Get started for marketers acs-gs-marketers
This guide gives an overview of the key functionalities of Campaign v8, for marketers transitioning from Campaign Standard to Campaign v8.
You can access ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8 via the client console or the Web user interface. The web interface lets you create, manage and execute key marketing actions. The new ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Web interface offers a modern and intuitive user experience to simplify marketing campaign design and delivery. Learn more.
With the migration, all your data from Campaign Standard is imported in Campaign v8, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to your ongoing operations.
You can continue to use your existing credentials to log in and connect to your new ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8 instance. Once logged in, you can find all your profiles and workflows being migrated, allowing you to continue to work on your campaigns.
The primary difference is in the user interface. Below a comparison of the same workflow in the 2 interfaces:
Discover the Campaign Web User Interface acs-gs-marketers-ui
In the video below, learn how to access and navigate the Campaign Web user interface and how to customize the inventory lists.
For more details, please refer to the documentation below:
Create and manage profiles and audiences acs-gs-marketers-profiles-and-audiences
The general concepts for creating and managing profiles and audiences in Campaign v8 is the same as in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard. Learn how to start with profiles and audiences in this section.
You can find below a few useful links for you to start with.
Manage profiles acs-gs-marketers-profiles
In ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign, a profile is a record stored in the database, serving as a key component to create audiences for deliveries and add personalization data to your content.
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Learn how to access, manage, and explore profiles using the Campaign Web user interface in this video:
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Learn more in the [Get started with Profiles](/docs/campaign-web/v8/audiences/work-with-profiles/about-recipients.html?lang=en) documentation.
- Learn how to create and manage test profiles in Campaign v8.
Manage audiences acs-gs-marketers-audiences
Audiences are sets of profiles who share similar behaviors and/or characteristics. This collection of people can either be generated, selected, or loaded. Once created, audiences can be leveraged as the target population of your deliveries.
Learn how to build and manage audiences, how to select audiences for a delivery, and define control groups, in this video:
Refer to Get started with Audiences for more information.
As in Campaign Standard, you can add a control group to your delivery. You can define a control group to avoid sending messages to a portion of your audience, and compare post-delivery behavior with the main target. This option helps you measure the impact of your campaign.
Learn how to set a control group.
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All audiences created via Campaign Standard Query activity is transformed into predefined filter in Campaign v8 during transition. Campaign v8 also support the Query activity.
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Read audience gets transformed into Query activity with predefined filter
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Predefined filter only takes the latest value after audience migration to Campaign v8.
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File-type audiences in Campaign Standard are migrated as List-type without dimensions.
Manage subscriptions acs-gs-marketers-sub
You can manage and create your services such as newsletters, and to check the subscriptions or unsubscriptions to these services. Key steps are globaly the same as in Campaign Standard. Learn more in the pages below:
Use plans, programs and campaigns acs-gs-marketers-plans
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8 allows you to configure your folder hierarchy for marketing plans and programs. Plans, programs and campaigns capabilities are similar with Camapign Standard and with Campaign v8.
Learn more in the Plans and programs documentation.
You can find below useful links to start with. Changes which can affect your user experience are highlighted in the Availability notes.
Create a campaign acs-gs-marketers-campaign
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign allows you to orchestrate easily your targeted marketing initiatives, using the built-in campaign management capability. With the ability to define a schedule, you can plan the duration and timing of your campaigns to align with strategic objectives and maximize audience engagement.
Follow the documentation below to learn more about campaigns:
Create a workflow acs-gs-marketers-wf
The workflow user interface has been fully reimagined in Campaign Web user interface to facilitate usage, configuration, execution, and troubleshooting. As you already experienced in Campaign Standard, with workflows, you can orchestrate the full range of processes and tasks, improve the speed and scale of every aspect of your marketing campaigns, from creating segments and preparing messages to delivery. Plus, you can get your channels in sync with a single, easy-to-use interface for campaign orchestration.
Understand how workflows work and how to create a targeting workflow in this video:
Get more details with the Worklow documentation.
