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Updates on the Google Analytics 4 data source, including new metrics, dimensions, and other features.

May 2025

2025-05-20

The following dimensions for CM360 and DV360 sessions have been added:

  • Session CM360 account ID

  • Session CM360 account name

  • Session CM360 advertiser ID

  • Session CM360 advertiser name

  • Session CM360 campaign ID

  • Session CM360 campaign name

  • Session CM360 placement ID

  • Session CM360 placement name

  • Session CM360 creative ID

  • Session CM360 creative name

  • Session CM360 site ID

  • Session CM360 site name

  • Session DV360 advertiser ID

  • Session DV360 advertiser name

  • Session DV360 campaign ID

  • Session DV360 campaign name

  • Session DV360 insertion order ID

  • Session DV360 insertion order name

  • Session DV360 line item ID

  • Session DV360 line item name

  • Session DV360 creative ID

  • Session DV360 creative name

  • Session DV360 exchange ID

  • Session DV360 exchange name

December 2024

2024-12-10

New dimensions added:

  • CM360 placement cost structure

  • CM360 placement ID

  • CM360 placement name

  • DV360 insertion order name

  • DV360 line item name

  • DV360 line item ID

May 2024

2024-05-31

New dimensions added:

  • Session manual campaign ID

  • Session manual campaign name

  • Session manual creative format

  • Session manual marketing tactic

  • Session manual medium

  • Session manual source

  • Session manual source / medium

  • Session manual source platform

September 2023

2023-09-05

New metric added:

  • Item discount amount

New dimensions added:

  • Currency code

  • Operating system with version

June 2023

2023-06-28

New metrics added:

  • Ecommerce

    • Gross item revenue

    • Gross purchase revenue

    • Item refund amount

    • Refund amount

New dimension added:

  • Time

    • Date, hour & minute

April 2023

2023-04-13

A new field "Conversions count for [event_name]" added. This field generates the conversions count from the user’s custom event name.

2023-04-12

New metrics added:

  • Basic

    • Scrolled users

    • Views per user

New dimensions added:

  • Ecommerce

    • Item list position

    • Item location ID

    • Item promotion creative slot

  • Geo

    • Continent

    • Continent ID

  • Property

    • Account name

    • Account ID

    • Test data filter ID

  • Time

    • Date & hour

    • Nth hour

October 2022

2022-10-27

New dimensions added:

  • City ID

  • First user default channel grouping

  • First user Google Ads account name

  • First user Google Ads campaign

  • First user Google Ads campaign ID

  • First user Google Ads campaign type

  • First user Google Ads customer ID

  • First user Google Ads keyword text

  • First user Google Ads query

  • First user manual ad content

  • First user manual term

  • First user source

  • First user source / medium

  • First user source platform

  • Full page URL

  • Nth minute

  • Session Google Ads campaign

  • Session Google Ads campaign ID

  • Session Google Ads creative ID

  • Session Google Ads customer ID

  • Session SA360 ad group name

  • Session SA360 campaign

  • Session SA360 campaign ID

  • Session SA360 creative format

  • Session SA360 engine account ID

  • Session SA360 engine account name

  • Session SA360 engine account type

  • Session SA360 keyword text

  • Session SA360 medium

  • Session SA360 query

  • Session SA360 source

  • Session source / medium

  • Source / medium

New metrics added:

  • Ads clicks

  • Ads cost

  • Ads cost per click

  • Ads impressions

  • Average purchase revenue

  • Average purchase revenue per user

  • Average session duration

  • Bounce rate

  • Cost per conversion

  • Crash-affected users

  • Crash-free users rate

  • DAU per MAU

  • DAU per WAU

  • First-time purchaser conversion

  • First-time purchasers per new user

  • Items added to cart

  • Items checked out

  • Items clicked in list

  • Items clicked in promotion

  • Items viewed

  • Items viewed in list

  • Items viewed in promotion

  • Organic Google search average position

  • Organic Google search click through rate

  • Organic Google search clicks

  • Organic Google search impressions

  • Purchase-to-view rate

  • Purchaser conversion

  • Return on ad spend

  • Session conversion rate

  • Sessions per user

  • Shipping amount

  • Tax amount

  • Transactions per purchaser

  • User conversion rate

  • Views per session

  • WAU per MAU

2022-10-03

New fields added:

  • Hour

  • Minute

  • Nth year

  • Nth month

  • Nth week

  • Nth day

  • Google Ads customer ID

  • Google Ads campaign ID

  • Google Ads campaign name

  • Google Ads keyword text

  • Google Ads query

  • Google Ads creative ID

  • Event medium

  • Page path and screen class

  • Landing page

  • First session date

  • Item affiliation

  • Item variant

  • Shipping tier

September 2022

2022-09-22

New fields added:

  • First session date

  • Google Ads campaign ID

  • Google Ads campaign

  • Google Ads creative ID

  • Google Ads keyword text

  • Google Ads query

  • Hour

  • Item affiliation

  • Item variant

  • Landing page

  • Medium

  • Minute

  • Nth day

  • Nth month

  • Nth week

  • Nth year

  • Page location

  • Shipping tier

2022-09-01

New fields added:

  • CONTENT

    • Page location

    • Page path and screen class

    • Percent scrolled

    • Search term

    • Is visible

  • DEVICE

    • Platform and device category

  • EVENT

    • Method

  • EVENT SOURCE

    • Campaign type

    • Manual ad content

    • Manual term

    • Page referrer

    • Source platform

  • FILE DOWNLOAD

    • File extension

    • File name

  • GAME EVENT

    • Achievement id

    • Character

    • Player Group id

  • OUTBOUND LINK

    • Link id

    • Link url

    • Link classes

    • Link domain

    • Link text

    • Is outbound link

  • SESSION SOURCE

    • Session campaign type

    • Session manual ad content

    • Session manual term

    • Session source platform

  • USER

    • New vs returning

  • VIDEO

    • Video url

    • Video provider

    • Video title

October 2021

2021-10-03

New fields have been added to support Ads and Ecommerce:

  • Ad format

  • Ad source

  • Ad unit

  • Ad unit exposure

  • Publisher ad clicks

  • Publisher ad impressions

  • Item brand

  • Item category

  • Item category 2

  • Item category 3

  • Item category 4

  • Item category 5

  • Item ID

  • Item list ID

  • Item list name

  • Item name

  • Item promotion creative name

  • Item promotion ID

  • Item promotion name

  • Order coupon

  • Transaction ID

  • Add-to-carts

  • Cart-to-view rate

  • Checkouts

  • Purchases

  • First time purchasers

  • Item list click through rate

  • Item list clicks

  • Item list views

  • Item promotion click through rate

  • Item promotion clicks

  • Item promotion views

  • Item purchase quantity

  • Item revenue

  • Item views

  • Total purchasers

March 2021

2021-03-30

The following deprecated field was replaced:

  • Event revenue → Purchase revenue

Feb. 2021

2021-02-17

New dimensions added:

  • Event campaign ID

  • Event campaign name

2021-02-24

New dimensions added:

  • Event Google Ads account name

  • Event ad group ID

  • Event ad group name

  • Event ad network type

  • Event source

  • Event traffic origin