In Discovery Commerce under automation, Bulk upload is an option where you can create a new campaign or update existing campaigns for any media platform (Meta, DV360, Google, TikTok, etc.) via Excel upload.
For any custom template, you need to communicate the requirement with Shopalyst. Once these requirements are fully understood, the Shopalyst team will proceed to implement the template within the Shopalyst Ad platform and readily available for use.
Let's begin the process of creating a bulk upload campaign. Bulk upload campaigns
1. To upload your media plan, navigate to the "plan upload" screen in the "ads builder" and click on the "upload media plan" button.
2. Select the Media platform (Facebook, Google, TikTok, etc.) that you have planned to take your campaign live and the campaign template from the screen and download the template, as given in the following screengrab.
3. To upload a media plan into Shopalyst you can choose either of the two ways for input- file upload in xlsx format or simply copying the shareable URL of your Google sheet and paste it into the designated field. You need to give access to below email ID
programmaticadbuying@programmaticadbuying.iam.gserviceaccount.com
before submitting the request to ensure data has been retrieved seamlessly. Our system will retrieve the data and import it into our platform automatically.
4. For uploading media plan on Meta. Here are the instructions to publish your campaigns. Click here to learn more about uploading your media plan on DV360.
5. The upload template contains two tabs: "Instructions" and "Data Input Sheet." Review the instructions in the sheet carefully before updating the template. To ensure a successful upload, ensure that all mandatory fields are filled in.
6. Once you have filled out the template, upload the sheet and click "submit". It will redirect to plan upload screen.
7.Click on the action button to preview the campaign details, where you can also download the original input sheet and review planned metrics values such as impressions, reach, and CPM.
8. Review the status under the plan upload screen, to know more about the various status icon values based on their state can be viewed below:
| Status | Color | Description |
| Saved |  | The campaign has been created and not yet published. |
| Queued |  | One of the campaign actions (like publish, reserve audience, etc) is in queue,waiting for completion. |
| Publish failed |  | The upload process has been failed. |
| Campaign published in platform |  | The campaign is published and live on the platform. |
| Campaign inactive in platform |  | The campaign is inactive on the platform due to one of the possible reasons:
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9.The estimated time of completion can be viewed by hovering the mouse over the status icon.
10. Upon completion of this process, you will receive a notification in the top-right corner of the application, as illustrated below:
11. The Final step to activate the campaign is to publish them, and here are the instructions to publish your campaigns.
Notes:
- To identify errors that may have caused a failed upload, follow the steps provided here.
- To place an ad campaign on Meta click here.
If you wish to make changes to your current Google Ads campaign click here.
Looking for more help? Instructions to reach out to support are here.