About Google Ads
The ad spend that has to earn its keep.
Google Ads is Google's online advertising program, covering Search, Display, Shopping, YouTube, Performance Max and Demand Gen campaigns across Google's own properties and the wider Display Network. At the data level it exposes campaigns, ad groups, keywords, assets, search terms, conversions, impressions, clicks and cost, both through the Google Ads API and the reporting interface.
The point of pulling Google Ads into a warehouse is that the report Google shows you is attributed by Google, on a window Google picks, against the conversion definition Google sees. That is fine for day-to-day optimisation and not enough for the conversation about which channel is paying for itself. Next to your CRM deals, your Shopify or Magento orders and your Stripe charges, Google Ads spend gets measured against revenue that cleared, not against conversions that fired.