Challenge
Can we help customers who use Creative Upload by enabling Custom Code Creatives for Google Ad Manager and preparing templates?
Solution
Users can upload creatives of the Custom Code format and any other fixed creative types. It is important to fill out the following required fields when uploading:
Name
Target Size
Standard Code, AMP URL or both (this can be set in the picklist values)
Set 'SafeFrame' value to 'true'
Please find below the required naming conventions for variables and external IDs in our JSON object to import necessary templates into Salesforce:
Creative:
External ID: HasDestinationUrlCreative
Type: CustomCreative * Custom Code
The following Ad Creative Template Variables are used for Custom Code Creatives:
*Enum Value | *Salesforce value (Variable Template Id) | Value examples | Required | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Size | TargetSize | “728x90” | ✅ | any size in the format NUMBERxNUMBER |
File | File | “0691j000001mK5aAAE” | ✅ | file format |
DESTINATION_URL | DestinationURL | ✅ | ||
DESTINATION_URL_TYPE | DestinationURLType | “TRUE; FALSE” | ✅ | The destination needs to be one of the following values: TRUE; FALSE |
HTMLSnippet | HTMLSnippet | <a href='http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;a;b;c?http://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/aclk%253Fsa%253Dl%2526ai%253DC8qeK%2526adurl%253Dhttp://www.google.com/page.html%253Fparam1%253Dred%2526param2%253Dblue' target="_blank"> <img src='//www.google.com/img.gif'> </a> | ✅ | Use this to paste in the HTML code |
MacroName | MacroName | “%%CLICK_URL_UNESC%%” | ✅ | |
IsInterstitial | IsInterstitial | “TRUE; FALSE” |
| IsInterstitial needs to be one of the following values: TRUE; FALSE |
Orientation | Orientation | “FREE_ORIENTATION; PORTRAIT_ONLY; LANDSCAPE_ONLY" |
| Orientation needs to be one of the following values:
|
SSLManualOverride | SSLManualOverride | “NO_OVERRIDE; SSL_COMPATIBLE; NOT_SSL_COMPATIBLE" |
| Override needs to be one of the following values:
|
For instructions on how to customize, assign, and use templates in the Ad Material Management UI after importing, please refer to the [Creative Upload] Set Up Google Ad Manager Creative Upload Featurespage.