If you’re a Facebook marketer, there’s a chance you need to report on campaigns and make dashboards. There’s also a chance you need to report it in Looker Studio since you are reporting Facebook ads performance with Google Ads performance. The problem is there’s no integration of Facebook Ads with Looker Studio.
Well, Two Minute Reports solves this problem for you. TMR connects to other data sources so you can easily reduce your time creating manual reports.
Select Facebook Ads in the TMR Portal
The first thing to do is to go through our portal and select the data source you want to add.
- Go to apps.gox.ai and Login to your account.
- Choose Two Minute Reports for Looker Studio (the blue one).
- Select your team. If you only have one team, you skip this and TMR automatically redirects you to the connectors page.
You will now see the connectors page.
- In the connectors page, select Facebook Ads.
Authorize Your Facebook Ads Account
The next series of steps is to configure your Facebook Ads account with TMR.
Login to Your Facebook Account
In this section, you need to login to your Facebook Ads account for authentication making sure it connects with TMR and Looker Studio.
- Under Data Sources, click +Add New button. Name your data source and click the Login with Facebook blue button.
- Note: To get all of your current and Future pages, select the first option in the checkbox list below.
- Go through the entire authentication on Facebook. If successful, Two Minute Reports gives a prompt “Signed in! You may close this tab now.“
Configuring Facebook Ads with TMR
- In the Query Configs section, click + Add New button. Choose the data source you added earlier. Click Next.
The next following steps is where you configure your Facebook Ads settings to TMR so that you can create reports in Looker Studio. You may configure the following parameters depending on your preference as TMR has imported them.
- Name your query config.
- Select your Facebook Ad account.
- Conversion/Attribution Window(s).
- You can select to enable Use Unified Attribution Setting.
- Report Time of Conversion metrics.
- Data Options whether you want to Include missing time values or Replace blank metrics with zeros. This means metrics are still being reported as zero values.
- Click Save.
Once everything is finished, click Create Report. The next section is creating reports in Looker Studio.
Create a Facebook Ads Report with TMR in Looker Studio
There are two options to create a Facebook Ads report with TMR in Looker Studio. You can choose to select our templates or create your own custom reports.
Option 1: Use Two Minute Reports Template
Option 2: Create Report from Scratch
Option 1: Use Two Minute Reports Template
If you prefer to use a template, Two Minute Reports has many template dashboards to choose from.
- After clicking Create Report from the previous section, select any of our templates. In this example, click Facebook Ads Overall Performance Report.
- You are redirected to Looker Studio. In Looker Studio, under Select Query Config, choose the one you created (it should be the name you gave it earlier). Select your team as well if the teams dropdown is showed to you.
- Click Connect blue button in the upper right side of the page.
- You can now view the Facebook Ads schema on Looker Studio. Click Create Report in the right side of the page.
Once everything is loaded, you are presented with a custom template report from Two Minute Reports. You can use your Facebook Ads data to this report and edit as you see fit.
If you want to learn on how to use your own data to our templates, read How to use templates for Looker Studio
Option 2: Create Report from Scratch
You can also create your own custom dashboard in Looker Studio. Looker Studio is a powerful data visualization tool that contains many features to help you reduce time creating reports.
- After clicking Create Report from the previous section, click Create Report from scratch blue button.
- You are redirected to Looker Studio. In Looker Studio, under Select Query Config, choose the one you created (it should be the name you gave it earlier). Select your team as well if the teams dropdown is showed to you.
- Click Connect blue button in the upper right side of the page.
- You can now view the Facebook Ads schema on Looker Studio. Click Create Report in the right side of the page.
Once everything is loaded, you are presented with a blank canvas. You can now create custom reports (adding dates and charts) in Looker Studio with your Facebook Ads data.
If you want to learn about creating your own report, like adding dates and charts, read How to Create a Report in Looker Studio