Ad Manager report dimensions
Below are all of the dimensions available in Ad Manager reports, along with information about applicable report types
and dimension categories . Filter the table with one or more keywords to search for dimensions.
Impression counting method
Impressions and viewability related metrics are only accredited for specific impression counting methods.
You can filter your report by:
- Impression counting method
Begin to render.
Methods other than "Begin to render" aren't MRC accredited for impressions and viewability based metrics.
Measurement source
You may also want to filter your report to only MRC accredited measurement sources. You can filter your report by:
- Active View measurement source
Measured.
- Video measurement source
Measured.
Active View metrics are accredited only when Measurement source = "Measured" for video inventory. The "Auto-plays" and "Click-to-plays" metrics are accredited for the Video measurement source dimension value "Measured," which can be enabled upon publisher request.
Name of billable Audience segment. This includes both first-party and third-party segments used for billing purposes. Helps understand how impressions are allocated on your Ad Manager invoice. Learn more about how audience segment billing works .
Audience, Looker Studio Connector
The name of Audience segment data partner. If the segment is first-party, your Ad Manager network name is displayed.
Audience, Looker Studio Connector
Name of targeted audience segment, including all first-party and third-party segments that matched the user on the winning line item.
Audience
Platform, Analytics
Analytics
Note: Non-mobile app impressions are always classified as "Unknown."
Analytics
Event name measures data collected from impressions or clicks. Possible values include:
- ad_impression
- ad_click
- in_app_purchase
- ecommerce_app_purchase
- session_start
Analytics
“ In-app browser ” is a browser embedded within an app.
Platform, Analytics, Looker Studio Connector
Analytics
Analytics
- Winner: The bid won because it wasn’t rejected for any reason.
- Outbid: The bid lost to another candidate in the auction.
- Floor: The bid lost because its CPM was below the seller's reserve.
- Optimized pricing: The bid was below the floor price set by optimized pricing.
- No consent: The bid lost because the associated GDPR ad technology provider didn’t have user consent.
- Unidentified vendor: The bid lost because the GDPR ad technology provider was unidentified.
- Publisher blocked: The bid lost because it was blocked by the publisher’s settings.
- Other: The bid lost for another reason, such as URL filtering.
Bids (Beta)
The origin of a non-Google seller you partner with to get impressions through Protected Audience.
Delivery
The name of the ad technology provider as it appears on the Global Vendor List (GVL).
Any ad technology provider name value returned here is representative of bid rejections specific to that ad technology provider, while a value of "(Not applicable)" indicates no bid rejections due to one or more ad technology providers.
Combine this dimension with the "Bid rejection reason" dimension for more insights.
Delivery
Delivery
The name of the advertiser company assigned to an order. Select other dimensions to display labels, advertiser type, and more.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Reports only historical data after its deprecation on February 22, 2024 .
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Note: If the creative is part of a creative set, the "Creative ID" column may show the creative set ID. For technical details, view the SOAP API "CREATIVE_ID" entry .
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Size of creative that served to the ad slot request. Creative size doesn't represent the actual size of a creative being served. This dimension represents the "Targeted Ad Unit Size" of the creative which is served. Since a Creative size can only be associated with filled impressions, this dimension is not compatible with the Unfilled impressions metric.
When the Creative size dimension is included in a report, companion delivery that is otherwise rolled up under master delivery is surfaced, so you may see higher totals than expected.
This dimension is deprecated. Use " Creative size (delivered) " instead.
Delivery
- Audio: Audio ads
- Fluid: Google rendered Native & Fluid ads
- Interstitial: Interstitial ads
- Native: Custom rendered native ads
- Video/Overlay: Video ads
- <width>x<height>: Fixed-size ads
Any other values show as "Unknown".
Note: This dimension can't appear in the same report as the "Unfilled impressions" metric. They are incompatible.
Ad Exchange impression numbers reported using this dimension may differ from the legacy "Creative Size" dimension due to how "Creative Size (delivered)" counts some Google Ads text ads.
How this dimension differs from "Creative size":
- Reports on the size of the ad slot where creatives are served from Ad Manager or Ad Exchange, rather than the creative size configured on a line item.
- Creatives sit within an ad slot and depending on response size, may be smaller than the ad slot reported.
- May not match the creative size reported in Ad Exchange.
Delivery
Type of creative that served to the ad slot request. Values include:
- Custom
- Custom template
- Studio
- Campaign Manager 360 tag
- HTML5
- Image
- Programmatic
- Third-party
- Video creative sets
- Other
Audio ads: Many creative types include audio ads. To see a breakdown of audio ads, you can also include a size dimension .
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
- Sent to winner
- Not sent to winner
Secure signal sharing is a processor feature that lets publishers pass obfuscated signals (such as user IDs) to third-party bidders on RTB bid requests.
Shows how including secure signals and sending them to bidders can impact metrics, such as Total impressions and Total CTR.
Likely, the Bidder hasn't chosen to receive the signal(s) if you see a combination of:
- "Secure signal delivery = Not sent to winner" with
- "Secure signal presence = Present", and
- You've successfully completed your secure signals implementation.
