What are view-through conversions?

Learn about how to track audience ad impressions as conversions even if the customer doesn't click the ad.

Note

To use this feature, you will need to have Universal Event Tracking (UET) set up. Learn more about UET.

With view-through conversions, when an audience ad plants the idea of your product or service in a customer's mind, that ad gets credit for the eventual conversion, even if the customer never clicked the ad. An audience ad impression counts as a conversion when this happens:

Your audience ad appears on a webpage that a potential customer visits.
Within a time period that you have defined, the same customer makes a purchase or other conversion on your website, without clicking your ad in the interim.

Key things to keep in mind

If customers click on any of your ads across Microsoft Advertising, they'll automatically be excluded from your view-through conversion metric so they won't be counted twice.
View-through conversions are tracked for both audience campaign ads and search ads extended to the Microsoft Audience Network.
This performance metric appears in the View-through conversions column of your tables and reports. View-through conversions are attributed to the last impression and are reported at the time of the impression.

Including view-through conversions in the All conv. column

By default, view-through conversions are counted the same as other conversions, and are therefore included in the figure you see in the All conv. column of your tables and reports. To change this setting:

From the collapsible menu on the left, select All campaigns > Settings > Account level options.

If you're using the new Microsoft Advertising navigation, from the navigation menu on the left, hover over Campaigns and select Settings > Account level options.
For View-through conversions, select or unselect the checkbox next to Include view-through conversion from Audience Network in your "All conv." columns.
Select Save.

Note

View-through conversions aren't included in the All conv. CPA column—even when they are included in the All conv. column.

Setting your view-through conversion window

The view-through conversion window is the time between an impression and the last moment you want this impression to count towards a view-through conversion.

By default, all UET-based conversion goals are set with a view-through conversion window of 1 day. For new conversion goals, you can change this setting on the Goal details page when you create the goal. To change this setting for existing conversion goals:

From the top menu, select Tools > Conversion goals.

If you're using the new Microsoft Advertising navigation, from the navigation menu on the left, hover over Conversions and select Conversion goals.
Select the conversion goal you want to edit.
Select Next to get to the Conversion goal details page.
For View-through conversion window, enter a new time period.
Select Save.