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Web user interface features a query modeler in workflows that simplifies the process of filtering the database based on various criteria. Learn more about the query modeler
To understand the purpose and functionality of each activity within your workflow, explore the detailed information available on workflow activities
Maximize your workflow’s efficiency by reviewing the Guardrails and limitations for workflows.
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Workflow execution history and logs are available in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8.
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Historical logs for workflows executed on your Campaign Standard instance are not migrated to Campaign v8.
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Organizational Units are mapped to concept of folder for mapping and ensuring similar access control.
Create and manage deliveries acs-gs-marketers-deliveries
With Campaign Web User Interface, as a marketer, you can create standalone deliveries from the Deliveries left menu, or create deliveries in the context of a workflow, included or not in a campaign. Key steps are aligned with your previous experience in Campaign Standard. Learn how to create a delivery in the following section: Delivery creation and management documentation.
Useful links:
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Delivery templates - For an accelerated and improved design process, you can create delivery templates to reuse easily custom content and settings across your campaigns. This functionality enables you to standardize the creative look and feel, in order to be quicker in executing and launching campaigns/ Learn more in the Delivery template page.
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Delivery settings - Delivery settings are technical delivery parameters that are defined in the delivery template. They can be overloaded for each delivery. These settings are available from the Settings button available when editing a delivery or a delivery template. Learn more in the Delivery settings section.
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Dynamic content - ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Web dynamic content capabilities allows you to customize your content based on the information you have gathered about your recipients. By utilizing dynamic content, you ensure that your marketing efforts are more relevant, avoiding marketing unwanted or unnecessary products or services. Learn more in the Dynamic content section.
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Test and proofs - Once your delivery content has been defined, you can use profiles and test profiles to preview and test it before sending the message. This step is crucial to ensure that it is accurate but also free of errors both in content and personalization settings. See Preview and test.
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Scheduling - You can set the date and the exact time for sending your messages. By choosing the most appropriate time for your marketing message, you can maximise open rates.
- Learn how to schedule a stand-alone delivery
- Learn how to schedule a delivery in a workflow
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Add offers - You can add offers to your deliveries in the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Web user interface. These offers are available from the Offers left menu, which lets you access to the list of offers. Learn how to add offers to your messages
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Deliveries in draft state or finished state have been migrated.
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Deliveries which are in one of the following status have been migrated to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8, but must be prepared again: In transit / In progress / Cancelled / Retry in progress / Preparation error.
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Deliveries which are in one of the following status have been migrated as canceled deliveries: For Canceled / Retry in progress.
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Tracking links, mirror page URL links, subscription/un-subscription links work as in Campaign Standard.
Email delivery acs-gs-marketers-email
Learn how to create an email delivery from scratch, define the audience, design the content, simulate preview, and send a proofin this video:
Learn how to create your first targeted email in the Create your first email documentation
In Campaign v8, the detailed steps for creating, testing, and sending an email delivery are similar to Campaign Standard.
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Design and define content
Campaign v8 Email designer is similar to the one available in Campaign Standard. As a reminder, Campaign Standard legacy email editor was deprecated a few years ago. You should have already transitioned to Campaign Email Designer to create and personalize your email content.
