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GA4 to BigQuery Export: What a Marketer Actually Needs to Know (Without Writing SQL)
BigQuery export solves GA4's two-month retention problem and gives raw, unsampled event data - but marketers usually delegate the technical setup and then can't evaluate whether it's actually working. Here is what to check without needing to write a query yourself.
6 min read - Analytics
GA4's Data Retention Setting Is Probably Deleting Your Data at 2 Months
GA4's event-level data retention defaults to 2 months, and most properties never get it changed to the 14-month maximum. Here is exactly what that setting controls, what it does not affect, and why the gap goes unnoticed until someone needs a year-over-year Exploration report.
6 min read