Delivery
- Downloaded: Follows IAB count on download ( Digital Video Ad Measurement Guidelines 2009 ).
- Begin to render: An impression is counted after creative assets have begun rendering. Follows IAB begin to render ( Digital Video Ad Measurement Guidelines 2018 ).
- Unknown: An impression from Ad Exchange or AdSense (like, a non-Ad server impression), or an Ad server impression from before the introduction of this dimension in June, 2020.
Sometimes, there may be discrepancies or negative numbers when the impression counting method dimension is used. This can occur when a begin-to-render ping is received, but a downloaded ping is not received.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
The name of the line item associated with the Creative that served to the ad slot request.
Reservation traffic for this dimension may return a dash (-) in reporting. The dash can indicate delivery via inventory sharing.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Type of line item associated to the Creative that served to the ad slot request.
Reservation traffic for this dimension may return a dash (-) in reporting. The dash can indicate delivery via inventory sharing.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
For video master and companion creatives, master ads play within the video player; companion ads, usually display, serve to non-video ad slots in conjunction with the master.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
- Measured: The data for the metric was directly measured by client code that either Google controls or with which Google has intimate familiarity, or it uses OMID data from client code that was certified by Google or IAB Tech Lab.
- Provided: The data for the metric uses OMID data or other publisher-provided signals that were not certified by Google or IAB Tech Lab.
- Inferred: The data for the metric was inferred using sound judgment; however, it was not directly measured on the client. The inferred metric may originate from Google or a third party.
- (Not applicable): Indicates the source is not supported.
Delivery
The name of the Order associated to the line item linked to the Creative that served to the ad slot request.
Reservation traffic for this dimension may return a dash (-) in reporting. The dash can indicate delivery via inventory sharing.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
This dimension is only available if Ad Manager Programmatic Direct is enabled in your network.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Channel of transaction. Includes Preferred Deals, Programmatic Guaranteed, Private Auctions, and the Open Auction. Transactions via First Look are included in Open Auction transactions.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Name of the verified advertiser you want to add to your list of companies. Verified advertisers are mapped between Ad Exchange and Ad Manager. Learn more
Delivery
Name of the verified brand you want to add to your list of companies. Brands are children that are mapped to parent advertisers, providing you with more granular blocking and pricing options and reporting data.
Delivery
Names of the verified categories you want to add to your list of companies. Categories allow you to organize and filter your audience segments by common themes, such as Demographics, Geographic, or Interest.
Delivery
Optimization types include: First Look , Optimized competition , Target CPM , or All Other Traffic.
Looker Studio Connector
Name of the advertiser, as classified by Google, associated with a creative transacted through Ad Exchange and Exchange Bidding, including Programmatic Guaranteed and Preferred Deals.
Classification is non-exhaustive. Some values may appear as "(Not applicable)" and this is expected behavior.
When an advertiser uses creatives associated with different landing pages, Ad Manager won't be able to determine the specific creative that will serve in advance. Instead, Ad Manager will check the advertiser mappings for each landing page and randomly report the affiliated advertiser.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Name of the brand, as classified by Google, associated with a creative transacted through Ad Exchange and Exchange Bidding, including Programmatic Guaranteed and Preferred Deals.
Classification is non-exhaustive. Some values may appear as "(Not applicable)" and this is expected behavior.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Shows performance distributed by serving restriction. If an ad call can be subject to multiple restrictions, only the first match from the order below will be reported. Reporting figures won't overlap.
- Limited ads: Traffic where only limited ads can serve.
- Restricted data processing (RDP): Includes traffic where the publisher requested restricted data processing using the tagging parameter or the now-deprecated network control , or traffic where GPP strings triggered restricted data processing .
- Non-personalized ads (NPA): Includes traffic where the publisher requested non-personalized ads using the tagging parameter or the network control .
- Basic ads: Traffic where only IAB TCF v2.0 basic ads are eligible to serve. This matches users whose provided TC string includes consent for purpose 1 and legal bases for purposes 2, 7, 9, and 10, but no consent for purposes 3 or 4.
- Personalization disabled:Traffic where personalization was disabled by the mobile device’s user controls, other user personalization opt-out controls, or other cases where personalization wasn't feasible.
- No restriction: Traffic without any of the restrictions listed above.
Some ad requests may fall into multiple categories in this list. In these cases, the ad request is sorted into the first applicable category according to the order shown here.
Policy restrictions are not included in the Serving restrictions dimension and should be reviewed in the Policy center .
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Type of technology used to serve the creative. Possible values are "AMPHTML", "Standard HTML", "Custom HTML", "Video", or "Other". Data for this dimension is only available for campaigns that served after March 3, 2018.
Shows the best eligible UPR, which may not be the applied UPR or the rejection reason. Other factors or rules could cause a bid's rejection.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Name of the yield partner, as classified by Google.
Classification is non-exhaustive. Some values may appear as "(Not applicable)" and this is expected behavior.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
For Ad Exchange, the value "Ad Exchange" is displayed. Note that metrics for the "Ad Exchange" yield partner tag are counted once for each applicable yield group Ad Exchange is part of.
Only applies to Mediation ; not Open Bidding.
