Creating Custom Ads

How to create custom ad types in your balloting platform

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Written by Lauren Hurlock
Updated over a week ago

Sell custom ads through self-serve by making a few easy settings changes.

To add custom ad types:

  • Sign in to your best of account

  • In navigation, go to Advertising

  • On the Advertising setup page, click settings

  • In settings, look for the header “Enable Ballot Sales Portal”

    • If not already turned on, click the radio button to do so.

  • Scroll down to “Custom Ads” and click the “+ ADD CUSTOM AD” button

  • A form will pop up:

    • Title Override: name your custom ad

    • Ad Image: appears next to the custom ad in the self service portal, helps distinguish between different custom ad types

    • Description: tell advertisers what exactly they’ll be getting

    • Max sales limit: the amount of inventory for that item you have

    • Price: set the price with just numbers, no dollar signs or commas

  • Once you fill out the form to your satisfaction, click save

  • The form pop up will close

  • Hit save again at the bottom to save all of the changed settings - the item will not appear until you’ve hit the final save button

  • Use the “buy link” to send advertisers directly to the portal to check out

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