Written by Support. Updated over a week ago
Depending on the delivery of your campaign and overall inventory of Taboola for your campaign targeting settings, sometimes dayparting your campaign by totally pausing it can lead to a decrease in the overall performance of your campaign.
As such, many marketers prefer to keep their campaigns running on a lower bid instead of pausing them on some specific hours.
Rule setup:
To daypart your campaign bids, you will need to create a Change Campaign Bid rule then specify the following settings.
- Considering data from: Today
- Condition 1: Impressions – Add at least 10 impressions to validate the rule for active campaigns only.
- Condition 2: Hour of the day – selecting the hour and days you want this rule to execute
- Set bid to – specify the bid value you want to set on the campaign level
- Apply rule to – specify the campaigns you want to apply this rule to
- Run this rule every – specify the execution frequency of every 1 hour.
Rule explanation:
As you may see from the example above, we have selected to run this rule based on Today’s data and in the rule conditions we have selected only Hour of Day as a condition, where we have selected the time zone and hours + days of the week based of which we would like to schedule the execution of this rule. Also, we have specified the bid level we would like to set for our campaign.
An important step to setting up such rules, is the accurate specification of the rule execution frequency – whereas in this example needs to be every 1 hour. This means that as soon as the selected hour kicks in the rule will be executed and set the new bid level. Setting the rule execution frequency to every 10minutes is pointless since the rule will only need to set the new bid once.
Additional Important Information: You may often have campaigns that have specific publisher sites running on custom bids for which you will want to change the bid as well.
Keeping in considering that publisher site bids on Taboola can be increased or decreased based on a specific percentage range relative to the campaign level bid, it means that once you change the bid on the campaign level, it will automatically change on the sites that are running on custom bids.
This means that is pointless to create a site level bid change rule to change the bids on sites running on custom bids.
Also, please note that a rule like the one in the example above, will only change your campaign bid once. In order to reset the bid to where it previously was on another hour, you can simply clone this rule or recreate a rule like this by selecting another hour of the day and different bid value