Facebook Ads Data Studio template

How to use Cervinodata's Facebook Ads data studio template

Google Data Studio is a powerful way to report on key summary data from all sorts of sources. Many online marketing agencies and online marketers use Data Studio for reporting or dashboard purposes. Data Studio offers multiple ways to connect data to a report, this is done through a Data Studio connector. Data Studio connectors can connect Native Google service data to a report, but it there is a growing community of third party connectors that allow you to connect for instance Facebook Ads data to Data Studio. Cervinodata offers Data Studio connectors for the main advertising platforms. The Cervinodata connectors come with specific features that will save you time and frustration when reporting on data.

Example of the Facebook Ads data studio template

Facebook Ads data studio template

What's in the Facebook Ads Data Studio template?

This article shows you what's inside the template, how exactly Cervinodata's Data Studio template for multiple Facebook Ads accounts works and how easy it is to add or remove an account.

Dropdowns for easy filtering

The Facebook Ads template has multiple dropdowns for easy filtering. The templates can be adjusted to your needs, or you can use the data set that is underneath the template and build your own report from scratch. The dropdowns are simply the frequently asked features when we build a Data Studio dashboard, and they show the unique features Cervinodata has to offer.

Multiple organisations

Cervinodata allows you to filter data by Organisation. In the case of multiple Facebook Ads accounts it allows you to group a couple of ad accounts to one organisation (Brand A), and a couple of others to another organisation (Brand B) and still be able to report on all the ad accounts, without having to change blending settings.

This makes it very easy to add or remove an account. Or group the accounts of multiple clients together.

Data Studio template Organisation
Data Studio template - accounts

Multiple Facebook Ads accounts

Easily report on one or multiple accounts without complexity. If you have multiple accounts in your report you can easily deselect any or all but one, and all graphs and tables will be filtered. If you want to report on all your accounts in a topline report, you can also use our Ad data agency overview (See here to find out more).

In Cervinodata, connect another Facebook Ads account to the Organisation and it will automatically be added to the dashboard.

Historic data

In the template, we have chosen to show the results in the graphs by months, but for more details, it's possible to drill down the graphs to show the results (by ad account) by day. In the Data Studio connector, the data is available per day. For Free plans, this data history is limited to 182 days, for all paid plans, more historic data is available.

Report on up to two years of historic data per day.
(requires paid plan).

Data Studio template - historic data
Data Studio template - campaign

Campaigns

Each Cervinodata connector comes with data per campaign included. This means you can use the Cervinodata Facebook Ads Data Studio connector for reporting on all of your Facebook Ads by account(s) or by campaign(s). Our connectors with "filter" in the name include the campaign grouping feature (more on campaign grouping here).

 

See other Facebook Ads data studio templates here

Start a Cervinodata Free plan

Our free plan comes with 182 days data retention and weekly data refresh. Blend data from multiple ad platforms (like Facebook Ads, Google Ads and more) with Google Analytics and get your campaign performance reporting up and running in minutes. Free templates available.

What metrics are available in the Facebook Ads template?

Cervinodata's pre-built Data Studio report for Facebook Ads is showing the topline performance metrics, a few key metrics and a set of calculated metrics on the campaign level. But inside the data set of this template, a whole lot of Facebook Ads metrics are available. See the screenshots on the right to get a detailed view.

If you want to know exactly which metrics are available, check out : this support page

Other Facebook ads data studio templates

How to add a Facebook Ads account to the Data Studio template

This short, step-by-step instruction shows you how to add an account to your Data Studio dashboard. This instruction assumes you already have the following:

  1. a Cervinodata account (start your free plan here)
  2. At least one Organisation created (we'll call it Organisation A in the example).
    (Cervinodata comes with a "Default Organisation", but you can create your own.)
  3. You have chosen "Organisation A" when you connected the template to Cervinodata .
  4. Make sure you are logged into Data Studio.

In Cervinodata

  • Connect the account to Organisation A (in our example)
  • Switch the data collection to ON
  • That's it.

It may take a couple of minutes before this change becomes available in Data Studio

multiple GA views data studio template
Connect the view to the Organisation in Cervinodata.

In Google Data Studio

  • In Data Studio, refresh the report to reflect the new data. The account you newly connected to the Organisation A will appear in the Google Data Studio dashboard.

It may take a couple of minutes to collect the historic data.

GA multiple views data studio template

How to removeĀ a Facebook Ads account from the Data Studio template

This short, step-by-step instruction shows you how to add an account to your Data Studio dashboard. This instruction assumes you already have the following:

  1. a Cervinodata account (start your free plan here)
  2. At least one Organisation created (we'll call it Organisation A in the example).
  3. You have chosen "Organisation A" when you connected the template to Cervinodata .
  4. Make sure you are logged into Data Studio.

In Cervinodata

  • Go to the "Choose Accounts page" (here)
  • Scroll to the account you wish to remove from your Data Studio dashboard.
  • Click on the dropdown with Organisation A (in our example) and select another Organisation (Let's choose "Default Organisation" in this example)
  • Or you can switch the account to OFF. In this case, also the data collection stops.
  • That's it.

It may take a couple of minutes before this change becomes visible in Data Studio

multiple GA views data studio template
Connect the view to the Organisation in Cervinodata.

In Google Data Studio

  • In Data Studio, after a few minutes, refresh the report to reflect the new data. The account you disconnected from Organisation A or switched to OFF is no longer visible in the dashboard.
GA multiple views data studio template

Start a Cervinodata Free plan

Our free plan comes with 182 days data retention and weekly data refresh. Blend data from multiple ad platforms (like Facebook Ads, Google Ads and more) with Google Analytics and get your campaign performance reporting up and running in minutes. Free templates available.