Targeting Campaigns to Hours and Days

Sometimes you want to target your ads or content to periodic time intervals. For example, you may want to display a banner only on weekends between 7.00 am and 6.00 pm. Or, you may want to rotate specific ads on specific days of the week. Another opportunity is to display different content on every day during the week.

DynAds Pro has built-in support for targeting campaigns to specific hours of the week. As shown in the image below, you can enable or disable a campaign at any hours during the week. When a campaign is disabled at some hours, the campaign only becomes active at the enabled hours.

Setting the active hours of campaigns in the admin panel

Displaying banner ads at specific hours of the week

Assume that you have some banners that you want to display only at specific hours during the week, such as only between 5.00pm and 10.00pm inclusive from Mondays to Fridays.

1. Create your ads in the Ads menu of the admin panel.
2. In the Campaigns menu, create a campaign for the ads or open an existing campaign suitable for the ads.
3. In the Enabled Hours section, click to the Clear All button to clear all of the hours temporarily.
4. Then check on the boxes on columns 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 on rows from Mon to Fri.
5. Save the campaign.
6. Insert the ads into the campaign.
7. Go to the Zones menu and create a zone or open an already existing zone suitable for the campaign.
8. Insert the campaign into the zone.
9. Go to Code Generator menu, obtain the rotation code and paste it to your page(s).

The ads of the campaign will only be added to the rotation at the enabled hours, from 5.00pm to 10.00pm from Monday to Friday.