Campaigns

Campaigns are the core feature of Cheetah Digital, as they are the mechanism by which you will contact and engage with your customers.

The details of how you build a Campaign vary depending on the marketing Channel that you're utilizing, but generally speaking, the process consists of first defining the creative content of your marketing message. Next, you select the audience of intended recipients. Third, you audit the Campaign to verify that the content appears as you intend. And lastly, you schedule and deploy the Campaign.

Within that basic sequence of steps, the platforms offers a wide range of features and options designed to help you create the most effective and efficient marketing Campaign possible. Some of these features are applicable to any channel, and some are specific to only certain Channels.

Access

The Campaign screen is accessible by the following method:

  • From the Main menu, select Production > Campaigns.

Campaign Management

The Campaign management features are described below:

Create a New Campaign

To create a new Campaign:

Copy a Campaign

An existing Campaign can be copied, or duplicated, to use as the basis for a new Campaign. The new Campaign will have the same source table, channel, content, etc. as the original Campaign.

View or Edit a Campaign

To view or edit an existing Campaign:

Delete a Campaign

When you delete a Campaign, the system moves it from its current location into the Recycling Bin, where it can optionally be restored if needed. If the selected Campaign is stored in a folder to which you don't have the proper access privileges, you won't be able to delete that Campaign.

Run Pick Up Changes

The Pick Up Changes feature allows you to make modifications to a launched Campaign. These changes will then be applied to all un-sent messages.

Do Not Track Compliance 

To comply with recipient preference and evolving privacy regulations, you can turn off the receipient tracking option in an Email or SMS campaign, AB tests, Cells and Split campaigns, or individual cells within a Cells and Split campaign. Please ask your Marigold Representative to get this feature enabled in your Cheetah Digital. To ensure complete Data Privacy, once tracking is turned off for a designated campaign or cell, no open or click data will be collected or reported.

Note: You can turn off the tracking, only before the campign has been sent. 

To Turn Recipient Tracking Off in a Campaign:

  1. In the Campaign Toolbar, select More Actions > Turn Tracking Off. A Confirmation Dialogbox is displayed.

  2. Click Save & Confirm, to turn the tracking off in the campaign. This will only turn off tracking in a copy of a campaign, which is being sent exclusively to a filtered group of recipients who have asked to not be tracked.

When the Tracking is turned OFF, the LInk Tracking settings in the Content tab is not availble for editing. For cells and splits or AB Tests, when the tracking is switched off at the parent campaign, it is cascaded to all child cells. You cannot turn it back on once it is turned off. 

Change Campaign Status

From the Campaigns screen, you can change the status of one or more Campaigns simultaneously. These features are described below:  

Approve Sending

The Pre-Launch Review section of the Campaign screen allows you to set define which launch steps require manual review and approval before the platform can proceed to the next step. If you selected any of these options, you'll need to approve that step before the launch process can continue.

Unapprove (Pause) Sending

The platform allows you to set optional “approval” checkpoints during the launch process. These checkpoints are displayed on the Campaign Launch screen, and are generally intended to be used during the initial launch of the Campaign, so you can review audit statistics of a launch step. When you approve that step, the platform then proceeds to the next step.

Suspend / Resume a Campaign

When you suspend a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you suspending it.

Stop a Campaign

When you stop a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. Any messages currently in the queue at the moment you click Stop are recorded, and the platform will retain history of the fact that these messages were “queued but not sent.” The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you stopping it.

Cancel a Campaign

When you cancel a Campaign, the system immediately stops queueing messages, and stops sending messages. Any messages currently in the queue at the moment you click Cancel are removed, and the platform doesn’t retain any history of the fact that these messages were “queued but not sent.” The platform will continue to collect activity data (opens, clicks, etc.) on any records deployed prior to you canceling it.

Other Options

Other options available from the Campaigns screen are described below:

Edit Campaign Metadata

Cheetah Digital offers the ability to tag Campaigns with custom Metadata fields and values. These Metadata fields allow you to create Filters that look for specific Metadata tags in them, or for use in reports, future Campaigns, or to personalize Campaign content. For more information on defining Metadata fields, please see Metadata Settings

Export System Identifiers

Cheetah Digital allows you to export a file containing the Object ID and Object Reference ID of one or more Campaigns. To create this export file: