Cross Channel Categorizations in Alli Data Library
Each ADL client has a core_media_channel
categorization available that enables client teams to funnel a given combination of account, campaign, and ad group names into the Search, Social, or Display views regardless of which ad network the platform serves to
Currently the categorization is viable for funneling data from a platform into a channel that already contained that platform.
For example, in ADL Google Ads has been mapped to Search, Social, and Display so re-directing among the channels will work. Bidtellect has only been mapped to Display in ADL so re-directing Bidtellect data into Search or Social views is not possible.
core_media_channel
The core_media_channel
exists for all ADL enabled clients.
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In this example the platform, account, campaign, and ad group names
Google Ads
Ideas Collide Marketing Communications
Indie Films 2020
Ashok Patel
are set to serve exclusively to Google’s YouTube Ads ad network, designated by the ad_network_type
field in the raw API data. The core_media_channel
cat overwrites this field as search
. Downstream, ADL catches instances of this platform, account, campaign, adgroup combo and funnels them into the search views.
Allowed values for the categorization are search, social, and display
The resulting data sets:
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Note that the 65 YouTube Ads records that had lived in social_adset
were moved to search_adgroup
Not all 4 levels need to be specified. The macro can be applied for an entire account, campaign, or even platform