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
The estimated percentage of viewability based on an ad slot's historical and environment data, grouped into buckets. Possible values include:
- ≥50%
- 20% to 49%
- ≤19%
- Unknown
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Possible values include:
- Active: A user identifier was present and active.
- Restricted: A user identifier was present, but its usage was restricted by how cookies may be used . For example, personalization is not allowed.
- Missing: A user identifier wasn't present.
In comparison to "Third-party ID status," "User identifier status" first checks permissions, then ID presence. Because it checks permissions first it may have the value "restricted," even if no ID is present.
This dimension was previously called "User cookie status."
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Delivery
Compatible only with "Bids" and "Average bid CPM" metrics.
Delivery
Delivery
Compatible only with "Bids" and "Average bid CPM" metrics.
Delivery
Delivery
Provides more transparency into advertisers whose identities are not otherwise available. This dimension sometimes makes large-volume reports run more slowly.
- Web caches and others:Domains that are associated with ad servers are grouped here, including Ad Manager and third-party, because we only report on the top-level domain. So if an ad server domain includes redirect parameters, we truncate the full URL, even though the request is valid and may be associated with revenue and impressions.
You may want to combine this dimension with the "Advertiser (classified)" dimension, as we can often identify the advertiser associated with such domains.
- Unknown:This dimension shows the top 10,000 advertiser domains across Ad Exchange and Open Bidding, ranked by revenue. Any advertiser beyond this limit is placed into the "unknown" category.
Reports that use the “Advertiser domain” dimension will show 100% Ad Exchange Coverage for all rows except "(unknown)". For this reason, Ad Exchange Ad Requests and Ad Exchange Coverage should be disregarded for those rows.
In some scenarios, such as RTB ads, the advertiser domain may be one of multiple submitted domains and we don't know the specific creative chosen to be served. In this case, the advertiser domain reported is one randomly chosen from the list of possible domains.
"Not Applicable" indicates incompatibility with Ad server, AdSense, and Mediation demand channels.
Delivery
The categories displayed are identical to the ones that publishers can block.
When combined with dimensions such as "Buyer networks" and "Advertisers (classified)," this dimension can provide information to effectively allocate inventory and adjust pricing strategies to include high-value advertiser segments.
A very small number of impressions can't be categorized. And in some instances, specific advertisers can't be mapped to an Advertiser vertical.
This dimension is best used when combined with other data such as "Advertisers (classified)" and "Buyer network." Reports that use the "Advertiser vertical" dimension will show 100% Ad Exchange Coverage for all rows except "(unknown)". For this reason, Ad Exchange Ad Requests and Ad Exchange Coverage should be disregarded for those rows.
"Not Applicable" indicates incompatibility with Ad server, AdSense, and Mediation demand channels.
Delivery
Shows performance by buying agency. Not all buyers pass the agency name. As a result, if we don’t show a name, we may display "(unknown)" or "(No agency)."
Reports that use the "Buying agency" dimension will show 100% Ad Exchange Coverage for all rows except "(Unmatched ad requests)." For this reason, Ad Exchange Ad Requests and Ad Exchange Coverage should be disregarded for those rows.
"Not Applicable" indicates incompatibility with Ad server, AdSense, and Mediation demand channels.
Delivery
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Delivery
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
Delivery
Shows "(Not applicable)" if no Preferred Deal, Private Auction, or Programmatic Guaranteed was involved.
Delivery
Note: Some buyers may submit multiple bids at the same price for a single auction through different auction package deals, which aren't reported in Google Ad Manager. For these types of bidding, the Deal ID value is the auction package deals ID for Open Auction demand channel.
Delivery
Values include "Network policies applied," "Network policies not applied," and "Unknown."
Delivery
Delivery
View a breakdown of data by a bidder-provided ID for revenue verification . If a bidder doesn't provide such an ID, “Unknown” is displayed. If there is insufficient data, or data that didn't meet our privacy or quality requirements, “Other” is displayed.
Delivery
Delivery
Reports the Protected Audience API delivery.
Values include:
- Delivered by Protected Audience API
- Not delivered by Protected Audience API
Delivery
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Reports "(None)" if publisher provided signals aren't available.
Delivery
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
The Agency value is present only when the agency is set up. Additional values include:
- "Unknown" is shown when an agency isn't set up.
- "(Not applicable)" is shown for demand channels other than Ad Exchange.
Supported agencies include: Omnicom, Dentsu, Publicis, Havas, and GoodWay Group.
The spend per agency only displays when it comes from a DSP that is making proper bid response declarations about the buyer for whom they're bidding.
DSPs that support such declarations are DV360, Yahoo, and Amazon.
Delivery
The agency holding company value is present when the agency holding company or agency name is set up. Additional values include:
- "Unknown" is shown when agency holding company or agency name isn't set up.
- "(Not applicable)" is shown for demand channels other than Ad Exchange.
Supported agencies include: Omnicom, Dentsu, Publicis, Havas, and GoodWay Group.
The spend per agency only displays when it comes from a DSP that is making proper bid response declarations about the buyer for whom they're bidding.
DSPs that support such declarations are DV360, Yahoo, and Amazon.
