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May 14, 2025

How We Helped a Publisher Make Lytics Useful Again

When we first connected with this digital media company, they had already invested in Lytics. The tag was on the site. Data streams were connected. On paper, everything was “working.”

But inside the org, Lytics wasn’t trusted. Audiences didn’t perform. The reporting wasn’t helping. And the marketing team had largely stopped using the platform.

At Soli & Co, we came in not to rip and replace—but to untangle. Here's how we rebuilt their implementation, clarified their data foundation, and made Lytics a useful, trusted part of their marketing and editorial workflows.

The Problem: Data Was Flowing, but Strategy Was Stuck

The client had connected several tools to Lytics—including their email platform, form system, and event tool. But there was no shared data model behind it. No one could explain what the streams were doing. Audience logic was hit-or-miss. And reporting lived in a tangle of spreadsheets.

What was missing wasn’t effort. It was alignment:

  • Between stream design and actual use cases
  • Between audience logic and campaign goals
  • Between marketing, data, and editorial stakeholders

Soli & Co’s Take: A CDP doesn’t unify your business until your strategy does.

What We Did: Diagnose, Rebuild, Activate

We approached the work in three passes.

Audit + Stream Repair

We reviewed every stream: email activity, form fills, webinar attendance, site tagging. Some were duplicative. Others were missing required fields or poorly structured.

We:

  • Split streams into user-level and activity-level types
  • Normalized fields like brand_name, asset_type, and utm_source
  • Added missing signals like interest tags and category-level interactions

This gave the team usable building blocks—not just ingestion.

 Audience Redesign + QA

Next, we tackled segmentation. We rebuilt critical audiences from the ground up—mapping each one to a real campaign intent (e.g., re-engagement, brand affinity, webinar follow-up).

Every logic tree was tested:

  • Do users qualify for the right reasons?
  • Do the segments reflect funnel stage and brand alignment?
  • Are the exclusions clean and reliable?

We sampled profiles, tested matches, and iterated with the client live—until they had confidence in what they were targeting.

Reporting + Internal Enablement

Finally, we closed the loop. We built dashboards outside of Lytics that visualized:

  • Audience growth and engagement trends
  • Source performance (email, partner, onsite)
  • Funnel conversion by segment and brand

We also trained internal teams to use and interpret this data—so the platform wasn’t just usable, it was used.

Soli & Co’s Take: When people trust the data, they start asking better questions.

The Outcome: From Tool Fatigue to Strategic Momentum


After the reset:

  • Marketing had reliable audiences they could activate confidently
  • Editorial had insight into what content moved users down-funnel
  • Sales had audience growth reporting tied to brands and topics
  • The CDP earned its place again—not as a checklist, but as a strategic tool

What changed wasn’t the software. It was the clarity behind it.

Is Your CDP Just Sitting There?

You don’t need to rebuild from scratch. Sometimes the right audit, a few schema fixes, and a clearer campaign lens are all it takes. Let’s make Lytics useful again.

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