Important Concepts
There are a number of considerations to keep in mind when using the Watchfire Player
Watchfire software does not support Real Time stats and data will be up to 24 hours delayed for in-app analytics
Frequency Control of your creatives may NOT be available (depending on your implementation choice)
Bandwidth could be an issue if you are running a large number of Lucit campaigns
Overview of Process
You will
Create a Watchfire Advertiser Login for each advertiser using the Lucit Watchfire integration
You may need to request this from Watchfire Support
Lucit will provide you with the Name and Email Address to use for this login
This login will need to be assigned to the campaign
Create a new Dynamic Content using an RSS feed element
Schedule the dynamic content to run
NOTE: You can choose to have the Lucit Traffic team create the Dynamic ad if you prefer, which we can accomplish using the Advertiser Login In many cases, this is recommended to ensure that the feed is correctly setup and attached to the creative.
Pre-Requisites
The Client and Campaign has already been created in the Lucit App
You can see the “Player Integrations” tab on the campaign
The Lucit Team has provided you with the name / email to use for your Watchfire Advertiser Login
Setup of the Lucit Campaign
Before setting up your Lucit campaign, you will need to choose which implementation type you prefer
Dynamic
Pros :
Every time the feed pulls, a new ad from Lucit will run
The frequency control settings set by the user are respected (e.g. If they want one ad to be 90% of rotation and another ad 10%, this will be respected)
Statistics in-app will be more accurate as to which specific ad ran
Supports campaigns containing “sub” campaigns such as Real Estate Brokerage campaigns
Cons :
Will use more bandwidth
The same ad will run for the length of your “interval” you set in your RSS feed. (e.g. If you set it to 5 minutes, the same ad will run for 5 minutes before switching)
Rotated
Pros :
Will use less bandwidth
Will equally rotate through ALL ads that have been created for this campaign
Cons :
Frequency control settings will not be respected, all ads will run in an equal share
Statistics in-app will be less accurate and may not correctly show which ad ran at which time
Does NOT support campaigns containing “sub” campaigns such as Real Estate Brokerage campaigns
Loading the Campaign
NOTE: If you are scheduling a Real Estate brokerage campaign, or a campaign that contains multiple sub-campaigns, you only need to do this for the Parent account campaign
Login to Lucit, and make sure you are in the Operator account you manage by checking on the top right corner of the screen.
Click Campaigns.
Scroll down and find the campaign you with to link.
Click Link Player
For each sign you are creating an ad for, select the correct URL (Dynamic or Rotated)
See the notes above for the difference between Dynamic or Rotated
In WatchfireOA, under Media, click Dynamic Content
Grab the “RSS/XML” feed icon and drag it onto your image canvas
Click “Add New”
Name the feed and copy / paste in the URL from the previous step (Dynamic or Rotated)
Set the Item Node to
item-set/item
Set the Refresh rate to
5 Minutes for Dynamic
OR
20 Minutes for Rotated
Select “Rotate Through All Items in the Feed”
Select “Item / Src” for the Elements and be sure to select “Render as an Image?”
Use the resize handles of the image to size it to fill the image area
Click “Save”
You can then Publish this dynamic creative as you would any other