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Use your business data to manage campaigns

Automotive: Business data example

Report on specific car models, geographic areas, or competitor searches

Automotive advertisers may need to create several campaigns for each car model they advertise. Some campaigns may target specific geograhic areas, while others focus on brand or competitor searches.

Business data help you see how campaigns across an advertiser contribute to promoting a specific car model. Here's an example report that uses business data to organize performance metrics:
Report on business data

How to set up business data to report on specific car models

Start by creating a business data table named "Car Model":
Create a business data table

Then add a business data row for each car model you promote:
Business data table with one column.

Apply rows in this table to your campaigns. Then view "Car Model.ID" on the Dimensions tab and see performance data for each car model:
Report on business data

Ideas for more detailed business data

Add columns to the "Car Model" table to describe each model's top competitor, market segment, and so on. Then you can see how your promotions perform when going against each competitor:
Use dimensions to roll up metrics ina business data category.

How to set up business data to report on specific car models

Start by adding columns to the "Car Model" table:
Add columns to a business data table.

Edit each row of the Car Model table to specify data for the new columns. When you're done, the business data table will look like this:
Business data table with multiple columns.

You can add these columns at any time. That is, you could start out with just the Car Model.ID column. If you decide later you need more detail, you can add the new columns. After adding these, you could:

  • View "Car Model.Class" on the Dimensions tab and compare performance of your "Sedan" campaigns with your "Crossover" campaigns.
  • View "Car Model.Competitor" on the Dimensions tab, then segment by "Car Model.ID" to see how all competitors for each model perform:

    Use dimensions to roll up metrics ina business data category.

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