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Campaign reference

Every Basic information field, every card on the campaign edit page and every header action, with the per-role notes and REST calls — the companion to the Create and edit a campaign guide.

Reference network manager advertiser Account → Advertisers → advertiser → campaign

The companion to Create and edit a campaign. The guide has the steps, the caveats and the fix-it checklist; this page holds every field, card, header action and REST call.

Options and fields — Basic information

The card is titled Basic information; the feature rail abbreviates it to Basic info.

Always visible

FieldWhat it doesDefaultNotes
NameCampaign name—Required; locked on masked shares.
ActiveOn/off switchonTurning it off while CTR/I2C optimization is on shows an info toast: “Campaign uses optimization, uncheck it if no longer needed.”
PriorityDelivery tier: Premium, Standard High, Standard Medium, Standard Low, Non-guaranteed, House adsStandard LowNot on an advertiser user’s form. Higher tiers are tried first during banner selection.
WeightTraffic share within the same priority tier1Read-only on the stock Advertiser role. Zeroed and locked for House ads. Hidden entirely — permission or not — when the network runs plain eCPM optimization; it only appears under manual or eCPM with burn-up.

Advanced settings

Three of these are on the create form; the rest need a saved campaign or another card switched on.

FieldWhat it doesDefaultNotes
Allow impression/click pricing overriding in URLLets an ad-request URL set the CPM or CPC priceoffThe CPM/CPC counterpart of the conversion option below, and easy to miss.
CTR optimizationShifts delivery toward the banners with the best click-through rateoffMutually exclusive with I2C. Unavailable while priority is House ads.
I2C optimization for actionsShifts delivery toward the banners with the best impression-to-conversion rateoffMutually exclusive with CTR. The select beside it (showing All) narrows optimization to specific conversion actions and is greyed until the box is ticked. Unlike CTR, this one stays available on House ads.
eCPM OptimizationAutomatic weighting by observed eCPMoffOnly when the network’s optimization type allows it. Unavailable while priority is House ads.
LabelFree-form labelsnoneUsed by matching rules and bulk label operations. Your role may show it locked, or allow picking existing labels but not creating new ones inline.
Allow conversion action pricing overriding in URLLets a conversion URL set the payout instead of the campaign’s CPA rateoffNeeds a saved campaign with Conversion actions switched on. Changes nothing where the effective pricing type is CPM or CPC. Reveals Max payout per conversion and URL price multiplier.
Max payout per conversionUpper bound on the payout a conversion URL may ask foremptyEmpty means no bound. A higher payout is reduced to this value and still counted — never dropped. Price-adjustment rules run afterwards and can still raise the final price.
URL price multiplierMultiplier applied to prices passed in URLs1Appears with the URL-overriding options.
Pass custom params in conversion actionForwards ad-request custom parameters to conversion trackingoffOnly when the network passes custom parameters per entity rather than globally.
New placements auto-linkingAuto-links future matching placements to this campaign’s bannersoffReveals Auto-link site categories; at least one is required when on. Campaigns have no auto-link labels — to auto-link by label alone, turn it on per banner (Auto-linking).
Only this campaign on pageOne-campaign-per-page mode, with a Campaign alias…offThe alias is editable only while the checkbox is on; click the pencil beside it to edit.
Only one banner from this campaign per pageCaps this campaign to a single creative per page viewoffA separate setting from the option above, often confused with it.

Additional information

FieldWhat it doesDefaultNotes
DescriptionFree textemptyHidden on masked shares.
CreatedCreation date—Read-only, always last.

Note: campaign start and end dates are not in Basic information — they live on the Limits card, together with the impression/click/conversion and budget caps.

The campaign cards

In page order. Each mirrors into the feature rail, where it can be switched on and off. Which of these cards you see depends on your role — see User roles.

