An ad alert is an automated email report that provides visibility of competitive advertising activity across your current subscription. You can create an ad alert from the Dashboard.
What is the frequency of these alerts?
You can customize your report to be delivered:
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Note, dashboard alerts kick-off at 9:00 a.m. ET daily. The timing is different from Legacy Search ad alerts.
What are the available report formats?
Excel - XLS
PowerPoint - PPT
Zip File
Steps to create an ad alert?
You can only create an ad alert from any saved search.
Once your search is saved:
Select the Bell Icon then complete the alert frequency
If you selected daily as your frequency, your ad alert will be delivered starting the next day.
Select the format of your ad alert, then select confirm
You have now successfully created your Ad Alert (scheduled export)
From your ad alert, view the ads in the platform.
Your saved search based on your alert email will pre-populate and the ads in your alert will be available in the dashboard.
Pro Tips:
When creating new ad alerts in the platform, set the date range as 'last 7 days' to ensure all recent creatives are captured.
When you setup an alert using 'last 7 days,' the first ad alert you will receive will contain all creatives matching the criteria in the last 7 days and then you will receive subsequent daily ad alerts that include only new breaking creatives that match your saved search criteria moving forward
Users who receive forwarded ad alerts will not be able to use the hyperlinks to access the platform, they are user-specific hyperlinks. If a user does not receive their own ad alerts, we suggest they set up their own ad alert or reach out to Support for assistance via Live Chat or customersupport@mediaradar.com.
There is a creative thumbnail limit of 100 thumbnails for ad alerts, meaning if your alert contains more than 100 ads, only 100 thumbnails will show. The summary table at the top of the Ad Alert has NO LIMIT - if you have more than 100 ads in your ad alert they will all be listed in the summary table.