Google Ads connector

Use your Google Ads data for reporting, automation and AI.

Data Panda brings your Google Ads data together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn it into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your team uses every day.

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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.

What your Google Ads data is for

What you get once Google Ads is connected.

Spend-to-revenue reporting

ROAS and CAC built on invoiced revenue, not on Google's own conversion count.

  • Spend versus paid revenue, per campaign and per keyword
  • Customer acquisition cost by source and by cohort
  • Blended spend picture across Google Ads, other paid media and CRM-closed revenue

Spend automation

Let the rest of the stack react to what Google Ads produces.

  • Pause campaigns when CAC exceeds target, by segment
  • Push CRM-closed revenue back as offline conversions
  • Sync high-value customer lists as exclusion and lookalike audiences

AI workflows

Turn spend history into scoring that guides the next budget call.

  • Keyword-level revenue prediction, not just conversion prediction
  • Budget-pacing alerts before the weekly review notices
  • Creative-performance scoring per segment and audience

Custom apps on your data

Internal tools for the marketing and finance teams that Google's own UI does not ship.

  • Agency-facing campaign brief with revenue context
  • Finance-side cost-per-acquisition board by product line
  • Executive view of paid media against organic and CRM-closed revenue
Use cases

Use cases we deliver with Google Ads data.

A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on Google Ads data. Pick the one that matches your situation.

ROAS on paid revenueReturn on ad spend against invoiced revenue, per campaign.
CAC by sourceCost to acquire a customer that pays, per Google Ads source.
Keyword-level profitabilityWhich search terms pay for themselves, which do not.
Campaign cannibalisationWhere paid search cannibalises organic on the same brand term.
LTV by first-touch sourceLifetime value of a customer by the Google Ads campaign that acquired them.
Conversion-lag analysisHow long after a click a deal or order lands.
Audience-quality checkWhich audiences bring paying customers, not just traffic.
Creative performanceAsset-level spend and paid-revenue outcomes.
Geo-level profitabilityRevenue per region against spend and fulfilment cost.
Multi-account consolidationOne spend and revenue picture across MCC accounts.
Real business questions

Answers you will finally get.

Which campaigns produced customers who stayed?

Google Ads campaign spend matched to customer lifetime value in your CRM, Shopify or Stripe, twelve months out. Ranks the campaigns whose customers are still paying next to the campaigns whose customers left before the first renewal.

Where is paid search eating organic?

Brand-term spend next to organic sessions and revenue on the same terms. Shows the queries where the click was already going to convert on the organic listing, so pausing the paid bid would not cost revenue.

Which keywords look fine on Google and lose money on the ledger?

Cost per conversion from Google Ads against cost per paying customer from the warehouse, per keyword. Identifies the keywords whose conversion rate looks healthy in the Google interface because the conversion definition is generous, and whose economics are underwater once refunds and churn are in.

Value for everyone in the organisation

Where each function gets value.

For finance leaders

Paid-media spend next to invoiced revenue per campaign and per channel, with blended CAC and payback period tracked over time. The marketing budget defence stops leaning on ROAS on Google's own dashboard.

For sales leaders

First-touch and last-touch Google Ads source on every CRM deal, tied to deal outcome and revenue. The quarterly review moves from 'leads generated' to 'deals closed that paid', per source.

For operations

Campaign pacing, budget drift and conversion-lag trends in one board. Spend decisions happen weekly on the same numbers the CFO will see at quarter-end, instead of on a snapshot from the Google UI.

Ideas

What you can automate with Google Ads.

Pair with HubSpot

Tie Google Ads spend to HubSpot closed revenue

Google Ads campaign, ad group and keyword carry through to the HubSpot contact and deal they produced. Marketing reports on closed-won revenue per campaign instead of on conversions the Google pixel fired, and finance has the full paid-to-paid chain.

Pair with Shopify

Measure Google Ads against Shopify paid orders

Click-level cost from Google Ads sits next to the Shopify orders that the same session produced, with refunds and fulfilment costs taken into account. ROAS stops being the Google-reported number and starts being the margin that stayed.

Pair with Salesforce

Attribute Salesforce opportunities to Google Ads sources

First-touch and last-touch Google Ads source become fields on the Salesforce lead and opportunity, with campaign-level cost available in reports. The pipeline review can rank campaigns by closed-won value per euro spent, not only by MQLs produced.

Pair with Pipedrive

Bring Google Ads source into Pipedrive deals

Pipedrive deals carry the Google Ads campaign, ad group and keyword that brought the lead in, plus cost and click timestamps. Deal-source reports stop relying on rep-entered UTMs that were wrong half the time anyway.

Data model

Tables we make available.

These are the 28 tables we currently pull from Google Ads into your warehouse. Query them directly in SQL, join them to the rest of your stack, or build reports on top.

  • Accessible Bidding Strategies
  • Account Performance Report
  • Accounts
  • Ad Group Audience Performance Report
  • Ad Group Criterion
  • Ad Group Performance Report
  • Ad Groups
  • Ads
  • Bidding Strategies
  • Call Details
  • Campaign Audience Performance Report
  • Campaign Budgets
  • Campaign Criterion
  • Campaign Labels
  • Campaign Performance Report
  • Campaigns
  • Carrier Constant
  • Feed
  • Feed Item
  • Keywords Performance Report
  • Labels
  • Language Constant
  • Mobile App Category Constant
  • Mobile Device Constant
  • Operating System Version Constant
  • Topic Constant
  • User Interest
  • User List

Missing a table you need? We can extend the sync. Tell us what is missing and we will build it for you.

Your existing tools

Your data lands in a warehouse. Your BI tools read from it.

You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your Google Ads data lives.

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Three steps

From Google Ads to answers in three steps.

01

Connect securely

OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.

02

Land in your warehouse

Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.

03

Reporting, automation, AI

We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.

Two ways to work with us

Pick the track that fits how you work.

Track 01

Self-serve

We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.

  • Google Ads connector configured and running
  • Warehouse set up in your cloud account
  • Clean access for your Power BI, Fabric or Tableau team
  • Documentation on what's in the data model
  • Sync monitoring so you're warned before reports break

Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.

Track 02

Done for you

We build the whole thing, end to end.

  • Everything in Self-serve
  • Dashboards built to the questions your team actually asks
  • Automations between your systems
  • AI workflows scoped to real tasks your team runs
  • Custom apps where a dashboard does not cut it
  • Ongoing delivery at a pace that fits your team

Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.

Before you book

Frequently asked questions.

Who owns the data?

You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.

How fresh is the data?

Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.

Do I need a warehouse already?

No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.

Does the sync cover MCC (manager) accounts and multiple ad accounts?

Yes. Each ad account lands in its own warehouse schema with the MCC hierarchy preserved. Reporting can stay per account for a product or brand view, or roll up to the MCC for a group-level spend picture. Agencies running many clients through one MCC get per-client isolation plus a consolidated view on top.

Can you push offline conversions back into Google Ads?

Yes. Once CRM-closed revenue or Stripe paid-subscription events are in the warehouse, we can push them back to Google Ads as offline conversions, keyed on GCLID. Smart Bidding then optimises against paid outcomes instead of form fills, which usually rebalances budget within a few weeks.

GDPR-compliant
Data stays in the EU
You own the warehouse

A first deliverable live in four to six weeks.

We review your Google Ads setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.