Creative Tokens
Overview
In Adgebra’s ad serving platform, adgebra provides a dynamic token replacement feature that allows advertisers to pass tracking or contextual information through their Landing Page URLs (LPUs) or ad copy headlines. This is useful for campaign analytics, attribution, personalization, and downstream tracking.
Advertisers can insert predefined tokens in the Landing Page URL of the ad copy. When the ad is rendered and clicked, Adgebra automatically replaces these tokens with actual values related to the ad request, click, or user context.
Purpose of Token Replacement
Campaign & Creative Tracking: Identify the exact campaign, creative, and placement responsible for the traffic.
User Context Personalization: Pass user-specific data such as IP, location, or device type for personalization or attribution.
Performance Analytics: Enable accurate reporting of bid prices, conversion IDs, or referral sources.
How It Works
Token Insertion: While creating the ad copy in adding the LPU, the advertiser inserts tokens in the URL or content.
Ad Rendering & Click: When a user views the ad, tokens remain untouched. When the user clicks, tokens in the LPU are dynamically replaced at runtime.
Redirection: The user is redirected to the landing page with actual values substituted in the URL.
Supported Tokens
Token
Description
Example Value
${placement}
Placement or site name where the ad is served.
ONIN_oneindia.com_Web
${creativeId}
Unique ID of the creative being served.
12345
${campaignId}
Campaign ID to identify the campaign.
7890
${brandId}
Brand ID associated with the ad.
456
${refURL}
Referrer URL or source page URL from where the ad was clicked.
https://www.example.com/article
${IP}
User's IP address at the time of the click.
192.168.1.10
${Price}
Actual bid price (cpc) associated with the campaign at click time.
2.50
${langId}
Language name of the creative ad copy.
Hindi
${ConvId}
Unique Conversion ID generated for click tracking.
IID_123421212222455
${location}
User’s geo-location (city or region). Can be used in LPU or ad headline.
Mumbai
${device}
Device type from which the click occurred. Possible values: Desktop
, Mobile
Mobile
Example Use Case
Landing Page URL Before Replacement:
https://www.example.com/landing?camp=${campaignId}&crid=${creativeId}&plc=${placement}&ip=${IP}&price=${Price}&city=${location}&dev=${device}
Landing Page URL After Replacement:
https://www.example.com/landing?camp=7890&crid=12345&plc=ONIN_oneindia.com_web&ip=192.168.1.10&price=0.0250&city=Mumbai&dev=Mobile
Use in Ad Copy Headline (Location Token)
Advertisers can personalize headlines using ${location}
token.
Example:
Headline Setup:
Best Offers in ${location} - Shop Now!
Rendered Headline (User in Pune):
Best Offers in Pune - Shop Now!
Notes
Case Sensitivity: Tokens are case-sensitive. Use exactly as specified.
Encoding: All replaced values are URL-encoded to ensure safe transmission.
Fallbacks: If a value is unavailable, the token will be replaced with an empty string unless a fallback mechanism is set in the platform (optional).
Security: Sensitive data, like IP, is shared based on compliance and agreements with the publisher/advertiser.
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