Google Display & Video 360: Setup guide#
This guide explains how to collect data from Google Display & Video 360.
Introduction#
For a list of the fields that you can collect from Google Display & Video 360, see Google Display & Video 360.
Prerequisites#
Before you start collecting data from Google Display & Video 360, perform all of the following actions:
To collect data for advertisers or partners, you need to select their IDs in the configuration page.
To list advertisers or partners in the configuration page, ensure that the account you use to connect to Google Display & Video 360 has Read only or higher role. For more information, see the Google documentation.
With Reporting only role, you can still collect data for advertisers or partners, but you need to enter the IDs in the Advertiser and Partner fields in the Google Display & Video 360 configuration page.
To collect data about meta fields, ensure that the account you use to connect to Google Display & Video 360 has Standard or higher role.
Creating a datastream to collect data from Google Display & Video 360#
The basics of creating a to collect data from any are explained in our guide to Collecting data in Adverity. This guide contains information about the specific steps to create a to fetch data from Google Display & Video 360.
Configuration: Choose the data you want to collect from Google Display & Video 360#
To choose what data to collect and customize the Google Display & Video 360 configuration, follow these steps:
In Partners and Advertisers, select the partners and advertisers for which to collect data.
(Optional) To reverse the selection, select the Exclude partners and/or Exclude advertisers checkbox.
For example, if you select one partner in the Partners field and select the Exclude partners checkbox, Adverity will fetch data for all partners except the selected option.
In Report type, select the type of data to collect from Google Display & Video 360.
If you selected the Custom report type, fill in the following fields. For all other report types, go to the next step.
In Query ID, select the query that you want to use to collect data.
In Timezone, select the time zone in which you want to collect data.
In Metadata type, select the metadata report type for which you want to collect data.
Note
The Users metadata type is available only when using the Service account authorization. For more information, see the Google documentation.
Select the Include archived line items checkbox to collect this data.
In Targeting type, select the targeting type for which to collect data.
In Dimensions, Meta fields, and Metrics, change the list of fields that you want to see in your .
(Optional) In Dimension filters, enter a valid JSON expression. For more information, see Configuring the dimension filter with a JSON expression.
(Optional) Select the Include only targeted user lists checkbox to only collect data for the user lists targeted in the dimension filter above.
Troubleshooting Google Display & Video 360#
There are empty fields in the date column in the data I have collected from Google Display & Video 360#
When you fetch data from Google Display & Video 360, if there are empty fields in the date column, automatically creates a “no_date” extract for the empty dates. A warning is displayed in the normal extract explaining this.
This example shows the normal extract (with the date in the extract title) and the “no_date” extract below