Manage your deals

If you have access to manage deals, you can do so through the Marketplace Deals page, once the deal has completed the negotiation phase. The Deals page includes your deals as well as those from your clients and child seats. Including child seat deals allows you to monitor their performance and compliance more easily.

Authorized Buyers accounts can be used by the Authorized Buyer themselves (the parent “seat” on the exchange), their clients, or child seats. A child seat is an entity (typically an agency) who has their own Authorized Buyers account that they manage themselves. The child seat may give another demand-side platform (DSP) access through a sign-in.

Jump to a section of the article:

• Access and manage deals
• Export deals
• Pause a deal
• Monitor bid compliance
• Review deal health metrics
• See which buyer gets billed for the deal
• Review a deal's delivery progress

Access and manage deals

To access and manage your deals:

1. Sign in to Authorized Buyers.
2. Click Marketplace, and then Deals.
   By default, active deals are shown on top.
3. To apply a filter, next to , click Add filter and select an option:
   • Deal ID: filter by entering a specific Deal ID
   • Name: filter by entering a deal's name (all deals with names containing your entry will appear in the results)
   • Publisher: filter by entering a publisher's name (all publishers with names containing your entry will appear in the results)
   • Type: filter by selecting deal types (Preferred Deal, Private Auction, or Guaranteed)
   • Status: filter by selecting the status of guaranteed deals (Active, Ended, or Paused) 
     You can see whether a deal is "Active," "Completed," "Paused by buyer," or "Paused by seller" in the "Status" column of the table.   
4. (Optional) To view details on any deal, click the name of the deal.
   You can see the various stages of proposals, view the change log, or view RTB Breakout to see real-time bidding activity for the deal.

Export deals

You can use "Export" to download all deals from the table to a CSV file. Note that any filters you've applied will apply to the deals exported in the CSV file. 

To export deals to a CSV file:

1. Sign in to Authorized Buyers.
2. Click Marketplace, and then Deals.
3. Click  Export.

Pause a deal

You can pause a single deal without pausing other deals in a proposal. An email notification is sent to the other party when you or the seller pause or resume a deal.

To pause a deal:

1. Sign in to Authorized Buyers.
2. Click Marketplace, and then Deals.
3. To the left of the deal name, click the "Active" icon  and select Pause from the dropdown.
4. In the pop-up that appears, enter a reason for pausing, which the seller will see.
5. Click Pause.

Monitor bid compliance

Bid compliance metrics show the median bid rate for Programmatic Guaranteed bid requests marked as "must_bid=true".

Authorized Buyers within parent-level seats can review bidder-level bid compliance metrics in the following locations on the "Deals" page:

• Above the table, next to "Bid compliance": View percentages for the previous calendar month and the current month to date. These overall metrics aggregate data for deals running on both the parent and child seats (if any exist).
• On the table, in the "Bid compliance" column: View percentages listed by individual deal.

Review deal health metrics

To help Authorized Buyers within parent-level seats to monitor programmatic deal health and identify deals that require troubleshooting, in the table on the "Deals" page, review the following metrics:

• Impressions (last 7 days):
• Bid requests (last 7 days)
• Bids (last 7 days)
• Bid rate (last 7 days): Calculated as “Bids / Bid requests.”
• Filtered bid rate (last 7 days): Calculated as “(Bids - bids in auction) / Bids.”

See which buyer gets billed for the deal

To help decide whether the deal is yours, your clients’, or a child seat deal, the Billed buyer column shows which buyer actually gets billed for the deal.

Review a deal's delivery progress

To review delivery progress for a deal:

1. Sign in to Authorized Buyers.
2. Click Marketplace, and then Deals.
3. On the table, review the "Deliver progress" column for a deal.
   Learn about interpreting delivery progress for Guaranteed deals or non-guaranteed deals. 

Guaranteed deals with an absolute goal (x number of impressions)

The progress is calculated as the percentage of impression goal delivered divided by the percentage of time elapsed:

progress = (% of impression goal delivered) / (% of time elapsed)

Delivery progress assumes an even distribution of impressions. For example, a deal that has delivered 50% of its impression goal 50% of the way through the campaign has a progress of 100%. However, a deal that’s delivered 50% of its impression goal at the end of day 3 of a 4-day-long campaign would have a progress of:

50 / 75 = 66%

Note that the percentage is rounded down. For example, 66.67% displays 66%

Review the value under Delivery progress:

• If the value is 100%, the proportion of impressions delivered is currently equal to the proportion of time elapsed in the campaign.

• If the value is greater than 100%, the proportion of impressions delivered is currently greater than the proportion of time elapsed in the campaign.

• If the value is less than 100%, the proportion of impressions delivered is currently less than the proportion of time elapsed in the campaign.

• If the value is N/A, the deal has no quantity goals, or sufficient information doesn't exist.

Non-guaranteed deals

For non-guaranteed deals like preferred deals or private auctions, the column shows a bar graph of impressions over the past week, as well as the number of impressions delivered on the most active day during the week.

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