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What is Onsite?

Onsite is a Retail Media solution that displays advertisements within a retailer website or mobile app. Onsite ads use first party data to reach shoppers who visit, browse, or search on a specific retailer. There are two campaign types which include Onsite Display and Onsite Sponsored Products.

  • Onsite Display campaign types aim to reach, influence, and engage shoppers at the point-of-purchase with custom display ad formats. Advertisers can choose which shoppers to target based on real-time browsing and searching behavior, and analyze engagement and conversions via enhanced reporting capabilities. 

  • Onsite Sponsored Product campaign types strive to boost sales and increase your category share and visibility with native product ads. Powered by the strongest machine learning technology for retail, Onsite sponsored product campaigns deliver the right product to the right shopper at the right time on relevant search, category, and product detail pages. This gives advertisers the opportunity to increase their share of the digital shelf and sales. 

On-site Sponsored Product Ad

About Onsite Sponsored Product Campaigns

Powered by the strongest machine learning technology for retail,  Auction campaigns deliver the right product to the right shopper at the right time on relevant search, category, and product detail pages. This gives advertisers the opportunity to increase their share of the digital shelf and sales.

An Auction campaign runs a first-price auction on a cost-per-click (CPC) model. Advertisers can choose the bid they’re willing to pay every time a shopper engages with their ad and take part in the inventory auction for a chance to win the placement.

Onsite Sponsored Product ads can be built for Auction campaigns. Onsite Sponsored Products match each retailer’s site and app pages for a seamless shopper experience. They consists of a sponsored SKU that blends in with organic content. The product images are taken directly from the retailer site so you can be sure the image a shopper sees in the ad matches the images a shopper sees on the retailer site.

Getting Started Guide

Campaign Overview

Campaigns in the Commerce Max Platform group your ads by their advertising budgets and attribution settings. They are the foundation of your advertising strategy and one of the core pillars of Commerce Max.

You can view and manage campaigns in the Campaign Section of the platform.

A campaign is characterized by 3 things: name, budget, and attribution model.

Campaigns & Line Items

Each campaign consists of one or several line items, which group your ads by retailer, dates, format, SKUs and targeting. You can run an ad only after creating a campaign and at least one-line item.

After building a campaign, you will be immediately prompted to build your first line item under that campaign. A campaign without an line item will not spend.

Campaigns & Balances

Each campaign is linked to one or several balances, which are the funds available for your ads and indicate how much the ads can spend. You cannot run an ad without creating at least one balance and assigning your campaign to it.


Balances can be managed in the Billing Section of the platform. Note that one balance can be linked to several campaigns.

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