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Creatives Report

Introduction

The creatives report provides performance metrics from your creatives, including the number of displays, clicks, and click-through rate. These reports include the ability to be broken down by formats, display sizes, coupons, ads, ad types, and date or time.

Making a call

Creatives report is available at the following endpoint:

https://api.criteo.com/preview/reports/creatives

Below is an example of the body for the POST call:

{
	"data": {
    "type": "CreativesReport",
    "attributes": {
      "startDate": "2022-01-01",
      "endDate": "2022-01-02",
      "dimensions": ["SizeCategory", "DisplaySize", "Day"],
      "metrics": ["Clicks", "Displays", "Ctr"],
      "advertiserIds": ["1111", "2222"],
      "format": ["Dynamic"],
      "displaySizes": ["MediumBanner"],
      "couponNames": [],
      "campaignIds": ["1234"],
      "adSetIds": ["789", "456"],
      "adSetStatus": ["Active", "NotRunning"]
      }
   }
}

There are 5 required attributes when making a call: startDate, endDate, dimensions, metrics and advertiserIds.

The POST call will generate a report in the format of a JSON document. This is a response example:

{
  "data": [
		{
      "type": "CreativesReport",
      "attributes": {
        "rows": [
          {
            "sizeCategory": "Placements",
            "displaySize": "HalfPage",
            "day": "2021-10-01",
            "displays": "65432",
            "clicks": "123",
            "ctr": "0.0222"
          },
          {
            "sizeCategory": "Placements",
            "displaySize": "HalfPage",
            "day": "2021-10-02",
            "displays": "45678",
            "clicks": "654",
            "ctr": "0.044"
          },
          ...
          {
            "sizeCategory": "Unknown sizes",
            "displaySize": "Others",
            "day": "2021-10-05",
            "displays": "12345",
            "clicks": "321",
            "ctr": "0.0111"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Metrics

ValueDescription
displaysNumber of displays
clicksNumber of clicks
ctrClick Through Rate

Dimensions

ValueDescription
adTypeClassification of ads based on required brand assets and potential reach
couponStatic images displayed within an ad creative. Usually used to deliver commercial offers or branding messages
couponIdId of the coupon
sizeCategoryGrouping of display sizes by category
displaySizeThe displayed size of the ad expressed in pixels
adName of the ad
adIdId of the ad
dayRepresents date in a day format
hourRepresents date in an hour format

Attributes

FieldTypeRequiredDefault ValueDescription
startDateDateTimeYesStart of the report in YY-MM-DD format
endDateDateTimeYesEnd of the report in YY-MM-DD format
dimensionsstring[]YesList of dimensions to retrieve
metricsstring[]YesList of metrics to retrieve
advertiserIdsstring[]YesIds of the advertisers
timezonestringNoUTCTimezone used for dates
formatstring[]NoReport only on the specified ad types
displaySizesstring[]NoReport only on the specified display sizes
couponNamesstring[]NoReport only on the specified coupon names
campaignIdsstring[]NoReport only on the specified campaign ids
adSetIdsstring[]NoReport only on the specified adSet ids
adSetStatusstring[]NoReport only on the specified adSet status