This Analytics feature allows you to connect individual customers' behavior across various interactions on different platforms and devices by letting you associate your own identifiers with your individual customers.
Device-ID
Audience triggers
Predictive audiences
User-ID
Explanation
Correction Note: The correct answer to this question is User-ID. The explanation below clarifies this and addresses the provided options.
Analysis of Correct Answer(s)
The feature described is User-ID. This is the specific Google Analytics function designed to unify user journeys across multiple sessions, devices, and platforms.
- Function: The User-ID feature lets you associate a persistent, non-personally identifiable ID that you generate (e.g., from your customer database for logged-in users) with that user's activity.
- Benefit: When a user logs in on their desktop and later on their mobile app, Analytics uses the same User-ID to recognize them as a single user, not two different ones. This provides a more accurate user count and a complete view of the customer journey, directly matching the question's description of connecting behavior "across various interactions on different platforms and devices."
Analysis of Incorrect Options
- Audience triggers: This feature creates an event when a user's actions cause them to become a member of an audience. For example, you can trigger a
new_high_value_customerevent. It is a reactive feature based on audience membership, not a primary user identification tool for cross-device tracking. - Device-ID: This identifies a specific device or browser instance, but it cannot connect a single user's activity between different devices.
- Predictive audiences: These are audiences created by Google's machine learning to predict future user behavior (e.g., likelihood to purchase). This feature does not involve associating your own identifiers for cross-device analysis.