1.1.5 Create a Media Campaign

A media campaign is similar to an opportunity, displaying a sales process you want to track. They form the centerpiece of your ADvendio.com system, combining customer information on accounts and contacts with product information on campaign items and prices. In media campaigns, you are able to create, plan and execute your sales deal. Media campaigns make up your pipeline.

The top part of each media campaign offers a broad overview. Only those fields marked with a red bar are required in order to save the new campaign. However, these first fields contain basic information that is essential to keep track of the campaign's status.

The Media Campaign contains many fields which can be filled with information. Depending on the page layout your administrator set up for you your view might differ from the screenshots we show here.

General Information

The first part of the media campaign's information shows the campaign's names.

You can also enter information on the campaign's stage. With one glance at this section, you should later on be able to estimate how advanced the negotiations are since each stage is assigned to a probability which makes it easy to evaluate the progress (see lesson 'Media Campaign's Stages' for more information).

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Accounts and Dates

The following part stores information about the client. You can enter for example the advertiser and agency information using the lookup field: click on the magnifier to open a pop up window displaying all advertisers and agencies respectively. Read our page on Accounts to learn more about these relations:

The start date and end date of the campaign will either be defined upfront or automatically by the Campaign Items which will be added after the campaign was created.

Via rate cards the availability of campaign items can be limited. Since rate cards are valid for a certain period of time, they are ideal to organize a change of prices or to make products only available during a rate card's validity period. A media campaign assigned to a certain rate card can only contain campaign items of this rate card.

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Once you have entered the basic information, you can start entering data concerning discounts and a detailed description. These steps are optional.

Discounts

Enter discounts that will be applied to all campaign items. Nevertheless, you can enter custom discounts for single campaign items during the configuration of campaign items (see chapter 'Add Campaign Items').

If applicable, enter a Third Party Commission for agencies and decide whether this commission shall be written on proposals and order confirmations.

Amounts

Amounts will be filled out automatically once you have added campaign items. They are the sum of the campaign items' amounts and therefore, they are calculated and entered here as soon as you have added items to your campaign.

Taxes

This section contains information about the taxes of this campaign based on the selected advertiser and the legal entity.

Billing information

This section contains billing information to decide the preferences for creating invoices and to decide when invoices should be issued via which channel.

Now that you have created the basic foundation of your media campaign, it's time to add campaign items to it.

Add Campaign Items

To add campaign items, open a media campaign and hit the “add items” button on the Media Configuration or hit the “Media Search” button in the upper right corner. This will open the media search.

Media Search

To add an item search for previously created ad specs (media).

1. You can either search by word in the Quick Search. After hitting a suggestion the item is already part of your basket.

2. Or you narrow down possible search results by choosing values from the different criteria  such as Billing Category, Site, Placement and Ad Type.

3. Click the Filter button to display all items matching your criteria.

4. From the displayed results, you can select items.

5. Click the “+” icon on the left hand side to add these selected items to your media campaign basket which you can see on the right hand side of the Media Search.

Basket

The previously selected items will then be displayed in your basket. Here, you are able to delete items or start the Media Configuration.

1. If you are okay with your selection of items click Start Media Configuration.

2. If not, delete the items you do not want.

The media search is displayed on the left hand side of the basket. So in case you need more items, you can easily repeat the step "Media Search" and add further items to your basket.

Overview of the Media Configuration

The Media Configuration is a central part of creating media campaigns. During the configuration, you enter basic information such as start and end date of each item. For print items you can select the relevant publication dates. For digital items ADvendio supports many targeting options, therefore, you can also set these sophisticated options during the configuration of your items. For Out of home items you are able to further refine your product selection in the Media Configuration to select the dedicated screens.