Migrate assets from Google Drive to Asset Library

If you do not have your assets on your local computer yet, make sure to download them from Google Drive or install the desktop sync client Google Drive for Mac/PC. If you're using Google Drive for Mac/PC, you can choose to sync only the folder containing your assets.

Usually, the sync is done automatically to your local Google Drive folder when any new folders have been created or new assets have been uploaded to the web interface.

You can now use the assets on your local computer to upload to Asset Library.

On the Asset Library tab, upload your assets to Studio into logical folders to keep things organized (car images, logos, campaign-specific images, etc.). The assets can be located in either your local Google Drive folder or any other location in local storage.

If you have over 250 assets (or your assets are larger than 250 MB), we recommend you zip your files into folders of 250 assets each.

For example, if you have 1,000 assets, put them into 4 folders with 250 assets each, zip them, and upload them to Asset Library. The 250 asset limitation is only per upload, not for the actual folder in Asset Library. If it makes sense from an asset management perspective to keep all assets in the same folder (e.g. you may call the folder for all 1,000 assets "Dynamic Assets" ), then you may upload all 1,000 assets into that very same folder in Asset Library. To zip your folders, you should copy your assets from your local Google Drive to another location on your computer. You cannot zip folders in Google Drive.

Each asset you upload will have its own file path in the Asset Library, called a dynamic path. In the next step, you'll add the dynamic paths to your feed.

Now you'll have to populate your existing feed with your new Asset Library dynamic paths. We have designed a simple formula you can use in your feed to automate this process as much as possible. We'll use this sample feed (tab "feed1") to guide you through the migration process. 

There are two options for populating your feed depending on whether you use Asset Library full paths or relative paths:

1. Rename the old Google Drive column from "url" to "old_url".
2. Rename the new column with the Asset Library paths to "url". The new column is now taking the name of the original asset column, so that we can ensure no changes are required on the creative side.
3. Select and copy (Ctrl+C) all contents in the new Asset Library column, now called "url". 
4. Click in the first cell of the new Asset Library column, called "url".
5. Go to Edit > Paste special > Paste values only. If you click through the rest of the cells in the "url" column, you'll see they no longer contain formulas.
6. Delete the old Google Drive column, now called "old_url".
7. To see the final output, see tab feed2.

1. Create a draft of your profile.
2. Remove the old feed from your profile by selecting Actions > Remove for the feed you're updating. Save the draft profile.
3. Select New Content and re-import your feed to the profile.
4. Reset the data types for your feed, making sure that the data types for the Asset Library columns are set to "Asset Library Path" and that the display setting is set to "yes".
5. Before completing the transform, ensure the element name at the top matches the element name from the published version. If they do not match the invocation codes will no longer match and the creatives will break. For Example: MY_FEED_NAME_TAB_NAME might become MY_FEED_NAME_TAB_NAME_TAB_NAME when you re-add your feed.
   
   You can edit the element name on the transform page at the top just above the ID and reporting label fields by clicking the pencil icon next to the name.
   
   After transforming, compare the generated code in Step 5 with the existing code in your creative. They should match exactly.
6. Set your targeting rules.
7. Preview your dynamic creative to make sure the updated assets are rendering correctly.
8. Publish your profile.