Octane11 Creative Tagging Guide

Follow the steps provided for each platform when generating and implementing Octane11 impression and click tags to your creatives.

Creative Tag Generation - Best Practices

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Why Use Octane11 Creative Tags?

Use this tool to generate 3rd party impression and click trackers to maximize account signal reported for your paid media channels (e.g., The Trade Desk, DV360, Yahoo! Ads, Direct Publishers, etc.)

Octane11 Creative Tag Generation Best Practices


✅ Select the Channel in which your creative will run

     ❗For Channels / Partners not listed in (e.g., Direct Publishers, etc), please reach out to your Octane11 Account Manager for tag creation. 

✅ Select the Ad Server, either Site (for example, in the DSP) or Third-Party (for example, Google CM360)

✅ Create one impression tag & one click tag for each of your channel’s sub-campaigns:
     ❌ DO NOT Generate creative tags for specific audiences, creative sizes, creative themes, or format.

ChannelO11 Sub-Campaign
Google DV360Line Item
The Trade DeskCampaign
Yahoo! AdsLine Item
TeadsCampaign
BeeswaxCampaign
Reddit AdsCampaign
Zeta AdsCampaign
Xandr AdsCampaign
RollworksCampaign

Name tags according to your sub-campaign name, and give your impression & click tag the same name

Example: For the ”ABM_3_Pilot” sub-campaign, name your impression & click tags “abm_3_pilot”

✅Select the tag Type (impression or clicks).

✅When creating click tags for Site-Served ads, you must also enter the Landing Page with UTMs to complete click tag creation.

Watch our Creative Tag Generator Demo here.

Map Tags to Campaigns to Analyze Complete Account-Level Performance in O11 Analytics

Once creative tags are placed in active campaigns, they will appear in the Octane11 campaign mapping tool. Map tags to their respective Octane11 Campaigns to view their account-based signal in your Octane11 Analytics.

Use O11’s Campaign Filter to report across all channels & tactics

Isolate Channel-Level Performance Using O11’s Channel Filter(s)

Creative Tag Implementation - Best Practices

The Trade Desk

The Trade Desk – Display

Follow these instructions if your TTD Display creatives are hosted in and served by TTD (they are “site served”):

 

Landing Page URL: This is the main domain that your ad will click through to. This is used by TTD and the SSPs to evaluate that the Landing Page Domain is valid and crawlable by Google and other SSPs.

 

Clickthrough URL: This is the full URL you want users to visit when they click the ad. If you’re using an Ad Server or a third-party click tracker (such as the Octane11 Click tracker), you’ll enter that tracking URL here. 

 

1×1 Pixel Impression Tracking URL: Add the full O11 impression tag in this field.

 

If your TTD Display creatives are served by a 3rd party ad server, like Campaign Manager 360, implement the O11 impression tag as shown above. For instructions on O11 click tracker implementation in Campaign Manager 360, skip to the section titled “Campaign Manager 360”.

TTD Video/Audio

Follow these instructions if your TTD Video or Audio creatives are hosted in and served by TTD (they are “site served”):

Landing Page URL: This is the main domain that your ad will click through to. This is used by TTD and the SSPs to evaluate that the Landing Page Domain is valid and crawlable by Google and other SSPs.

Clickthrough URL: This is the full URL you want users to visit when they click the ad. If you’re using an Ad Server or a third-party click tracker (such as the Octane11 Click tracker), you’ll enter that tracking URL here. 

Events (3rd Party Tracking URLs): Add the full O11 impression tag in this field. 

 

If your TTD Video or Audio creatives are served by a 3rd party ad server, like Campaign Manager 360, implement the O11 impression tag as shown above. For instructions on O11 click tracker implementation in Campaign Manager 360, skip to the section titled “Campaign Manager 360”.

TTD Native

Follow these instructions if your TTD Native creatives are hosted in and served by TTD (they are “site served”):

Landing Page URL: This is the main domain that your ad will click through to. This is used by TTD and the SSPs to evaluate that the Landing Page Domain is valid and crawlable by Google and other SSPs.

 

Clickthrough URL: This is the full URL you want users to visit when they click the ad. If you’re using an Ad Server or a third-party click tracker (such as the Octane11 Click tracker), you’ll enter that tracking URL here. 

 

1×1 Pixel Impression Tracking URL: Add the full O11 impression tag in this field.