Delivery
- Ad Exchange (includes First look)
- AdSense
- Ad server (direct-sold line items)
- Mediation
- Open Bidding
- Header Bidding
- SDK Bidding
- Protected Audience seller (non-Google)
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
- Bulk
- Header Bidding (detected)
- House
- Network
- Open Auction - Auction Package
- Open Auction - First Look
- Open Auction - General
- Other (can represent video inventory sharing, as well as reservation ads, such as Bumpers and uncategorized Ad server ads)
- Preferred Deals
- Price Priority
- Programmatic Guaranteed
- Private Auction
- Sponsorship
- Standard
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Shows “(Unknown)” if curation wasn’t targeted.
Delivery
Shows the ID of the curation partner whose data segment or curated packages were targeted.
Shows “0” if curation wasn’t targeted.
Delivery
Values include:
- Yes
- No
Learn more about curation partners .
Delivery
Shows “0” if auction package deal is not applicable.
See also the Is curation targeted dimension.
Delivery
Inventory
The name of the ad unit. Select dimension attributes to display the ad unit code.
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
This dimension is deprecated. Use " Requested ad sizes " instead.
Use the "Ad Server Targeted Impressions" and "Ad server impressions" metrics to differentiate between targeted and untargeted impressions.
Inventory
This is a flattened version of the Placement (all) dimension. Impressions, clicks, revenue, and other metrics can appear in multiple report rows. Learn more
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
The size is displayed in the format "wxh" with multiple sizes separated by comma (for example, 300x250, 600x300v). You can apply filters to this dimension to only include certain sizes. Video ad request sizes are appended with "v", such as "640x480, 300x250v".
How this dimension differs from "Ad request size":
- Reports on all ad sizes in each request to reflect multi-size inventory more accurately.
- Broader compatibility with other dimensions and metrics.
- Compatible with filters to limit the sizes included.
- Format: WxH (no spaces, comma-separated).
Inventory
Shows publisher performance by inventory segment. Sometimes, there may be multiple channels with the same name.
When the Channel dimension is included in a report or you choose it as a filter, the report aggregates the data from all the like-named channels and displays the combined data in the report results. This may lead the calculated total ad requests to exceed the actual total number of ad requests. Inventory that isn't associated with any channel will be excluded from the report.
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
Inventory
All ad unit sizes included in an ad request display in the report on the same line. This reflects how many impressions are available for a given tag. For example, if your ad request (or, tag) contains 2 sizes, such as 300x250, 300x600
, there will be one row in the report with both sizes, and they are separated by a comma. Video ad request sizes are appended with "v", such as "300x250v".
Inventory
The type of video placement.
In keeping with IAB guidelines, the "Video placement" field will be deprecated in 2024.
Inventory
Inventory
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
- Anchor : Includes formats previously listed as “Bottom anchor” and “Top anchor.”
- App open
- Banner: Includes formats previously listed as “Full-screen immersive.” Also includes requests from native styles, which are native ads created from using the Guided design editor or HTML & CSS editor .
- Icon
- In-stream audio
- In-stream video
- In-stream video or audio: Indicates that video or audio is supported.
- Interstitial : Includes formats previously listed as “Vignette.”
- Native custom rendering : Only includes requests from custom rendering, which are native ads created from using the Android & iOS app code option.
- Rewarded
- Rewarded interstitial
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
Inventory
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
Indicates whether a valid PPID (Publisher-provided identifier) was present on a given ad request. Covers both reservation and programmatic traffic. Possible values include:
- Present: A valid PPID was present
- Missing: A PPID was not present or had an invalid form
Inventory
- Authorized
- Denied
- Restricted
- Not determined
- (Not applicable)
Inventory
Reports the presence of secure signals in the ad request. Values include:
- Present
- Missing
Secure signal sharing is a processor feature that lets publishers pass obfuscated signals (such as user IDs) to third-party bidders on RTB bid requests.
Shows how including secure signals and sending them to bidders can impact metrics, such as Total impressions and Total CTR.
Likely, the Bidder hasn't chosen to receive the signal(s) if you see a combination of:
- "Secure signal delivery = Not sent to winner" with
- "Secure signal presence = Present", and
- You've successfully completed your secure signals implementation.
Inventory
- Purchased: Traffic redirected from properties other than owned (acquired or otherwise incentivized activity)
- Organic: Direct URL entry, site search, or app download
- Undefined: Value not set in the GPT or mobile SDK
Note: Publishers must set the traffic source to "Purchased" or "Organic" on the ad request to see those values in reporting. If no value is set, we'll report "Undefined."
Core compatibility
Inventory, Looker Studio Connector
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
If you use subdomains and include the “URL” dimension in reports, your impression and revenue numbers may be inflated. Say that you have a site with a base domain of example.com and the subdomains one.example.com and two.example.com . If you include the URL in your report, data for the subdomains gets counted twice (as part of both the base domain and the subdomain), thus overstating impressions and revenue. Including the “Site” dimension can provide more accurate numbers, but this data also may include impressions to sites that you don’t control or that don’t have your ad tag directly on them. Learn more .
