2021
Nov, 16th
72 New Metrics and Dimensions related to the following items were included in the Facebook Ads Porter Metrics Connector
Schedule
Campaign
Account
Promoted post
Actions y Conversions
Carousel card
Ad set
BONUS:
The “Id account” has been added to the connector’s settings as well as new Attribution Windows (the number of days between when a person viewed or clicked your ad and subsequently took an action):
28 days click
28 days view
7 days view
1 day view
28 days click + 1 days view
28 days click + 7 deys view
28 days click + 28 days view
7 days click + 7 days view
7 days click + 28 days view
1-day click + 7 days view
1-day click + 28 days view
Nov, 4th
Apple iOS 14 Latest Update Can Affect Your Facebook Ads and Reporting.
Facebook’s Aggregated Event Measurement is a protocol that allows for the measurement of web events from iOS 14 users. Aggregated Event Measurement limits domains to 8 conversion events that can be prioritized for Aggregated Event Measurement reporting.
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Oct, 20th
According to Facebook’s latest update on Oct 20, 2021. They are about to offer a more straightforward Conversions API setup.
“With our recent introduction of the Conversions API Gateway, we’ve made the process of setting up the Conversions API quicker and easier — especially for advertisers who may lack developer resources.”
But why look up to the code when you have a resource such as Porter Metrics Facebook Ads – Instagram Ads connector? Well, that’s a good question.
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Sept 18th
Problem displaying data on a timeline
When creating a time range series, data was not being obtained for all the days of the range, this problem has been fixed.
Sep 17th
Visualize campaigns and ads groups Reach metric in a table.
Try creating a table with the Reach metric and add a filter. You will see this value is obtained for certain campaigns or ad groups.
Sep 14th
[New Field] The field: CPC (Link) has been added. Try pull this field to link to your creative ads right away. Use the amount spent / Link clicks formula.
[Fields combination] Allows the data visualization among diferent levels. For example, combining campaign starts, campaign ends with fields beyond the campaign name.
Sep 9th
[New Field]
“Ad URL” to get the Facebook ad URL.
The field “Ad URL” Allows get to link to visualize the Ad content piece faster, which is useful when presenting reports and analyzing data.
[Field Name] renaming on several fields. Users will be able to pull the metric and visualize a propper name in their dashboards.
Ex: “Cost Per App Installation” all fields were renamed with standard First word capital letter and description.
[New Field]
“Day of Week” that allows data breakdown by day of the week.
[User Experience]
Cache time reduction, from 6 hours to 1 hour.
2021
Nov 10th
Facebook is changing its dimensions, some fields may be broken. An error can shows up. Please contact support@portermetrics.com to report your error or issue.
Oct 25th
Our Facebook Insights connector is down; we expect to have it back to normal in the next 24 hours.
Facebook is running a verification process for all our connectors, and the Porter team has to provide the requested information as soon as possible (Due date: 26 Oct) Our team is working to update and re-fetch the data quickly. We want to extend our apologies for the inconveniences it might cause.
The least we can do is to accept it is a 100% human error from our end, and we’re working as fast as we can to solve it.
Porter has reached the Facebook team to re-approve our app and is dependent on their response times. Once the service is re-established, your Facebook Insights reports will work normally. It may happen that you need to re-authenticate your Facebook profile, which takes a few clicks (guide).
2021
Nov. 10th
Google Business Profile is here, it may change some metrics and dimensions on your reports.
Stay tuned to discover more about the updates and new metrics for your reporting.
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Nov. 4th
Google announced today that the name of its local listing platform, Google My Business (GMB), is changing to Google Business Profile.
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Sept. 16th
Deployment of the connector “Google My Business” was completed and it is now available, it also appears in the Google Data Studio data set.
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2021
Nov, 15th
The new User Management interphase is out now!
Manage your accounts, seats, licenses, and connections from one place. Just click on “Client Login” and start creating reports from our gallery or connect to more data sources.
Oct,4th
A general down has been reported, it affects the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp API and its services including pulling data up to date.
The error ID: 67acb938 is being displayed in some Data Studio reports due to its general down. It is recommended to stop automatic sendings and avoid pulling data frequently trying to fix this error when updating. Check your dashboards at least 3 hours after this general problem is reported as solved.
Several users have reported this down during the last 3 hours. Scheduled content, automatic reports, and data missing could be presented during the day.
Please follow news and community reports to keep updated.
Sept 20th
After the implementation of Gravity 2.3, which included the asynchronous request models that allow us to make more robust queries to the data sources.
The data connectors now run faster, any of the graphs of a report that had an error, made the entire report remain to load until the time limit passed (6 minutes), with this Gravity 2.3 implementation, these errors are controlled and now a more friendly message informing that our connector is having problems to our users is displayed.
2021
Oct 22nd
New updates and a general Google Data Studio down. As it is a free platform that allows you to visualize and centrilize your data in dashboards, it might oresent some current issues. Please be patient!
Oct 21st
Product updates
Google Maps in embedded reports
You can now include Google Maps in embedded reports. When embedding is enabled, a Data Studio report supports up to 30,000 free Google Map loads per month. You can increase the number of map loads allowed by adding a Google Maps API key to the report.
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Sept 21st
Data Studio general/partial down as a consequence of a product update. This update could affect your visualizations (Sep. 21st – Sep. 24th)
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Sept 19th
Data Studio partial down as a consequence of a product update. This update may affect your visualizations
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