This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate AdRoll with Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and the Supermetrics API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to Adroll, you need Administrator or General User role access. Learn how to add or edit an AdRoll user in AdRoll's documentation.
For Excel users
If your team uses Supermetrics for Excel, you'll see different options for managing and sharing data source connections in that destination. Learn more.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Click Create query.
- Under Data source, select AdRoll.
- Click Start.
- Enter your email address and password, and click Sign in.
- Select your accounts.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with AdRoll.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to AdRoll and click Try.
- Click Authorize.
- If you're authenticating the data source for the first time, log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics. Click Allow.
- Click Authorize.
- Enter your email address and password, and click Sign in.
- Select your accounts.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- Click Connect on the top right-hand side.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with AdRoll.
Add or remove a user account in Data Studio
- Click the edit icon next to the data source's name in the Data Studio sidebar.
- At the top left of the connection pane, click Edit connection.
- Scroll down to Parameters.
- Browse team, account, and license management options in the section beginning "To add more/manage accounts..."
Before you can authenticate the data source in Excel, you need to install the Supermetrics add-in.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select AdRoll.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your email address and password, and click Sign in.
- Select your accounts.
When you're ready, learn how to create your first Supermetrics query with AdRoll.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- BigQuery
- Data warehouses and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- The Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate the data source
Troubleshooting
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.