ADPOINT Campaign Portal
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Deliver creatives
Delivering creatives is very simple, and you will receive instant feedback if the creative can be accepted or not.
Drag a creative file from your desktop to the dotted box on the creative placeholder. You can also click the dotted box on the creative placeholder to select a file.
After a short wait, you will see a preview of the creative on the placeholder. In the right panel you will see a validation report
If your creative can be accepted you’re done!
If your creative cannot be accepted you can upload a new creative.
Annotate creatives
You can annotate production orders to easily indicate where changes should be made.
Open the order by clicking the eye icon
Select the highlighter or frame annontation tool
Place annotation on the correct position
Enter a description
Submit annotations or approve with changes.
Approve creatives
Approving one or more creatives is simple.
Click the approve button for the order.
Upload visuals and assets
Visuals are sketches or “roughs” that are used to sketch how an ad should look. Assets are images, logos and copy files that should be used to compose the ad files. Both can be easily uploaded.
Select a creative placeholder for a producion order and open the Production tab in the side panel.
Click the ADD VISUAL button
Drag the visual file from your desktop to the drop zone in the left side of the screen or click the drop zone to browse for the visual file
Drag asset file(s) from the desktop to the dropzone under Assets in the right panel or click the drop zone to select asset file(s).
Press SUBMIT to save the assets without submitting the order or press SEND TO PRODUCTION to submit the order to the production department - no more assets can the be added.
Finding your way around
Below you will find an overview of the Campaign Portal. Please note that branding, colors and data displayed may differ from what you see on your own screen.
The order list
The left side of the screen is the order list. Orders, or line-items as they are also referred to, are listed below the header.
For each order there are different data about the order displayed.
Each order hold one or more creatives. To see the creatives of each order, simply press the up and down arrows at the right side of the order. This will open and collapse orders.
Creative placeholders
Inside an order, there are one or more placeholders to which creatives are or can be uploaded.
If a placeholder does not have a creative, a dotted box indicating the area to which a creative should be dragged is shown. Also the expected dimensions of the creative is show. The preview here is for an audio file.
The order number and the current status
Order data
At the bottom of the placeholder, the currently available tools are shown.
3rd party tags
The <> icon is used to open a dialog where a 3rd party tag can be entered.
Preview
The eye icon opens a larger preview of the creative. For placeholders that does not have a creative yet, an empty preview is opened. In here, it is possible to add a visual (subject to availability).
Download
The download icon is used to download the current version of the creative
Delete
The trashcan icon is used to delete the current version of the creative. If there are multiple creative versions, the next version will be displayed. If the placeholder does not have a creative, it will be deleted.
Preview
The preview screen shows a larger preview of the current creative.
The toolbar adapts to the nature of the creative. There will be different tools for print, multipage print and digital creatives.
| Print (single page) | Print (multi page) | Digital |
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Left arrow | Returns to the Campaign screen | ||
Show visual | A switch to show or hide visuals | ||
Zoom in | Enlarges preview | ||
Zoom out | Makes the preview smaller | ||
Zoom to fit | Zooms to a level where the preview fits in its entirety | ||
Reset to original size | Resets the zoom level to the original size | ||
Arrow up | - | Moves to previous page | - |
Arrow down | - | Moves to next page | - |
Arrow left | - | - | Moves to previous creative on order |
Arrow right | - | - | Moves to next creative on order |
Eye | Shows and hides annotations | ||
Sticker | |||
Frame | |||
Download | Downloads the currently active creative |
Previewing Audio creatives
Audiofiles are shown as a visual representation of the sound level of the audio file.
For audio creatives a player bar is displayed below a visual representation of the audio levels. Here you can start and stop the playing of the audio file and go directly to a sequence of the audio file by dragging the vertical timer mark.
Previewing video creatives
For video creatives a player bar is displayed below a the video. Here you can start and stop the playing of the video file and go directly to a sequence of the audio file by dragging the vertical timer mark.
For sound output from both audio and video files, ADPOINT uses the sound settings of your computer.
Side panels
The side panel is organised in tabs, where each tab holds various information about the currently selected placeholder.
Content of the tabs varies from system to system. In addition, some feature depend on various system configuration and statuses. This means you may not be able to find the features shown here in the system you work with.
Not all tabs are visible all of the time. Only tabs that are relevant for the selected placeholder are shown.
Home
Shows a welcome message and typically a brief introduction to the Campaign Portal.
Do not show this welcome message as default tab
Set this switch to avoid showing the home panel as the default panel next time. This feature is controlled by setting a cookie.
Summary
Shows a summary of the most important information related to the selected placeholder.
Validation
The latest validation report (if available).