What is a UTM naming convention?
A UTM naming convention is a shared rule for writing campaign parameters consistently. It prevents one source from splintering into values such as LinkedIn, linkedin, and linkedin-organic, and it keeps the same initiative comparable across email, social, video, partner, and launch traffic.
Keep reports clean after launch day.
- Use lowercase.Analytics tools treat differently cased values as distinct dimensions.
- Choose one separator.Hyphens are readable in URLs; underscores can help when a warehouse parser expects them.
- Keep campaign stable.The launch is the campaign. The channel belongs in source and medium.
- Use a controlled medium list.Prefer deliberate values such as social, email, video, referral, and cpc.
- Name the creative in content.Use content for the specific placement, format, or variant you intend to compare.
Same initiative, different path.
linkedin / social / spring-launch-2026 / carousel-01newsletter / email / spring-launch-2026 / primary-ctayoutube / video / spring-launch-2026 / description-linkUseful before an analytics account exists.
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