# How to set up Insights for Google Ads

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[Channable Insights](/manage-improve-product-data/insights/channable-insights.md) connect to your Google Ads account to provide key performance data, including metrics like clicks, impressions, and ad spend, to help you analyze campaign performance directly within Channable.

In this article, we'll go over how you can set up Insights for Google Ads.

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### **Before you start**

**You'll need**

* A Google Ads account

**Good to know**

* Insights for Google Ads uses data from shopping campaigns (including PMax)

## **Setting up Insights for Google Ads**

To set up your Google Ads Insights dashboard, follow these steps:

1. Go to **the Insights tab** on the left-side menu.
2. Select **\[your Google Ads** **connection]** or create a new one.
3. Fill in the following information:
4. For **Name**, give your dashboard a distinct name (e.g. “Google Ads NL - 90 days)
5. For **Date range setting**, choose between a fixed range or rolling date range (continuous).
6. For **Date range**, choose the date range you want to pull data from (if fixed range) or the maximum amount of days to pull data from (if rolling date range).
7. For **Channel unique ID**, select the field that contains your products' [unique IDs](/get-started/getting-started/fields-in-channable/understanding-a-unique-id.md).
8. For **Google Ads accounts**, click **+ Add Google Ads** account to choose a specific Google Ads account. Selecting more than one Ads account merges all the information in the Dashboard.
9. For **Google Merchant IDs** (optional), select your Google Merchant ID.
10. Choose **Feed label target countries**(optional) to limit data on the dashboard.
11. Use **Group on field(s)**(optional) to group data based on category/brand/any or other field from your imported items.
12. Click **New Insights dashboard**.

Within a few minutes, your dashboard will appear with an overview of your products.

### **Available metrics for Google Ads dashboards**

|                                                                                             |             |                                                                                                                                                                                                  |                                         |                         |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| **Term**                                                                                    | **Source**  | **Description**                                                                                                                                                                                  | **Available as a segmentation metric?** | **Available in Rules?** |
| Clicks                                                                                      | Google  Ads | Number of times customers clicked on your ad                                                                                                                                                     | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| Impressions                                                                                 | Google  Ads | Number of times customers saw your ad                                                                                                                                                            | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| Ad cost                                                                                     | Google  Ads | The total advertising cost spent                                                                                                                                                                 | Yes (under “cost”)                      | Yes                     |
| ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)(Conv.value / Cost)\*100                                           | Calculated  | The amount of revenue earned divided by the amount you spent on advertising                                                                                                                      | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| POAS ( [Profit on Ad Spend](/manage-improve-product-data/insights/profit-on-ad-spend.md))\* | Calculated  | A more accurate way to calculate profitability by factoring in associated costs, including product costs, shipping, payment fees, and other expenses.                                            | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| Conv. value (Conversion value)                                                              | Google  Ads | The total value of all conversions tracked by your account over a given period. Estimates your return on investment.                                                                             | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| Conversions                                                                                 | Google  Ads | The number of times customers purchased your product after clicking on the ad                                                                                                                    | Yes                                     | Yes                     |
| CTR (Click-Through-Rate)                                                                    | Google  Ads | The percentage of customers who clicked on your ad after viewing it                                                                                                                              | No                                      | Yes                     |
| <p>CPC (Cost per click)<br>(Cost / Clicks)</p>                                              | Calculated  | The amount of money you pay each time someone clicks on your ad                                                                                                                                  | No                                      | Yes                     |
| Gross profit                                                                                | Calculated  | The amount of profit from a product. Can only be set up once POAS is set up.\*                                                                                                                   | No                                      | Yes                     |
| Net profit                                                                                  | Calculated  | The total profit you made from a product after subtracting costs to advertise. Can only be set up once POAS is set up.\*                                                                         | No                                      | Yes                     |
| Search\_absolute\_top\_impression\_share                                                    | Google Ads  | The impressions received in the [absolute top](https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/14709547) divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive among top ads. | No                                      | Yes                     |
| Search\_click\_share                                                                        | Google Ads  | The number of clicks received in Google Search divided by the estimated number of clicks you were eligible to receive.                                                                           | No                                      | Yes                     |
| Search\_impression\_share                                                                   | Google Ads  | The impressions received in Google Search divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive.                                                                           | No                                      | Yes                     |

\* **Note:** To set up certain Profit on Ad Spend (POAS) insights for your products, you’ll need to indicate which field in your import data contains POAS costs. [Learn more](/manage-improve-product-data/insights/profit-on-ad-spend/how-to-set-up-profit-on-ad-spend.md).


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