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Import Placements from External (DSP) Campaigns

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General

The Placements step of a Flight Control programmatic campaign lets you import and synchronize placement data from a partner DSP account. The following DSPs are currently supported:

  • The Trade Desk (TTD): Ad groups from the connected campaign will be imported as placements.
  • Display & Video 360 (DV360): Line items from the connected campaign will be imported as placements.
  • Amazon: Ad groups from the connected campaign that align with Clinch's campaign types will be imported as placements.
    • Note: If you're connecting to Brand+ or Performance+ campaigns in Amazon, make sure the ad group names are clearly defined for display, OLV, or streaming. This ensures that the correct campaign and creative types are used.
  • Yahoo DSP: Line items from the connected campaign will be imported as placements.

Prerequisites Prerequisites

User permissions User Permissions

  • You need the Campaigns user permission to create or change campaign placements.

Import Placements from External Campaigns

To import placements from an external DSP campaign:

  1. Go to a campaign's Placements step.
  2. Click Create > Import Placements from External Campaigns.
    • This opens the Import Placements from External Campaigns pane.
  3. Select a DSP provider.
  4. Select a DSP advertiser account.
  5. Select one or more DSP campaigns.
    • The selected campaign(s) and their ad groups or line items are added to the table, where you can select them for importing.
  6. Click Import for each relevant ad group or line item.
  7. Optional. To import placements from additional campaigns, select another DSP provider, advertiser account, and campaign.
  8. Click Synchronize Placements.

Flight Control retrieves placement data from the selected DSP campaigns and adds the selected ad groups or line items to the campaign's Placements table as placements.

Note 1: For Amazon, if you're using Amazon custom audiences, the DSP/publisher is automatically set to Amazon DSP S2S.

Note 2: After connecting to an Amazon campaign, the Flight Control placement has a Language property that defaults to English. If your creative content uses a different language, edit the placement and update this property. This ensures that the correct language parameter is passed when publishing tags in accordance with Amazon standards.

Re-Sync DSP Campaign Placement Names

If a Flight Control placement name differs from the corresponding DSP ad group or line item name, you can re-sync it. Re-syncing updates the placement name to match the current name in the DSP:

  1. Go to the campaign's Placements step.
  2. Click Create > Import Placements from External Campaigns.
    • This opens the Import Placements from External Campaigns pane.
  3. Click Re-Sync (Re-Sync) for each ad group or line item placement name you want to refresh.
  4. Click Synchronize Placements.

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Remove Placements for Missing DSP Ad Groups

When you connect to a DSP campaign, Flight Control identifies imported placements whose corresponding ad groups or line items have been deleted from the DSP.

To remove these placements during synchronization:

  1. In the Import Placements from External Campaigns pane, click Remove (Remove) for each missing DSP ad group or line item.
  2. Click Synchronize Placements.

The selected placements are then removed from Flight Control.

If you don't select Remove, the placements remain in the Placements table and display a red issue icon indicating that the corresponding placement is missing from the DSP. You can remove them later using the Delete Placements action.

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