Verizon Media Native Bid Multipliers¶

This article describes services for reading, adding, removing and updating bid multipliers for Verizon Media native lines.

Overview¶

You can use bid multipliers to increase or decrease your bids based on supply attributes or audiences. For example, an ad served to a mobile phone on a specific site or group of sites may be more valuable to your campaign than an ad served to a desktop, and you may be willing to bid more for those ad placements.

Using bid multipliers, you can specify multiplier values that affect the amount a line can bid for targeted opportunities. For details, see Bid Multipliers Overview in the DSP UI help center.

Use the Bid Multipliers resource to read, add, update and remove bid multipliers on lines. See the Bid Multipliers help page in the Traffic API for details on the full specifications of the resource. This section focuses on Bid Multiplier target types supported for Verizon Media native lines.

Endpoint¶

/traffic/lines/<lineId>/bidmultipliers

Supported Bid Multiplier Target Types¶

The following table lists the bid multipliers that DSP supports for Verizon Media native lines.

Note

These bid multipliers are the only bid multipliers that Verizon Media native lines support. They are also only supported on Verizon Media native lines.

Field	Description	Data Type	Required
`SUPPLY_GROUP`	Use the Supply Group bid modifier to modify bids on aggregated groups of sites and devices. Use the `Bid Multiplier Targets` resource to learn more on what each available supply group target represents.	`String`	N
`SITE_X_DEVICE`	Use the Site X Device bid modifier to modify bids on a per-site, per-device basis on selected sites.	`String`	N
`SITE_GROUP_X_DEVICE`	Use the Site Group X Device bid modifier to modify bids on a per-site group, per-device basis on selected site groups.	`String`	N

Read¶

To view the current bid multipliers applied to a line, send a GET request to the bid multipliers endpoint. For details on the response attributes, see the Bid Multipliers help page in the Traffic API.

Example Request¶

GET /traffic/lines/2222/bidmultipliers HTTP/1.1
Host: <HOST_NAME>
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Method: OAUTH
X-Auth-Token: <ACCESS_TOKEN>

Example Response¶

{
  "response": {
     "bidMultipliers": [
         {
             "id": 1212,
             "targetType": "SUPPLY_GROUP",
             "targetValue": 1,
             "multiplier": 1.5
         },
         {
             "id": 1213,
             "targetType": "SITE_X_DEVICE",
             "targetValue": 280,
             "multiplier": 2.5
         }
     ],
     "bidMultiplierCap": null
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2020-03-31T03:35:08.960Z"
}

Add - Remove - Update¶

To add, remove or update bid multipliers, send a POST request to the bid multipliers endpoint with added, removed or edited arrays. To learn more about these arrays, see the Bid Multipliers help page in the Traffic API.

To add new bid multipliers, the client needs to be aware of the supported targetTypes and targetValues. For targetTypes, see Supported Bid Multiplier Target Types.

Use the Bid Multiplier Targets resource to fetch supported targetValues. Target values represent the site-device combinations available for lines to apply bid multipliers on. For example, targetValue = 280 with targetType = SITE_X_DEVICE represents “News US - Mobile” = Yahoo News (US) on Mobile. Applying a multiplier of 1.5 using this set of targetType, targetValue and multiplier makes the line bid 1.5 times the regular bid on an ad opportunity coming from Yahoo News on a mobile device.

To edit or remove an existing bid multiplier on a line, the client needs to know the unique id of the bid multiplier. To get ids of all bid multipliers on a line, use the Read method.

Note

The default multiplier for all targets is 1.0. This means creating a bid multiplier with multiplier value 1.0 is equivalent to not having a bid multiplier on that target. When a user chooses to update the multiplier value of an existing bid multiplier to 1.0, the client may choose to remove the bid multiplier - the effect will be the same as adding it to the edited array with multiplier = 1.0.

Example Request¶

POST /traffic/lines/2222/bidmultipliers HTTP/1.1
Host: <HOST_NAME>
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
X-Auth-Method: OAUTH
X-Auth-Token: <ACCESS_TOKEN>

{
  "added": [
     {
        "targetType": "SITE_X_DEVICE",
        "targetValue": 201,
        "multiplier": 0.7
     },
     {
        "targetType": "SITE_GROUP_X_DEVICE",
        "targetValue": 401,
        "multiplier": 2.5
     },
     {
        "targetType": "SUPPLY_GROUP",
        "targetValue": 4,
        "multiplier": 2.6
     }
  ],
  "removed": [
    1213
  ],
  "edited": [
     {
        "id": 1212,
        "targetType": "SUPPLY_GROUP",
        "targetValue": 1,
        "multiplier": 2.5
     }
  ]
}

Example Response¶

{
  "response": {
     "bidMultipliers": [
           {
              "id": 1212,
              "targetType": "SUPPLY_GROUP",
              "targetValue": 1,
              "multiplier": 2.5
           },
           {
              "id": 1214,
              "targetType": "SUPPLY_GROUP",
              "targetValue": 4,
              "multiplier": 2.6
           },
              "id": 1215,
              "targetType": "SITE_X_DEVICE",
              "targetValue": 201,
              "multiplier": .7
           },
              "id": 1216,
              "targetType": "SITE_GROUP_X_DEVICE",
              "targetValue": 401,
              "multiplier": 2.5
           }
     ],
     "bidMultiplierCap": null
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2020-03-31T03:36:08.960Z"
}