Microsoft Advertising data source
Getting started
- Inside the admin panel navigate to the Data Sources page and click + NEW on the top right corner.
- Choose Microsoft Advertising from the list.
- Click Authenticate with Microsoft and go through the authentication flow.
- Select the advertising account you would like to connect.
- Click Save.
Supported dynamic URL parameters
By default Microsoft Advertising allows to use a lot of dynamic URL tracking parameters to track campaigns.
SegmentStream supports the following parameters:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
{lpurl} |
The final URL. It will be escaped unless you put {lpurl} at the beginning of your tracking template. If {lpurl} isn’t at the beginning of your tracking template, it escapes the characters ?, =, “, #, \t, ‘ and [space]. Example Final URL: http://example.com Tracking template: {lpurl}?matchtype={matchtype} Landing page URL: http://example.com?matchtype={matchtype} |
{CampaignId} |
The ID of the campaign that triggered the ad. |
{Campaign} |
The name of the campaign that triggered the ad. |
{AdGroupId} |
The ID of the ad group that triggered the ad. |
{AdGroup} |
The name of the ad group that triggered the ad. |
{MatchType} |
The match type used to deliver an ad: "e" for exact, "p" for phrase, "b" for broad, "b" for expanded (Expanded match is treated as a broad match). |
{BidMatchType} |
The keyword bid match type: "be" for bidded exact, "bp" for bidded phrase, "bb" for bidded broad. |
{Network} |
The ad network type on which the ad was served: "o" for owned and operated (Bing, AOL, and Yahoo search results), "s" for syndicated (search partner site results), "a" for audience (Microsoft Audience Network placements). |
{Device} |
One of the following codes depending on where the click came from: "m" for mobile device, "t" for tablet device, "c" for desktop or laptop computer. |
{AdId} |
The numeric ID of the displayed ad. |
{keyword} |
The keyword that matched the user’s search term. |
If you use some of the unsupported parameters in UTM-tags you’ll see the parameter names instead of their values, for example: {OrderItemId} instead of 1234567890.
In order to keep matching visits and ad expenses in the cost analysis reports, move the unsupported parameters from UTM-tags to additional custom GET-parameters and collect them to custom dimensions in Google Analytics:
- Cost data will be available only for UTM-tags values.
- Session data will be available for unsupported parameters (through custom dimensions) and UTM-tags values.
This document was last updated on October 3, 2020. If you notice any gaps, outdated information or simply want to leave some feedback to help us improve our documentation, please let us know!