Universal Ads Manager offers two campaign types designed to support different advertising goals:
Performance+: Reach the right audience across Universal Ad’s premium publishers, wherever they’re watching TV. Performance+ automatically optimizes delivery to maximize performance and outcomes.
Content Select: Choose specific genres or allowlisted networks, so your ads run alongside the content most relevant to your audience, giving you greater control over where your brand appears.
Universal ads organizes ads into three parts: campaigns, ad sets, and ads.
Create a Content Select Campaign:
- Name your campaign. Please note campaign names have a minimum character length of 3 and a maximum character length of 191 characters.
- Set a lifetime budget: Limits how much your campaign can spend throughout its lifetime.
- Select the start and end times, or select to run your campaign indefinitely. Note, you can also set this at the ad set level.
- Select a status, Active or Paused.
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Select content goal:
- Genre: run your ads adjacent to content categorized by genre across all Universal Ads premium publishers ex. Sports, Comedy, News & Information
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Network: advertise within a specific publisher network: ex. NBCU
- To gain access to specific publisher networks, please contact your account representative
To clone an already created campaign, hover over the campaign name in your dashboard and select the “clone” button that will populate underneath.
Please note: your ad set will not be cloned if you clone a campaign; it will only populate your campaign data and start existing creation flow.
Next, you build your ad sets, create your ad(s), and publish your campaign.
Create a Content Select Ad Set:
- Name your ad set.
- Set your bid
- Define a daily and lifetime ad set budget, and specify a start and end date if different from the campaign’s dates.
- Select Advanced Options to include a frequency cap: a limit to how many times a viewer sees your ad during a specific period or dayparting (link to article)
- Select Genre: select which genre to deliver ads adjacent to
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Enable tracking with the Universal Ads Pixel:
- Toggle on the Universal Ads Pixel to enable pixel tracking.
- Create a new Pixel or select an existing Pixel ID to associate with the ad set.
- Select locations (state, DMA, or ZIP code) to include or exclude in your targeting parameters.
- Select the demographics you want to target, including age range, gender, device types and advanced demographics.
- Select the Custom Audiences you want to reach or exclude (if applicable).
- Select Advanced Options to target by device types, content language or exclude certain content genres
To clone an already created ad set, hover over the ad set name in your dashboard and select the “clone” button that will populate underneath.
The existing prompt below will appear:
Once you select either add to existing campaign or create a new campaign, continue through the creation flow.
To create a single ad
- Name your Ad.
- Drag and drop, click to upload creative from your computer or select a creative from your Creative Library.
- Click Upload to allow the system to transcode your video.
- Please see here for Creative Requirements.
To create multiple ads within an ad set:
- Go to the Manage Ads Dashboard.
- Click the ‘Ad’ tab, then click + New Ad.
- Add additional creatives to an existing Ad Set.
- When prompted, choose the Ad Set where you want to add the new creative.
To clone your ad, hover over the ad name in your dashboard and select the “clone” button that will populate underneath. Select an eligible ad set to run the ad in order to begin your campaign.
Note: Universal Ads aims to evenly distribute spend across all ads in the Ad Set, but it doesn't guarantee even delivery. Auction demand, bid, and other factors may influence delivery.