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06-23-2014 05:46 PM #1 bentho (Member)
Decisive - some basic questions

Hi there

after using Decisive for 2 days, I have some questions I couldn't figure out:

1) Is there any way to spread daily Budget over a day, apart from playing with the bid amount?

2) On the "ads" Screen, I can see all the live movement and can also see clicks, CTR etc. per ad (ad seems to be campaign, basically, as I can add multiple Banners to an "ad"?). Is there any way to see what Banners are performing, so I can stop some of them? e.g. I have an "ad" that's called "Offer XY, Country Z, Network A, Wifi / App" - so on the main Screen I can see this "ad" / campaign gets clicks, but how can I see which of the 5 Banners et how many clicks / what CTR etc?

3) Bulk changes - Is there any way to do bulk changes, e.g. Change CPM bids for 10 "ads" / camapgins at the same time?


Thanks a lot!

06-23-2014 06:05 PM #2 bentho (Member)

... and another one: Any way to "Group" ads, as in CPVlab Groups where you can just Show what's relevant?

06-23-2014 07:17 PM #3 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Hey, to answer your questions :

1 - RIght now there is no way to spread the budget.
2 - To see banners click on the live reports icon and go to creatives
3 - Right now nope
4 - Nope

Hope this helps

06-23-2014 07:38 PM #4 bentho (Member)

1) thanks
2) strange, that didn't Show up when I last checked... maybe I didn't let it load Long enough!
3) thanks
4) thanks

Helps a lot - thanks )

06-24-2014 11:21 AM #5 dario (Member)

Me too I'm pretty fresh on Decisive:
Do you guys know why traffic completely stops, even if the overall & daily budgets for my campaign have now no limits, and the funds are still > $500 ?

06-24-2014 02:13 PM #6 dario (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dario View Post
Me too I'm pretty fresh on Decisive:
Do you guys know why traffic completely stops, even if the overall & daily budgets for my campaign have now no limits, and the funds are still > $500 ?
Ok I found the answer, although I don't like it: everytime you add a single creative, the whole campaign stops and goes on pending-approval status.
Also I don't like: I can't set different CPM for each source

I told you i was fresh on Decisive..

06-25-2014 12:38 AM #7 zeno (Administrator)

Ooh, that campaign pending issue is a serious one - good spotting.

As for the CPMs, yes you can't set them manually for each placement to the best of my knowledge. Definitely a situation requiring breaking out into a new campaign.

They might add it... but the live reports are quite complex and AFAIK still being improved in terms of performance right now.

06-25-2014 01:30 AM #8 bentho (Member)

Three more findings that I made:

- Regarding my question 2) above - Banners will NOT Show right from the start. When a campaign is initially running, the "Creatives" tab (and some others) will Show "No Data". It will take a while (don't know how long exactly) until banner stats Show.

- Banner stats are WEIRD. I initially thought I was still hung over or had some mental issues when I noticed that numbers are randomly jumping, but It actually is the case - when stats get updated live, expect some crazy behaviour:

http://screencast.com/t/3hnTuA9nfbU

(Magic starts around :20 - watch the number of clicks, amongst other figures).


- If your Ads get rejected: READ the emails that you're receiving. It might be obvious, but I fell for this trap and re-submitted various Banners multiple times only to find out that not the banner, but the offer was the reason for rejection.

Hope that helps!

06-25-2014 05:00 PM #9 caurmen (Administrator)

Yep, live stats when you've just started a campaign are a bit random. I just started a medium-ish volume campaign and within 5 minutes had 100 or so clicks - but the live stats insisted that I'd only had 2...

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