Inventory
- Animated image
- Audio
- Auto display (also known as Magazine style ads)
- Image
- Rich Media
- Text
- Video
Not all of these ad types will appear on your inventory.
Applies to Ad Exchange, Open Bidding, and AdSense. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
General inventory
- No Dynamic Allocation: (direct requests, or an unknown ad server) Ads served by Ad Exchange outside of dynamic allocation. This includes impressions that are served directly on a page or via another ad server that does not support dynamic allocation.
- Dynamic Allocation with no Ad Manager competition: (regular backfill) Backfill by Ad Exchange where it did not receive a reserve price by the publisher’s ad-server via dynamic allocation.
- Dynamic Allocation with Ad Manager competition: Backfill by Ad Exchange where it was able to beat the reserve price sent by the publisher’s ad-server via dynamic allocation.
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
General inventory
- Refreshed: Traffic that is auto-refreshed, which refers to the action of serving or changing advertising or content in an automatic manner when a publisher calls auto refresh Google Publisher Tag (GPT) API on the ad request.
- Not refreshed:All other traffic.
Inventory
Inventory
- Active:A user identifier was present and active.
- Restricted:A user identifier was present in the ad request, but personalization was not allowed.
- Missing:A user identifier wasn't present.
Inventory
Possible values include:
- Active: A user identifier was present and active.
- Restricted: A user identifier was present in the ad request but personalization was not allowed.
- Missing: A user identifier wasn't present.
In comparison to “User identifier status,” “Third-party ID status” first checks presence, then permissions. Because it checks presence first it may have the value "missing," regardless of whether the user has opted out of personalization.
Inventory
Possible values include:
- Active: A user identifier was present and active.
- Restricted: A user identifier was present in the ad request but personalization was not allowed.
- Missing: A user identifier wasn't present.
Inventory
Possible values include:
- Third-party IDs: Third-party cookie or device ID
- PPID: Publisher provided identifier
- First-party IDs: First-party identifiers
- No personalization: No personalization was possible, but an ID was chosen for other purposes, such as frequency caps. Note that this classification will be phased out in favor of “non-personalizable IDs” and “personalization restricted.” Shows only for data occurring before April 16, 2024.
- Non-personalizable IDs: An ID that can’t be used for personalization was present. Other uses, such as frequency caps, were possible.
- Personalization restricted: An ID was present, but personalization was not possible due to a serving restriction. Other uses, such as frequency caps, were possible.
- No ID: No ID was available.
Inventory
- Topics not available:The client doesn’t have topics support (for example, it’s an app or a non-Chrome browser), or topics are unavailable for another reason.
- Topics empty:The client can provide topics, but the list is empty.
- Topics provided:The ad request included a list of one or more topics.
Inventory
Reports "(None)" if publisher provided signals aren't available.
Publisher provided signals allow Ad Manager publishers to annotate key-values and audience lists with IAB taxonomy categories.
Inventory
Reports "(None)" if publisher provided signals aren't available.
Publisher provided signals allow Ad Manager publishers to annotate key-values and audience lists with IAB taxonomy categories.
Inventory
Vendors present on a given creative or impression.
Values include:
- Company name (vendor ID), for instance, Numberly (2664)
- "-" for no certified vendors detected
- N/A for non-Ad Exchange traffic
Review Ad technology providers .
Inventory
Inventory
Inventory
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Postal code associated with IP address from the ad slot request. Available for the following countries: Canada, France, Germany, India, the UK, and the USA.
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Continent associated with the IP address from the ad slot request.
Possible values include Unknown, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
Geography, Looker Studio Connector
Type of mediation request, as defined for each network in a mediation group. For example, "Mobile app".
Mediation, Looker Studio Connector
Break down your reports by native ad formats. Native ad formats define the variables that determine the content of your ads. Note that non-native values display as “(Non-native ad)” and are included in the totals.
Native, Looker Studio Connector
Native styles determine how your native creatives look for a segment of inventory. Note that non-native values display as “(No native style)” and are included in the totals.
Native, Looker Studio Connector
Looker Studio Connector
Assignments help you define revenue sharing or ad serving relationships with partner publishers. Depending on your permissions, you can select from some or all of the following types of assignments.
- Track: Define a revenue share agreement with a publishing partner for display or video ads. Revenue share is expressed in terms of a percentage value on the assignment.
- Redirect: Send either a percentage or an absolute number of video ad requests to a partner publisher. The redirect is handled through a third-party VAST tag.
- Share: Share specified video inventory with a partner Ad Manager publisher. Your partner can then book line items directly against that inventory in their own Ad Manager network.
Partner, Looker Studio Connector
Shows publishers the ownership of Scaled Partner Management (sub-syndicated) domains.
- Owned and operated
- Represented
- Blocked
- Uncategorized
If inventory ownership for video ad requests displays as "uncategorized," this is likely because the description_url
parameter in the ad tag was either not set, invalid, or set to an unclassified domain value. Learn more about the description URL
.
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Other demand channels will show "(Not applicable)."
This is an account-level setting and not available to all publishers.
Partner
Partner
Displays the name of the network partner.
