Google Campaign Manager 360: Setup guide

Google Campaign Manager 360: Setup guide#

This guide explains how to collect data from Google Campaign Manager 360.

Introduction#

For a list of the fields that you can collect from Google Campaign Manager 360, see Google Campaign Manager 360.

Limitations#

Collecting data from Google Campaign Manager 360 comes with the following limitations:

  • You can only collect data on the fields and reports made available to you within the Google Campaign Manager 360 user interface. For more information on user permissions in Google Campaign Manager 360, see the Google documentation.

  • In some cases, browser settings or application settings may prevent Google Search Ads 360 from directly measuring conversions, and imported goals and transactions. Conversion metrics are scaled when there is enough data to meet accuracy thresholds. When scaling is applied to account for data that cannot be measured due to factors such as browser settings, this may result in fractions, which are then rounded. This rounding may result in discrepancies within data. For more information about discrepancies, see the Google documentation.

Prerequisites#

Before you start collecting data from Google Campaign Manager 360, perform all of the following actions:

  1. Ensure that you have a user profile with access to a Google Campaign Manager 360 account that is enabled for API access.

  2. Ensure that you have the user profile permissions needed to fetch data using the Google Campaign Manager 360 API.

    To fetch data on profiles and advertisers, you need the following permissions:

    • Read and write access to Google Campaign Manager 360 trafficking

    • Read and write access to Google Campaign Manager 360 reporting

    • Read and write access to Google Campaign Manager 360 offline conversions

Creating a datastream to collect data from Google Campaign Manager 360#

The basics of creating a datastream to collect data from any data source are explained in our guide to Collecting data in Adverity. This guide contains information about the specific steps to create a datastream to fetch data from Google Campaign Manager 360.

Authorization: Allow Adverity to access Google Campaign Manager 360#

  1. If you choose Access using your credentials or Access using someone else’s credentials, in Set up or edit Advertisers, you or the person granting access must choose one of the following options:

    • Choose Grant access to all items, including those created in the future to give Adverity Advertisers to access all existing items and all items created in the future.

    • Choose Select specific items to which you want to grant access to only give Adverity Advertisers to access the selected items. Adverity will not automatically have access to items created in the future. You will need to grant Adverity access to any items created in the future.

    Warning

    If you use your credentials to grant Adverity access to Google Campaign Manager 360, all the items available to you using your credentials will be visible in the Authorizations page to all Adverity users with permission to edit this authorization.

    If someone else uses their credentials to grant Adverity access to Google Campaign Manager 360, the same applies to the items available using their credentials.

    This is important to consider if you do not want all Adverity users with permission to edit the authorization to be able to see the details of the authorization items. For more information about user permissions, see Managing user permissions.

Configuration: Choose the data you want to collect from Google Campaign Manager 360#

To choose what data to collect and customize the Google Campaign Manager 360 datastream configuration, follow these steps:

  1. (Optional) Rename your datastream.

  2. In Profiles, select the profiles for which to collect data. If you do not select any items in a drop-down list, Adverity collects data for all items in the drop-down list.

  3. In Report type, select the type of data to collect from Google Campaign Manager 360. The selected report type determines the additional fields to populate. For more information, see Advanced Google Campaign Manager 360 tips. In this example, select Standard.

  4. In Dimensions and Metrics, change the list of fields that you want to see in your data extract.

  5. In Advertiser filter, select the DCM advertisers for which to collect data. If you do not select any items in a drop-down list, Adverity collects data for all items in the drop-down list.

Note

For information on configuring other Google Campaign Manager 360 fields, see Advanced Google Campaign Manager 360 tips.

What’s next?#

Troubleshooting Google Campaign Manager 360#

I see an error message when fetching data from Google Campaign Manager 360#

The This account has exceeded its quota of [x] reports per day error message appears because you are trying to fetch more data than Google Campaign Manager 360 allows.

The quota limit works as follows:

  • Each Google Campaign Manager 360 account or user profile has a daily limit on the number of ad-hoc reports that can be run in a 24-hour period.

  • Each floodlight configuration ID selected in your datastream requires a separate report.

  • When you select multiple floodlight configuration IDs, Adverity must generate multiple reports from Google Campaign Manager 360.

For example, if you select 5 floodlight configuration IDs across 2 profiles, this will count as 10 reports against your daily quota.

To resolve this issue:

  1. Reduce the number of floodlight configuration IDs you’re fetching data for.

  2. If you’ve selected Retrieve data for all floodlight config IDs, choose specific IDs instead.

  3. Consider splitting your data collection across multiple days.

  4. For persistent quota issues, contact Google to request an increase to your account’s report quota.

For more information on quotas, see the Google Campaign Manager 360 documentation.

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