Recently got a customer email asking how to setup bid adjustments based on target CPA goals for his campaigns. After writing the email I realized it would make an excellent resource for others on adjusting Outbrain campaign bids based on cost per action (CPA) common in online marketing for improving campaign ROI.
Marketing manager running campaigns on Outbrain with a target CPA of $10 wants to increase bids up to 50% or lower 10% based on performance during the day. Outbrain conversion pixel in use to track conversion and cost per conversion that is used to measure performance.
Desired actions:
Now we want to create three "Update Campaign Bids" rules in Brax to accomplish changing campaign bids by a percentage of the current bid.
Here are the rules in order of how you want to create / assign them to each campaign with a CPA target of $10.00
Assuming a current cpc of $1.00 this will set the bid to $1.25
Assuming a current cpc of $1.00 this will set the bid to $1.50
We run this 2nd because the first rule may also meet these conditions sometimes yet we still want the 50% increase.
Assuming a current cpc of $1.00 this will set the bid to $0.90
The rules above can be modified slightly to adapt for just about any conversion focused campaign. If you have questions about how to setup rules send me an email, mark at brax.io, happy to help achieve your desired outcome.