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Newsletter (pseudonymous measurement)

Integration

In order for the newsletter requests to be fully collected and processed in our pseudonymous measurement process, the newsletter script must be integrated as follows:

Important!

Please pay attention to the legal applicable regulations when sending newsletters.

  1. insert the newsletter script into the of the HTML newsletter:
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<!-- SZM VERSION="2.0" -->
<img src="https://de.ioam.de/tx.io?st=Angebotskennung&np=Code&mo=0&ct=010fff0fff" width="1" height="1" alt="szmtag" />
<!--/SZM -->
  1. adjust the variables "st" (site ID) and "np" (page code).
Note

To ensure correct measurement, the SZM tag 2.0 must be copied unchanged into the source code of the newsletter to be measured. Only the specified variables may be changed. Line breaks, upper and lower case letters must be kept!

1.1 Technical restrictions

In order to enable a coverage survey of HTML newsletters with the pseudonymous measuring system, a functionally restricted http call-up is used without the use of JavaScript.

The lack of JavaScript functionality results in the following restrictions in data collection:

  • no collection of URLs or referrers with data protection compliant automatic shortening
  • no collection of screen resolution and color depth
  • no consideration of DNT
  • weaker client resolution, e.g. no separation for no-cookie clients hidden behind proxies
  • reduced ability to detect fake or automatic retrievals

These technical limitations may have a negative impact on the detected usage values of your digital site (e.g., lower number of detected clients).

1.2 Meaning of the variables in the newsletter tag

abbreviation meaning description
st Site ID

(site) marked "site ID" in the example under Integration		 The site ID assigned to your digital site; this is created by INFOnline and assigned once; the ID is a maximum of 8 characters long.
np Code

Marked with "page code" in the example under Integration		 The code can be freely defined by the provider and is used to identify its tagged newsletters in the measuring system.

The code is the basis for subsequent category assignment in the INFOnline Customer Center (KAT 2.0).

The code may contain a maximum of 255 characters and consist only of alphanumeric characters; the following special characters are permitted: ',' '/' '-' '_'.

The sum of active codes for the site digital offer should not exceed a total number of 3,000. Use of more than 3,000 active codes is subject to a charge.

NOTE: For testing purposes, "np" can be replaced with "xp". In this case, the requests will be discarded by the measuring system.
ct Consent-Variable The variable "ct=010fff0000" is used to inform the measuring system that this request may be processed in the IVW context.

Please observe legal regulations for newsletter surveys.

2 Analysis of newsletter requests in IDAS

Codes from the newsletter measurement are automatically prefixed with "PUSH_" when entering the measuring system.

Example:

  1. use the following newsletter script with page code "NLCODE123": 
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    <!-- SZM VERSION="2.0" -->
<img src="https://de.ioam.de/tx.io?st=Angebotskennung&np=**NLCODE123**&mo=0&ct=010fff0fff" width="1" height="1" alt="szmtag" />
<!--/SZM -->

  2. call of HTML newsletter by user - page code NLCODE123 is sent to measuring system.

  3. page code NLCODE123 automatically becomes PUSH_NLCODE123.

  4. the page code "PUSH_NLCODE123" will be sent to all downstream systems like

    • Code allocation in the Customer Center
    • IDAS evaluation
    • Data delivery to IVW

    are displayed.

Note

Please pay particular attention to this when assigning codes in the Category System 2.0, which you do in the INFOnline Customer Center (code management).

Last update: July 19, 2023