Creative Folder service

2024-03-04

The creative folder service allows you to group creatives for organizational purposes. You can add multiple creatives at once to a folder as you create it.

REST API

HTTP Method	Endpoint	Description
`GET`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID	View all creative folders (you must specify advertiser).
`GET`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID&id=FOLDER_ID	View a specific creative folder.
`POST`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID (creative-folder JSON)	Add a new creative folder (you can add creatives to the folder in this action or afterwards).
`POST`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID (creative-folder JSON)	Add a new creative to one of your folders.
`PUT`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?id=CREATIVE_ID&advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID (creative-folder JSON)	Modify an existing creative folder.
`DELETE`	https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=ADVERTISER_ID&id=FOLDER_ID	Delete an existing creative folder.

JSON fields

Field	Type	Description
`id`	int	The internal ID associated with the creative folder.
`parent_id`	int	Deprecated.
`name`	string	The optional name for the creative folder.
`advertiser_id`	int	All creatives are attached to either an advertiser or publisher at the time of creation.
`creatives`	array of objects	List of creatives you wish to include in this folder, or list of creatives already in the folder, depending on your request.
`last_modified`	timestamp	The date and time when the creative folder was last modified.

Examples

Add a creative folder that contains two (pre-existing) creatives

{code}$ cat creative-folder

{
    "creative-folder":{
        "creatives":[{
                "id":246305
            },
            {
                "id":246221
            }
        ]
    }
}

$ curl -b cookies -c cookies -X POST -d @creative-folder 'https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=493'

{
  "response": {
    "status": "OK",
    "id": 338
  }
}
{code}

View all folders for advertiser 493

{code}$ curl -b cookies -c cookies 'https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?advertiser_id=493'

{
  "response": {
    "creative-folders": [
      {
        "id": 81,
        "parent_id": null,
        "advertiser_id": 493,
        "name": "Hosted Images",
        "last_modified": "2010-03-31 21:26:59",
        "creatives": [
          {
            "id": "14900"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": 82,
        "parent_id": null,
        "advertiser_id": 493,
        "name": "3rd party images",
        "last_modified": "2010-03-31 21:27:07",
        "creatives": [
          {
            "id": "246305"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": 152,
        "parent_id": null,
        "advertiser_id": 493,
        "name": "an-creatives-2",
        "last_modified": "2010-08-05 15:18:50",
        "creatives": [
          {
            "id": "246214"
          },
          {
            "id": "246215"
          },
          {
            "id": "246216"
          },
          {
            "id": "246217"
          },
          {
            "id": "246218"
          },
          {
            "id": "246219"
          },
          {
            "id": "246220"
          },
          {
            "id": "246221"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": 338,
        "parent_id": null,
        "advertiser_id": 493,
        "name": null,
        "last_modified": "2011-06-20 19:15:18",
        "creatives": [
          {
            "id": "246221"
          },
          {
            "id": "246305"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "status": "OK",
    "count": 4,
    "start_element": 0,
    "num_elements": 100
  }
}
{code}

Add a creative to an existing creative folder

Be sure to include append=true to your query statement. If you leave this off, all existing creatives in the folder will be overwritten.

$ cat creative-folder

{
    "creative-folder":{
        "creatives":[{
                "id":876543
            }
        ]
    }
}

curl -b cookies -X PUT -d @creative-folder 'https://api.appnexus.com/creative-folder?id=338&advertiser_id=493&append=true'

{
  "response": {
    "status": "OK",
    "id": 338
  }
}

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