If the network partner name for video ad requests displays "non-represented," this is likely because the description_url
parameter in the ad tag was either not set, invalid, or set to an unclassified domain value. Learn more about the description URL
.
Supported for Ad Exchange and Open Bidding demand channels. Other channels will show (Not applicable).
This is an account-level setting and not available to all publishers.
Partner
Organize your partners by label. Labels allow you to later report by label and leverage other ad serving features.
Partner, Looker Studio Connector
Note:The exported date format is based on the language and/or location associated with the Google account of the person creating the report. In reports created by other users, such as scheduled reports, the exported date format may differ from the format in reports created by you.
Time unit, Looker Studio Connector
Time unit
Numeric hour of the day (0-23) according to the chosen time zone (either network time zone, or PST).
Time unit, Looker Studio Connector
Time unit, Looker Studio Connector
Time unit, Looker Studio Connector
The position of a redirect in the VAST chain.
For example, for a chain of A > B > C, A is in position 0, B is in position 1, etc.
Video
Video
Video
This dimension replaces the legacy "Content metadata" dimension, which has been deprecated.
Contains a dimension for each key in your CMS metadata.
Reporting data reflects the current state, not the historical state, of CMS metadata associations.
Learn how to report on video content metadata .
Video
This dimension replaces the legacy "Metadata key" dimension, which has been deprecated.
Reporting data reflects the current state, not the historical state, of CMS metadata associations.
Learn how to report on video content metadata .
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Video ads not targeted to specific content using the cmsid and vid parameters appear as "Not applicable" with this dimension. To limit your report to only content-specific traffic, apply the Request typefilter, set to is any of> Video tagwhen reporting on this dimension.
This will show "Not applicable" when a request comes for content that hasn't been ingested or requests don't match ingested content.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Video groups assembled and targeted based on filters or by selecting individual videos, or both. The content bundles are automatically updated when new content is ingested with matching metadata.
Reports with this dimension show all bundles where content appeared, not only the targeted bundles.
Video ads not targeted to specific content using the cmsid and vid parameters appear as "Not applicable" with this dimension. To limit your report to only content-specific traffic, apply the Request typefilter, set to is any of > Video tagwhen reporting on this dimension.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
This dimension will soon be deprecated and replaced with the "CMS metadata" dimension.
Displays metrics for content metadata values whose keys are enabled and mapped. Each dimension under "content metadata" is a metadata key. When you choose a dimension, the report displays the metrics for all the values assigned to that key.
Learn how to report on video content metadata .
Video
Video
Video
Video
Video
Indicates whether an ad used VPAID 1, 2, 3, or did not use VPAID.
Video
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Video, Looker Studio Connector
A reusable ad spot that can be added to an ad break template, as well as directly targeted by a video line item.
Video
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Video
Video
Video, Looker Studio Connector
This dimension will soon be deprecated and replaced with the "CMS metadata key" dimension.
Displays metrics for the keys you mapped to video content metadata . Metrics shown per key are an aggregate of all values assigned to that key. There is no limit to the number of keys displayed in a report.
Video ads not targeted to specific content using the cmsid and vid parameters appear as "Not applicable" with this dimension. To limit your report to only content-specific traffic, apply the Request typefilter, set to is any of > Video tagwhen reporting on this dimension.
Learn how to report on video content metadata .
Video, Looker Studio Connector
To limit results to video-only traffic, filter your results
using the Request typefilter, set to is any of Video tag.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
To limit results to video-only traffic, filter your results
using the Request typefilter, set to is any of Video tag.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Video
The numerical version of a VAST creative that is returned, which may be useful in determining which version of VAST is requested on your ad tags, or if you distribute different ad tags to different players or partner inventory. Possible versions are: VAST 2, VAST 3, VAST 4, and Not applicable (for non-video requests).
For redirects, this is not the VAST version from the third-party ad server.
This dimension can be combined with all video dimensions, including content metadata, date and time, request type, ad unit and placement, and all delivery dimensions. It is compatible with total impressions metrics; sell-through metrics; viewership, error, and interaction metrics.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Indicates YouTube ad duration in seconds or minutes within the range shown. For example, a value of "7 - 15 seconds" means the ad duration was within that range.
A dash ("-") value may indicate the following:
- Overlay ad was served
- Impression was not filled
- Ad duration was not determined ahead of render time for redirect ads
Video
- If an opportunity is filled, this will be the duration of the ad served.
- If an opportunity is unfilled, this will be the network opportunity duration.
Video
Shows publishers the performance of their video ad inventory broken out by type. Includes the following formats:
- TrueView + skippable in-stream
- Standard in-stream
- Bumper
- Video click-to-download
- VPAID
- VPAID skippable
- DBM Video
- Native content
- Native app install
- Non-video ads
- Other ad type
Applies to Ad Exchange, Open Bidding, and AdSense. Shows "(Not applicable)" for Ad Server.
Video
Whether or not the video impression came from a continuous play environment. Possible values include "Continuous", "Not continuous", and "Not set" (when continuous play information couldn't be determined).
