Independent ecommerce measurement

The analyst function your marketing team doesn't have.

Wildlight Media audits, tests, and builds the measurement layer most ecommerce brands and their media agencies don't have — without taking over your media buying.

VERIFIED — measured independently
PLATFORM-REPORTED — taken on trust

Your media buyers know their channel. Someone needs to know the whole picture.

Independent measurement for ecommerce brands who've stopped trusting platform ROAS — whether you're a lean in-house team, working with an agency, or both.

What this looks like

Extra measurement bandwidth without another full-time hire

A second set of eyes across channels your media buyers each only see one piece of

A real, cross-channel picture for leadership — not five dashboards stitched into a deck

Audits built to produce a next action, not just a diagnosis

Finding the waste to cut and the levers safe to scale

The same rigor applied to your agencies and ad-tech stack as to anything in-house

A few composite scenarios based on patterns I see often — not any single client's numbers:

01

A Google Ads account had been run by the same in-house buyer for six years — results were steady, so nobody had reason to question it. A fresh audit found match types and bid strategies that hadn't been touched since they were first set up, still running on "it's working" rather than any recent evidence that it was working as well as it could.

02

A brand's Meta and Google buyers were each hitting their own channel targets, but nobody was checking whether the combined spend was actually incremental — a geo-lift test showed a chunk of a six-figure monthly program was paying for sales that would have happened anyway, freeing budget for a real test elsewhere.

03

A CMO was getting three different decks from three different platforms, each claiming the win for the same conversions — one reconciled dashboard gave leadership a number they could actually act on.

04

A two-person in-house team didn't have the bandwidth to properly audit the agency running their paid social — an outside audit caught a stale conversion pixel that had been under-reporting purchases for months.

05

Tracking passed every internal review but still didn't match Shopify — a rebuilt GA4 event taxonomy closed the gap and gave finance a number it could finally trust.

06

A brand that had capped its best-performing campaign at the same budget for two years out of caution, where an incrementality read showed it still paying back well past that ceiling — so scaling it funded itself within weeks.

Free tool

Know your customer LTV?

Use the free tool and find out — cohort payback, not a blended average.

What's My LTV?
MONTH 1 CUMULATIVE VALUE PER COHORT MONTH 24

Services — In Detail

Note: services marked * require at least $500k/month in paid ad spend, and † at least $500k/month in revenue — they depend on enough spend or order volume to test against.

01

GA4 & Shopify Tracking

GA4 and Shopify are both already collecting your data — that was never the problem. What's missing is the layer on top: a clean, consistent event taxonomy so the numbers are right, plus a reporting setup — GA4's Reports and Explorations, Shopify's own Analytics — so those numbers turn into dashboards you'd actually open. Most setups get the first and skip the second entirely.

See a sample build
SAMPLE — GA4 EVENT TAXONOMYIllustrative

Reflects Shopify's August 2026 Google & YouTube app update.

BEFORE6 issues
view_item_listduplicate
view_cartduplicate
remove_from_cartduplicate
add_shipping_infoduplicate
add_to_cartbrowser-only
purchaseattribution gap
AFTERResolved
view_item_listdeduped
view_cartdeduped
remove_from_cartdeduped
add_shipping_infodeduped
add_to_cartserver-tagged
purchaseattribution fixed
GA4 PURCHASES VS SHOPIFY ORDERS · 30 DAYSShopify: 4,212
Before
71%
After
98%
BEFORE2 collections (defaults)
Life cycledefault
Userdefault
AFTER4 collections, 2 custom
per Google Analytics Help — Library & Explore
Life cycledefault
Userdefault
Ecommerce Performancecustom
Paid Mediacustom
SAVED EXPLORATIONSGA4 Explore
0Before
→
7After
02

Cross-Platform Dashboards

One dashboard instead of five platform tabs that each claim the same conversion. Spend, revenue and contribution reconciled in a single view, with platform-reported numbers shown next to verified ones rather than blended into them. This is Aurelia — the measurement platform behind it.

Explore the live dashboard
AURELIA MEASUREMENT CONSOLEPreview
Aurelia Measurement Console — KPI cards and reported vs. incremental ROAS by channel
03

LTV & CAC Analysis

Your real payback period, by cohort and by acquisition channel — not a blended lifetime value averaged across four years of customers who behave nothing alike. It's the number that decides what you can afford to pay for the next one.

Preview the LTV model
SAMPLE — NET LTV BY COHORTIllustrative
NET LTV PER CUSTOMER · 1Y $237 MEAN · 90% CI ON ESTIMATE $231–$242
MEDIAN $129 · 8,581 CUSTOMERS
BY CHANNELLTVCACLTV:CAC
Google Search$268$525.2x
Meta$214$713.0x
TikTok$176$642.8x
Blended$237$623.8x
BEFORE RETURNS$269
RETURNS TAKE$32 (12%)
ORDERS / CUST.1.77
NET / ORDER$134$152 before returns
Net of returns (what you keep) Before returns (what most dashboards show)
$400$200$0
30d90d6m1y18m2y
04

Attribution Modeling

A model you own and can inspect, rather than a rented black box that reports whichever answer favors the platform selling you the media. Documented assumptions, your data, and a credit split you can defend in a board meeting.

See how attribution works
SAMPLE — CHANNEL ATTRIBUTIONIllustrative
PLATFORM MODEL
CHANNELSPENDCACROASCACROAS
Affiliate$18,200$385.0x$921.9x
Google Brand Search$21,600$414.5x$682.6x
Meta$64,800$583.2x$702.5x
TikTok$37,100$662.1x$482.9x

Platform = each channel's own self-reported conversions. Model = a documented multi-touch model built from your session and order data — methodology and assumptions shown on request, not a black box.

