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AI Google Ads analytics for advertisers

Terno AI helps advertisers understand and improve Google Ads performance. Connect your account and analyze Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Display, and YouTube: spend, conversions, CPA, ROAS, keywords, and Quality Score, just by asking. Want more than analytics? Grant action permissions and ask Terno AI to pause campaigns, shift budgets, or update bids directly.

CPC
Cost per click
CPA
Cost per acquisition
ROAS
Return on ad spend
IS
Impression share

Connect Google Ads in under a minute

Sign up, authorize Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Google Search Console through secure MCP connectors, and start asking questions, or asking Terno AI to act, right away.

Every Google Ads campaign type, in one place

Coverage across Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Display, and YouTube, with the full reporting depth of the Google Ads API, queried together instead of one tab at a time.

Search & Performance Max

Campaign, ad group, keyword, and asset group performance. Spend, conversions, CPA, and ROAS, by day or as totals across Search and Performance Max.

Shopping

Product-level performance across Shopping campaigns: which SKUs convert, which categories are profitable, and where spend is wasted.

Display & YouTube

Placement, audience, and creative performance across Display and YouTube, so upper-funnel spend gets the same scrutiny as bottom-funnel.

Most accounts run more than one of these campaign types at once, and the interaction between them is often where the real story is. A Performance Max campaign can quietly cannibalize a Search campaign's branded traffic. A Shopping campaign's product feed quality can make or break otherwise well-targeted Display remarketing. Terno AI reports on all five campaign types together, so a question about performance doesn't require picking which tab to check first.

Google Ads Analytics

What is AI-powered Google Ads analytics?

Ask a question about your Google Ads account the way you'd ask a media buyer, and get a computed answer instead of building a Looker Studio report.

Every campaign type at once

Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Display, and YouTube reported together, not in five separate tabs.

Built for this week's question

A Looker Studio report is scoped once and stays that way. Terno answers whatever you ask, whenever you ask it.

Computed, not guessed

Every number comes from a real query against the Google Ads API, not a language model's best guess.

Most advertisers already have a Looker Studio dashboard for spend, a different view for conversions, and a spreadsheet somebody maintains for keyword-level Quality Score. None of them answer a new question. They only answer the questions they were built for. AI-powered Google Ads analytics removes that ceiling: Terno AI connects to your account through the official Google Ads API and answers the question you actually have this week, computed on demand.

This matters even more once Google Ads data needs to be compared against pipeline, revenue, or spend on other channels. A dashboard scoped to Google Ads alone cannot tell you blended CAC across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn. Terno AI can, because it queries your Google Ads data alongside your CRM, warehouse, or the rest of your marketing stack in the same conversation.

There's also a governance angle that's easy to overlook until it becomes a problem. Once someone starts pasting Google Ads exports into a generic AI chatbot to get a quick answer, that account data, spend figures, conversion values, sometimes customer-level details in the search terms report, is now sitting in a tool with no access control, no audit trail, and no guarantee about where it's stored. Terno AI answers the same question without that exposure, because it never sends raw account data anywhere; only controlled metadata reaches the underlying LLM, and the query itself runs inside your own environment.

For teams managing several accounts, whether that's an in-house team running multiple brands or an agency managing client accounts under one manager account, the same question needs to be asked repeatedly across every account. Terno AI removes that repetition: one question, answered across every account you specify, instead of opening each account individually to check the same metric.

Which keywords have the highest CPA this month, and should we pause them?
Which Performance Max asset groups are actually driving conversions?
How does Quality Score correlate with CPC across our top campaigns?
Which search terms are wasting spend and should become negative keywords?
Which Shopping product groups have the best ROAS this quarter?
How did the account perform after our last budget reallocation?
Which ad groups have the lowest impression share, and why?
How does Google Ads spend compare to our Meta and LinkedIn Ads spend for pipeline generated?

None of these questions are unusual. They're the ordinary, recurring questions every performance marketer asks about a Google Ads account, week after week. What's unusual is how much friction it normally takes to get an answer: exporting a report, pivoting it in a spreadsheet, or waiting on whoever owns the Looker Studio dashboard to add a new view. AI Google Ads analytics exists specifically to remove that friction, so the question and the answer happen in the same minute.

What advertisers can do with Terno AI

The insights advertisers ask for most, answered in seconds instead of a ticket in someone else's queue.

