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Available with Version

2.149 and up

Role

Sales Reps

ADvendio Edition

AMS

Campaigns

Challenge

Planning and operating at scale by creating small or large campaigns for your customers can be a real challenge in your daily business with all the actions that need to be performed as well as all the configuration options you can set per inventory item.

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Please take note that this feature needs to be set up by your Administrator. Please find the steps for doing so on this page: 7.2.22 23 Setup of the Campaign Builder Our Campaign Builder helps you to overcome this challenge by offering you a reworked, modern user interface, with a number of performance enhancements and added feature features capabilities. Please read more about our Campaign Builder further below:

Table of Contents

Types of distribution packages supported in Campaign Builder

Campaign Builder currently supports three types of packages:

  • Linear

  • Prorated

  • Individual

An example of Linear distribution is below:

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You can find more detailed information about Linear, Prorated and Individual package distribution types, distribution combinations and billing categories in 3.6.3 Package Distribution Types.

Access to the Campaign Builder

You can access the Campaign Builder currently by in two ways. The first option is the way for creating new items and the second option is the way for editing existing items.

Adding new items

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  • To create new items, you need to create a new Media Campaign first to which you can add the items. Please follow

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  • the explanation for Media Campaigns on this page if you need more information

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  • : 4.1.1 What are Media Campaigns?

  • To add items to the newly created campaign you will use our Media Search to search through your inventory and add the relevant items to your basket.

  • After hitting the “Start Media Configuration“ button the Campaign Builder will open and show you your basket items ready to be configured.

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Make sure to fill all the required fields (marked red), as you will not be able to save otherwise. Be aware that hidden fields can also block your saving, if they are marked as required in the Tab Rules for the Campaign Builder.

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Editing existing items

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Please take note that the Campaign Builder currently needs to be opened via the ADvendio Campaign item Related List and not via the standard Salesforce Related List due to technical restrictions.

  • To edit items from an existing campaign you will use our Campaign Item Related List to select the items to be configured.

  • After hitting the “Change items“ button the Campaign Builder will open and show

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  • your items ready to be edited.

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Working with the Campaign Builder Action Features:

In the Campaign Builder view, on the right-hand side under the “Actions” drop-down menu you will access buttons: Copy, Delete, Copy Value:

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Copy

The ‘Copy’ option allows you to duplicate or copy the Campaign item itself in Campaign Builder

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Actions per row

Sometimes you might want to clone items you configured or you might want to delete some items. For this you can open the action menu at the end of every row. The copy action will add an additional line with the information from the item to be copied. The delete action will remove the line and will delete it if it was saved before during the save process..

Delete

The ‘Delete’ option will remove an item action from the Campaign Builder per item or even per row. When selecting the Delete option you will see a modal pop-up to confirm the deletion process.

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Deletion not possible for the following items in Campaing Builder:

  • package components which are not optional

  • partly invoiced items

  • invoiced items

  • cancelled items

  • cancellation items

Copy Value

The ‘Copy Value’ feature enables you to duplicate values across different Campaign Items by selecting a field.

Copy Value Options
  • Publication Dates are connected with From/Until dates if set

  • Targetings and Targeting Sets require the same connection to be set

Copy value step-by-step instruction:

The ‘Copy Value’ feature allows customers to select from which field they would like to copy the value to other Campaign Items.

  • Create a new Media Campaign and add Campaign items using Media Search.

  • In the Campaign Builder view under “Actions” in the drop-down menu select the “Copy Value” feature. By selecting this value, you will activate its functionality. You can copy the value of dates/ line description, quantity, frequency, etc. Copy Value saves time while setting up Media Campaigns.

  • Press “Done” to activate and save your edits.

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    • Other actions associated with Copy Value actions:

      • Red Revert button - deactivates copy value function and cancels all the copied values for all Campaign Items

      • White Revert button - cancels last data entered just for certain Campaign Item

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Split Item

The Split Item option allows you to split your Campaign items by certain categories to quickly set up your Campaign Items.

Steps to access the Split option:

  • Access your Media Campaign through the Campaign Builder view

  • Opposite your Campaign Item from the drop-down menu on the left select Split

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  • A new window will pop up called Split Campaign Item

  • In Split by field select the Time Frame Campaign Items option

  • You will see two options below in the drop-down menu:

    • Monthly Breakdown (split campaign items into months)

    • Quarterly Breakdown (split campaign items into quarters)

  • In Fields to Share (optional) you might see the following options:

    • None

    • Quantity (if there is a quantity of 3, the system will split these items equally as 1,1,1)

    • Guaranteed AI

    • Sales Price

  • Click Save to confirm your choices

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Following TimeFrames are possible depending on your settings:

  • Calendar Weekly Sharing (split campaign items into weeks)

  • Calendar 2 Weekly sharing (split campaign items into 14 days periods)

  • Monthly Breakdown (split campaign items into months)

  • Quarterly Breakdown (split campaign items into quarters)

Amount calculation and formula field support

While editing pricing relevant information of your items you might notice that the amount fields change shortly after you did the change. This is the amount calculation we included in the Campaign Builder component. If you have custom formula fields you created, the Campaign Builder is also able to update them based on the information you entered in your items.

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In the first version we support only linear packages. To learn more about the distribution types we support please check this page.

Targeting

The current version supports limited targeting/delivery options:

  • Frequency Capping

  • Daytime Targeting

  • Exclusions (Labels)

  • Geography, Device, Inventory targeting

The targeting selection was moved into an its own targeting component. You can find this on the relevant tab and add your settings as needed.

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We know that many of you were looking forward to the release of this component. Please take note that we are still constantly working on enhancements for this component as well as the support of more features which you are used to know from our Media Configuration.

Please take a look at the following list to see what we already support:

  • Basic Campaign Builder component with Media Search connection

  • Support of linear and individual packages

  • Amount calculation API & formula fields

  • Copy and delete of items as simple actions

  • Messaging of errors (before) saving

  • Tab and column setup

  • Condition setup (former Tab rules)

  • Support of basic custom javascript logic  

  •  Definition of Targeting / Delivery options

    • Geography, Device, Inventory targeting

    • Define Frequency Capping

    • Daytime Targeting

    • Content selection

  • Availability Check

  • Dynamic Pricing support (Apply Price Rules)

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Refresh of settings needed

In case that settings were changed for the Campaign Builder it might be that you will see this message upon starting the feature.

The text says “There was an error while trying to read the item configuration settings. Do you want to try and reload the item configuration settings? In case you see this message again please contact the System Administrator.“

Please hit “Reload Item Configuration Settings” to apply the change in the background.

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Setup

Please take note that this feature needs to be set up by your Administrator. Please find the steps for doing so on this page: 7.2.22 23 Setup of the Campaign Builder

To configure custom javascript in the Campaign Builder please learn more on this page: 7.2.2223.1 2 Setup of custom logic for the Campaign Builder (Custom javascript)