The asset report lists each asset so you can compare performance between assets in your different ads and campaigns. Over time, you'll be able to make strategic decisions about your assets, such as which ones to rotate, remove, or improve. This will help you focus on creating assets that are more likely to deliver better performance.
View asset reports for ads in a specific campaign
To see your asset report, follow these instructions:
- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
- Click Campaigns from the page menu on the left.
- Find and click the relevant Discovery campaign.
- Click Ads & extensions.
- Click View asset details.
This should bring you to the asset report for your Discovery ad.
What you’ll find in your asset report
Details about your Discovery ads
At the very top of the report you’ll find the status of each ad, its name, and time frame. If one or more of your assets violates or is limited by an Ads policy, you may also see information regarding that here.
Filters and views
If you have a long list of assets, you can filter by enabled state, asset type, and performance. You can also adjust your report view or download the report.
Assets
In the assets column, you’ll see:
- The content of each asset (such as text or image thumbnail)
- If applicable, asset dimensions for images
Asset type
The asset type column defines how each asset is used. Here are the kinds of assets you might find:
- Headline
- Description
- Image
- Logo
- Call to action
Performance
This column helps you compare how your assets perform relative to other assets of the same type within your Discovery ads. You can prioritize updates and optimizations to your Discovery ads by adding or replacing assets based on their performance. Hover over the "Performance Rating" values in your asset report to learn what each of the values means. The performance column ranks assets against other assets of the same type. It will show you which assets of the same type are:
- Low, as in low performing against all other assets of the same type across properties
- Good, as in performs well enough against all other assets of the same type
- Best, as in one of the highest performers of all assets of the same type on one or more properties
Until enough data is available to assign a performance label, you'll see an asset carry a default “LEARNING” status.
If you find that your assets perform poorly, review our best practices checklist and creative asset guidelines to help you develop high quality assets more likely to deliver stronger results.
View cross-campaign asset reports
Cross-campaign asset reports are generated if you have one or more Discovery ads in Google Ads. Only active assets (assets in active ads in active ad groups and in active campaigns that have had impressions in the last 30 days) appear in the report.
Note: Because asset data is updated daily, changes won’t be reflected in real time. For example, assets may still appear in a report after a campaign has been paused but will be removed when the asset data is updated.
To view your asset report, follow these instructions:
- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
- In the left page menu, select Discovery campaigns.
- In the right page menu, under “Ads & Extensions”, click Assets.
What you’ll find in your cross-campaign asset report
Filters and views
You can filter by enabled state, asset type, and performance. You can also filter by selecting specific campaigns and ad groups. You adjust your report view or download the report.
Assets
In the assets column, you’ll find:
- The content of each asset (such as text or image thumbnail)
- If applicable, asset dimensions for images
Asset type
The asset type column defines how each asset is used. Here are the kinds of assets you might find:
- Headline
- Description
- Image
- Logo
- Call to action
Performance
The “Performance rating” column describes how an asset performs relative to other assets of the same type across all your campaigns. Learn more about the ratings below:
- “Learning” means the system is reviewing the asset’s performance relative to other assets in the ad. After your asset has enough traffic, it can be ranked according to the measures below.
- “Low” means that the asset is one of the lowest performing relative to other assets of its type. Replacing this asset could help improve ad performance.
- “Good” means the asset is performing well relative to other assets of its type. Keep this asset and try adding more assets to help improve ad performance.
- “Best” means the asset is one of the best performing relative to other assets of its type. Consider adding more assets like this to improve ad performance.
- “Unrated” means the system is unable to rank performance because of a limited number of assets.
You’ll find percentages in the ratings columns for each of your assets. The percentages represent the share of impressions across all applicable ad groups that the asset received when it was given that rating.
Example:
Let’s assume that you have a headline asset, “Free shipping”, that is used in 4 ad groups:
- In ad group #1, the asset gets 1000 impressions and is rated “Best”.
- In ad group #2, the asset gets 6000 impressions and is rated “Good”.
- In ad group #3, the asset gets 2900 impressions and is rated “Low”.
- In ad group #4, the asset gets 100 impressions and doesn’t have a performance rating.
Those ad groups would be represented in the cross-campaign asset columns:
- 10% Best (ad group #1)
- 60% Good (ad group #2)
- 29% Low (ad group #3)
- 1% Unrated (ad group #4)