[Buying Orders & Buying Items] How to configure them and track your media spend in GCM 360

Available with Version

2.159 and up

Available with Version

2.159 and up

Role

Order Manager - Fulfilment; Product Management

External Systems

Google Campaign Manager

 

Challenge

With the Google Campaign Manager (GCM360) connected to ADvendio how to create items in a seamless way? And how to track media spending with Google Campaign Manager 360 Integration?

Solution

In the current version, the ADvendio Google Campaign Manager integration does submit orders and items in ADvendio to DCM, you will need to set up your data in a specific way, in order to use our seamless reporting of KPI metrics and actual cost.

 

Flow steps to do:

Buying Order

  • Create New Buying Order, set a Buying Order Name, and fill in the other necessary fields in the Buying Order as per the table and screenshot below).

  • Set a start and end date for your Buying Order, this should be in sync with the campaigns in Google Campaign Manager, which you want to be referring to

 

  • Link your Buying Order to the Connection record linked to Google Campaign Manager.

For each individual placement which you want to track please create an individual Buying Item in your Buying Order for GCM360.

Paste in a Placement ID as a Line Item ID for Each Buying Item field.

You can find the Placement ID in your Google Campaign Manager as per the screenshot below. Paste this Placement ID in your Buying Item in the Line Item ID field (check Buying Item Screenshot below for possible fields options)

screenshot of Google Campaign Manager with placement ID

 

Buying Order Table Values

Buying Orders in ADvendio is used to configure your Orders for GCM360.
Please select the necessary field: name, time frame. You can set an Order Goal, Order Bid Strategy for programmatic media buying and decide your GCM360 Campaign objective. When creating a new Buying Order the following fields will appear:

Buying Order Field

Description

Comments

Buying Order Field

Description

Comments

Buying Order Name

Name of your Buying Order

 

Buying Campaign

Select from drop down menu

 

Connection

Connection contains the necessary credentials to connect to your Google Campaign Manager

 

Advertiser

GCM Ad account

 

Start Date/ End Date

Sets the start and end date for your campaign

 

Budget Amount

 

 

Budget Impressions

 

 

Goal KPI

 

 

Goal KPI Amount

 

 

Campaign ID

 

 

Order Goal

This field defines a goal you would like to reach with your order. For programmatic media buying this might affect your options, depending on the platform you are using.

 

Insertion Order ID

 

 

Order Bid Strategy

This field defines bidding strategy for your Buying Order for programmatic media buying.

The options available depend on the platform used and might influence the settings of all Buying Items created for this order.

Bid Cap/ Cost Cap/ Lowest/ Cap

Status

Status of the order (None, Active, Paused, Draft)

 

Systems Information

Currency

Currency used for the order

 

 

Buying Item

After creating a Buying Order, you can configure individual Buying Items, which will represent your GCM360 Campaign. These help to control your programmatic media spending, by setting up details like the Budget Amount, Bid Amount goals, and automatic optimizations. You can create as many items as you like for your Buying Order.

Buying Item Table Values

Buying Item Field

Description

Additional information

Buying Item Field

Description

Additional information

Buying Item Name

You can choose any suitable name

 

Currency

Currency used for the order

 

Buying Order

Choose applicable Buying Order from drop down menu

 

Status

Status of the Buying Order (None, Active, Paused, Draft)

 

Item Configuration part

Start Date / End Date

Sets the start and end date for your item.

 

Start Time/ End Time

Use this to set a specific Start Time/ End Time for your Buying Item.

If Start Time of the Buying Item is not set we will use the start of the first day as default (usually at midnight)

If End Time is not set we will use end of the day as default (usually 23:59/ 11:59)

Budget Amount

Sets the total amount to use as budget for your item.

The type of budget used for your Buying Item, needs to be the same as used for the Buying Order

Budget Impressions

 

 

Bid Amount

 

 

Media Format

 

 

Frequency Capping

Shows Frequency Capping for this Buying Item. EG: 100 impressions per 1 day when used Multiple Frequency Capping. Each line is for one FC criteria

 

Selected Targeting

This field contains the selecting targeting criteria of the Buying Item.

 

Technical Informaion

Last Submit Date

Last Sumbit Date and Time status

 

Last Submit Status

 

 

Line Item ID

 

Delivery &Performance

Impressions

 

 

Clicks

 

 

Vievewed Impressions

 

 

Completed Views

The number of completed views acquired by the current item.

 

Total Conversions

The total number of conversions acquired by the current item.

 

Completed Listens

The number of completed listens for audio ads acquired by the current item.

 

Video Views

Number of acquired videos views of this item, also counts videos where not complete videos was finished or used for specific cases such as Youtube videos

 

Media Cost

 

 

Last Delivery Update

Last Delivery Update for Date and Time

 

Further information on how to set up Buying orders, buying items and buying pilot extensions:

4.19.1 How to configure Buying Campaigns, Buying Orders and Buying Items?

4.19.2 How to submit and traffick Buying Orders and Items from ADvendio to a DSP or Social Media Platform

4.19.5.2 How to Setup the Buying Pilot Extensionarchived

 

 

 

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