Follow these steps to connect your Flashtalking data to Supermetrics and use your data in any of our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, and Excel as well as the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.
Before you begin
Before using the Flashtalking data source connector, you need a copy of your username and password as well as appropriate permissions for data access on your account. The username and password are the same as what you use to log in to the Flashtalking Hub Reports application.
You also need to enable API access for your Flashtalking account, including access to the Campaign Manager API.
Query types
- Campaign: Measure paid media performance. Get data about clicks, cost, and interactions. Group the data by date, content, placement, advertiser, and so on.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Flashtalking.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Start.
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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 Flashtalking 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 "Flashtalking 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.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Start.
- Select a query type 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.
- 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 Flashtalking.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Start.
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- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Transform, click Query Manager (API).
- Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Flashtalking data source.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
- Click Run to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, select Connect → Data sources.
- Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
- Hover over the Flashtalking data source, and click Connect.
- Enter your username and password.
- Click Start.