Integrating Data & Insights (Lytics)
Data & Insights (Lytics) is Contentstack’s behavioral data and audience platform that powers real-time personalization. It integrates with your CMS to classify content, track visitor behavior, and deliver smarter, more relevant experiences at scale.
By enabling the Data Activation Layer (DAL), you can connect audience behaviour from Data & Insights (Lytics) directly to personalized content in your stack, allowing you to adapt homepage messaging, optimize landing pages, and tailor marketing journeys based on what users care about most, in the moments that matter.
Why Use Data & Insights (Lytics)?
Data & Insights (Lytics) bridges behavioral data with content delivery. Enabling DAL unlocks several key benefits:
- Real-time personalization: Deliver tailored content using live user behavior and audience membership, beyond static rules.
- Unified data fabric: Link CMS entries, external data, and personalization strategy in one consistent flow.
- Omnichannel readiness: Ensure consistent personalization across websites, mobile apps, email campaigns, and other digital touchpoints.
- No-code scale: Activate audiences and variants across environments without the need to build or maintain custom infrastructure.
How Data & Insights (Lytics) Connects to Your Stack?
Once enabled, Data & Insights (Lytics) integrates across the following components using the DAL architecture:
| Product | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Contentstack CMS | Classifies content and syncs entries with DAL |
| Data & Insights (Lytics) | Collects behavior data and builds audience profiles |
| Contentstack Personalize | Syncs all audiences from your Lytics account to your Personalize project |
| Contentstack Launch | Deploys the DAL JavaScript tag to your environment |
Together, these components form a continuous feedback loop connecting live behavioral data with content delivery, so your CMS becomes the engine for real-time personalization at scale.
What Can You Do With DAL?
- Set up a DAL configuration from Org Admin in Contentstack
- Deploy the tracking tag via Contentstack Launch or your preferred deployment method
- Sync CMS entries and metadata to build topic-based content maps
- Build and explore audiences based on real user behavior and insights
- Push audiences into a Personalize project to trigger dynamic content delivery
Once your DAL is active, you can monitor visitor behavior, adjust content strategies, and launch hyper-targeted campaigns with full visibility into what’s working, and why.
What You Need Before Getting Started?
Before getting started with DAL, make sure you have:
- Access to the Contentstack Organization as the Owner/Admin with DAL enabled (contact our support team to get this enabled for your organization)
- A website or app where the DAL tag can be deployed (via Launch, Google Tag Manager, or directly in your code)
Lytics/DAL Dev Tools Chrome extension installed for your browser
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