Placement of social ads by commercial organizations

  1. Available formats
  2. Launching a campaign
  3. Ad moderation
  4. Payment and campaign start
  5. Requirements and restrictions
  6. Have questions?

Available formats

You can place social ads in the following formats:
  • Banner in ad networks: Targeting the desired audience in the Yandex Advertising Network. Setting up social ad impressions based on important user characteristics. For more information, see Display banners.
  • Video ads: Impressions on the Yandex Video Network's verified partners (for example, using InStream videos, OutStream content, or Interstitial in-app ads). For more information, see Video Ads.
  • Text & Image Ads: Impressions in ad networks on desktop browsers, tablets, and mobile phones. For more information, see Text & Image ads.
  • Display banner on a new Yandex Browser tab. Such banners are seen by millions of users every day. For more information, see Banner on a new Yandex Browser tab.
Restriction.

Social ads can't be placed on Yandex search. Impressions on search will be restricted during moderation.

The ads are labeled with a “Social ad” icon. Information about advertisers and social ads will be openly published in the Social advertising report.



Launching a campaign

Before placing social ads, please read the moderation requirements for ads and advertised sites, as well as Social advertising requirements.

The procedure for launching an ad campaign depends on the selected format:

Step 1. Start creating a campaign and configure its parameters

Click Add → Campaign. Select your advertising goals:

  • In the Campaign Wizard, click Recognition and reach.
  • In the expert mode, click Reach in Yandex Advertising Network.

Enter the campaign name and link to the advertised site. Make settings:

  1. Specify the start and end date of the campaign. The campaigns are placed strictly by calendar week, so make sure that the campaign starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. The campaign dates can't be after the product validity dates.

    If you want to serve ads at a specific time, configure time targeting under Impression schedule.

  2. Specify the Yandex Metrica tag on your website.

  3. Select an ad strategy.

    Some of the information will be filled in automatically. Check it and change it as necessary. More about main ad campaign parameters.

You can also cap impression frequency to limit how many times your campaign ads can be served to the same user.

Step 2. Create an ad group and set up the targeting criteria
  1. Select banners as the ad type.

    All the ads in an ad group must be the same type, although a campaign can include all types of ads. You can't change the ad type after saving an ad group.

  2. Set the ad display regions.
  3. Set up targeting criteria.

    Ads from display campaigns are only served in the Yandex Advertising Network based on keywords, user profiles, or genres and subjects. You can only select one type of impression criteria per ad group. You cannot change the type of impression criteria after you save the ad group.

    User profile

    A user profile consists of the cumulative characteristics of the users that you want to serve your ads to. These include gender, age, and online interests. Determine what your particular audience looks like and create a profile based on that data.

    Keywords

    Keywords determine the site content and user interests that may trigger your ad impressions in the Yandex Advertising Network. For example, an ad for an animal shelter might be displayed on a site with tips on animal care or to a user interested in purchasing a pet.

    Genres and subjects

    Ads are served on the Advertising Network sites with the selected subjects or instream videos of the specified genres and subjects. For example, an ad for a forest protection organization will be displayed on a nature-related page.

    Check how many users may see ads from a particular group using the reach forecast.

    Note. If you have selected an automatic strategy and targeting based on user profiles, go to the strategy settings after you have saved the ad group. The average price recommendation will be updated based on the size of creatives and impression criteria. This will ensure efficient budget spending over the period.
Step 3. Add creatives

Upload the ad creative from your computer or create one in Ad Builder. You can use an HTML5 banner or image file as a creative.

To pass moderation, creatives must meet the requirements.

Create using Ad Builder

An adaptive creative automatically adapts to the ad block so you can serve your ad on the maximum number of sites. In the Ad Builder, you can automatically generate a creative based on your site content or build it from a template, adjusting the design parameters as needed.

If you have creatives for image ads that you made previously using Ad Builder, you can use them.

More information about Ad Builder.

Upload from computer

You can add multiple ads to an ad group, with each ad corresponding to a single creative.

An ad creative uploaded from a computer must meet the technical requirements:

Maximum file size 150 KB
File type

ZIP (for HTML5 banners)

Technical requirements for HTML5 banners

JPG, PNG or GIF (for images)
Size in pixels 160×600, 240×400, 240×600, 300×250, 300×300, 300×500, 300×600, 320×50, 320×100, 320×480, 336×280, 480×320, 728×90, 970×250, 1000×120
Maximum file size 150 KB
File type

ZIP (for HTML5 banners)

Technical requirements for HTML5 banners

JPG, PNG or GIF (for images)
Size in pixels 160×600, 240×400, 240×600, 300×250, 300×300, 300×500, 300×600, 320×50, 320×100, 320×480, 336×280, 480×320, 728×90, 970×250, 1000×120

After you have saved your ad, you can only replace the creative with another creative of the same size. An adaptive creative can be replaced with another adaptive creative.

Step 4. Enter a Yandex Audience pixel and impression tag
You can use the Yandex Audience pixel to develop different scenarios of connecting with your display ad audience. The pixel is special code embedded in your advertising materials.

Create a pixel in Yandex Audience. For more information, see Yandex Audience Help.

Add the pixel code to the banner. After the impressions begin, the pixel starts to collect anonymous identifiers of users who have seen your ad. You can use this data when you set up your retargeting.

You can use the ADFOX tag or Yandex Metrica pixel to count ad impressions for display ads. The tag or pixel must include the %random% macro. They must also support HTTPS.