Video, Looker Studio Connector
Shows publishers the performance of their video ad inventory broken out by source. The following values include:
- Measured: Measured by the Video SDK
- Inferred: A DAI SSB or ActiveView presumed viewability event
- Provided: All other Video SDK-less cases
Video
Video
- iOS IMA SDK
- Android IMA SDK
- HTML5 IMA SDK
- tvOS IMA SDK
- Roku GAM Utils
- Roku IMA SDK
- Roku PAL
- iOS PAL
- Android PAL
- HTML5 PAL
- tvOS PAL
- Cast PAL
- iOS GMA SDK
- Android GMA SDK
- Unknown
- SDK-less
- Other
See more information on each SDK .
This dimension can be combined with all video dimensions, request type, date and time, ad unit, and all creative dimensions. It is compatible with impression metrics; video viewership, interaction, and error metrics.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
The service that has stitched the ad into the user stream and that may be useful in determining feature support or for troubleshooting. Possible sources are: Dynamic Ad Insertion, Server-side, Client-side, or Unknown. The values for this dimension are Ad Manager DAI Stitcher, Google Cloud Video Stitcher and other.
This dimension can be combined with all video dimensions, request type, ad request resource, date and time, ad unit, and all creative dimensions. It is compatible with impression metrics; video viewership, interaction, and error metrics.
Video, Looker Studio Connector
- Dynamic Ad Insertion
- Dynamic Ad Insertion API (pod serving)
- Dynamic Ad Insertion server-side beaconing
- Server-side
- Client-side
- Unknown
This dimension can be combined with all video dimensions, request type, date and time, ad unit, and all creative dimensions. It is compatible with impression metrics; video viewership, interaction, and error metrics.
Platform, Looker Studio Connector
Shows delivery by device category: Connected TV (CTV) device (Beta) , Desktop, Feature phone, Set-top box (STB), Smart display, Smartphone, Smart speaker, and Tablet.
Platform, Looker Studio Connector
- Apple tablet
- Apple phone/touch
- Android tablet
- Android phone
- WebOS
- Blackberry
- Unknown: The query is from a mobile device, but we can't detect more specific details (e.g., whether it's from iOS, Android, a tablet, a phone, etc.).
Platform
Note:Video takes precedence over any other value. For example, if there is an in-stream video impression on a desktop device, it will be attributed to in-stream video and not desktop web.
Values include:
- AMP:User is viewing the ad on an Accelerated Mobile Page , which has been designed to load mobile web content faster.
- App:User is viewing the content through a mobile app on their smartphone or tablet. Note that Ad Manager identifies mobile apps via use of the SDK. Publishers using simplified URL tags to make requests for an app may see inconsistent results.
- Desktop web:User is viewing the content through a PC or laptop computer.
- In-stream video and audio:Ads played within the context of a video or audio stream in the same video or audio player that a user is viewing video or listening to audio content.
- Mobile web:User is viewing the content from their mobile or tablet browser.
- Other:Ad Manager can't detect where the user is viewing the content.
Platform
- AMP Ad tag
An impression is attributed to a request from an<amp-ad>
tag. This tag allows AMP Ads to load faster than standard ads or ads from other tag types. If this value is something other than "AMP Ad tag" (such as "Google Publisher Tag" or "Other"), you're likely running ads from a custom domain. You may want to replace them with<amp-ad>
tags, so AMP Ads can load faster. Learn more . - Google Publisher Tag
An impression is attributed to the Google Publisher Tag . - GPT Light
An impression is attributed to the GPT Light tag . - GPT Simple URL
An impression is attributed to a Tagless request , which allows ads in environments where JavaScript isn’t supported. - Video Tag
An impression is attributed to a request from a video player . - Mobile Ads SDK
An impression is attributed to a request that was built through the Google Mobile Ads SDK , so the ad is on an app. - Show Ads
An impression attributed to the "Show ads" synchronous tag for Ad Exchange Direct traffic. - Ads by Google
An impression attributed to the "Ads by Google" asynchronous tag for Ad Exchange Direct traffic. - Other
Indicates less common requests, such as Video Companion ad tag.
Note that the value "Google Ad Manager Tag" is no longer in use, but shows for compatibility reasons.
Platform, Looker Studio Connector
Information about the browser, device, and other environments into which a line item or creative served. The data included in this dimension is delineated by the prefixes below:
- Bandwidth= » Speed and/or type of device connection (for example, cable).
- Browser= » (Does not apply to mobile web and mobile apps) Name and version number of the user’s browser (for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11). For browsers that auto-update, like Google Chrome, no version number is displayed.
- BrowserLanguage= » (Does not apply to mobile apps) Abbreviated name of language configured for user’s browser (for example, “en” for English).
- DeviceCapability= » Special functionality of user's device (for example, supports calls, supports mraid version 1).
- Manufacturer= » Name of the company who manufactured the user's device (for example, Google).
- MobileCarrier= » Name of user's carrier network, or “Wifi” if a device was using a wireless network.
- MobileDevice= » Name and version number of device (for example, Nexus 4_from_Google).
- MobileDeviceSubmodel= » Additional granularity, particularly for where the MobileDevice= value is generic (for example, iPhone6,1).
- OperatingSystem= » Name of device operating system (for example, Microsoft Windows 7).
