Tag management system

A tag management system was designed to help manage the lifecycle of e-marketing tags (sometimes referred to as tracking pixels or web beacons), which are used to integrate third-party software into digital properties such as websites and web applications.[1] However, as tag management systems have grown in sophistication they've developed as powerful tools to create rich data in the space between user, their browser and the property. This data can be fed to marketing tools or even used to make dynamic changes to the website or application itself.

For management of metadata tags, see tag management.

Functionality

E-marketing tags are used to add functionality to web sites, video content, and mobile apps. Such functionality can include web analytics, campaign analytics, audience measurement, personalization, A/B testing, ad servers, behavioral retargeting, and conversion tracking.

The main advantages of a tag management system is that it allows non-developer types to action a multitude of different tasks on a website or application whilst improving performance by reducing written code. It does this by replacing a multitude of tags - historically managed by a developer - with a single container tag which sits across all areas of the property. The tag management system is then accessed separately (normally via a website) to prioritize and "fire" individual tags as appropriate based on business rules, navigation events and known data.[2] Typical functionality includes testing environment (sandboxing), audit trail and version control, ability to A/B test different solutions, tag deduplication, and role-based access to data.

Benefits

Typically cited benefits of tag management systems include:

  • Agility: Reduced reliance on technical resources and reduced dependency on IT cycles confers greater agility to business users.[3]
  • Performance: Reduced page load times thanks to asynchronous tag loading, conditional tag loading and tag timeout functionality.
  • Cost savings: Ability to deduplicate tags used to attribute commission.
  • Data control: Ability to control data leakage to third-parties and comply with data privacy legislation (cookie consent, do not track).[4] Tag managers also provide another layer of abstraction for managing the complexity of large websites.
  • Safe preview: Some tag managers, such as Google Tag Manager and Ensighten, include a preview mode which allows checking for formatting and security issues before deploying tags to production.[5][6]

Notable providers

References
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  5. Amari, Zaid. "Why you should setup Google Tag Manager". PPC Masterminds. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  6. "Ensighten training". Ensighten. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  7. "Dynamic tag management, tag manager | Adobe Marketing Cloud". www.adobe.com. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
  8. "Ensighten". Ensighten. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
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  11. https://www.salesforce.com/products/marketing-cloud/data-management/
  12. "Tealium iQ". Tealium. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
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