Case Study

ASPHALTGOLD: Data-Driven Excellence in E-Commerce with Shop and App

Since January 2022, we have been supporting ASPHALTGOLD—from auditing an unreliable setup to a data foundation that maps shop and app together.

Asphaltgold

Since 2022, Maria, Tim and Marina have been working alongside us on our major analytics initiatives—whether the switch to GA4, server-side tracking or major Shopify updates—and supporting us in continuously optimizing our web and app tracking. Above all, we value the team’s consistently up-to-date know-how and the way they work: always positive, fast and forward-thinking. You can simply tell that the team is passionate about the topic and understands our goals. That’s exactly how it should be!

Eva Nolde, Asphaltgold

Eva Nolde, Head of Digital Marketing
ASPHALTGOLD

Asphaltgold Shop mockup

ASPHALTGOLD is a German fashion company specializing in urban-inspired streetwear. ASPHALTGOLD places particular emphasis on high quality, authenticity and, increasingly, sustainable production processes. In addition to its online shop and selected brick-and-mortar stores, ASPHALTGOLD also sells its products through an app.

About the company

Company
ASPHALTGOLD GmbH
Type
E-commerce
Employees
approx. 100
Location
Darmstadt

Situation

ASPHALTGOLD was entering a phase of strong growth. The marketing and product team was tasked with supporting this growth and scaling its marketing activities.

Challenge

The necessary analytics expertise was missing. In the past, this had led to poor data quality and, as a result, a weak basis for decision-making in the marketing and product team. In addition, there was no adequate data preparation and no processes for structured, data-based optimization.

Solution

We put the tracking setup and the data foundation of the marketing and product team on solid ground, so that the data could effectively support the scaling of marketing activities. With the help of various analyses, dashboards and processes, we enabled ASPHALTGOLD to better understand the customer journey and to optimize based on data. Data monitoring ensures that data quality remains reliable in the long term.

  1. January 2022

    Start of the collaboration

    Audit of the existing setup: data collection was technically unreliable. Migration and optimization of the tracking setup, with Google Analytics 4 set up cleanly from the start in parallel.

  2. September 2022

    Conversions and app tracking

    Expansion of purchase tracking, including correct handling of refunds. In addition, cross-platform tracking that maps the customer journey across shop and app.

  3. April 2023

    Marketing channels and GA4 migration

    New marketing channels were integrated into the tracking—including Webgains, the Meta Conversions API and enhanced Google Ads tracking. During the same period, we completed the migration from Universal Analytics to GA4 and established the first dashboards and reporting processes for product performance and customer journey analyses.

  4. February 2024

    Server-side tracking

    In a joint workshop, we evaluated different server-side tracking options and decided on Elevar. We then carried out the implementation together.

  5. June 2024

    Shopify Checkout Extensibility

    During the upgrade to the new Shopify functionality, we supported the IT agency to ensure a smooth transition in tracking.

  6. February 2025

    Continuous development

    The setup, analyses and reports are continuously being developed further—most recently including new vs. returning customer tracking and the extension of tracking for new shop features, along with matching analyses and reporting.

Since the start of the collaboration, ASPHALTGOLD has benefited from…

Better campaign performance

Maximum data quality and availability in the marketing platforms increases campaign performance and ROAS.

Better ROIs

More effective allocation of budget and personnel resources enables higher ROIs.

Full transparency

Transparency into the performance of the shop, the app and marketing activities simplifies decisions and communication between marketing and management.

Optimized further development

A data-based understanding of the customer journey effectively supports the development of new shop and app features.

The analytics consultants behind the project

Maria-Lena Matysik
Maria-Lena Matysik Founder and CEO Profile of Maria-Lena Matysik
Tim Schneider
Tim Schneider Analytics Consultant
Marina Klöster​
Marina Klöster Analytics Consultant

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