Create campaign groups

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As an advertiser, you can create a new campaign group from the Campaign groups tab in Campaign Manager. When you create a new campaign group, you can set a status, schedule, or total budget for the group which act as limits for all the campaigns placed in that group. After you create a campaign group, you can select it when you create a new campaign to organize related campaigns together. If needed, you can edit the campaign group settings, including the name, status, schedule, or total budget. 

Who can use this feature?

You need campaign manager access or higher on an ad account to create new campaign groups. 

Campaign groups are available for both Classic and Accelerate campaign types, and you can have a campaign group that contains only Classic campaigns, only Accelerate campaigns, or a mix of Classic and Accelerate campaigns.

Important to know

When using Accelerate campaigns, campaign groups are only available for the website visits or lead generation objectives.

To create a new campaign group:
  1. Go to your ad account in Campaign Manager.

  2. Click Advertise on the left menu.

  3. On the Campaign groups tab, click the Create button and select Campaign Group from the dropdown.

  4. On the Create Campaign Group page, enter a campaign group name. The name is only visible in Campaign Manager.

    Create campaign group
  5. From the Status dropdown, select Active or Draft

    • Active - Campaigns placed in your campaign group can start displaying ad impressions immediately, depending on the start date of the campaign group and campaign.
    • Draft - Campaigns can be placed in the campaign group but won’t start displaying impressions until the campaign group has been activated. 
  6. Under Group Objective, select one objective for all campaigns in the campaign group. By selecting a single objective for all campaigns, you can take advantage of Dynamic Group Budget.

    • The Group Objective toggle is turned on by default. Turning off Group Objective means that your campaigns won’t benefit from budget optimization.
    Group Objectives
  7. Under Group Budget & Schedule, turn on the Budget Optimization toggle to automatically and continuously find optimal auction opportunities for your campaign group’s objective.

    • Once you turn on Budget Optimization, you can set a daily or lifetime budget, select a bidding strategy, and set a schedule. Maximum delivery is the default and recommended bidding strategy. Manual bidding isn’t available for Accelerate campaigns.
    • If Budget Optimization is not turned on, the campaigns in your group won't have budget optimization applied to them. You can choose to have campaigns in the group run continuously from a start date or set a start date and end date, with or without a budget.
  8. Click Create to create the new campaign group and go to the Campaign groups tab. 

  9. Click Create & use in new campaign to create the new campaign group and go to the first step of creating a new campaign.

Important to know

After your campaign group is launched, you cannot turn off Dynamic Group Budget or change the campaign group objective. 

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