Skip links

Creativity Policy

Provision Terms

Send all creatives to Italiaonline Traffico and/or any Third Party service as described in the format specifications:

  • within 3 working days for all adv formats
  • within Wednesday morning in case of campaigns starting on Saturday/Sunday/Monday

Failure to these instructions may result in creativity publication delays.

Sending Policy

Order ID and description in the e-mail subject

  • Italiaonline Traffico Team sends to the advertiser (at the beginning of campaign processing) an email to request creativities with as the subject the Italiaonline order ID followed by a brief description (E.g.: LB_012345 – Advertiser Name – Product Name – Month Year).
  • You are kindly asked to keep order ID and description in following communications in order to allow the correct order handling.
  • In case of advertiser does not have the order ID or writes directly to Italiaonline before Traffico team email, please insert in the mail subject: Advertiser Name – Product Name – Month/Year.

What to send by email

In addition to the above-mentioned email subject and the materials specified in the AD format specifications, you are required to enter into any communication the following elements:

DISPLAY

Creativity files:

  • Images, animations (*.jpg, *.gif, etc.) already optimized for the delivery.
  • Please do not send the source files (*.psd, etc.): Italiaonline does not modify the creativities.

Tracking:

  • Landing page destination URL or click command.
  • Tracking pixel in safe mode (if required and compatible with the format).

Redirect:

  • Italiaonline uses DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) Ad Server. Redirect Campaigns require tags with macro (anti-caching and click) suitable for DFP. Alternatively, provide instructions that allow us to customize the tags, in order to make anti-caching and clicks logging working on DFP.
  • If the advertiser wants to use DFA (DoubleClick for Advertisers) tags, we require you to send both Javascript and Internal Redirect versions.

DEM

Italiaonline uses mappEngage platform.

  • Always attach HTML with absolut path of images.
  • In case of DEM with customer internal tracking, in order to provide the exact counting of clicks and impressions, you are required to replace the anti-caching parameter or [timestamp] with mappEngage primary key <%${ecm:random(1, 1000000000)}%>    ecm:process=”false”.

General specifications

Number of creativity for each advertisement

  • 1 for the following formats:  Billboard, Brand Header, Brand Lift, Companion, Companion Maxi, Crispy Skin, Full Domination, Full Domination, Interstitial APP, Interstitial, Login Storytelling, Login Video, Masthead Video, Masthead Mobile Video, Masthead Responsive, Maxi Video, Mobile Interstitial, MPU Video, Parallax Statico, Preroll, Preroll Plus, Prestitial, Sticky Footer, Superleaderboard, Vertical Video, Welcome Responsive, Wide Dominator Video. Per tutti i formati gestiti da Sizmek è prevista una sola creatività. All Sizmek formats are provided with one only creativity.
  • from 1 to 3 for the following formats: Image Banner, Login Responsive, Masthead Mobile, Parallax Video, Pull Banner, Pull Banner Store Locator, Quantum, Skin, Slink, Welcome.
  • from 1 to 5 for all the other formats (except for DEM).
  • 6 for the format Cover+Native

Creativity weight

You will be required to comply with the maximum weight reported in the specifications. In exceptional cases, it may be agreed an increase, however not exceeding 10%.

Self-hosted deals

No delivery criteria are allowed for self-hosted deals.

DEM Optimization

DEM sent by Italiaonline are optimized for proper viewing on webmails (both Libero and Virgilio ones) through the most popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome) and the main email clients.

Compliance

Creativities must conform to what is stated in the General Conditions of Contract and Italiaonline Policy. Otherwise it will be returned to the sender with correction request. This may result in creativities publication delays.

Certification

  • Italiaonline publishes only previously certified creativities. If the advertiser uses Third Party platforms, he must check with Italiaonline that the creativity has been certified by Italiaonline with the platform used.
  • For any information the publisher can contact his Sales Account reference.
  • Any new certification requires variable technical times depending on format complexity and the number of requests already in progress.

Approval and Responsibility

Italiaonline will be free not to accept and/or remove the creativity provided by the Advertiser that must still comply with all the provisions of applicable law and, in particular, the Consumer Code (Legislative Decree no. 206/2005), the unique text Act on Radiotelevision (Legislative Decree no. 177/2005) and the Code of Conduct of Business Communication. In any case, the advertiser shall indemnify Italiaonline from any third party claim concerning the creativity put online.