Adsterra as a Traffic Source

Adsterra is a performance-focused ad network that reaches a global audience. They offer various ad formats, cost models and verticals for you to choose from. Read the following guide to learn how to use their traffic and track it with Voluum.

Caution

Voluum Note: Adsterra has several signup options available. If you sign up as an affiliate, you will get access to Adsterra affiliate network. This guide requires you to sign up as advertiser to use Adsterra as a traffic source.

You can also use Adsterra's campaign tour: https://partners.adsterra.com/campaign/request?product_tour_id=173713

Danger

Integration available

The following document describes the setup for the basic template integration. However, this traffic source can be integrated via a reliable API connection thanks to the Automizer feature. This enables accurate cost tracking, campaign management from the Voluum dashboard and rule creation.

If you want to fully integrate this traffic source with Voluum, read the Adsterra Full Integration article first.

Before You Start

Before reading this guide, there are some things that you need to have prepared. These things are:

An active Voluum account.
An active Adsterra account.
An offer to promote.
Optionally, a landing page.

Having everything ready will allow you to set a working campaign funnel as you read.

I. Get a Traffic Source Postback URL

We start with getting a traffic source postback URL from Adsterra. It is a link that allows Voluum to pass information about conversion to Adsterra. This link should be submitted during a campaign setup process in Voluum. It is an optional step, so if you do not want to share this information with Adsterra, go to part 2 of this guide.

In order to get a traffic source postback URL, perform the following steps:

In Adsterra, click the icon in the top left corner of the screen.
Select the Tracking and then the Conversions options from the menu on the left.
In the Conversion tracking view, select the postback type by selecting an appropriate radio button. You can select to generate simple psotback, simple postback with a payout information or postback for a different currency.
Select Voluum as a tracking system.
Click the Generate postback button.
Click the button to copy the link to the clipboard.

With the traffic source postback URL stored in your clipboard, you can go to the next part of this guide.

II. Create a Campaign in Voluum

In this part, you have to create a complete campaign funnel in Voluum. This will provide you with a campaign URL that you will submit to Adsterra. In order to create a campaign in Voluum, perform the following steps:

Create an offer element. Read the Add an Offer to Voluum article to learn how to do that.
(Optionally) Create a lander element. Read the Add a Lander Element article to learn more.
Create a traffic source element. In this step, you will have to create a traffic source element and provide Adsterra's tracking tokens there, so information passed in a campaign URL will be correctly recognized by Voluum. Read further to learn how to do that:
1. In Voluum, go to Traffic sources.
2. Click the Create button and select the Traffic source option from the drop-down menu.
3. Select the Adsterra template.
4. Click the Next button.
5. Paste the copied traffic source postback URL in the Traffic source postback URL text field.
6. Click the Save button.
Create a campaign.
In Voluum, go to Campaigns, click the Create button and select the Campaign Simple or Campaign Advanced option from the drop-down menu.
1. Provide basic campaign information.
  1. In the New Campaign form on the GENERAL tab provide the name of your campaign in the Campaign name text field.
  2. (Optional) If you have the Workspaces feature enabled on your account, select the Private Workspace that you want this campaign to be assigned to from the drop-down menu. Read the Workspaces: Overview article to learn more.
  3. Select the Adsterra traffic source that you have just created from the drop-down menu.
  4. Select a cost model and provide a cost value. Because Adsterra does not support passing information about cost in a token, the Auto option will not work. If you want to learn more about tracking cost, read the Tracking Costs article.
  5. Click the Next button.
2. Provide traffic destination information.
  1. In the DESTINATION tab select the campaign destination type radio button.
  2. Select the offer and lander elements that you have created. Read the Set Flows and Paths article to learn more.
  3. Click the Save button.
3. Copy the campaign URL by clicking the Copy button.

You have successfully created a campaign in Voluum. You can go to the final part of this guide to learn how to set up a campaign in Adsterra.

III. Create a Campaign in Adsterra

The last part of this guide is focused around creating a campaign in Adsterra. In order to create it, perform the following steps:

In Adsterra, in the Dashboard view, click the create a new one button.
In the Create campaign view provide the name of your campaign in the Campaign name text field.
Select the cost model that you are going to use.
Paste the copied campaign URL into the Landing URL text field.
Select a country that you want to advertise your offer in from the Country drop-down menu.
Provide your bid value for a selected country and click the Add button.
(Optional) For some ad types you need to upload your creative (an image that will be displayed to your visitors). For other types you do not need a creative, because your landing page will be your creative. Click the Upload creative button and select an image file. Click the Upload icon button and select an icon image file. Provide a title and a description of your ad.
Set other options in the General tab according to your needs.
(Optional) Set options in the Targeting, Capping % limits, and Advanced settings tabs.
Click the Submit button. The Check campaign settings view will appear.
Verify campaign settings and click the Submit button.
Your campaign has been submitted and now is pending verification.

Wait for your campaign to be approved. Once it is approved it will either start running, be inactive or wait for a scheduled moment - depending on what you have set in the campaign's setup process.

Adsterra Tracking Tokens

Token	Description
##SUB_ID_SHORT(action)##	Click ID
##ZONE_ID##	Zone ID
##DEVICE_BRAND##	Device brand
##BANNER_ID##	Banner ID
##USER_OS##	OS
##REMOTE_COUNTRY##	Country
##USER_CITY##	City
##USER_CARRIER##	Carrier
##USERAGENT##	User agent
##REMOTE_LANGUAGE##	Language
##PLACEMENT_ID##	Placement ID

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