Monitor and optimize your Shopping campaigns

The Product groups page is the first place you can check to see how your product groups are performing. Customize the columns you see and download reports with segmented options.

You'll be able to view these types of information:

• Maximum cost-per-click (max. CPC)
• Impressions
• Clickthrough rate (CTR)
• Conversion metrics
• Benchmark clickthrough rate (CTR)
• Benchmark maximum cost-per-click (max. CPC)
• Impression share
• Click share
• Absolute top impression share
• Tracking templates
• Custom parameters
• % approved
• % active
• % ready to serve
• Products submitted
• Products approved
• Products active
• Products ready to serve

Learn more about these columns and what they mean.

Plus, you can download a report and add segments to the report to view your performance by days of the week, click type, or device. Note that you can’t segment impression share, benchmark CTR, or benchmark CPC by device or click type.

Here's how to download a report from the Product Groups page:

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click the Campaigns drop down in the section menu.
3. Click Campaigns.
4. Click the campaign you wish to run a report on.
5. Click an ad group in the campaign.
6. From the page menu on the left, click Product groups.
7. Make sure the table is displaying all of the columns you may want to edit. Then, click the download button .
   1. If you want to segment your data by device, day of the week, or click type, click More options, then click the Add segments drop-down menu and choose the option you want. You won’t be able to segment your impression share, benchmark CTR, or benchmark CPC data by device or click type. You won’t be able to mark this segmented report “Editable.”
   2. Click Email now to email the report to specific recipients. You can choose the file type as well.
   3. Click Schedule to email the report to specific recipients in your selected file type at a regularly scheduled time, whether "daily," "weekly," or on the "first day of the month".
8. If you download an editable report, you'll be able to use it to make bulk changes to product groups, bids, tracking templates, and custom parameters. Learn more about downloadable reports and bulk uploads. Keep in mind:
   • You can’t download an editable report using segments.
   • Be sure to save your spreadsheet in one of our supported formats (.xlsx, .tsv, or .csv).
9. Click Download.

The Products page helps you understand the performance of individual products in your campaign. Here are the customizable columns you can see:

• Item ID
• Title
• Channel
• Channel exclusivity
• Merchant id
• Brand
• Price
• Condition
• Language
• Product type
• Category
• Custom label
• Product status
• Impressions
• Clicks
• Average cost-per-click
• Effective maximum cost-per-click (effective max. CPC)
• Conversion metrics
• Absolute top impression share

Learn more about these columns and what they mean.

The Predefined reports page provides customized performance reporting at any level of granularity by any dimension you choose, including:

• Category
• Product type
• Item ID
• Brand
• Merchant Center ID
• Store ID
• Channel
• Channel exclusivity
• Benchmark clickthrough rate (CTR)
• Benchmark maximum cost-per-click (max. CPC)
• Impression share
• Click share
• Absolute top impression share

Here’s how to view performance data from the Predefined reports page:

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click the Insights and reports drop down in the section menu.
3. Click Report editor.
4. Click "View all" in the "Predefined reports (formerly Dimensions)" card.
5. In the Shopping section, then choose the attribute you want to use to sort your performance data: category, product type, item ID, brand, Merchant Center ID, or store ID.

To customize the information you want to see in the report you just created:

1. Click the edit row or column icon.
2. To add a column to the report, click Add, then choose the type of metric (for example, "Attributes,” “Performance,” “Conversions,” “Competitive metrics”) that you’d like to add as a report column. Repeat this for each column you wish to add.
3. Click Add to select the columns you want to view.
4. To remove a column from the report, click the X next to the name of the column you’d like to remove.
5. To save your report settings, click Save as.

You can download non-editable performance reports from the Predefined reports page. Use segments if you’d like to view your data split into rows based on the options that matter to you most, such as days of the week, click type or device. Note that you can’t segment impression share, benchmark CTR or benchmark CPC by device or click type.

Here's how to download a non-editable report from the Predefined reports (formerly Dimensions) page:

1. From the Predefined reports (formerly Dimensions) page, make sure that the table is displaying all of the information that you want to see. Then, click the download button .
2. Choose the format you wish to download your report in (for example, .csv).
3. Click Download.