 

If your TTD Native creatives are served by a 3rd party ad server, like Campaign Manager 360, implement the O11 impression tag as shown above. For instructions on O11 click tracker implementation in Campaign Manager 360, skip to the section titled “Campaign Manager 360”.

Beeswax

See below for instructions to place Octane11 impression and click tags into Beeswax creatives if your Beeswax creatives are hosted in and served by Beeswax (they are “site served”):

 

1) Enter the click tag as the Landing Page URL

2) Add the full Octane11 impression tag and Bombora tag as a pixel, as seen below.

3) Add a usbbrowserspeed tag to the script slot

 

Google Display & Video 360

DV360 Display

Follow these instructions if your DV360 Display creatives are hosted in and served by DV360 (they are “site served”):

 

Enter the O11 Tag beneath the Third Party Tag within the “Third party Tag” field

Third Party Display (Synced Creative)

Click the “Append HTML tracking tag” and apply the O11 Tag. Only apply the O11 Tag if its not set up as an Impression Event Tag in CM360

Site Served/Hosted Image/HTML5

Click the “Append HTML tracking tag” and apply the O11 Tag.

DV360 Video, Native & Audio

Site Served/Hosted Video

Click open “Serving Properties”, in the Third-Party URL field, enter the O11 Pixel URL. No Javascript allowed. Must be the 1×1/IMG SRC Pixel URL. Ensure the “Name” is set to Impression.

 

DV360 Site Served/Hosted Audio

In the Creative Details Tab, click open “Serving Properties”, in the Third-Party URL field, enter the O11 Pixel URL. No Javascript allowed. Must be the 1×1/IMG SRC Pixel URL. Ensure the “Name” is set to Impression.

DV360 Native Display

In the Creative Details Tab, click open “Serving Properties”, enter the O11 Pixel URL one of the Impression tracking url fields. Can only use the O11 1×1/IMG Src Pixel URL. The Javascript Field is built to only support IAS or DV JS Tags. There is a two Pixel limit when using a Synced Account. Three for a Non-Synced account.

DV360 Native Video

In the Creative Details Tab, click open “Serving Properties”, enter the O11 Pixel URL one of the Impression tracking url fields. Can only use the O11 1×1/IMG Src Pixel URL. The Javascript Field is built to only support IAS or DV JS Tags. There is a two Pixel limit when using a Synced Account. Three for a Non-Synced account. However for Native Video, if you have additional Pixels, they can be entered in the Video third-party URLs section

Enter the O11 1×1/IMG SRC Pixel URL. Be sure to set Name to Impression.

DV360 Third Party Video/Third Party Audio (Non-CM360 Tags)

The O11 1×1/IMG SRC Pixel must be entered within the Vendor’s system that generates the Video/Audio Tag. DV360 does not provide fields to enter Vendor Pixels when using a Third Party Video/Audio tag

 

DV360 Third Party Video/Third Party Audio (CM360 Tags)

The O11 1×1/IMG SRC Pixel should be set up as an Impression Event Pixel in CM360. With the Pixel associated to the Video/Audio Placements. 

Xandr


Follow these instructions to apply O11 creative tags to your Xandr creatives:

First, you can create third-party creative pixels at the advertiser level and then apply these pixels to some or all creatives under that Member. For more information, visit: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xandr/invest/create-a-third-party-network-pixel-for-your-creatives

 

If your ads are served by Google Campaign Manager 360, please skip to the section titled “Campaign Manager 360” for instructions on O11 click tracker implementation in CM360.

Yahoo! DSP

Follow these instructions to apply O11 creative tags to your Yahoo! DSP creatives:

Yahoo! Display

Enter the O11 Tag URL in the Tracking URL field. Do not enter the full HTML code of the Tag, only the URL.

Yahoo! Video or Audio

Enter the O11 Pixel URL in the Tracking URL Field. Select “Impression” in the Type drop-down menu to have the O11 Pixel fire on the Impression Video/Audio Event.

Note: You can only use 1×1/IMG Src O11 Pixel for Video and Audio creatives.

Yahoo! Native

Enter the O11 Tag URL in the Tracking URL field. Do not enter the full HTML code of the Tag, only the URL. If entering an O11 Javascript Tag URL, select “Impression – Javascript” from the Type drop-down Menu.

