How to set the display order of your ad campaigns

Internal ads

With the Internal ad server, you sell space in your app to advertisers, like local businesses, or promote your own offers. You create the campaigns and their ads yourself.

This free extension is added from the Extensions Store, which has its own video. It brings the Monetization menu: open Internal ad network.

Here are your campaigns. Our example advertiser, Gullwake Cruises, already runs one: Harbor tours. For its fall season, click Add an advertising campaign.

Create a campaign

Name the campaign, here after the advertiser and its offer.

Then choose the Platforms that show it: iPhone and Android here. A campaign is for either your native apps or your Progressive Web App.

Campaign rules decide when it ends: never, with None, or after a number of Impressions, or of Clicks… or on a date: with Period of validity, it runs from today until November 30.

Click Add: the campaign is created, with its Settings and its Advertisements.

Banner and interstitial

Now its first ad. Give it a name, and choose its Placement: Internal pages, the pages of your sections, rather than the Home page.

For its Display format, keep Banner, and add its image.

For its Link, choose External link: a tap then opens a web address, like the advertiser's site.

Save: the ad joins the campaign, with its own counters.

Then add a second ad, an Interstitial ad: a full-screen ad, shown as content opens.

It takes one image per screen size: three for iPhone, one for Android, each at the size its question mark recommends.

With its images and its link, save it as well.

An ad on the Home

A third ad goes on the Home: choose Home page, then a banner or a rectangle, here a Rectangle.

Saved: the campaign now has its three ads.

To show it, add a widget: in My App, open Structure, then Home, and click the plus sign under the first widget.

In the panel that opens, find Advertising among the widgets with no section behind them, and click its plus sign.

The widget is added right below International. Click Edit to open its settings.

For each platform, pick the campaign it shows, and its format: here, our fall season, as a rectangle. Then save.

The preview only marks its place: the ads themselves show in the app.

Display order

With several campaigns, the app shows one at a time, in the order you set in Strategy, platform by platform.

The new campaign comes last.

Drag the fall season to the top… and save: it now comes first.

Each platform has its own order: set Android the same way.

In the app

To see the ads, open your app on a phone: here in MyGoodBarber, with Native preview.

On the Home, the widget shows the rectangle.

In a section's list, the banner sits at the bottom… and opening an article brings up the interstitial, full screen.

A tap on an ad opens its link, and counts as a click.

Track and pause

Back in Internal ad network, each campaign counts its Impressions, its Clicks, and its click rate, CTR… and shows its Schedule: the fall season runs until November 30.

To pause a campaign, switch it off: its ads leave the app, and it leaves the Strategy. Switch it back on whenever you like.

When you're ready, publish your app's update from Publish my project.