Advertising Requirements

Ads served by Yandex.Direct should, first and foremost, conform to Yandex Advertising Requirements (https://yandex.com/legal/general_adv_rules_ch). Present requirements shall not apply to the Smart banner.

Your Advertisement should consist of*:

  • headline (limited to 33 characters including spaces and punctuation);

  • text (limited to 75 characters including spaces and punctuation);

  • URL link and/or contact information.

The Advertisement's headline and text should be grammatically correct and free of spelling errors. The keywords, to which the ad will be displayed, or catalogue categories, where the ad will be placed, should match the ad's content.

URL link in the ad should match its content and should function properly. You cannot use IP-address for domain name.

The contact information should be valid and correct, and the telephone information should not differ from the information in the ad.

The headline, the text, or the URL link cannot not contain:

  • spaces between letters in w o r d s and uppercase words, with the exception of abbreviations, which consist of the first capital letters of several words (USSR, CIS etc);

  • telephone number, e-mail, mailing address or instant messaging number;

  • HTML code

Trying to place a large number of identical ads (ads with identical texts, URLs, keywords), even if through different advertising campaigns, is considered as spam. These ads will be rejected at any stage of advertising campaign.

*Whenever the Ad Serving Rules (https://yandex.com/legal/direct_display_rules_ch) allow to perform an Impression of an ad containing a graphic image (hereinafter – “image”), provided by the advertiser as a part of the ad, the Image should comply with the respective technical requirements (i.e., the size, file format, etc.) specified in the client web interface, as well as the requirements below:

1. The image should be legible and of high quality and should not contain any compression artifacts (any upsampled or interpolated images obtained from lower resolution images are not accepted).

2. The ad image should correspond to the title /text of advertising, web-page content containing an advertising offer. The ad image should satisfy current Russian legislation including advertising legislation, Yandex advertising requirements, in particular the advertising policy requirements.

3. The image should not contain:

  • graphical elements of the user interface (e.g. buttons, cursors, text links) or elements of the Yandex design;

  • text in any form, except for: (a) words «promotion», «sale», «bargain/clearance sale» and other similar words when the information about them is contained in the text of the ad and on the site containing the advertising offer; (b) name of the product and/or trademark if such name and/or trademark are incorporated into the package of the product;

  • products or other attributes of the advertiser competitors.

4. The image should not contain any solid fill (i.e. one-color parts) occupying over 20% of the entire image and/or any empty spaces displaying no image components.

5. Сompanies logotypes and watermarks shall not be present as the sole object on the Image.

Please, note:

Yandex Europe AG reserves the right to reject any advertisement at post moderation stage of advertising campaign without stating the reason.

Date of publication: 01.12.2015.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/19102015.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/22062015.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/30042014.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/06032014.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/24102013.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/20032013.

Previous version of the document: https://yandex.com/legal/direct_adv_rules_ch/20092011.