In order to prevent further use of the content you've made available to partners, you should follow these steps.
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Learn more about expiring ads, like redirecting or blocking access to expired content, or viewing traffic from expired Ads and notifying Partners.
Once an Ad has reached the end of its promotional period, you can expire it. While expiring an Ad removes it from the partner's content marketplace, some instances of the Ad might appear on your partner's website and social channels. All post-expiration clicks generated on that content will be reported in the Clicks from Expired Ads report. To expire an Ad:
In the left navigation bar, select Content → Ads.
Find the Ad you want to expire and select Update.
In the upper-right corner of the ad details, select Expire.
Read the pop-up notification and select I understand, continue.
Once you have expired an Ad, partners will no longer have access to the Ad code, however, partners that had the ad code saved before it expired, will still be able to use it. To prevent or redirect traffic from the expired ad, set up a redirect link with an interstitial page, or block users from navigating to the expired link.
Note
Some ad types will have a “Fallback to another ad on expiration” option available. For more information on this option, view the Schedule Start & End Dates for Ads article.
In the left navigation bar, select Content → Ads.
Navigate to the Ad you want to create a redirect link for and, select Update.
Select the Available Dates field and
[Toggle on] the Set start and end date for this ad setting.For Coupon ads, this option will be under the Time Limited Promotion section.
Set the start and end dates of the promotion.
If you want to immediately expire the ad, set the end date as today.
Check the Change landing page on expiration checkbox.
In the first drop box, select Redirect.
Enter the URL to where traffic should be redirected for this ad.
- [Toggle on] on Use interstitial.
In the Template drop list, select Custom.
Type in the header and body of text that you want to convey to users accessing the expired content.
- [Toggle on] if you want to Require user acknowledgment.
Optionally, Preview your interstitial.
Select Save.
In the left navigation bar, select Content → Ads.
Navigate to the Ad you want to create a redirect link for and, select Update.
Select the Available Dates field and
[Toggle on] the Set start and end date for this ad setting.For Coupon ads, this option will be under the Time Limited Promotion section.
Set the start and end dates of the promotion.
If you want to immediately expire the ad, set the end date as today.
Check the Change landing page on expiration checkbox.
In the first drop box, select Block.
- [Toggle on] on Use interstitial.
In the Template drop list, select Custom.
Type in the header and body of text that you want to convey to users accessing the expired content.
Select Save.
In the left navigation bar, select Content → Ads.
Navigate to the Ad you want to create a redirect link for and, select Update.
Select the Available Dates field and
[Toggle on] the Set start and end date for this ad setting.For Coupon ads, this option will be under the Time Limited Promotion section.
Set the start and end dates of the promotion.
If you want to immediately expire the ad, set the end date as today.
Check the Change landing page on expiration checkbox.
In the first drop box, select Interstitial.
In the Template drop list, select Custom.
Type in the header and body of text that you want to convey to users accessing the expired content.
Select Save.
When impact.com receives click data from ads that you've expired, you can see the details of that traffic from the Clicks from Expired Ads Report. This will indicate what partner(s) are hosting an expired ad, making it easy to discover which partner(s) should be notified about ads you will be deleting soon.
Once you have expired an Ad and notified your partners of its impending deletion, you can delete the ad to prevent any further use of that Ad code. To delete an ad:
In the left navigation bar, select Content → Ads.
Select the Status filter and select Expired.
Find the expired Ad you want to delete.
Select the
[Checkbox] in the upper-right corner of the ad.Select More Actions, then, Delete Ads.
Read the pop-up message and select I understand, continue.
