This guide will walk you through how to authenticate or reauthenticate The Trade Desk with Google Sheets, Data Studio, and Excel, as well as data warehouse destinations like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and API.
Before you begin
To connect Supermetrics to The Trade Desk, you need the Partner-level reporting user role and access to partner cost metrics. There might be fees associated with API access that you'll pay to The Trade Desk.
Note that you'll need to sign a form with The Trade Desk to grant access to your data. Like any third-party supplier, Supermetrics isn't involved with the creation of this document.
Instructions
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
- Under Data source, select The Trade Desk.
- Enter your email address and password, and click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your reporting.
- Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
- Navigate to The Trade Desk 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 Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your reporting.
- 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.
Connections
If you use Excel and no other Supermetrics products, you’ll be able to connect accounts to data sources and share these connections with your team. You can manage connections either within the add-in sidebar or via the Supermetrics Team Site. Learn more about shared connections.
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 The Trade Desk.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your email address and password, and click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to use in your reporting.
Explore our guides to set up data transfers to various destinations.
- BigQuery
- Data warehouse and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, Azure Storage, or Azure Synapse)
- The Supermetrics API
Reauthenticate the data source
Troubleshooting
Delays in data transfer from The Trade Desk's API can mean that imports can take up to 24 hours for very large datasets. If you encounter an error reading Background report import is in progress. Please try again later, wait a short while and retry.
- If you encounter an authentication error such as “authentication failed”, “you need to reauthenticate” or similar, see this guide.
- If you're missing an account from the dropdown list, follow these steps.
- If you encounter a permission error such as “user permission denied” or similar, follow this guide.