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adCenter spring upgrade: reporting updates

This past weekend the adCenter team upgraded the user interface to add some features to make it easier for customers to manage their adCenter campaigns. In our last post, we covered campaign management changes; today I wanted to share changes to the reporting section of adCenter.

When you visit the Report Center, you'll see a list of your most recent 20 reports along with an auto-updated status column so you can keep tabs as reports are created and know as soon as they're ready.

We've simplified the report creation process to make it easier to create and customize reports to help you keep a close eye on your performance and adjust your campaigns as needed. We've also made changes to available date range changes to include:

  • New options, including "today", as requested by customers.
  • The date range now defaults to "last month", or choose a different time period from the drop-down.

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The report display page includes 2 enhancements to help you when viewing your data:

  • Mouse over column headings in your report tables to view additional information.
  • Longer bits of text—such as destination URLs—are now abbreviated in the display to allow for easier scanning. To view the full text, mouse over the text.

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For more information, please see What's New with adCenter on advertising.microsoft.com and be sure to let us know what you think of these changes over in the discussion forum for advertisers.

adCenter spring upgrade: campaign management updates

Over the weekend the adCenter team performed an upgrade to the user interface. Here are some details about some of the features you'll be seeing when you log in, some of which came about due to feedback from our customers.

One request we've heard from you is to add performance totals to the data tables throughout adCenter – so we redesigned these tables to provide this information. You're now able to see total impressions and clicks of your campaigns, ad groups, ads, and keywords to help you quickly see if elements of your campaigns could use some adjustment.

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Some tables dynamically display totals for your Search Ads and Content Ads campaigns as well:

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We've also added more date range filters to these tables, so you can quickly scan your performance from a variety of time periods, including "today", "last 7 days", "last 3 months", "last year", etc.

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You'll see changes in the campaign management area, specifically the campaign and ad groups setting pages. We've heard feedback from customers that it took too many clicks to complete tasks in adCenter, so we've streamlined these pages – you can now update your campaign settings on one page. This allows you to more easily pause or resume your campaigns, change your campaign budget settings, track conversions, and apply campaign negative keywords in a single convenient location.

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Similarly, we've consolidated ad group settings into one page to make managing your ad group settings more convenient. We have also added the functionality of negative keywords at the ad group level. This option a provides a more granular setting from entering the negative keywords at the campaign level, and a more broad setting from entering negative keywords at the keyword level.

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Be sure to let us know what you think of these changes over in the discussion forum for advertisers. Stay tuned tomorrow for a recap of adCenter reporting updates.

 
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