Understand how to navigate the Email Designer. Learn how to structure and design an email from scratch, how to personalize, and test your email in the following video:
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Welcome! In this video, you will learn how to design email content from scratch using the email designer in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign. You will learn how to navigate the email designer, structure and design an email, personalize your email, and then preview and test your email. Let’s get started! To access the email designer when you’re in a delivery, you can either click on the Edit Email Body button here on the right, or when you click on the preview window, the Open Email Designer button. You have four options to create an email. You can either design your email from scratch, code your own with HTML, import an existing HTML file, or you can select the template to get you started, either from the sample templates provided by ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ, or you can create your own template specific to your brand. But today, we’re going to design from scratch. So this is the email designer. Central to the email designer is the canvas. This is where you will build your email, and we’re going to get started by dragging and dropping the first structure component onto the canvas. This enables us to set up the body. I will start by adding the preheader, and then I can set up the style. So let me change the background color to Frescoppa Orange. So that’s the brand we’re working with, a coffee company. There we go. That looks good. Next, I’ll change the viewport color to white. Now, I could change the font if I wanted to. I’ll just leave it as it is. But let me change the width to 650 pixels. We could add margins if we wanted to. I’m going to leave that. So we’ve been defining the body. Now you have the structure component, so you can set up the style and the settings for the structure component. You can define if it’s a header or footer, or if it’s shown on the desktop only or the mobile devices. We’re going to set it as a header. And now I’m going to add an image. I’m going to add our logo. So I can either browse for the logo or import the media. And if I click on that image, you can see now I’m in the image settings. Here again, browsing, which is the select an asset or import media. And you can also set the styles for this image. So I’m going to select an asset. This will open ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Asset Essentials. And now I have my assets that I have available for our brand. Let me choose our logo. Can of course also search for the logo. So first, let me add a URL. I can add an alternative text, image title, etc. Normally a good practice to do that. So here the logo is a bit big. Let me make it a tiny bit, well, quite a lot smaller. There, that looks better. Alignment is fine. We’re good to go. Okay. Next, I want to add a three column structure. I’m going to add a text here. Now let’s format heading three. I will center align. I do not want it in bold. So let’s remove that. And let’s change the color. Get into the Frisco, orange. There we go. Now let me change the background color of the column. Okay, let me change it to white. Okay, now let me just copy this twice because we need two more texts. And drag and drop it over into the other column. Let’s speed this up a bit. And then I need to just change the background colors of the columns again. There we go. And now I just need to change the text. So let’s add a link. Up here you can click on the link sign. Let me copy and paste. There we go. We have the label coffee. Now let me change the color. I do not want it to look like a link. And then settings. No underline. That’s great, except for that I chose the wrong color. So let me just change it back to orange. Now that we have a couple of style elements and structures, let me show you how to navigate between those. So here you see you have the body. You click on it, the structure one with one column and one component. And if I click on that on the right, you see the settings tabs open up. So that’s a very quick way of navigating. But now let’s add another element. And here I would like to again add an image. This time I’m going to simply select an image from the asset selector. So I’m going to drag and drop it into the structure. Now let’s add some more text. So there’s a newsletter after all. Now let’s add some text. And magically the formatting. I’m fast forwarding a bit. Some margins. And the background color for the column. And let’s add some personalization.
So click on to the text where you want to add personalization and then into the add personalization. This is the personalization editor. We’re going to add recipient data. In this case, I will add the first name. Just click on plus once you’ve found it. I’m going to put the comma in the personalization field. Here we go. Now let’s jump a couple of steps ahead. And you can see I’ve added some content, changed the title and added a button. Now let’s take a look at the links. So here you can see the list of links that are available, including the link that we added to the button or that was added to the button. And you can see if the tracking is enabled and which label they’re on. The link on the logo. So I will add the label logo and then the tracking type. You can see if it’s tracked, opt out, if it’s a mirror page, etc. So let me save this. Now let me show you two more content types. I’ll add another column, which will be my footer. Now we have social media content type. And here you have Facebook, you have Twitter, which you should probably change to X. You can swap the logo, Instagram, and you can add any other social media accounts. And then let me show you. Of course, every email needs to have an unsubscription link. So let me create this and let me show you how you can quickly do this by personalizing. And in this case, we’re going to personalize on content blocks. And here we have the unsubscription link, which is basically a text block, a content block that gets added to the email. Now that our email is done, let’s simulate the content and see what it’s going to look like. Now, to do that, we first need to add some test profiles. You can do that by clicking the button here. And now we have a list of test profiles. I’ll just choose the first one, Aaron McDonald. And you can see the email has been personalized. Aaron, sip into blissful moments. That’s great. Now let’s see what our text block looks like. There we go. Next, let’s look at the personalized mobile view. So that looks fine as well. And if you have a contract with litmus, you have the button up there, render email. Litmus allows you to test what your email will look like in your customers inboxes. Then you can test the deliverability by clicking on the test button up there. You can send test emails to a set of test profiles. Just add as many as you would like. Send the test email. And once the emails have been sent, you can take a look at the test email log, where you can see the deliverability data, how many have been targeted, delivered, delivery rate opens and clicks. And we have one more option. By clicking on the eye, you can see how your email will render on the different devices and platforms. That you see listed here. Once you’re satisfied with the results and how your email renders, click save and close and you are done. Now you know how to navigate the email designer, how to create an email from scratch, add personalization and preview and test your email. Thank you for watching.
