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Creaboost, the Looker Studio alternative for paid media dashboards that lead to decisions.
In Looker Studio, your team builds the reports, then reads them. With Creaboost, you ask Neo for a dashboard in one sentence. It keeps it current, reads it with your brand memory and closes every review with dated decisions.
4,000 advertisers and agencies already use Creaboost.
what looker studio is
Looker Studio is Google’s reporting tool.
Google now presents it as Data Studio: a visualization and reporting tool for individuals and teams. It connects to more than 1,400 data sources, including Google Ads, Google Analytics, BigQuery and Google Sheets, and it’s used to build interactive reports you can share or embed on a web page.
category
Visualization and reporting.
Interactive reports with filters, pages and charts, built by drag and drop.
data
More than 1,400 sources.
Google connectors, community connectors for databases and apps, or your own.
source
cloud.google.com/looker-studio
Description drawn from Google’s page, checked on October 21, 2026.
what neo brings
Neo covers the distance between a chart and a decision.
The same paid, organic and e-commerce scope, read by an agent that knows your brand and applies methods kept current.
data
A dashboard, asked for in one sentence.
Describe the board you want in the chat. Neo builds it on every source you connect, ad platforms, store and organic, with Creaboost’s formulas and no calculated field to write.
Boards →Numbers that reconcile.
Meta and Shopify are read live; the other sources sync several times a day. Shopify sales sit next to ad conversions and are never added to them.
Integrations →
brand memory
Every swing read in context.
Neo knows your offers, personas, targets and dated events: a promo, a stockout, a new checkout. A number that moves is read alongside what happened.
Brands →
methods
Dated methods for every channel.
Reviews and audits follow methods kept current: CPA broken down, a verdict per concept, the threshold below which a swing is noise.
Skills →
execution
A review every Monday, with 3 to 5 dated decisions.
A scheduled task rereads the numbers, then sends to Slack or Gmail what changed, why, and what to do, with a check date.
Tasks →Deliverables ready to send.
Audits and reporting export to Google Slides, Sheets and Docs in the brand’s look, or go out as a link.
Docs →
which one
The right tool depends on the question you’re asking.
looker studio
If you need a BI tool.
- Combine marketing with data Creaboost doesn’t read: CRM, finance, inventory.
- Build your reports on BigQuery or Google Sheets.
- Design every chart yourself, down to the pixel.
- Embed a report in an intranet or a website.
If you need to decide what to change.
- Know why CPA is climbing, causes ranked by weight.
- Get a cross-channel review every Monday with 3 to 5 dated decisions.
- Get an alert in Slack or Gmail when an account drifts.
- Get a dashboard without writing a formula or a calculated field.
The two work together: Looker Studio for company reporting, Neo for paid media decisions.
using both
Looker Studio for the company, Neo for paid media.
Keep Looker Studio for the reports that span the whole company, and hand Neo the running of paid media: the boards, the Monday review, the alerts and the audits.
Explore Analyze →looker studio
Company reporting.
Revenue, margin, CRM and inventory, on the reports your data team maintains.
neo
Paid media decisions.
What changed, why, and what to do, by concept, ad set and creative surface.
analyze
A creative dashboard inside your report.
Dashboards from the Analyze module embed in a Looker Studio report, as they do in Notion.
go further
See what Neo delivers in place of a report.
questions
What people ask us about Looker Studio.
Does Neo replace Looker Studio?
For paid, organic and e-commerce dashboards, yes: Neo builds them from one sentence, with Creaboost’s formulas. For sources Creaboost doesn’t read, like a CRM or financial data, keep Looker Studio.
Boards →Can I share a board like a report?
Yes. A board publishes as a web page with a link to send, and exports to Google Sheets or Google Slides in the brand’s look.
Deliverables and Google exports →Are the numbers the same as in the platforms?
Neo computes every metric with the formulas of the Creaboost dashboards and reads the attribution set on each Meta ad set. Meta and Shopify are read live; the other sources sync several times a day.
All integrations →See a board built on your own accounts.
Book a demo: in 30 minutes, Neo builds a board and a review on your own accounts.