How to Integrate BigID cookie banner with GTM (Google Tag Manager)

  • Updated on Aug 7, 2025
  • Published on Jul 17, 2025
  • 2 minute(s) read
  • Rodrigo Irarrazaval
  • Yossi Karp
  • DF
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In Short

Use BigID’s pre-built GTM template to deploy the cookie banner via Google Tag Manager.

Access: Cookies & Trackers > “Select a domain” > Overview

Overview

BigID’s Google Tag Manager (GTM) integration offers a no-code template for quick and easy deployment.

As a Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP), BigID is fully compatible with Google Consent Mode v2, ensuring seamless integration and compliance with Google’s privacy requirements. Thanks to this It works seamlessly with Google Consent Mode v2 and is certified by Google for privacy compliance

Step‑by‑step instructions

In the BigID Cookies & Trackers dashboard, select the domain you want to configure. From the Overview tab, locate the Banner Integration Center on the right-hand side and select Tag Manager.

Install BigID ‘s Google Tag Template

BigID offers an official BigID Google Tag Template, approved by Google and available directly within the Community Template Gallery. This template simplifies deployment, ensures compatibility with Google Consent Mode v2, and helps streamline compliance with global privacy regulations. Plus, by doing it this way BigID will initialize the Google Consent Mode V2 properly for you without the need for any extra configuration.

To add it to your Tag Manager, go to your Google Tag Manager and follow these simple steps:

  1. In Google Tag Manager, go to the Templates section and click on "Search Gallery".

  2. Click on the magnifier icon at the upper right part of the screen and look for "BigID". Select "BigID Cookie CMP".


  3. Click on "Add to workspace" and then confirm the installation when the pop-up opens.


If you followed these three steps, you just installed our Tag Template. Now all we need to do is actually use it.

Activate the BigID banner

  1. In Google Tag Manager, now go to the Tag section and click on "New".

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  2. Then click on the Tag configuration box and pick BigID Cookie CMP tag type.

  3. Go to the BigID platform and in the integration section copy the Banner Source under the category of Google Tag Manager. Then paste it in the box that says Banner Source as shown below.

  4. Then click on the Triggering box and set Consent Initialization - All Pages as the trigger for the tag.

  5. Add a name to the tag on the upper left and then click on "Save".


  6. Finally, publish the new version by clicking on Submit.

[Advanced] Integrating GTM with the browser’s Global Privacy Control (GPC)

After you installed BigID’s Cookie Banner Tag Template you can integrate the browser’s GPC setting with the following steps:

  1. In GTM, go to the User-defined Variables section on the Variables screen and click on New.


  2. Create a Javascript Variable with the value navigator.globalPrivacyControl. You can pick any name of your preference for the variable like “Global Privacy Control”.


  3. Go to the Tags screen and then open your BigID Cookie Banner tag instance. Click on the Tag Configuration and then on the icon that looks like a building block with a plus in it next to the Global Privacy Control input.

  4. You will see a list of variables. Select the one you just created, in our example our “Global Privacy Control” variable.

  5. Click on “Save” and then publish the new workspace version.

Next steps - Block scripts until user’s consent

If you use third-party scripts and tools, leverage GTM to block them before consent.