About linking Google Analytics to Display & Video 360

To link an Analytics 360 (Universal Analytics) property to Display & Video 360, you must create the link from the Analytics 360 account. Learn more about linking Analytics 360 and Display & Video 360 . The process described below only applies for Google Analytics.

Linking Google Analytics to Display & Video 360 allows you to use Google Analytics audience lists for targeting or combine them with other audiences to create unique list types. You can also auto-bid on Google Analytics goals or conversions through custom bidding .

Customers who link their Google Ads or Google Marketing Platform accounts to a Google Analytics property are correlated with a 23% increase in conversions and a 10% reduction in cost per conversion.


Linking options

You can link Google Analytics to your Display & Video 360 in the following ways:

Available Google Analytics features

The following table lists the different Google Analytics features available to Display & Video 360 when you link directly or using a Floodlight configuration. We recommend that you use both methods of linking to get access to more features.

Google Analytics feature Linking Google Analytics to a Display & Video 360 account Linking Google Analytics to a Floodlight configuration
Google Analytics conversions
Access to Google Analytics conversions attributed to Display & Video 360 Read-only access to Google Analytics conversion Floodlight activities
Attribution models
Access to a limited number of models Access to all models
Audiences
Access to all audiences No access to audiences

Difference in custom bidding activation

Activation method
Bidding
Attribution
Audience
Reporting
Google Analytics goals available for automated bidding
Google Analytics goals available for custom bidding
Floodlight attribution (click-through and view-through conversions)
Google Analytics attribution (click-through conversions)
Google Analytics audience export to Display & Video 360
Google Analytics goals in Campaign Manager 360 Reporting (click-through and view-through conversions)
Display & Video 360 channel reporting in Google Analytics (click-through conversions)
Campaign Manager 360 channel reporting in Google Analytics (click-through conversions)
NO
YES (Rule Builder and scripts)
NO
YES
YES
NO
YES
NO
Note: There may be a difference in the reported audience size between Google Analytics and Display & Video 360.

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