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Creating a campaign

How to create an ad campaign.

Updated over 7 months ago

There are two ways to create a campaign:


Create a new campaign

Go to the Campaigns page and select "New campaign" at the top right

1. After choosing your advertising objective and goal, you'll have the option to select a special ad category before advancing the next steps of campaign creation detailed below.

  • Choosing any special ad category will reduce the targeting options (i.e. no age, gender, income, or zip-code targeting options) made available in subsequent steps. Read more about business category settings here.

2. Budget & schedule
Set your lifetime campaign budget and campaign schedule. Learn how to set your budget & schedule

When setting your schedule, be sure to allow 2-3 business days for manual review of your creative

3. Locations
Select the locations you'd like to include or exclude from your campaign targeting. Learn more about location targeting


4. Audience
Select audience parameters or leave it to Roku to automatically target the best-performing demographic based on your advertising objective. Learn more about audience targeting

5. Delivery
You'll have 2 bidding options to choose from: Auto bid and Max bid. Learn more about your bidding options
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6. Upload creatives
You can upload up to 10 creatives, following the technical specifications and content guidelines. You'll also be able to select a special ad category during the creative stage.

  • Choosing any special ad category will impact targeting may have already selected (i.e. age, gender, income, and zip-code) . Read more about business category settings here.


7. Add or update your payment method
All major credit cards are accepted, just no debit cards currently. Learn more about managing your payment method

8. Publish

When this button turns purple, you're ready to publish your campaign - congrats!


Cloning a campaign from an existing campaign

You can use any created campaign as an easy starting point for new campaigns, so you can build campaigns quicker.

To clone an existing campaign, simply head to your Campaigns page and find the campaign you want to clone. Click the three horizontal dots, and click Clone.

Confirm your new campaign's name and schedule, we will start the cloning process. You'll receive an email once the new campaign is ready to edit and publish.

When cloning a campaign, all underlying campaign details and assignments will be cloned to the new campaign. You can edit these details in your new campaign.

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