Adding additional information for referral links in Google Analytics - google-analytics

I've been trying to do a bit of research into this but am not really able to find a proper answer.
I have a number of ad campaigns for my site and I want to see where referrals are coming from and which ad campaigns are working best.
For example, I want to tell how direct email marketing campaigns are performing compared to one another. Normally I think most of these come up as 'direct' traffic in Analytics.
However, I want to know if there is some way I can change the URL's in the various ad campaigns like:
example.com?adcampaign=1
example.com?adcampaign=2
example.com?adcampaign=3
etc,
And then be able to see these in Google Analytics as referrals like Google, Facebook etc,.
Note:
I am using Google Tag Manager to handle advanced ecommerce tracking in Analytics

For future reference this is what is needed:
utm_source // the source it came from
utm_medium // the medium used
utm_campaign //the advertising campaign it is part of
ref: support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en

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I would like to track clicks of a specific button on my website of people who came from the Facebook/Instagram ads I created.
I implemented the Facebook pixel which triggers on pageview.
I also put gtag('send', 'event','apply btn') on the Apply button. This shows me reports on Google Analytics but it doesn't show if those people came from the ads I created.
Is there a view on google analytics where you can see the name of the campaign the user came from, or is there something specific I might be missing in the configuration of the campaign or the gtag?
You have to add parameters to URLs to identify the campaigns that refer traffic.
utm_source: Identify the advertiser, site, publication, etc. that is sending traffic to your property, for example: google, newsletter4, billboard.
utm_medium: The advertising or marketing medium, for example: cpc, banner, email newsletter.
utm_campaign: The individual campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. for a product.
There are also utm_content and utm_term.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en

How do I stop these self-referrals and get accurate referrals from our cross-domain eCommerce data?

Basically, I work for a theater and we send patrons to our primary website (we'll call this theater.org) to look at events and choose what tickets to buy and when they go to purchase tickets, we have put links in our primary webpages to our ticketing platform (we'll call this tickets.com).
Now, I have set up cross-domain tracking so that I can see people once they get onto tickets.com and see if they purchase a ticket. Great! But I can't really see where those people are specifically coming from because the referral source is always theater.org. I would like to see the original referral to theater.org that led to the purchase on tickets.com.
Here's what I've tried:
I've added the allowLinker (true) and the cookieDomain (auto) to my cross-domain Google TagManager
I have added both domains to the Referral Inclusion List (now I just get "direct" as the source for my eCommerce transactions instead of theater.org )
Additional info:
I have used the Analytics debugger console to see that the user-id changes as I move from one of my domains to the other, so that's definitely the primary issue
I see correct referrals on my Page Views for the theater.org , but not tickets.com
You need to make sure both tickets.com and theater.org both use the same Google Analytics property ID (UA-XXXXXXX-X) and have cross-domain tracking configured in the GTM container for BOTH domains.
Then you can look at the acquisition report tp get a sense of how people are arriving at your site OR dimensions like "previous page" or segment your goals by sessions that have visited a specific page.

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In the ads we link to a Clickfunnel Webinar Page.
The Webinar has a contact form that sends us an E-Mail.
I would like to track conversions from the different ads using Google Analytics.
I struggle how to correctly integrate GA.
So far I have figured out that, in the ads we need to use URL parameters linking to the Clickfunnel to figure out which ad is generating the most leads. (utmsource=linkedin, ..)
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https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
Use this line below to create your campaign code.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
use “Campaign Content” to separate banners (names) .
you can use Advance segments to track the number of conversions.

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I'm new to google analytics and I'm a little confused on how to get an unpaid campaign up and runnning. I'm making the campaign in order to track links to a page from different sources (website buttons, emails, newsletters, etc.). What I'm trying to do is set something up in GA so that I can track how people are getting to a specified page. I've been reading this as well:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en&ref_topic=1032998
Do I have to create the campaign in google analytics (and if so where) or do I just apply the appropriate campaign/tracking tags to the links I need tracked and it automatically creates it? Also, how would this work with emails?
Thanks for any help!
Essentially, you will build the campaign tracking URL in URL Builder and put those links in your email, newsletter, etc. Once visitors start to click the links via the email, a campaign will be created under Acquisition > Campaigns.
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GA parses tags at your links and save data about you campaigns.

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