How to use Custom Event Targets for Freewheel?
Role | Administrator, Order Manager - Fulfilment, Product Manager - Product Manager / Sales Support / Marketing |
External Platforms | Freewheel |
Challenge:
Custom Event Targets are a powerful way to further specialize your items and meet specific needs. Instead of Impressions, you can for example say you want have a number of completed views as campaign goal.
How can you configure your ADvendio Campaign Items to use a custom event target in Freewheel?
Solution:
How to setup Custom Event Targets
To configure Custom Event Targets you will need to modify your Ad Type.
But first you will need to go to Setup → Object Manager → Ad Type
There, for the picklist field AdType__c you will need to create one or more new values, matching your custom targets.
The API Name needs to be in the following format: CUSTOM_EVENT_TARGET(id of the event). The label can be anything you like.
To receive the ID of the event, you will need to contact Freewheel support. ADvendio needs the abstract event id.
Then you can proceed to create Ad Types with the new event goal and configure them like your regular products.
Creating Campaign Items and Submit to AdServer
You can proceed to create the Campaign Items with these products and follow the regular steps in your sales process.
The following things will be set for Custom Event Targets:
Budget Model / Billable Event → as configured in the Ad Type
Event Goal → (Booking) Quantity field of Campaign Item
Gross Impression Cap → Secondary Goal Quantity field of Campaign Item This information is required to submit Custom Event Goals to Freewheel
Over Delivery → We will always set the network default
Keep in mind, that Freewheel only supports limited pricing information. If you are planning to use a CPCv pricing, ADvendio will map this to CPM in Freewheel. The actual CPM set in Freewheel can influence the priority and performance of an item.
If you want to set a custom CPM, which differs