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Enhancements in Google Ads Reporting
Enhancements in Google Ads Reporting
Pratyusha Turlapati avatar
Written by Pratyusha Turlapati
Updated over 3 years ago

ReportGarden has recently upgraded to the new Google Ads API. This enhances Google Ads reporting in ReportGarden.

ReportGarden will now also support reporting on

1. Additional campaign types - Local Campaigns and Smart Campaigns
2. Additional Ad Types - Shopping Comparison Listing ads, Hotel ads, and App engagement ads
3. Performance Max campaigns
4. Previews for Universal App Ads
5. Reporting on Ad Assets
6. A new dimension to display all the types of ads in a single widget (All Ads)

1. How to create a report/widget with a specific campaign type?

Google Ads currently supports the channels mentioned below. In ReportGarden, apply the correct filter to widgets retrieve the data of a specific campaign type.


The possible values are

SEARCH - Search Network. Includes display bundled, and Search+ campaigns

DISPLAY - Google Display Network only

SHOPPING - Shopping campaigns serve on the shopping property and on google.com search results

HOTEL - Hotel Ads campaigns

VIDEO - Video campaigns

MULTI_CHANNEL - App Campaigns, and App Campaigns for Engagement, that run across multiple channels

LOCAL - Local ads campaigns

SMART - Smart campaigns


2. How to get more refined data for a given advertising channel or campaign type?

Apply the filter Advertising channel subtype. Here are the possible values for it along with the definitions.

Advertising Sub Channel

Definition

UNSPECIFIED

Not specified.

UNKNOWN

Used as a return value only. Represents value unknown in this version.

SEARCH_MOBILE_APP

Mobile app campaigns for Search.

DISPLAY_MOBILE_APP

Mobile app campaigns for Display.

SEARCH_EXPRESS

AdWords express campaigns for search.

DISPLAY_EXPRESS

AdWords Express campaigns for display.

SHOPPING_SMART_ADS

Smart Shopping campaigns.

DISPLAY_GMAIL_AD

Gmail Ad campaigns.

DISPLAY_SMART_CAMPAIGN

Smart display campaigns.

VIDEO_OUTSTREAM

Video Outstream campaigns.

VIDEO_ACTION

Video TrueView for Action campaigns.

VIDEO_NON_SKIPPABLE

Video campaigns with non-skippable video ads.

APP_CAMPAIGN

App Campaign that allows you to easily promote your Android or iOS app across Google's top properties including Search, Play, YouTube, and the Google Display Network.

APP_CAMPAIGN_FOR_ENGAGEMENT

App Campaign for engagement focused on driving re-engagement with the app across several of Google’s top properties including Search, YouTube, and the Google Display Network.

LOCAL_CAMPAIGN

Campaigns specialized for local advertising.

SHOPPING_COMPARISON_LISTING_ADS

Shopping Comparison Listing campaigns.

SMART_CAMPAIGN

Standard Smart campaigns.

VIDEO_SEQUENCE

Video campaigns with sequence video ads.

3. How to filter the specific types of ads?

ReportGarden now supports a dimension called "All Ads"

Choose that and apply the respective filter to view the required Ad type


Here are the things that are supported in ReportGarden.

Ad Type

Description

App_Ad

App Ads promote an app across all Google properties from a single campaign.

App_Engagement_Ad

App engagement ads allow you to write text encouraging a specific action in the app, like checking in, making a purchase, or booking a flight.

Call_Ad

Call ads are designed to encourage people to call your business and can appear only on devices that make phone calls.

Expanded_Dynamic_Search_Ad

Expanded dynamic search ads contain only two description lines because the headline, final URLs, and display URL are auto-generated at serving time according to domain name-specific information.

Expanded_Text_Ad

Currently deprecated

Gmail_Ad

Gmail ads are shown at the top of inbox tabs.

Hotel_Ad

It is created automatically by the system based on your provided hotel listings and prices.

Image_Ad

As opposed to a text ad, an image ad is a graphic promoting a business.

Legacy_App_Install_Ad

A legacy app installs ad that only can be used by a few select customers.

Legacy_Responsive_Display_Ad

Known as "responsive ads" in the UI, this legacy ad type has been replaced by ResponsiveDisplayAd.

Responsive_Display_Ad

This is the recommended ad type for Smart Display campaigns.

Responsive_Search_Ad

Unlike static text ads, responsive search ads permit up to 15 different headlines and 4 different descriptions, which are then tested in combination to find the best permutation.

Shopping_Comparison_Listing_Ad

Listing of shopping ads

Shopping_Product_Ad

List of all product ads

Shopping_Smart_Ad

List of shopping smart ads

Smart_Campaign_Ad

Smart Campaign related ads

Text_Ad

A simple text-only ad with a headline and two description lines.

Video_Ad

The Google Ads API permits only reporting of video ads. Video campaigns must be created using the UI or Google Ads scripts.

Video_Responsive_Ad

Responsive video ads are used in the video action campaign type.

4. How to create a widget showing ad assets?

ReportGarden has a new dimension - Ad Assets. Use this dimension and the relevant metrics.


Currently, this dimension returns values only for universal app campaigns. This is a limitation from Google Ads API

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