Use this guide to connect your Sizmek data to Supermetrics.
If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
Before using the Sizmek connector, you need to sign an API agreement with Sizmek allowing Supermetrics to access your account via API. This can be done through your Sizmek client service manager or Sizmek customer support. After this, you should receive a username, password, and API key which are used to connect to the Sizmek data source.
Query types
Sizmek connector has 3 different report types providing you with different ways to report the performance of your campaigns.
- Campaign performance: Report performance of your ad campaigns on campaign, ad, brand, site or placement level.
- Geo performance: Report performance of your ad campaigns on campaign and country level.
- Device performance: Report performance of your ad campaigns on campaign, device and browser level.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Sizmek.
- Enter the username, password and API key you received from your Sizmek account manager.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Sizmek and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Sizmek requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter the username, password and API key you received from your Sizmek account manager.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type.
- 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.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
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Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Sizmek.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter the username, password and API key you received from your Sizmek account manager.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.