Working with Digital Ads​

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
  • Summarize the main functionalities of Digital Ads
  • Create Digital Ads campaigns

Digital Ads Overview

SAP Emarsys Digital Ads is a vital component of an effective omnichannel strategy. It integrates SAP Emarsys with various ad networks, leveraging detailed customer data to enhance ad targeting.

SAP Emarsys Digital Ads Key Steps and Benefits

Benefits:

  • Enables targeted advertising across multiple networks.​​

  • Utilizes customer data to create audiences.​​

  • Allows real-time advertising to improve customer retention.​​

  • Enhances acquisition by targeting look-alike audiences.

Key steps of audience and ad campaign creation:​

  1. Create an SAP Emarsys segment or an empty audience that the Automation program populates later​
  2. Send identifiers to the network
  3. Create an ad campaign​ in your ad network​
  4. Activate the campaign​s​
  5. Review the performance reporting in SAP Emarsys (pulled from the ad networks).

Creating a Digital Ads Audience​

Let’s check out how to create a Digital Ads Audience.

  1. First, navigate to the Digital Ads, Audiences tab. Then, click 'Create Audience.'SAP Emarsys UI screenshots: This image shows the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads page with the user navigating to the 'Audiences' tab and clicking 'Create Audience.'​
  2. You pick the Ad Network of your choice, followed by the Audience type.​SAP Emarsys UI screenshot: The image displays the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads page, where the user selects an Ad Network and an Audience type.​
  3. Proceed to complete the required fields. ​

    You can manage your linked Ad accounts from the Ad Accounts tab.

    SAP Emarsys UI screenshot: The image displays the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads page, with the user adding necessary details in the 'Create Automation Audience' tab and then saving.​
  4. Finally, you can choose this ad campaign in your Automation program at the "Digital Ads—Add to Audience" and "Digital Ads—Remove from Audience" nodes.

    SAP Emarsys UI screenshot: The image displays SAP Emarsys Automation program with user selecting the 'Add to' and 'Remove from Audience’ nodes for an ad campaign.​

Digital Ads Dashboard and Reporting​

The Dashboard tab features several widgets that offer simple, graphic summaries of the overall condition and results of your Digital Ads campaigns, broken down by network.

SAP Emarsys UI screenshot: The image shows the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads Dashboard which summarizes campaign results and statuses across networks.

Digital Ads offers individual audience reporting. Here you can see the overall results of the selected campaign.

SAP Emarsys UI screenshot: The image displays the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads Reporting which facilitates analytics and detailed evaluation of a chosen Digital Ads campaign.​

Note

Check out the SAP Emarsys Digital Ads portal for more information about end-user guides, ad networks, use cases, examples, and more.

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