Compose Pinterest Ads
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Advertising on Pinterest allows you to reach more than 200 million people through promoted Pins. Pinterest ad campaigns help you reach people while they actively decide what to do or buy next. With a number of objectives available in Ad Composer, you can create dynamic content that captures the attention of Pinterest users and drives customers to your business.
To learn more, click Ads Composer.
Please refer to FAQs for further queries. |
Select Ad Account and Objective
Click the New Tab icon. Under the Sprinklr Marketing (Ads) tab, click Ads Composer within Execute.
On the Create an Ad Campaign window, select your Pinterest Ad account.
On the Campaign Details window, choose your Campaign Objective. For more information, see Campaign Objectives — Field Descriptions.
Enter a Campaign Name for your new Pinterest ad campaign.
Select a Sprinklr Campaign to measure your Organic and Paid Reach.
Define the Custom Properties as desired and click Next.
Campaign Objectives — Field Descriptions
Term | Description |
Brand Awareness | Help people discover your brand, products, and other services. |
Consideration | Increase your traffic to a destination on or off Pinterest. Budget and Scheduling options for the Traffic campaigns will be available at the Campaign level. |
Video Views | Drive views of your video. |
Conversions | Drive actions on your website. |
Create ads from your product catalog. |
Apply Audience Targeting
Select the Target Audiences that you would like to use or click Create new Audience to create your custom target audience. For more information on creating a new target audience for your Ad Campaign, see Create new Audience — Field Descriptions.
Once you have chosen your target audience, click Save Target Audience.
Tip Click the checkbox Expand your interests and keywords based on your Pin while creating a new audience. This feature helps you expand your audience based on the content of your pin and finds people that are more likely to engage with your Promoted Pins. |
Create New Audience — Field Descriptions
Term | Description | |
Name | Provide a name for your Pinterest Targeting. | |
Gender | Select for gender-specific targeting. | |
Location | Include a location filter to target users in a specific country or region. If you have selected a region, then, ZIP Code targeting will not be allowed and vice versa. Click the Import icon next to the Search Location field and enter semicolon-separated zip/postal codes for targeting through zip codes.
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Language | Select specific languages to target speakers. | |
Age | Select the age range(s) from the drop-down menu to target your audience based on age. The available age ranges are: 18-24, 21+ (required for age-restricted advertisement), 25-34, 35-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-64, and 65+ | |
Keywords | Apply keywords to target consumers. | |
Custom Audiences | Select from saved Custom Audiences. | |
Interests | Target your audience by interest. | |
Mobile | Target users by their device. | |
Save this Target Audience for Future | Click the checkbox to save your targeting for future use. |
Budget and Schedule
Enter the Budget Details of your campaign. You can set a Spend Cap and a Daily Spend Cap. Assign a Sprinklr Budget Source for your Paid Initiative and specify the Order Line for your campaign billing. For more information, refer to the table below.
Budget and Schedule — Field Descriptions
Terms | Description | |
Configure all Ad Groups individually | Select to apply individual configuration for your Ad Sets, if you have applied multiple targeting selections. | |
Enter the Budget details for Campaign | ||
Margin Entry Type | Select Automatic or Manual Entry as a margin entry type from the drop-down. | |
Automatic | Select Agency Margin from the drop-down if the automatic margin entry type is selected. | |
Manual Entry Type | Enter a manual agency margin if the manual entry type is selected. | |
Spend Cap | If set, the Paid Initiative will stop running once this amount has been spent. This amount is not exceeded during the life of the Paid Initiative. | |
Daily Spend Cap | If set, the Paid Initiative will stop running for the day once this amount has been spent. | |
Assign a Sprinklr Budget Source for your Paid Initiative | Select the Budget source for your paid initiative. | |
Order Line | Order Line is the campaign billing information that will automatically populate from your Pinterest account based on the billing details that you have entered. Note that it is mandatory to select an order line for Invoice billing type. | |
Budget Type (Traffic, Conversions, Awareness) | Select a Budget Type from:
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Daily/Lifetime Budget (Traffic, Conversions, Awareness) | Set the budget for your Campaign according to the budget type. | |
Start Date (Traffic, Conversions, Awareness) | Set a Start Date for your Campaign. | |
End Date (Traffic, Conversions, Awareness) | Set an End Date for your Campaign. | |
Change Timezone | Select the desired timezone for your campaign Start and End Date. | |
Enter the Budget & Schedule details for all Ad Groups | ||
Budget Type | Select a Budget Type from:
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Daily/Lifetime Budget | Set the budget for your Ad Group according to the budget type. | |
Frequency Cap | Enter a number in Frequency Capeither based on the data recommendation or the maximum number of times you want a user to view your Promoted Pin. | |
Start Date | Set a Start Date for your Ad Group. | |
End Date | Set an End Date for your Ad Group. | |
Change Timezone | Select the desired timezone for your Ad Group Start and End Date. | |
Enter the Placement details for all Ad Groups | ||
Enter the Placement details | Enter the Placement Details for your Ad Groups. You can choose from the following options :
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Enter the Bidding Details for all Ad Groups | ||
Ad group Target Interval (Brand Awareness) | Select Weekly or Monthly as the target interval for your Ad Group. | |
Ad group Target Frequency (Brand Awareness) | Enter the frequency between 2 - 20 at which your Ad Group will be targeted. | |
Attribution Window (Conversions) | Select a time period as the attribution window. | |
Pinterest Tag (Conversions) | Select a conversion tracking pixel from the drop-down menu. A conversion-tracking pixel is a small piece of code that lets you keep track of conversions, such as purchases and sign-ups, on your website. | |
Conversion Event (Conversions) | Select the conversion event against which you want to optimize your ad. | |
Bidding | Select a bidding type for your Ad Groups from the following:
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Bid Amount (If Bidding is Custom) | Enter a Bid Amount for your Ad Group. | |
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Pacing (If objective is Video Views) | Select pacing for your Ad Group from:
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Enter the Dayparting details for all Ad Groups | ||
Run ads all the time | Select to run your Ads every time. | |
Run ads on schedule | Select to run your Ads on a specific schedule. |
Select Creatives
On the Select Creatives window, select from the saved Pinterest creatives, or click Add New Creatives to craft new Ad Creatives.
Tip On editing a post from the Ads Manager, you can toggle Comment Permissions to give users control of public commenting. |
To Build a New Ad Creative
Under the Creative Header section, select Post Type from the drop-down menu. To create a Pinterest Carousel post, see Compose Pinterest Carousel Ads.
Under Creative Details, click Add to upload an image or video based on the post type. You can upload from the Asset Manager, Dynamic Image, URL, Media Valet, or your local drive.
Enter a name for your creative in the Creative Name field.
Select a board from the Board drop-down menu to which your Pins will be added. You can also create a new board by clicking Add New Board.
In order to fetch Pinterest pins from Protected Boards, please work with your Success Manager to have this enabled in your environment.
Select a Section to organize your pins within the board.
Enter the website URL you'd like to promote through a paid initiative in the Website URL field.
Enter a compelling Title for your pin. The first 30 characters in the title are what usually show up in the feeds and each title has a limit of 100 characters. On clicking Add another Title, a separate creative will be created for that title.
Provide a description of what you are promoting in the Description field. On clicking Add another Description, a separate creative will be created for that description.
In the Channel Preview pane to the right, you will have a full preview generated for your Pinterest ad creative. Click Save in the bottom-right corner to confirm your changes.
You can individually add or remove creatives from each Ad Set by selecting Configure creatives for each Ad Group individually.
Click Next.
Set up Advanced Configuration
In the Advanced Configuration window, you can view the ad entities in the left-hand side pane and make changes to individual ad properties.
At the Campaign level, click Configure DCM under Third Party Tracking to configure Google Campaign Manager. On the DCM Configuration window, fill in the details and click Save. For more information, see Google Campaign Manager Configuration — Field Descriptions.
At the Ad Variant level, you can click Copy to all alongside Destination Url field and select from the below options to copy the property to all other ad variants.
Copy to all Pin Promotions in this Ad Groups
Copy to all Pin Promotions all Ad Groups
You can also delete any Ad within an Ad Group by hovering over the Options icon alongside an ad and clicking Remove from Ad Group.
Tip Under Pin Promotion, you can select the box alongside Removable Pin. A removable pin promotion doesn’t have a save/repin button and therefore can’t be saved/repinned. This is great for advertisers that have sales or other time-based promotions and don’t want their advertisements to be saved and seen past the promotion end date. Please note that if you create a Promoted Pin as a regular pin and later update it to be "removable", the pins that have already been saved/repinned will not be modified, however, no future saving/repinning will be allowed. |
Google Campaign Manager Configuration — Field Descriptions
Terms | Description | |
Select Configuration | ||
Create New | Select to create a new Campaign Manager configuration. | |
Select Existing | Select to choose an existing Campaign Manager configuration. | |
DCM Profile Information | ||
Select User | Select the user for the Campaign Manager Configuration. | |
Select Advertiser | Select the desired advertiser from the drop-down. | |
DCM Name Convention | Select the Campaign Manager naming convention. | |
Placement Information | ||
Start Date | Select the start date for the placement. | |
End Date | Select the end date for the placement.
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Placement Site Url | Enter the URL for the placement site. | |
Placement Site Name | Enter a name for the placement site. | |
Placement Dimensions | ||
Placement Height | Enter the height for the placement. | |
Placement Width | Enter the width for the placement. | |
Placement Compatibility | Select the placement compatibility from the drop-down menu. | |
Placement Payment Source | Select the placement payment source from the drop-down menu. | |
Placement Pricing Type | Select the placement pricing type from the drop-down menu. | |
External ID | Enter the external ID for the placement. An external ID is any ID that you might use outside Google Campaign Manager to identify items in internal reports. | |
Targeting Information - DoubleClick Placement Mapping Level | ||
Paid Initiative | One DoubleClick Placement will be created, and every Ad Variant under the Social Campaign will be created as DoubleClick Ads under the DoubleClick Placement. For example, if a social campaign has 2 Ad Sets with 4 Ads under each Ad Set (8 Ad Variants Total), then selecting Paid Initiative as the Targeting Level will create 1 DoubleClick Placement with 0 DoubleClick Ads under it. | |
Ad Set | One DoubleClick Placement will be created for every Social Ad Set, and every Ad Variant under each specific Ad Set will be a DoubleClick Ad under the respective DoubleClick Placement. For example, if a social campaign has 3 Ad Sets with 2 Ads under each Ad Set (6 Ad Variants Total), then selecting Ad Set as the Targeting Level will create 3 DoubleClick Placements with 2 DoubleClick Ads under each. | |
Ad Variant | One DoubleClick Placement will be created for every Social Ad Variant, and every Ad Variant under each specific Ad Set will be a DoubleClick Ad under the respective DoubleClick Placement. For example, if a social campaign has 10 Ad Variants, then selecting Ad Variant as the Targeting Level will create 10 DoubleClick Placements with 1 DoubleClick Ad under each. |
Apply Strategy Groups
Automate the management of budget distribution, bidding, targeting, and creative rotation to achieve your optimization objective with a minimum cost per action using Strategy Groups. Learn more about Strategy Groups.
1. On the Configure your Campaign Optimization window, select one or more Strategy Group optimization(s) you want to apply to your campaign from the Strategy Group drop-down menu. Your selected Strategy Group(s) details will be displayed below.
2. If you want to create your Strategy Group from scratch and then apply it to your campaign, click Create New below the drop-down menu or Create New Strategy Group in the top-right corner of the drop-down (when a Strategy Group is selected). This will open up the Strategy Group creation pane alongside and you will not need to leave Ads Composer.
To learn more about creating a Strategy Group, see Create a Strategy Group.
2. Click Next to proceed to the Review section for scheduling and publishing your campaign.
Review and Publish Campaign
In the Review window, you can review all details for the Paid Initiative, Ad Sets, and Ad Variants, including the basic details for your Campaign, Ad Set Targeting, Placements, Duration & Bidding, and all Ad Set Creatives.
Tip Click Back in the Ads Composer to make any changes to Campaign Details, Targeting, Budget & Scheduling, or Creatives. |
Hover over Publish in the bottom right corner and select Publish to immediately publish your Ad Campaign on Pinterest, Publish as Paused to publish without activating it, or select Send for Approval to send your newly composed campaign to a reviewer.
FAQs
Pinterest Ads will sync into Sprinklr within 15 minutes.