05

Ad Creative Analysis

Which creative is actually driving results, separated from the creative that just collects cheap engagement. Ads tagged by format, hook and offer, then read against efficiency so the next production brief is based on evidence.

See a creative breakdown
SAMPLE — CREATIVE PERFORMANCEIllustrative
DAY-30 ROAS6 ads · Meta · 30 days
5x4x3x2x1x0x
$50$60$70CAC →
1UGC · problem/agitate · 48% hook rate2UGC · before/after · 55% hook rate3Static · founder story · 31% hook rate4Static · testimonial · 27% hook rate5UGC · trend/meme · 62% hook rate6Carousel · ingredient ed. · 38% hook rate
RANK 1 · Ad 3 4.1x2 · Ad 1 3.6x3 · Ad 6 3.2x

Predicted at first order from early signals (AOV, product mix, discount depth); validated against realized cohort value as each cohort matures.

06

Paid Media Audits

A full independent read on what's actually working versus what the platforms report — where spend is double-counted, where the tracking is lying, and what the account would look like if the numbers were trustworthy. Delivered as a written document, not a call.

See a sample audit
SAMPLE — GOOGLE ADS AUDITIllustrative
340keywords01

Bidding against another campaign in the same account.

18% of spend cannibalized
210search terms02

Stat-sig zero conversions, ready to exclude.

→ $14K/mo saved
27ad groups03

Running the same ad copy for 6+ months, never tested against anything new.

last copy change → 7 months, no test since
$0.70/click overpaid04

On brand terms — same 98% impression share at a lower bid.

Paying
$2.10
Holds at
$1.40
31%of SKUs05

Missing the custom labels needed to bid up high-margin products in Shopping/PMax.

31% unlabeled
$46vs. $58 tCPA06

3 of 5 campaigns can hit a lower target without losing volume. Google never suggests tightening one.

Current
$58
Target
$46
07$500K+/MO AD SPEND

Incrementality Testing Program*

Geo-lift testing on a standing schedule — no pixel, no platform cooperation, no tracking prerequisites. Markets held out, results measured against control, and a running record of what each channel is actually causing rather than correlating with.

See a sample readout
SAMPLE — GEO-LIFT READOUTIllustrative
Test: spend increase · 53 daysControl modeled from holdout markets
TEST REVENUE$737.7K
−
CONTROL (MODELED)$666.7K
=
LIFT IN TEST GEOS$70.9K+11%SIGNIFICANT90% CI $16.2K–$105.7K
CHANGE IN REVENUE$70.9K
÷
SPEND ADDED$60,000
=
ROI1.18xSIGNIFICANT90% CI 0.27x–1.76x
REVENUE, CONTROL → TEST
$666.7k
$70.9k
$737.7k
ControlLiftTest
CUMULATIVE REVENUETestControl
$600k$400k$200k$0
1020304050
days after test start
08$500K+/MO REVENUE

Price Testing & Optimization†

The same experimental rigor, pointed at price instead of media. Price points and promo depth tested against real demand in controlled markets, with the margin effect measured — rather than elasticity argued about in a meeting.

See a sample price test
SAMPLE — PRICE TEST READOUTIllustrative

18 matched DMA pairs · 6-week test · $42 baseline · figures per day

TEST B (+10% PRICE) · MARGIN VS. CONTROL+10%95% CI [+4%, +16%]
Revenue fell 1%. Margin rose anyway.
VARIANTPRICEUNITSREVMARGINΔ MARGIN
Control$42210$8,820$3,780—
Test A−10% price$38248$9,424+7%$3,472−8%
Test B+10% price$46189$8,694−1%$4,158+10%

Holdout markets receive no price change; margin change measured against them, not against pre/post company performance.

09

Budget Planning & Optimization

Turning test results into an actual spend plan — how much goes to each channel next quarter, what gets cut, and what the expected return is at each level. An ongoing engagement that updates as new test results land, not a one-time deliverable.

Scope a budget review
SAMPLE — ONE QUARTER'S PLANIllustrative
CurrentRecommended TestedModeled
Affiliate$18.2K →$6.0K−67%
1.2x incremental vs. 5.0x reported
Google Brand Search$21.6K →$9.0K−58%
2.1x incremental vs. 4.5x reported; audit found brand overbidding
Meta$64.8K →$58.0K−10%
1.8x incremental vs. 3.2x reported
TikTok$37.1K →$58.0K+56%
2.4x incremental vs. 2.1x reported — still under-scaled
Non-brand Search~$0 →$20.6Knew
Budget-capped per the paid media audit; no lift test run yet
TOTAL MONTHLY BUDGET$141.7K →$151.6K

— Tom, running Wildlight Media since 2014 — 15 years total running ecommerce media for 7- and 8-figure brands.

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How pricing works.

Every engagement is scoped to the account — reach out and you'll get a real number, not a generic rate card. Built on the same AI and automation I use to run the tracking, the testing, and the modeling myself, which is how this is priced like an analyst, not a platform.

ServicePrice
GA4 & Shopify TrackingHourly or project-based
Cross-Platform DashboardsStarting at $300/month
LTV & CAC AnalysisAsk about the free tool →
Attribution ModelingStarting at $400/month
Ad Creative AnalysisHourly or project-based
Paid Media AuditsStarting at $1,000
Incrementality TestingStarting at $2K per test
Price Testing & OptimizationHourly or project-based
Budget Planning & OptimizationHourly or project-based
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