Description

When using this bid strategy,, cpc is used as a fixed bid. This is a manual bidding strategy that leaves future bid optimizations in your hands.

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Details

cpc cannot be null.

You can adjust the campaign-level bid by updating cpc.

You can tweak a given site-level bid (relative to the campaign-level bid) using the publisher_bid_modifier field.

For detailed information, see the Help Center: Setting Your Bid Strategy: Fixed Bid

Examples

The examples below illustrate how to create or update a campaign to use a bid_strategy of "FIXED".

Guidelines for fields

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The following fields are required

cpc

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Default for new CPC campaigns
If you create a new campaign with a cpc, but without a bid_strategy, then bid_strategy defaults to "FIXED".

Example - Create campaign

POST /backstage/api/1.0/{user.example_advertiser_id}/campaigns/ HTTP/1.1
Host: backstage.taboola.com 
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

{
   "name": "Fixed CPC Campaign",
   "branding_text": "branding",
   "cpc": 0.25,
   "spending_limit": 1000,
   "spending_limit_model": "MONTHLY",
   "bid_strategy": "FIXED",  
   "marketing_objective": "DRIVE_WEBSITE_TRAFFIC"
}

{
    "id": 1234,
    "advertiser_id": "{user.example_advertiser_id}",
    "name": "Fixed CPC Campaign",
    "branding_text": "branding",
    "cpc": 0.25,
    "spending_limit": 1000.0,
    "spending_limit_model": "MONTHLY",  
    "bid_strategy": "FIXED",  
    "marketing_objective": "DRIVE_WEBSITE_TRAFFIC"
    ...
}

Example - Update campaign

POST /backstage/api/1.0/{user.example_advertiser_id}/campaigns/1235 HTTP/1.1
Host: backstage.taboola.com 
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

{
    "bid_strategy": "FIXED",
    "cpc": 0.25  
}

{
    "id": 1235,
    "advertiser_id": "{user.example_advertiser_id}",
    "name": "Fixed CPC Campaign",
    "branding_text": "branding",
    "cpc": 0.25,
    "spending_limit": 1000.0,
    "spending_limit_model": "MONTHLY",  
    "bid_strategy": "FIXED",  
    "marketing_objective": "DRIVE_WEBSITE_TRAFFIC"
    ...
}