The Email Designer enables you to create captivating, individually tailored emails through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Learn more in the Email Designer documentation
Learn how to create an email by uploading HTML, how to make it compatible with the Email Designer and how to convert it to a template in this video:
A content fragment is a reusable component that can be referenced in one or more messages. Learn more about [Content fragments](/docs/campaign-web/v8/content/manage-reusable-content/fragments/fragments.html?lang=en) to simplify the creation of your email delivery.
For an accelerated and improved design process, you can create standalone templates to easily reuse custom content across ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign. See [Create email templates](/docs/campaign-web/v8/content/manage-reusable-content/create-email-templates.html?lang=en)
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Preview and test
Learn how to preview email message content and personalization, send test deliveries (proofs) and check the email rendering in popular desktop, mobile and web-based clients, in this video:
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Send email and check logs
When you have defined your content, audience, and schedule, you are ready to prepare your email delivery. Learn more in the following sections:
SMS delivery acs-gs-marketers-sms
SMS deliveries provide a practical and efficient way to send text messages to your customers’ mobile devices. With this feature, you can create, personalize, and preview text-based messages for effective communication.
In Campaign v8, the detailed steps for creating, testing, and sending an SMS delivery are similar to Campaign Standard.
Push notifications acs-gs-marketers-push
Push notifications are essential for reaching out to your mobile app users, even when they are not actively using your app. They serve various purposes like providing updates, driving specific actions, and notifying about deals.
In Campaign v8, the detailed steps for creating, testing, and sending a push notification delivery are similar to Campaign Standard.
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ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8 supports both Android and iOS Push Channel. For transitioning of existing workflows and deliveries using Push Channel please connect with your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Transition Manager. Learn more on Channel Set up.
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Note that the SDK V4 for mobile applications was deprecated in Campaign Standard a few years ago. You should have already transitioned to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Experience Platform SDK, which is the same used in Campaign v8.
Direct mail acs-gs-marketers-direct-mail
Direct mail is an offline channel that allows you to produce files to mass deliver personalized letters to your customers such as postcards, flyers, or catalogs. When creating a direct mail delivery, ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign automatically generates an extraction file containing all the targeted profiles and selected data, such as postal addresses and profile attributes.
In Campaign v8, the detailed steps for creating, testing, and sending a direct mail delivery are similar to Campaign Standard.
In-App channel acs-gs-marketers-in-app
Note that the In-App channel is not available in Campaign v8. If you need to send in-app notifications, reach out to your ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Representative.
Create and manage landing pages acs-gs-marketers-lp
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8 web user interface comes with a reimagined user experience for landing pages. Campaign allows you to create, design, and share landing pages. Landing pages enable you to direct your users to online forms where they can update their data, opt-in/out from receiving your communications, or subscribe to a specific service such as a newsletter.
As a Campaign Standard user transitoning to Campaign v8, your existing landing pages have been migrated to Campaign Web user interface. You can access the same range of capabilities.
Learn more about landing pages in the following sections:
Reporting acs-gs-marketers-reporting
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign provides a set of reporting tools. As an administrator, you can create and configure reports to share with other Campaign users.
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign suite of reporting tools provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of your marketing efforts, allowing you to optimize your campaigns for maximum impact. Learn more in the Reporting documentation.
In addition, aligned with the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard experience, the Dynamic Reporting is available to you in Campaign v8, for your email deliveries. Itprovides fully customizable and real-time reports to measure the impact of your marketing activities. It adds access to profile data, enabling demographic analysis by profile dimensions such as gender, city and age in addition to functional email campaign data like opens and clicks. Learn more in the Dynamic reporting documentation
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Dynamic reporting can be used for reporting of email deliveries, campaign with email deliveries and transactional messages. Demographic analysis by Profile dimension is also available.
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ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Web user interface reporting is also available for all users transition from ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign Standard to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign v8.
ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Campaign offers three different reports: