Lookback window sensitivity

Advertising semantics

Audience size and composition for a 'visited store X' segment change substantially with the chosen lookback window (7 vs. 30 vs. 90 days); an undocumented or inconsistent window makes cross-campaign comparisons invalid.

Detection

Segment definitions across campaigns/vendors reference 'recent visitors' without a stated day count, or day counts differ between compared segments.

Mitigation

  • Standardize and document the lookback window per use case (planning vs. measurement)
  • Never compare audience sizes across segments built with different lookback windows

Affected conversions

  • PointH3
  • Point+radiusH3