Quality Score and impression share

See how Quality Score and impression share move together with CPC and rank, across every campaign and ad group.

Search term and keyword insight

Find the search terms driving conversions and the ones only spending, to guide bids, negatives, and new keyword ideas.

Conversion action breakdown

Compare performance by conversion action, whether that's a purchase, a lead form, or a call, not just a blended total.

Multi-account (MCC) analysis

Analyze every account under your manager account in one place, whether that's client accounts, brands, or regions.

Ask in plain language

"Which keywords had a CPA over $80 last month?" Terno AI pulls the report and answers, with no dashboard to build.

Governed access, your call on write

Terno AI connects through the official Google Ads API. Use it read-only for reporting, or grant action permissions and ask it to make changes, your choice, and revocable any time.

Automate changes, when you ask

Ask Terno AI to pause an underperforming campaign, shift a budget, or update a bid, and it executes the change through the official Google Ads API. Nothing runs unattended, every action starts from an explicit request.

Best practices for Google Ads analytics

A few habits that separate teams who catch problems early from teams who find out at month-end.

Look at Quality Score alongside CPC, not instead of it

A low Quality Score usually explains a high CPC before a bid change will. Ask for both together so the fix targets the actual cause, whether that's ad relevance, expected CTR, or landing page experience.

Review search terms weekly, not just at campaign launch

Search term lists drift as Google's matching broadens over time. A weekly check for terms that spend without converting keeps the negative keyword list current instead of stale.

Separate Performance Max reporting from Search

Performance Max blends placements across Search, Display, YouTube, and Shopping into one campaign. Ask for asset group and channel-level breakdowns specifically, since the campaign-level number alone hides where budget is actually working.

Tie conversion actions to what the business actually cares about

A 'conversion' in Google Ads might be a form fill, a call, or a purchase, each worth a different amount. Ask questions by conversion action, not just a blended total, to see which ones are worth optimizing toward.

Reconcile platform-reported conversions against your CRM regularly

Google Ads can only report what its own tracking sees. A monthly check against actual pipeline and closed revenue in your CRM catches tracking gaps before they skew a full quarter of decisions.

Watch impression share loss by budget versus by rank separately

Losing impression share to a budget constraint is a spend decision. Losing it to rank is a Quality Score or bid problem. Treating them the same way usually fixes the wrong lever first.

Terno AI vs. Looker Studio vs. generic AI chatbots vs. manual export

Four ways to get an answer from your Google Ads account. Here's how they compare.

Capability Terno AI Looker Studio Generic AI Chatbot Manual Export
Answers a brand-new Google Ads question in plain English ✓ – ✓ ✓
Answer is computed from a real query, not generated text ✓ ✓ – ✓
Joins Google Ads data with your CRM or database in one query ✓ – – –
No new dashboard or Looker Studio report has to be built first ✓ – ✓ –
Account data never leaves your network ✓ ✓ – ✓
Available the same day, every day ✓ – ✓ –

How it works

Three steps, and no waiting on a dashboard rebuild to get from a question to an answer.

1

Connect securely

Authorize Terno AI with your Google Ads account in one click. Access is revocable at any time, and you decide whether it's read-only or can also make changes.

2

Ask a question

Ask about spend, conversions, CPA, ROAS, keywords, or Quality Score in plain language, with no report to build first.

3

Act on it

Get a computed answer and a chart you can share, or ask Terno AI to pause a campaign, shift a budget, or adjust a bid directly, no separate ads console detour required.

Governed access, secure by default

Terno AI accesses Google Ads data only through the official Google Ads API. Reporting scopes are read-only by default, and action permissions, letting Terno AI pause campaigns, shift budgets, or update bids when you ask, are opt-in and separate. You can disconnect at any time to revoke access. The same deterministic security layer that governs every other data source connected to Terno AI applies here too, so Google Ads sits under the same access controls as your databases and CRM, not a separate, looser standard.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AI-powered Google Ads analytics? +

AI-powered Google Ads analytics lets you ask questions about campaigns, keywords, Quality Score, and conversions in plain English and get a computed answer on demand, instead of building a new Looker Studio report or exporting data every time you have a new question.

