{"id":2422,"date":"2025-06-12T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2422"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:40:11","slug":"newsbreak-activate-ads-rule","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/knowledge-base\/newsbreak-activate-ads-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBreak: Activate Ads Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This rule will re-activate any paused NewsBreak ads that have spent over $50 and resulted in positive ROI (return on investment) in the past 7 days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2423\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-50x10.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-1536x300.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-60x12.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1-100x20.png 100w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd1.png 1585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2424\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-1024x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-1024x203.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-768x153.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-50x10.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-1536x305.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-60x12.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2-100x20.png 100w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dd2.png 1576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:\u00a0<\/strong>First, you need to fill in some\u00a0<strong>general details about the rule<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Choose a\u00a0<strong>unique name<\/strong>\u00a0for your rule so you can easily recognize it later.<\/li>\n<li>Optionally, you can\u00a0<strong>group similar rules\u00a0<\/strong>together.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the\u00a0<strong>data time frame<\/strong>\u00a0for this rule. In our example, we are considering data from the past 7 days. This can be adjusted according to your needs, and it ranges from \u201ctoday\u201d to \u201clast 90 days\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>You can optionally\u00a0<strong>exclude days<\/strong>\u00a0from this interval. This is important for search arbitrage advertisers who are working with estimated revenue data and need to exclude today, or today &amp; yesterday, from their optimizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Next,\u00a0<strong>select your rule conditions.<\/strong>\u00a0Choose from over 100+ metrics, or create your own custom metrics, to build precise rules. You can add as many conditions as needed.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are focusing on two conditions \u2013 ad spend should be higher than $50, and ROI should be positive.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2425\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-1024x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-1024x138.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-300x41.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-768x104.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-50x7.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-1536x207.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-60x8.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1-100x14.png 100w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg3-1.png 1577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2426\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-1024x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-1024x192.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-768x144.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-50x9.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-1536x288.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-60x11.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1-100x19.png 100w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gg4-1.png 1550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><strong>Step 3:<\/strong>\u00a0Now,\u00a0<strong>select which campaigns<\/strong>\u00a0you want to apply this rule to. You can manually select campaigns, or you can use the filter on the right, to bulk add all active campaigns, all paused campaigns, or filter campaigns by a keyword.\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong>\u00a0Finally, you need to\u00a0<strong>schedule the rule &amp; alerts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, choose how often you want the rule to run. It can be as often as every 10 minutes, once per hour, or daily at specific times of the day. In this case, we are applying this rule every 3 hours.<\/li>\n<li>You can set your rule to \u201cAlert Only\u201d, \u201cExecute\u201d, or \u201cExecute &amp; Alert\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The first option will not make any changes to your campaigns, but it will notify you via email, Slack, or Telegram when the rule conditions have been met.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cExecute\u201d will immediately apply the rule and not send you any notifications about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rule will re-activate any paused NewsBreak ads that have spent over $50 and resulted in positive ROI (return on investment) in the past 7 days. Step 1:\u00a0First, you need to fill in some\u00a0general details about the rule. Choose a\u00a0unique name\u00a0for your rule so you can easily recognize it later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[98],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2422","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-how-to-set-up-automation-rules-for-newsbreak-with-examples"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2422\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}