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Merchant Centre performance reports change on 24 August

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From 24 August, Merchant Centre performance reports separate YouTube affiliate results from organic traffic, revise the YouTube organic traffic definitions, expand product-level reporting for Google Ads, and add segmentation, aligning definitions across Merchant Centre, Google Ads, and YouTube. Historical data back to 1 July is also restated under the revised definitions.

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For you, this means comparisons break at the changeover and history shifts beneath you, so annotate 24 August and re-baseline before anyone asks why the numbers moved.

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Merchant Centre performance reports change on 24 August

From 24 August, Merchant Centre performance reports separate YouTube affiliate results from organic traffic, revise the YouTube organic traffic definitions, expand product-level reporting for Google Ads, and add segmentation, aligning definitions across Merchant Centre, Google Ads, and YouTube. Historical data back to 1 July is also restated under the revised definitions. For you, this means comparisons break at the changeover and history shifts beneath you, so annotate 24 August and re-baseline before anyone asks why the numbers moved.

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