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UTMs: The Taxonomy That Survives 5 Years

Kumakshi Verma 3 min readJuly 15, 2024

Standardize medium and source

Use Google's standard values: cpc, email, social, organic. Don't invent. Reporting relies on consistency.

Campaign naming is strict

Format: [platform]-[objective]-[audience]-[creative]-[date]. 'meta-aware-lookalike-video-2026q2'. No spaces, no caps, no punctuation.

Document and enforce

Single doc. Every launched campaign gets UTMs reviewed. Standards decay the instant you stop enforcing.

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