{"id":14811,"date":"2018-02-27T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivaliq.com\/?p=14811"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:17:47","slug":"client-dashboard-google-data-studio-rival-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rivaliq.com\/blog\/client-dashboard-google-data-studio-rival-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"Client and Internal Dashboards Made Easy with Rival IQ in Google Data Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing data across your various tools can be cumbersome, and if you hate spreadsheets like me, it\u2019s enough to make you want to pull out your hair.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I\u2019m excited to share that we\u2019ve created a way to pull live data from Rival IQ into Google Data Studio. Google Data Studio is a free reporting and dashboard tool that combines multiple data sources into comprehensive and customizable reports.<\/p>\n<p>If you can put it in a Google Sheet, it can go into Google Data Studio.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll now have one customized dashboard to share internally with your team or leadership, or externally to clients or stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>To understand how to get started with Rival IQ in Google Data Studio, we turned to an expert\u00a0in marketing analytics, Dana DiTomaso. Dana owns\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kickpoint.ca\">Kickpoint<\/a>, an analytics-driven agency, and she walked us through what Google Data Studio is, why it&#8217;s valuable, and how to create reports and dashboards.<\/p>\n<p>In this recording, you&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is Google Data Studio and why you should care about it<\/li>\n<li>How to connect your data: from Google, Rival IQ, and more<\/li>\n<li>How to craft and share your first report<\/li>\n<li>And even more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"videoEmbed\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/sf2b4x009r.jsonp\" async><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_sf2b4x009r videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3>Additional Resources:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rival IQ API Overview:<\/strong> Learn what data you can access through the Rival IQ API as well as ways to use the API in <a href=\"https:\/\/help.rivaliq.com\/more-info-about-data\/api\">this article<\/a>. You can also learn about ways to leverage the API in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivaliq.com\/blog\/making-the-rival-iq-api-work-for-you\/\">this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rival IQ API Access:<\/strong> If you don&#8217;t already have access, contact our support team for a free API trial to use Rival IQ with Google Data Studio via <a href=\"http:\/\/help.rivaliq.com\">The Help Center<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:support@rivaliq.com\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access Dana&#8217;s Reports:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/kickpoint.ca\/rivaliq-gds\">Kickpoint reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download a Copy of Dana&#8217;s Slide Deck:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/2696026\/Slides\/Dana%20DiTomaso%20%E2%80%94%20RivalIQ%20GDS.pdf\">Getting Started With Google Data Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get More Help:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.advertisercommunity.com\/t5\/Data-Studio\/bd-p\/Data-Studio#\">Google Data Studio Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete List of Community Connectors:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/datastudio\/connector\/gallery\/\">Google Data Studio Connectors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting Rival IQ in Google Data Studio:<\/strong> Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/help.rivaliq.com\/using-rival-iq\/google-data-studio-connector\">step-by-step directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing data across your various tools can be cumbersome, and if you hate spreadsheets like me, it\u2019s enough to make you want to pull out your hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":14821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dashboards Made Easy with Rival IQ and Data Studio | Rival IQ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gather data from various tools into one custom dashboard or report with Rival IQ in Google Data Studio. 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