Configure GroundTruth Report

Here's How to Get Data from GroundTruth into Bionic for Agencies.

Integration with GroundTruth will enable you to automate the delivery of your performance data into Bionic.

Refer to Learn About Integrating Your Performance Data for the complete list of steps to complete your integration set up.

For all integrations, you will first need to Define Your Integration.

In this help article, we'll cover the steps on how to configure your GroundTruth Report in your GroundTruth account for integration with Bionic:

  1. Notify Bionic Customer Support
  2. Set Up GroundTruth Report

Notify Bionic Customer Support

If you opt to automate the reporting delivery, Bionic Customer Support will need to create an email address for your reports to be delivered to.

Here is what we need to get the process started:

  1. In GroundTruth, find your Account Number. This will be the account number for your company's instance of GroundTruth, not a specific Client number.

  2. Send the Account Number via email to support@bionic-ads.com or your CSM.

  3. Bionic Customer Support will complete the set up of the email address and notify you. The email address will in a format similar to: 

    *******@marketing-performance-monitoring.com

Set Up GroundTruth Report

Once you have received the email address, you can configure the report and schedule it to be emailed.

  1. In GroundTruth, create a report.

  2. Name the report clearly, such as Bionic Daily Performance Results.

  3. Add the following fields (Choose only the KPIs you want to report):

    • Date

    • Campaign ID
    • Campaign
    • Spend
    • Total Spent
    • Clicks
    • Visits
    • Impressions
  4. Filter to Yesterday.
  5. Schedule the report to run nightly and have the results sent to the private email address that was provided to you.

TIP: If you need to backfill data, you can send a one-time report that includes data from a date range that represents the time period you want to include.

Here is how data will map from GroundTruth to Bionic:

GroundTruth Field Bionic Field Notes
Date

Date

Date of results
Campaign Id Source ID Used for mapping 
Campaign  Source Name Used for mapping to Bionic Placement ID <BA:ID>
Spend Net Media Cost See Net Media Cost Actuals Based on Cost Method
Total Spent Net Media Cost See Net Media Cost Actuals Based on Cost Method
Clicks Clicks KPI
Visits Visits KPI 
Impressions Impressions KPI

Next Steps