Set up a Promotional Ads Feed as a Partner

If you want to receive information on new or newly updated assets uploaded by brands you partner with, consider setting up Ad Update Data Feeds. Only assets marked with promotional themes by a brand or associated with a deal will be included in these feeds. To identify which assets are tagged accordingly, use the Deal and Deal Type filters on the Manage Assets screen.

Note: Refer to the promotional ads feed FAQs for more information.

1. From the top navigation bar, select [User profile] → Settings.

2. Under Technical, select Data Feeds.

3. Next to Daily Action Feed, select [Edit].

4. [Toggle on] to Enable data feed.

5. Select the Frequency at which you want to generate data feed files.

   • Each file will only include events that happened since the last time a data feed file was generated. So, for example, if you decide to set the frequency to Hourly, only event that occurred within each last hour will be included.

   • Refer to the table below to see when each selection would generate a file. All times are shown in UTC format.

Frequency reference

Frequency Option	Generation Times
Hourly	Every day, every hour since the last run time.
Every 2 hours	Every day, every 2 hours since the last run time.
Every 4 hours	Every day, every 4 hours since the last run time.
Every 8 hours	Every day, every 8 hours since the last run time.
Twice daily	Every day at 06:00:00Z and 18:00:00Z.
Daily	Every day at 02:00:00Z.
Monthly	The first day of each month at 03:00:00Z.

1. Select the Data Format. You have the following options:

   • XML: Human- and machine-readable markup text

   • TAB: Plain text, tab-spaced values

   • PIPE: Plain text, pipe-separated ( | ) values

   • CSV: Plain text, comma-separated values

2. Select the [Radio Button] to choose the Delivery Method: Partner FTP or Email.

Partner FTP

• Select a Server URL from the [Drop-down menu] and enter the FTP server URL.

• Enter the Directory path for the FTP server.

• Enter the Port number for the FTP connection (default is 21).

• Enter your Username for FTP login.

• Enter your Password for FTP login.

Email

1. Select Save.

   

   Note: The Restart your feed option does not reset your feed setup. This option should only be used if you are receiving support from impact.com and you are instructed to select the Reset button.

File data fields

• Each data feed will always include all of the fields marked Always Present in File found in the linked spreadsheet below, but not all fields will always be present. Fields marked Present when new data is available will not appear in the file if no new data is available for a given line item.

• Refer to the impact.com Promotional Ad Data Feed File Data Fields spreadsheet for information on data fields in each file.