TRACKS integrates data across 65+ platforms, including media, analytics, social, and influencer performance. This allows for comprehensive tracking and reporting across all stages of a game’s lifecycle. The platform updates data four times per day, ensuring that insights are always current.

TRACKS features an in-house solution for full-funnel attribution tracking for PC and console games, effectively measuring metrics like Cost-per-Install (CPI) and ROAS. Additionally, it can integrate with third-party attribution solutions such as Appsflyer, Gamesight, or Singular, offering flexibility depending on your existing setup.

TRACKS provides a deeply integrated first-party attribution tracking solution with several key benefits:

– Seamless implementation: Easy backend integration without the need for SDKs or in-game code.
– High tracking accuracy: Auto-tagging and connections to web analytics and Steam ensure full visibility throughout the user journey.
– Error-Free: Reduces the likelihood of errors through best-practice backend implementation.
– Improved Privacy: Enhances privacy through a secure hybrid cloud setup that minimizes data exposure.

The Creative Performance feature in TRACKS provides detailed performance data for individual creatives. This helps optimize campaigns by identifying the best-performing creatives and mitigating ad fatigue, ensuring that your creative assets are used effectively.

TRACKS delivers granular insights into your game’s audience based on day-to-day campaign performance. This includes detailed socio-demographic information, allowing you to better understand and target your user base.

TRACKS‘ Awareness Tracker offers detailed reporting on top-of-funnel activations, breaking down metrics such as impressions, views, engagement rates, and viewability. This feature helps measure and optimize awareness campaigns effectively.

Yes, the Brand Health Tracker within TRACKS provides insights into top-of-funnel awareness generated by social media, media campaigns and user-generated content (UGC). This data-driven approach helps you make key strategic decisions about brand direction and timing.

TRACKS offers a more advanced and integrated approach to media campaign management compared to traditional setups. Key differences include:
– Enhanced Data Collection: Through extensive link tagging and improved analytics integration.
– Advanced Targeting: Utilizing installer lookalikes and retargeting churned players.
– Custom Reporting: Tailored reports for creative performance, audience insights, awareness, and influencer conversions.
– Optional Campaign Execution: Second Stage can also provide optional campaign management services.

Absolutely. Every campaign is unique and we tailor our approach accordingly. We create custom dashboards for each game to ensure that the most relevant insights are highlighted at all times.

You can learn more in our detailed FAQ on Second Stage TRACKS.

Get in touch

We are always open to discuss potential projects and gaming in general. Please reach out!

Our locations

Remote in
Berlin, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey
Tallin, Estonia

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