Teads

Follow these instructions to apply O11 creative tags to your Teads creatives.

Teads Display

  1. Click the Add Tracking button & Select Impression

2. Enter the O11 1×1/Img Src Pixel URL in the Impression field. Do not enter the full HTML code of the Tag, only the URL (No Javascript allowed).

Teads Video

  1. Click the Add Tracking button & Select Video Start

2. Enter the O11 1×1/Img Src Pixel URL in the Video Start field. Do not enter the full HTML code of the Tag, only the URL (No Javascript allowed).

Campaign Manager 360

If you selected “Third-Party” as your Ad Server in the Creative Tag Generator, our tag generator will produce simplified O11 creative tags that are compatible with Google’s ad server, Campaign Manager 360 (CM360).

 

Note for implementing CM360 placements in DSPs or in a Publisher’s ad server

  • The third-party version of Octane11 impression and click tags are set up as event tags in CM360. 
  • CM360 Event Tags will only fire off via an Iframe or Javascript Tag, not an Image tag (see “Tracking ad tags” section of this article). If the Publisher is using (or must use) an Image Tag, then O11 tracking set up as an Event Tag in CM360 will not fire.
  • So, if the Publisher must use the Image Tag, they will need to implement a site-served version of the O11 impression tag alongside your CM360 placement.

 

Follow these instructions to implement O11’s and impression and click tags in CM360.

 

To troubleshoot CM360 implementation, follow the steps in this CM360 Help Article.

Impression Tag Implementation:

1) In CM360, on the Advertiser Level, set up an Event Tag that can be applied to the specific Ads that you wish to measure with Octane11.


For reference, the impression tag generator by O11’s tag generator should look like this:

<img src="https://media.o11.tech/1/e/c.gif?aqet=imp&img=true&channel=ttd&advertiser=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&campaign=test
"width="0" height="0" style="display:none;" />

2) Take the 1×1 tracking URL (highlighted in green) and enter it as an “Impression Event Tag”. Then, assign it to the Ad within the Campaign.

 

Add Impression Event Tags – Bulk Implementation Method:


Add Impression Event Tags – Manual/Individual Method:


Click Tag Implementation:

Octane11 Site-Served and Third-Party Ad Server click tags differ slightly in both the steps required to generate them and the structure of the resulting tag.

  • Site-Served Click Tags: When generating a site-served click tag, you provide the full click-through URL. The resulting tag essentially replaces the original URL, embedding Octane11 tracking directly into the click-through path.
  • Third-Party Ad Server Click Tags: These are redirect tags designed to be placed before your click-through URL, rather than replacing it.
    • Here is an example of an Octane11 third-party click tag:
      • https://media.o11.tech/1/e/r?aqet=clk&aqet_l1=clickThrough&channel=ttd&advertiser=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&campaign=test&ru=
  • This method allows greater flexibility, as it accommodates multiple click-through URLs with different landing pages and tracking parameters. By inserting the third-party tag ahead of your existing click-through URLs, implementation in CM360 and other ad servers is simplified.

Here are two ways to add O11’s Click Tag in CM360:

Option 1: Add O11 Click Tag as a Click Event for your Campaign 

In CM360, we recommend you set up O11’s click tag as a Click Event for your entire campaign. To set up a click event, follow the steps provided for in this Google Article

Please note, when using a Click Event, only enter O11’s click redirect string in the Click Event Field in CM360. For example:

 

Option 2: Add O11 Click Tag as your Landing Page URL

If you choose not to set up a Click Event and wish to apply O11 click tracking to only specific creative in your CM360 campaign, you may enter your O11 click tag in the “Landing Page” slot ahead of your landing page URL. For example:

 

https://media.o11.tech/1/e/r?aqet=clk&aqet_l1=clickThrough&channel=ttd&advertiser=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&campaign=test&ru=https://www.octane11.com

 

To Update Landing Page URL, for example from: https://www.octane11.com

Add Octane11 Click redirect tag before the Landing Page URL:

 

https://media.o11.tech/1/e/r?aqet=clk&aqet_l1=clickThrough&channel=ttd&advertiser=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&campaign=test&ru=https://www.octane11.com

 

And enter this full URL string as the full landing page.

Test your creative to ensure that you are redirected to your client’s landing page and that the landing page URL contains all tracking parameters (e.g. utm, extlink, etc) that are configured in CM360. 

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