Integration spotlight: Adobe Analytics

With Adobe Analytics integrated into Brightspot CMS, site administrators, editors and content creators gain seamless access to real-time insights without switching between platforms. Whether tracking site performance via dashboards or analyzing content performance through the Analytics tab, this integration ensures data is always at your fingertips.

As a leading tool for understanding website performance and audience behavior, Adobe Analytics provides robust metrics and reporting capabilities. Brightspot’s integration simplifies accessing and acting on this valuable data directly within the CMS.

Adobe Analytics and Brightspot: How it works

Brightspot integrates with Adobe Analytics through its API, allowing users to configure reports that provide critical insights into both sitewide activity and individual content performance. The integration is flexible and can be tailored to deliver the metrics most important to your organization.

The setup process includes:

  • Activating Adobe Analytics at the global level within Brightspot
  • Linking specific sites to Adobe Analytics to retrieve relevant data
  • Importing an Adobe Analytics report suite to support custom reporting
  • Setting up detailed reports for site-level (e.g., referral traffic and device usage) or asset-level (e.g., page views and engagement) analytics

For advanced users, archival reports are available for debugging and auditing purposes, ensuring transparency and reliability in your analytics.

How Brightspot displays Adobe Analytics data

Brightspot displays Adobe Analytics data in two key areas:

  1. Site-level metrics: Configurable dashboard widgets present an overview of site-wide performance, enabling administrators to monitor key trends such as traffic sources, audience demographics and device usage.
  2. Asset-level metrics: The Analytics tab on content edit pages provides granular insights for individual stories, videos or other assets, helping authors and editors evaluate and optimize their work in real-time.

For detailed steps, see:

Adobe Analytics and Brightspot: Use cases

  • Administrator use case: A site administrator logs into the Brightspot Dashboard to review key performance metrics for the website. Insights into traffic patterns or audience behavior guide immediate actions, such as refining a content strategy or addressing performance bottlenecks.
  • Editor use case: An editor uses the Analytics tab on a specific article to review how readers are engaging with their content. With a clear view of metrics like views, referrals or time spent on the page, they can make data-informed adjustments to enhance performance.
Easily configure the Adobe Analytics integration to bring powerful metrics directly into Brightspot CMS. This integration allows you to populate site-level analytics via customizable dashboards and asset-level insights through the Analytics tab. With straightforward steps for global setup, site configuration, report suite imports and detailed report creation, Adobe Analytics provides actionable data for monitoring and optimizing your content strategy.

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