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Static vs Dynamic Ads
Select a Creative to Use (Adacado Template Library)
Customize Your Ads
Preview Your Ads
Static vs Dynamic Ads
There are two types of ads you can create with Adacado, static or dynamic. Dynamic ads use product data from an inventory data feed and static ads do not.
Static ads show the same information every time they are viewed and can be made much simpler. They are a great way to advertise your brand or a single product or service.
Dynamic ads allow you to advertise many products or services, dynamically changing the products shown to viewers.
Select a Creative to Use (Adacado Template Library)
Once you have created your advertiser and campaign, you will be taken to the “Select a creative to use” page, where you can find a variety of pre-built templates that you can use for your campaign. On this page, you can view and select templates from three different sections and the templates viewed here are dependent on the business type chosen when you created your advertiser.
Learn more about choosing a template.
Use All Templates from the Adacado Template Library
The Adacado Template Library offers pre-built ad templates by ad size and creative type for a variety of business types, such as retail, automotive, real estate, and hotel. The templates displayed in the template library are dependent on the business type chosen when you created your advertiser.
Choose any template in the library, then add your logo, custom message, and images to create your own ads. Using a pre-built template is the fastest and easiest way to create your ads.
Learn how to create a simple ad from a pre built template.
My Templates
When you create your own template from scratch using our creative editor, the template you create will be saved in the “My Templates” section.
Previously Used Templates
When you select, edit and use templates in a campaign, copies of all templates used in the campaign are automatically saved to the “Previously Used Templates” section. These templates can be used in campaigns for all advertisers of the same business type (e.g. retail, auto, etc.).
Customize Your Ads
Once you’ve chosen your creative template from the library, you will go to the CREATIVE page , where you will see the multiple ad sizes associated with the template you chose.
Click the notes icon on the left side of the CREATIVE page to open the “Manually Enter Data” and add your own logo, image, and text to make the ads your own.
Uploading Your Logo and Assets
Upload your own logo and background image in the Image Assets section. Click Text Assets to change your message (labelled “Promotion Text”) and CTA text. Here is an example of fully customized static ads.
NOTE: It is important to add your logo and assets to your ads. Otherwise, the default images and texts from the template will appear in your ads.
Adjusting Click-Through URL
The default click-through URL for a static ad is your advertiser’s website URL that you entered when you created your advertiser. If you want another URL to use, click the “URLs” and add the URL.
Making Color, Font & Layout Changes
It is also possible to edit the look and layout of your ads by editing the template in the creative editor.
Adding Multiple Ad Creatives
You can use multiple ad creatives in your campaign. Here are two key ways this feature can be used:
- Scheduling: Each creative can be assigned a start and end date allowing you to pre-schedule automated creative updates.
- Testing: By having multiple creatives active at the same time, the Adacado system will alternate between creatives providing an easy way to test and measure different creative variations or messaging.
Click the clock icon in the bar on the left side of the CREATIVE page and open the “Creative Schedule” panel where you can add, remove or schedule creatives.
Preview Your Ads
Once you’ve completed creating ads of your own, you can preview the ads by clicking the play button in each ad header on the CREATIVE page to view individual ads or by clicking the “PREVIEW” tab in the footer to open a shareable PREVIEW page where you can preview all ad sizes.
NOTE: Your campaign must be turned ON, in order for your ads to serve on the preview page.
Have a good look at your ads, do they look how you expect? Click here to learn more about how to test your campaign.
Learn how to launch your first campaign!
If you’re still having trouble or have questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime at support@adacado.com