CardWhat it does
Basic informationThe fields above. Shown in the rail as Basic info.
TargetingCampaign-level targeting rules. See Add targeting.
PricingPricing type (CPM, CPC or CPA) plus a per-country price grid with CSV upload. CPA adds an Action column and a “Use general pricing” switch. See Pricing.
Price adjustment rulesConditional price multipliers/overrides; campaign rules apply after advertiser rules and before banner rules.
LimitsStart/end dates plus a grid of caps: budget, opportunities, impressions, clicks and conversions, each over a day, an ISO week, a calendar month or the campaign’s lifetime. See Limits.
Per conversion action limitsLimits per individual conversion action.
Frequency cappingCampaign frequency, click, action, no-click and request capping. See Capping matrix.
Matching rulesCategory/label rules pairing this campaign with inventory.
Matched placementsRead-only list of currently matched placements. Appears only while Matching rules is showing.
Conversion actionsThe campaign’s conversion actions and its tracking alias. See Conversion actions.
RTB PMP dealsPrivate-marketplace deal IDs and the private-auction flag. See Manage PMP deals.
PiggybacksThird-party tracking pixels fired with this campaign. See Piggybacks.
Exclude competitors campaignsStops this campaign serving beside listed competitors on the same page. See Exclude competitors.

Campaign edit page with the feature rail

Header actions

Add new banner opens a menu with one entry per placement type you can build for, worded Add banner for Site Placement, …for Non-standard Placement and so on. There are seven possible entries — Site, Non-standard, Mobile Site, Video, Application, Email and Native — each behind its own role permission. The stock Network Manager role gets Site, Non-standard, Video and Native; the stock Advertiser role gets Site only. Your network manager can add the others to a role.

Corner case: a Click-through entry can appear here if your role is granted click-through banners. It is not a working path: no banner type accepts a click-through placement, so the form opens with an empty Banner type combo and cannot be saved.

Actions holds up to six items; four are always there when you can edit the campaign.

Campaign Actions menu

ActionWhat it does
Mass banner uploadBulk image-creative wizard. See Bulk banner operations.
Copy this campaignDuplicates the campaign under the same advertiser; the copy’s banners stay linked to the same placements.
Run diagnosticsChecks the campaign for common serving blockers and groups the findings by type. A clean campaign reports “The diagnostics did not detect any problems with campaign’s settings and configuration.”
Delete this campaignAsks “The campaign will be deleted along with its banners. You can restore it within 90 days. Are you sure?”, then marks the campaign and its banners deleted and switches them off; the banners are unlinked from their placements. For 90 days Recently deleted (the box-with-arrow button in the Advertisers tree’s action rail, and the link on the delete toast), or POST /rest-api/deleted-entities/{type}/{id}/restore restores it with those banners and their placement links (Restore something you deleted). Needs an Is owner share; with Can edit or Can view the server refuses it.
Clear eCPM optimizationResets accumulated optimization data. Present whenever the eCPM optimization checkbox is currently ticked — not, as you might expect, only once data has built up.
eCPM Optimization DetailsThe weighting report. Only when the network runs eCPM with burn-up and you hold the details permission.

Per-role notes

  • Network manager — the standard cards plus Priority in Basic information, and any extra cards (price adjustment, matching rules, PMP deals, piggybacks) your network administrator grants. Exclude competitors campaigns is not on the stock role — see Exclude competitive campaigns.
  • Advertiser — on the stock role: Basic information without Priority and with a read-only Weight, no CTR or I2C checkboxes; Targeting; Pricing in CPM, CPC or vCPM; Limits, where you set the dates and read the budget; and Exclude competitors campaigns. There is no Frequency capping or Conversion actions card. Add new banner offers Site Placement only, and the creatives you add are linked to placements by your network manager. See What your network controls.
  • Can view share — every card read-only, no Save or Reset; ask the owner for Can edit. Deleting needs an Is owner share.
  • Masked share — Name and Description locked and not saved; Mass banner upload hidden and Add new banner disabled.

Exact grants: see User roles.

Over the API

The Matched Placements card is GET /rest-api/matched/CAMPAIGN/{campaignId}.do with returnType SITE, ZONE or PLACEMENT (the default), matchByRules / matchLinked (both on by default), the card’s name, label, category and parent filters, and start / limit (1-500). It needs view rights on the campaign, on campaigns and inventory, and the Matched Inventory permission, and lists only entities you may see. The same endpoint serves advertisers and banners. The campaign’s custom fields are under /rest-api/additional-fields/CAMPAIGN/{campaignId}.do.

A campaign is created with POST /rest-api/campaign/create.do and advertiserId. Unlike the form, which requires a Name, the call may leave name out: the campaign is then named Campaign <id>. A name that is sent but blank is refused with a 400. See Entities: create, read, update, delete.

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