Siropo, you give amazing support. Thank you.
A question on placeholders. Right now I've got Ads Manager with 5 ads running (1 for each ad slot); each ad is running ad code from an ad management company that's handling my inventory. Basically for a year Ads Manager has been an easier way to handle someone else's ad code. As I transition to directly sold ads I want to make sure I understand the best way to do so.
As I understand it:
- Starting now, I have one ad per slot with network ad code running.
- I have configured an ad package for this ad position and added my existing ad to it. It works. This ad is configured to not show as taking an available slot.
- Let's say I have 10 slots configured, currently listed as 10/10 available, with my hidden ad running in the background.
- I plan to configure a placeholder for this ad package, edit it to include my current ad code, delete my current ad, and open the package for sign-ups.
- After I've done so I will have no ads assigned, 10/10 available, and a placeholder running my existing ad code.
Now, my question: as soon as the first advertiser signs up, we will have 9/10 ad slots available. Does this mean that 90% of the time my placeholder's code will run, and my single advertiser will receive 10% of the ad impressions from that as package? Then after the second advertiser signs up 80% of the impressions will be handled by the placeholder, and so on?
Thanks. If this works it means I don't need to create 9 "hidden" ads with the same code and manually delete each one after each ad sale, which was my plan until now. If this works it'll be
sooooo much easier to manage.
Edited to add: for anyone else looking at this, placeholders only display when there are no ad slots filled. So my workaround was to create 9 ads owned by me that don't show in the slot count, and I'll delete one every time an ad in that package sells. That way each buyer is getting the percentage they paid for and nobody is flooding all of the ad slot with a single ad.
It sounds like a pain, but it look less than 10 minutes using the "clone" function.