Can Terno AI show Quality Score and impression share? +

Yes. Terno AI reads full reporting data through the official Google Ads API, including Quality Score, impression share, and every standard performance metric, at the campaign, ad group, and keyword level.

Is my Google Ads account data safe with Terno AI? +

Yes. Terno AI connects through the official Google Ads API, and you control the scope: read-only for reporting, or with action permissions if you also want it to make changes. Either way, it deploys inside your own cloud or on-prem environment, only shares controlled metadata, never raw account data, with the underlying LLM, and access can be revoked at any time.

Can Terno AI make changes to my Google Ads campaigns, not just report on them? +

Yes. Beyond analytics, Terno AI can take action on your Google Ads account when you ask it to, including pausing or enabling campaigns, adjusting budgets, and updating bids, through the official Google Ads API. This is opt-in: you grant action permissions during setup, every change starts from an explicit request rather than running automatically in the background, and you can revoke access at any time.

Can Terno AI combine Google Ads data with our CRM or database? +

Yes. This is one of the main reasons teams choose Terno AI over the native Google Ads dashboard: it can join Google Ads spend and conversion data with your CRM, warehouse, or database in a single query, so you can compute true pipeline attribution and blended CAC, not just platform-reported conversions.

How is this different from Google Ads' built-in reports and Looker Studio? +

Built-in reports and Looker Studio dashboards answer the questions they were built to answer. Terno AI answers a new question the moment you ask it, computed from a real query against your data, without a dashboard being pre-built for that specific question.

Can Terno AI analyze multiple Google Ads accounts under one manager account (MCC)? +

Yes. Terno AI can analyze every account under your Google Ads manager account together, whether you're comparing performance across clients, brands, or regions.

How is Terno AI different from a generic AI chatbot for Google Ads questions? +

A generic chatbot generates text that sounds plausible. Terno AI generates and executes a real query against your actual Google Ads reporting data, so every number is computed, not guessed, and your account data is never exposed as raw values to the underlying LLM.

How fast can we connect Google Ads to Terno AI? +

Connecting Google Ads is a one-click authorization, read-only by default, with the option to also grant action permissions. Most teams are asking their first question within minutes, since there's no tracking implementation or data migration required.

Can Terno AI help an agency manage reporting across multiple client accounts? +

Yes. Agencies can ask a question once and get it answered across every client account under their manager account, instead of opening each account individually to check the same metric.

Does Terno AI replace the need for a Google Ads specialist? +

No. Terno AI answers the reporting and analysis questions instantly, but strategy decisions, like which levers to pull on bidding or budget, still benefit from a person who understands the account's history and business context.

Can Terno AI flag anomalies in Google Ads performance automatically? +

Terno AI is built for on-demand questions rather than automated monitoring today, so anomalies are typically surfaced by asking Terno AI directly once something looks off, rather than through a standing alert.

What happens if we disconnect Google Ads from Terno AI? +

Access can be revoked at any time from your Google Ads account settings or within Terno AI. Once revoked, Terno AI can no longer query that account's data.

Can Terno AI help with Google Ads budget pacing? +

Yes. You can ask how spend is pacing against monthly or campaign budgets at any point, rather than waiting for an end-of-month reconciliation to find out a campaign overspent or underspent.

Can Terno AI compare this month's Google Ads performance to a previous period automatically? +

Yes. Period-over-period comparisons, such as this month versus last month or this quarter versus the same quarter last year, are a standard part of what you can ask directly.

Can Terno AI break down performance by device, location, or time of day? +

Yes. Device, geographic, and scheduling dimensions are all part of the standard Google Ads reporting data Terno AI can query, alongside campaign, ad group, and keyword-level breakdowns.

Do we need our own data warehouse to use Terno AI with Google Ads? +

No. Terno AI can answer Google Ads questions directly from the API connection alone. A warehouse becomes useful once you want to join Google Ads data with other systems, like a CRM or a different ad platform, in the same query.

Can Terno AI compare performance across different bidding strategies? +

Yes. If an account has changed bidding strategy over time, such as moving from manual CPC to a Target ROAS strategy, Terno AI can compare performance across those periods to show what actually changed.

Can Terno AI show which ad copy variations perform best within an ad group? +

Yes. Responsive Search Ad asset performance, including which headlines and descriptions Google's own reporting marks as best or good performing, is part of the standard data Terno AI can query.

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