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Intro

Adobe Advertising Cloud is used to plan, buy, measure and optimize global advertising. To learn more about the Adobe Advertising Cloud API, reach out to your account representative for documentation. You connect to your Adobe Advertising Cloud account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the Adobe Advertising Cloud connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.

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Prerequisites

To connect to your Adobe Advertising Cloud account and create a DataSet, you must have the following:
  • Your Client ID
  • Your Client secret
To find your credentials, do the following:
  1. Click on the dropdown menu next to your login name on the top right.
  2. Select My Account.
The API credentials will be in the grey box under Account Details.

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Connecting to your Adobe Advertising Cloud account

This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the Adobe Advertising Cloud Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.

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Credentials pane

This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your Adobe Advertising Cloud account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:

Field

Description

Client ID

Enter your Adobe Advertising Cloud Client ID.

Client Secret

Enter your Adobe Advertising Cloud Client Secret.

For information about obtaining these credentials, see “Prerequisites,” above. Once you have entered valid Adobe Advertising Cloud credentials, you can use the same account any time to create a new Adobe Advertising Cloud DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Manage Connector/Adapter Accounts.

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Details Pane

This pane contains a primary Reports menu, along with various other menus which may or may not appear depending on the report type you select.

Menu

Description

Report

Select the Adobe Advertising Cloud report you want to run. The following reports are available:

Report Name

Description

Ads Reporting By Campaign

Fetches the reporting information for all ads of the selected campaigns.

Campaigns Reporting

Fetches the reporting for all campaigns in your account, aggregated over the specified date range or by day. Note that the data will only be returned for campaigns that were live in the given date range.

Placements Reporting By Campaign

Fetches the reporting information for all placements of the selected campaigns.

Advertiser Name

Select the advertiser you want to retrieve data for.

Bucket By

Select how you want your report data to be aggregated.

Campaign Name

Select the campaign you want to retrieve data for.

Duration

Select whether you want to pull data for a specific date or a date range.

Report Date

Select whether the report data is for a specific date or for a relative number of days back from today.

Select Specific Date

Select the date for the report.

Days Back

Enter the number of past days that should appear in the report.

Start Date

Specify whether the first date in your date range is a specific or relative date. You select the last date in your range in End Date .

End Date

Specify whether the second date in your date range is a specific or relative date. You select the first date in your range in Start Date .

Select Specific Start Date

Select the first date in your date range.

Select Specific End Date

Select the second date in your date range.

Days Back to Start From

Enter the number of the farthest day back that should be represented in the report. Combine with Days Back to End At to create a range of represented days.

For example, if you entered 10 for Days Back to Start From and 5 for Days Back to End At , the report would contain data for 10 days ago up until 5 days ago.

Days Back to End At

Enter the number of the most recent day back that should be represented in the report. Combine with Days Back to Start From to create a range of represented days.

For example, if you entered 10 for Days Back to Start From and 5 for Days Back to End At , the report would contain data for 10 days ago up until 5 days ago.

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Other Panes

For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Connector.