🔗 Adding Google Ads Accounts in Adnine
Connecting your Google Ads accounts to Adnine is a simple but important step. It ensures the platform can analyze your data, run automations, and generate insights—all while keeping full control over who can access what.
You can link accounts:
✅ During sign-up
✅ Anytime later via Settings → Add accounts
🧠 How does it work?
Adnine uses Google OAuth to securely connect your Google account. You’ll be asked to give permission to:
Access your Google Ads data
Access your Google Search Console data
Once you’ve accepted, you’ll be shown a list of all Google Ads accounts your Google login has access to. From there, you can authorize specific accounts for use in Adnine.
👑 Admins: linking accounts for your team
Only Admins (or single users in solo teams) can link new Google Ads accounts to the team. This is important, because no one on your team can see or use data from a Google Ads account until an admin has linked it. Obviously, this does not apply to single users.
Admins will see a “Link Google Ads Accounts” button:
Clicking it will:
Start the secure Google OAuth process
Show you a list of accounts you have access to
Let you select the accounts you want to connect to your team
Once you link accounts, the rest of your team (based on their own access) will be able to use them for reporting, automation, and insights.
⚠️ If you don’t link an account as an admin, no one in your team—including yourself—will see it inside Adnine.
Why only admins can link accounts
Adnine ensures data security and consistency across teams. Admins are best suited to manage shared data sources, so all analytics and insights come from the same authorized accounts. Admin-linked accounts are also used for scheduled reporting and insights across the entire team.
👤 Standard users: authorizing access (without linking)
Standard users don’t have the ability to link new accounts to the team, but they do need to authorize their access. They’ll see a “Authorize Google Ads” button like this:
Clicking it:
Starts the secure Google OAuth process
Confirms which accounts you personally have access to
Lets you use those accounts in Adnine if they have already been connected by an admin
🔒 Standard users will never be able to add new accounts to the team or view accounts not linked by an admin—even if they personally have access to them.
🔄 What can each role do?
Feature | Admin | Standard user |
|---|---|---|
Link new Google Ads accounts | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
Authorize personal account access | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
See connected team accounts | ✅ Yes (based on access) | ✅ Yes (based on access) |
Run analytics or optimizations | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes (for authorized accounts) |
Used for scheduled analytics | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
⚙️ What happens behind the scenes
Adnine manages access through a secure system that checks two things before allowing you to run reports or automations:
Do you have access to the Google Ads account?
Has the account been connected to your team by an admin?
✅ If both are true—you’re good to go.
❌ If either is missing—you won’t see or be able to use that account in the platform.
🔁 Keeping things up to date
Adnine keeps track of your access automatically:
If you gain access to new Google Ads accounts, Adnine will detect this and update your profile.
If you lose access to an account, Adnine will remove it from your view.
All of this happens securely through regular sync processes in the background.