Review your advertising performance

Oct 14, 2026
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Article updated: July 17, 2026

Review your advertising performance

Hootsuite Analytics gives you a full range of metrics to help you track how your campaigns and ads are performing. Find out which campaigns are driving the highest ROI for your business, and which ads are converting best.

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Review the performance of your paid content

Analyze your campaigns and paid content with Advertising performance. You can review details such as dates, status, and objectives as well as results for performance metrics like ROI, reach, engagement, clicks, impressions, and more.

Go to Perch, and then select Explore (under Analytics).
Select Advertising performance.
Depending on your connection type, you’ll have different options you can select to view performance data for your campaigns and assets.
If you want to see performance data for a different time period, select Change date range and then set your dates.
Optionally, use one of the following options to view specific details about your campaigns, ad sets, and ads.
- Select any campaign, ad set, ad group, campaign group, or ad to view its status, details, and results.
- Check the box next to a campaign or ad set to review performance only for content associated with that campaign or ad set.
- Select Customize columns to choose what you want to see.
- Select Show breakdown under a campaign, ad set, or ad, and then select a breakdown option. You can break down your data by age, country, gender, social network, and more.
  
  Note: Hootsuite collects breakdown data in real-time while the metrics data for ads, ad sets, and campaigns is collected on a schedule. You may see a difference in numbers depending on when you are viewing your data.

Go to Analytics, expand Ads, and then select Advertising performance.
Select your social network and ad accounts. If you don't see your ad account in Advertising performance, make sure you've connected it to Hootsuite. Learn how to connect an account to Hootsuite.
Depending on your connection type, you’ll have different options you can select to view performance data for your campaigns and assets.
If you want to see performance data for a different time period, select Change date range and then set your dates.
Optionally, use one of the following options to view specific details about your campaigns, ad sets, and ads.
- Select any campaign, ad set, ad group, campaign group, or ad to view its status, details, and results.
- Check the box next to a campaign or ad set to review performance only for content associated with that campaign or ad set.
- Select Customize columns to choose what you want to see.
- Select Show breakdown under a campaign, ad set, or ad, and then select a breakdown option. You can break down your data by age, country, gender, social network, and more.
  
  Note: Hootsuite collects breakdown data in real-time while the metrics data for ads, ad sets, and campaigns is collected on a schedule. You may see a difference in numbers depending on when you are viewing your data.

Create, save, and reuse advertising performance filters

Filters help you narrow in on the information that is important to you. For example, you can view results for campaigns with a lead generation objective, ads that include videos, or ads that target a specific social account.

Filters only apply to the specific type of content you’re filtering. They do not apply to all campaigns, ad sets, and ads.

Filter your content - Select Filter , and then select from the available filters to narrow in on your content.
Create your own filter - Select Filter, and then select Create your own filters to create your own, custom filter.
Save a filter - Select Filter, include or exclude information to narrow in on, and select Save.
Use a saved filter - Select the arrow next to Filter, and then select your saved filter from the list.
Delete a saved filter - Select the arrow next to Filter, point to the saved filter, and then select Delete .

Filter your content - Select Filter , and then select from the available filters to narrow in on your content.
Create your own filter - Select Filter, and then select Create your own filters to create your own, custom filter.
Save a filter - Select Filter, include or exclude information to narrow in on, and select Save.
Use a saved filter - Select the arrow next to Filter, and then select your saved filter from the list.
Delete a saved filter - Select the arrow next to Filter, point to the saved filter, and then select Delete .

Export your view

Select Export, and then choose how you want to export your data (your options depend on your plan type):

Select Comma separated values (.csv) to export your data to CSV. Hootsuite generates a zip file containing three CSV files (one for campaigns, one for ad sets, and one for ads).
Select Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) to export your data to an Excel spreadsheet. Hootsuite generates an XLSX workbook with three worksheets (one for campaigns, one for ad sets, and one for ads).

Exports include all the data in your view based on the filters you applied, as well as all other available columns in the Advertising performance view.

Data backfill and storage

Hootsuite stores analytics data for daily ads for 25 months, after which time, the data is automatically deleted. For ad campaigns, ad sets, and ads, we backfill up to 30 days of historical data.

Note: Hootsuite only collects historical data for Facebook campaigns, ad sets, and ads that were modified on the Meta platform 30 days prior to the ad account being connected. Hootsuite does not collect data for campaigns that were set to Paused or Inactive before that time and that have had no recent modifications. Therefore data for those campaigns won’t appear in historical Analytics reports.

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