Web Monitoring helps your brand track where you're being promoted and identifies risks, like brand safety issues or unapproved terms that could harm your reputation or cause compliance violations. impact.com monitors partners' websites, analyzes the data for risks, and lets you review placements for potential brand safety and compliance issues.
Create a web monitoring policy
This feature is only accessible to specific impact.com editions or add-ons. Contact us to upgrade your account and get access!From the left navigation bar, select
[Protect] → Monitoring → Policies.In the upper-right corner, select Create Policy.
Select Web Monitoring, then select 1 scenario to guide the policy:
Scenario
Description
Unapproved Terms
Monitor your partners' posts to ensure that their content aligns with your policies.
Brand Safety
Monitor your partners' websites for unwanted categories of content to protect your brand reputation.
Broken Links
Monitor the links leading to your websites that partners use to ensure they are promotable.
Select Get Started.
Complete the following sections:
Enter the keywords, brand mentions, product names, or hashtags associated with your brand that you want to monitor.
To find and monitor partner content that contains your tracking links, select
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[Unchecked box] Use tracking links.Choose a
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[Radio Button] to Monitor all eligible partners or Select partner groups.If you selected Select specific partner groups, choose groups from the
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[Drop-down menu].
Select Next.
Automated violation management saves time by creating and resolving violations for flagged creator pages based on selected scenarios. If issues are resolved within 7 days, the violation closes automatically; otherwise, reminder emails with response details are sent 24 and 8 hours before the deadline.
Choose an Automate violation management option, by selecting the
[Unchecked boxes].Automation Option
Description
Create a violation if we find the following issues in creator pages
impact.com automatically creates violations when issues are found on creator pages.
Select the
[Drop-down menu] and to apply the unapproved terms.Close violations if all issues have been resolved within 7 days
impact.com automatically closes violations once all issues are resolved within 7 days.
Send partners who have not resolved violations reminder emails
Reminder emails are sent 24 and 8 hours before the violation due date to prompt action.
Archive all results older than 30 days
Creator pages with no flags in the last 30 days are automatically archived.
Select Next.
