Last updated: 09.19.2024
Google Ad Manager Integration: Trafficking LiveIntent Campaigns
Trafficking Instructions:
- Log into your GAM account
- Click on the Delivery tab. Under the delivery tab you will set up
- Orders
- Line items
- Creatives
Orders
- Clients may follow their existing processes to set up orders.
Line Items
- Clients can create a new Line item from 2 places:
- While creating the new order, in the New order window, click Add Line Item at the bottom of the page.
- In the Orders tab click on the selected order and click on New line Item.
- LiveIntent supports Display ads only, no video or audio. Click on Select Display Ad.
Line Items: General Information
- Name: Name your line item
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Line item type: LiveIntent supports Sponsorships, Standard, and House. Please note that anything setup in GAM will always be a higher priority than direct sold line items setup in LiveIntent and LiveIntent exchange. For a full list of campaigns that are supported, partially supported, and not supported in the GAM integration, please refer to our Google Ad Manager: Overview article.
- Sponsorship: Serve based upon a defined percentage of impressions and a start and end time. Use this line item type for direct sold campaigns when your buyer wants to “takeover” a page or site. Can also be used to evenly rotate line items regardless of impression volume.
- Standard: Serve based upon a defined impression goal and a start and end time. Use this line item type for direct sold campaigns when your buyer wants a specific number of impressions to serve. Please note that GAM impressions represent LiveIntent First Impressions/Decisions and are not adjusted for Apple Mail Privacy Protection. More information can be found here.
- House: House is the lowest-ranking line item type. It is typically used for ads that promote products and services chosen by you. Please note that House line items from GAM will always be a higher priority than direct sold line items setup in LiveIntent and LiveIntent exchange.
- Expected creatives: Select the sizes that you are using in your email inventory and applicable to the campaign you are setting up.
Line Items: Additional Information
- These fields are not required for LiveIntent. Clients may leverage these fields as needed.
Line Items: Delivery Settings
- Delivery settings that are present are dependent on the type of line item selected (Sponsorship, Standard, or House).
- All settings are supported with the LiveIntent integration and can be used to set
- Start/end dates
- Blackout periods
- Percentage of impressions or number of impressions
- Rate
Line Items: Adjust Delivery
- Deliver Impressions: This setting is not supported. Please leave as Evenly.
- Display Creatives: This setting is not supported. Please leave as One or More.
- Rotate Creatives: This setting is not supported. Please leave as Optimized.
- Child-directed ads: This setting is not supported. Please leave as Don’t serve on child-directed requests.
- Day and time: Use this feature to refine the time when the line item is active.
- Frequency: This setting is not supported.
Line Items: Add targeting
- Targeting preset: Use this to define a preset of targeting that can be reused for future line items.
- Inventory: Link your desired ad slots by targeting anything under “LiveIntent Inventory – <Media Group>”
- You may target at any level: media group, publisher, newsletter, or ad slots.
- Avoid including non-email inventory with email inventory unless you are certain that the creatives are eligible for email and no additional targeting criteria is added to the line item that may create a conflict with email serving.
- Custom targeting: LiveIntent supports targeting by device type/proxy, country, region, metro, placement ID, and list ID through customer key values. The following key values are available and no others may be used.
- LI_device
- LI_country
- LI_region
- LI_metro
- LI_send_id
- LI_list
- LI_kvp_<custom key value name>
- Geography: This setting is not supported.
- Mobile application: This setting is not supported.
- Device Category: This setting is not supported.
- Browser: This setting is not supported.
- Operating system: This setting is not supported.
- Browser language: This setting is not supported.
- Device capability: This setting is not supported.
- Device manufacturer: This setting is not supported.
- Bandwidth: This setting is not supported.
- Mobile carrier: This setting is not supported.
- User domain: This setting is not supported.
- Inventory type: This setting is not supported.
- Inventory format: This setting is not supported.
Creatives
- LiveIntent supports the following Creative types only:
- Image
- Custom creative template
- LiveIntent Display Ad with Impression Trackers (Image file) – Used when you wish to traffic two impression tracking URLs and you have an image file to upload to GAM
- LiveIntent Display Ad with Impression Trackers (Image URL) – Used when you wish to traffic two impression tracking URLs and you have an image url
- LiveIntent Native Ad – Used when you wish to traffic native creative
Creatives: Image
- Name: Name your creative
- Target ad unit size: Input the size of the creative that you are uploading. This size may be already populated if you are setting up a creative from within a line item.
- Image files: Uploading an image or using a remote image are both supported.
- Density: Only 1x density is supported.
- Click-through URL: The URL for the landing page that should appear when someone clicks the ad.
- Orientation: This setting is not supported.
- Alt text: This setting is not supported.
- Labels: This setting is optional and not required by LiveIntent.
- Third-party impression tracking URLs: This can be enabled and one non-javascript/iframe based impression tracking URL can be inputted. If you are implementing a tracking pixel on your creative, you need to change the cachebuster to LiveIntent’s macro, which is {DECISION_ID}.
- Use EU user consent settings: This setting is not supported.
Creatives: Custom creative template
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LiveIntent Display Ad with Impression Trackers (Image file)
- Most fields are similar to the Image creative type.
- User-defined variables:
- Image – Upload the image from your computer.
- ClickURL – The URL for the landing page that should appear when someone clicks the ad.
- Imp_Tracker_1 – The first non-javascript/iframe based impression tracking URL can be inputted
- Imp_Tracker_2 – The second non-javascript/iframe based impression tracking URL can be inputted
- If you are implementing a tracking pixel on your creative, you need to change the cachebuster to LiveIntent’s macro, which is {DECISION_ID}.
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LiveIntent Display Ad with Impression Trackers (Image URL)
- Most fields are similar to the Image creative type.
- User-defined variables:
- ImageURL – The URL for the creative
- ClickURL – The URL for the landing page that should appear when someone clicks the ad.
- Imp_Tracker_1 – The first non-javascript/iframe based impression tracking URL can be inputted
- Imp_Tracker_2 – The second non-javascript/iframe based impression tracking URL can be inputted
- If you are implementing a tracking pixel on your creative, you need to change the cachebuster to LiveIntent’s macro, which is {DECISION_ID}.
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LiveIntent Native Ad
- Most fields are similar to the Image creative type.
- User-defined variables:
- These variables will be specific to the native units in your newsletters. Please discuss with your CSM.
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