Best practice: create social media and advertising platform accounts in the same sub-manager account

To take full advantage of the new Search Ads 360 to report on social advertising, create social media accounts in the same sub-manager accounts you use for search advertising. 

The following table compares features in the new Search Ads 360, depending on where you create social media accounts:

Feature Social media and search accounts in the same
Search Ads 360 sub-manager account
Social media and search accounts in separate Search Ads 360 sub-manager accounts
Cross-channel deduplication Conversions are deduplicated across social media and other channels Conversions are deduplicated if both sub-manager accounts share the same Floodlight configuration
Cross-environment conversions Social media clicks and conversions in cross-environment conversions, along with paid search clicks and conversions If both sub-manager accounts share the same Floodlight configuration, social media clicks and conversions in cross-environment conversions, along with paid search clicks and conversions. Otherwise, cross-environment activity is limited to each sub-manager account
Data-driven attribution (DDA) DDA models in the new Search Ads 360 can include social media and search data DDA models in the new Search Ads 360 only include a single channel (DDA models are created at the sub-manager account level)
Remarketing You can set up search-to-social, social-to-search, social-to-display, and display-to-social remarketing

No search-to-social or social-to-search remarketing

Social-to-display (and vice versa) is possible

Reporting (in the new Search Ads 360) Sub-manager account reports include both search and social media data Sub-manager account level reporting views only include a single channel
Reporting (in Campaign Manager 360) Sub-manager account reports include both search and social media data Sub-manager account level reporting views only include search or social media data (plus display data)
Currency Sub-manager account reports show social media and search cost and revenue in the same currency Each sub-manager account can specify its own currency

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