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In digital marketing, the choice of ad format directly influences the design and granularity of event streams used for tracking user interactions and campaign performance. Event streams capture real-time user behaviors such as impressions, clicks, video plays, or swipes, which vary significantly depending on the ad format (e.g., display banners, video ads, interactive rich media). For example, a video ad format requires event streams to track play, pause, completion rates, and engagement depth, whereas a static banner primarily tracks impressions and clicks. This specificity enables marketers to tailor event streams to capture meaningful, format-specific user actions, allowing for precise measurement, optimization, and attribution of campaign effectiveness. Furthermore, integrating event streams aligned with ad formats supports dynamic retargeting and personalization strategies by feeding real-time behavioral data into decision engines, thus enhancing user experience and ROI. Therefore, the relationship is practical and operational: ad formats define the types of user events to be captured, and event streams provide the structured data necessary to analyze and optimize those formats effectively within digital strategies.