Floodlight reports

If you've set up Custom Floodlight variables, you can use Floodlight reports to view data about them. Floodlight reports are similar to Path to Conversion (P2C) reports, but they include aggregated data rather than interaction-level data.

You can add Custom Floodlight Variables to your report as either metrics or dimensions. If you add them as metrics, note that they will be summed in the report as if they are numeric values, even if the variables are actually strings. The string variables will display a value of 0.

Conversion vs transaction metrics

Conversion metrics count conversions, while transaction metrics count events. Depending on how your Floodlight is set up (for example, as a sales activity), there might be multiple conversions, but one event, for a given transaction. This is because while conversion metrics also capture the value of the event (for example, quantity of items sold), transaction metrics only count the event (the shopper completed a purchase).

Enable Floodlight reporting

To access Floodlight reports, you need the following permissions enabled:

• Account level:

  • View custom Floodlight variables data

• User role level:

  • View custom Floodlight variables data

  • View click-through conversions

  • View view-through conversions

Run a Floodlight report

To create a Floodlight report in Report Builder:

1. Click New Report and select Floodlight.

2. Select the Floodlight configuration ID that you want to show data for in the report. This automatically adds all advertisers associated with that ID.

3. Select the Floodlight activities to include in your report. If you select none, the report will automatically include all activities.

   Typically you can include up to 1,000 Floodlight activities in a single report. However, if you select "Activity" as a dimension and then add at least one activity metric to your report (such as "Click-through conversions"), there's theoretically no limit to the number of activities you can include.

4. (Optional) Add filters to limit the amount of data included in your report.

5. You can also include unattributed cookie conversions as a report property. A conversion is unattributed when the user has a DoubleClick cookie, but it converted without an exposure. This means the user did not click or see an ad from the advertiser within the Floodlight group, or that the interaction happened outside the lookback window.

   These attribution types have no effect on Floodlight impression data.

6. Choose which dimensions and metrics to include in your report.

   • You can add Custom Floodlight Variables to your report as either metrics or dimensions. Note that if you add them as metrics, they will be summed as numeric values, even if they are actually strings. Learn more about conversion dimensions/metrics

   • You can include the Floodlight impressions metric to view impression data by Floodlight configuration and activity. Learn more about Floodlight impressions

   • You can also include Paid and Natural Search dimensions from Search Ads 360.

7. (Optional) Schedule your report to run at a certain time.

8. Click Run or Save.

Sample output: Common dimensions and metrics

The following table shows some of the possible values for the dimensions and metrics that you might typically include in your report.

Dimension Name	Example Data
Activity date/time	3/17/13 0:01 (12:01:05 AM)
Conversion URL	src=3528935;type=frida880;cat=ire; qty=1;cost=99.99;ord=123456789
Floodlight attribution type	Click-through View-through Unattributed
Interaction channel	Rich Media Click Tracker Static Image Natural Search
Interaction type	Click Impression
Path type	Cookie IP
Browser/Platform	Chrome Firefox iPhone iPod Touch ...
Operating system	Windows (version) Linux
Campaign Manager 360 objects	Campaign Placement Site Ad Activity ...
Designated Market Area (DMA)	Not Metroized No Metro
Natural search query	"Search Term"
Natural search landing page	https://www.site.com/landingpage
Interaction count	0 1 2 ...
Channel mix	Rich Media Static Image
Click count	0 1 2 ...
Impression count	0 1 2 ...
Path length	0 1 2 ...
Rich Media metrics and dimensions	Average expansion time Interaction rate Video companion clicks Video length ...
Conversion referrer	https://www.site.com/confirmationpage
Custom Floodlight variables	For dimensions, only strings are available: string For metrics, only numeric values are available: 123
ORD value	123456789
Days since attributed interaction Days since first interaction	0 1 2 ...
Hours since attributed interaction Hours since first interaction	0 1 2 ...