Display strategies for smart banners
You choose the intended result of your strategy and set your budget and bid limits for the entire campaign or per filter. After the campaign is launched, bids are automatically selected to achieve the best results and meet the criteria you set.
You can choose a display strategy on your campaign settings page. You can choose only one strategy to apply to all of the ads in the campaign.
How strategies work
All Yandex Direct strategies are based on a special mathematical algorithm that forecasts clicks on your ad and conversions on your site.
Forecasts are formulated by the hour for every day of the week. That way, you can see what correlations exist between the number of impressions, clicks, and targeted events in relation to the time of day/day of week. The forecast is regularly re-calculated using the latest data during the placement process.
In order to manage bids as effectively as possible, the strategies make adjustments to ad campaigns far more frequently than you could do manually or with the help of third-party ad management tools.
Protection from overspending is built into the strategies by default. The system cannot spend more than 35% of your weekly budget in one day. Your daily spending is mostly under 35% of your weekly budget. A bid never exceeds 10% of the weekly budget. If impressions are restricted due to time targeting, the system will only distribute your budget on the days when your campaign is running. In that case, no more than 35% of your weekly budget can be spent in a day.
How to use strategies effectively
- General recommendations
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To achieve the best results, the system conducts a detailed set of calculations that are used to optimize your settings regularly. For this reason, it's important to give the system some time to work everything out. In most cases this takes a few weeks.
- Setting limits
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In order to find the optimal balance between price and quantity, the system needs space to experiment. This means that the fewer unnecessary limits you set, the better your chosen strategy will work.
Try to make appropriate settings and don't underestimate your average CPC.
If user activity on your site changes quickly for reasons not directly related to your selected strategy, it may take time to recalibrate, and the limitations you set might not be maintained. This might occur if you update the design of your site or change your targeting.
Strategy relaunch
After relaunching a strategy , the system always recalculates indicators, so that it can create a new forecast and select the best bids. The age of data is factored into the compiled statistics: newer data bears greater “weight”. If the strategy was not in effect more than 28 calendar days before relaunching, the statistics will be reset.
Strategies relaunch when the following occur:
- Strategy change
- Changing the value of the “Cost capping” option
- Adding, changing, or deleting conversions
- Changing attribution model (for example, enabling or disabling the “Cross-device” option)
- Changing the payment model: Per click or Per conversion
- Stopping a campaign for more than seven days.
Internal mechanisms allow the system to readjust quickly, but it still requires some time to put together a new forecast. Your daily expense limit might be exceeded on the day the strategy is relaunched.