- OperatingSystemVersion= » Version information about the device operating system (for example, EqualTo_Android_5_0).
- Platform= » Possible values are Desktop, Smartphone, Feature Phone, Tablet, Connected TV, Set Top Box, and Other/Unknown.
Platform
Note: Desktop operating systems and non-mobile app impressions are always classified as "Unknown."
Platform, Looker Studio Connector
The Google Mobile Ads SDK version for Android traffic is only supported from June 23, 2023; prior to that date, this dimension will return a dash (-) in reporting for Android.
Platform, Looker Studio Connector
Shows publishers data for their domains and subdomains.
The use of this dimension isn't the same as reporting on URLs. Unlike URLs, the Site dimension doesn't have to be manually defined in the user interface to generate results. Returns "(unknown)" for data from sites with invalid URLs.
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows "(Not applicable)" for other demand channels.
Platform
The mobile device operating system. Not available for desktop inventory and may exclude some less common operating systems.
Note: Desktop operating systems and non-mobile app impressions are always classified as "Unknown."
Platform
Shows whether a given piece of publisher inventory was above (ATF) or below (BTF) the fold of a page. Learn more about viewability . Here are reasons why you may see "Unknown" as an Ad location value:
- Use of GPT Single Request Mode
- Nesting tags inside iframes
- Use of the same ad slot multiple times on the same page
- Custom code where
<div>
tags have been moved around
Platform
This dimension applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows “(Not applicable)” for other demand channels.
Reports that use the "Branding type" dimension will show 100% Coverage for all rows except "(Unmatched ad requests)". For this reason, Ad Requests and Coverage should be disregarded for those rows.
Platform
Shows the manner in which advertisers targeted ads to a publisher. Learn about Contextual, Personalized, and Placement targeting .
Applies to Ad Exchange and Open Bidding. Shows “(Not applicable)” for other demand channels.
“Personalized” (formerly known as "Interest-based") may include contextual targeting when user data, such as cookie ID, isn’t available. If you selected “Non-personalized ads” in the EU user control settings , you might still see ads under “Personalized” even though user data isn’t being used.
The remaining possible values for this dimension are:
- Unknown: Reflects run of network targeting, direct deals, or other targeting styles that aren't yet classified.
- (Unmatched ad requests): Reports that use the "Targeting type" dimension show 100% Coverage for all rows except "(Unmatched ad requests)", so Ad Requests and Coverage metrics should be disregarded for those rows.
Platform
Available for Ad Exchange and Open Bidding.
Platform
Allows publishers to see performance by mobile user connectivity, such as “Verizon (US).”
Available for Ad Exchange and Open Bidding.
Platform
Platform
- Web: User is viewing the content through a PC or laptop computer, or from their mobile or tablet browser.
- App: User is viewing the content through a mobile app on their smartphone or tablet. Note that Ad Manager identifies mobile apps via use of the SDK. Publishers using simplified URL tags to make requests for an app may see inconsistent results.
- AMP: User is viewing the ad on an Accelerated Mobile Page , which has been designed to load mobile web content faster.
- Other: Ad Manager can't detect where the user is viewing the content.
Platform, Mobile
Platform
Displays which SDK renders the ad on mobile apps.
Values include:
- 3P SDK:Ad rendered by third-party SDK. Recommended to report together with “Buyer network” and “bidder” dimensions. 3P SDK does not report Total clicks.
- GMA SDK:Ad rendered by Google Mobile Ads (GMA) SDK.
- Not applicable:Non-mobile traffic and unfilled request.
Delivery
Returns "TRUE" for AdX Direct traffic (new) and "FALSE" otherwise (all existing Historical report traffic).
Platform
Category of the user's browser.
Possible values include Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, In-app browser, and Not applicable (App).
Platform
Note: Desktop operating systems and non-mobile app impressions are always classified as "Unknown."
Platform
Learn more about finding app names and IDs .
Platform
Platform, Analytics, Looker Studio Connector
- Ownedmeans you've successfully claimed the app as yours.
- Not ownedmeans you haven't claimed the app as yours.
- Not applicable means the App ID is not available.
The app must be confirmed through app readiness before you claim the app as owned. The app then goes through an approval process where the app receives a status.
App status is at the time of analysis, not at the time of the ad event.
Platform
Note:This dimension can return a "Not applicable" value when requests are eligible for Open Bidding, but no Open Bidding partners actually bid.
Impressions, clicks, revenue, and other metrics can appear in multiple report rows .
Delivery, Looker Studio Connector
Name of the "Ad network" company within a yield group. Learn more about yield partners . Note that this dimension is called "Yield partner" in the Reports tool.
Delivery
Mediation attributes for a yield partner. Possible values include: Mediation, Open Bidding, or Ad Exchange.
This dimension is deprecated. Use Demand Channel , instead.
Yield group, Looker Studio Connector
Breakdown of data by both primary Salesperson and all Secondary salespeople assigned to an Order.
Users
Aggregated data rolled up under the primary Salesperson assigned to an order.
Note:For Historical reports, you can also include the "Line item" dimension.
Users, Looker Studio Connector
User messages