Optimize your publishing campaign to control what genres of ads appear in your games, how often they appear, which users or devices will see them, and more!
Advanced Settings
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Select a publishing campaign from your dashboard. |
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Click Save when you’re done. |
Logic & campaign priority
- If you’re running multiple campaigns, Chartboost serves them ads in order of priority.
- Choose this campaign’s priority from Low to Highest. Learn more about logic & priorities ▶

Filtering by bundle version
- Prevent ads from showing in specific versions of your game.
- Enter a minimum and/or maximum version number for your app.

Blocking specific apps & companies
- Prevent specific games or companies from showing ads in your campaign.
- Click ▼ to expand the dropdowns and select apps or companies.
- You can also add a custom list of apps to block.
- Note that this option will be removed in June 2021. We highly recommend to start using the Block Apps by store/bundle ID option within the Monetization Settings instead. This new blocking feature also applies to the advertising apps through the Chartboost Exchange.

Blocking by age rating for 17+ or mature audiences
Check the Block 17+ box to prevent adult-oriented games from showing ads in your campaign.

Including or excluding devices with lists
- Use the List Builder to conveniently build and select whole lists of devices to include in or exclude from campaigns.
- Select whether you want this campaign to include or exclude a list.
- Select the list from the dropdown.

Callbacks
- Callbacks provide event notifications about clicks, video views, or converted installs.
- Set up a callback, then select it from the dropdown to add it to this campaign.

Campaign Targeting
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Select a publishing campaign from your dashboard. |
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Go to Campaign Targeting and make changes. Check out your options below. |
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Click Add Target to add more targets. Click ![]() |
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Click Save when you’re done. |
Targeting by genres, game audiences, & gender
- Choose which genres of ads you want to show in this campaign, which game audiences you want to target — hardcore, midcore, or casual — and which audience genders you want to target.
- Click on a category, checkmark the options you want, and then click Select.

Targeting by country
- Include or exclude specific countries from your publishing campaign.
- Click Target selected countries.
- Choose Include or Exclude, and then select countries from the dropdown menu.

Targeting by OS version
- Include or exclude specific OS versions from your publishing campaign.
- Click Target selected OS versions.
- Choose a minimum and maximum OS version.

Targeting by device type
- Include or exclude specific device series or models from your publishing campaign.
- Click Target selected device types.
- Choose Include or Exclude.
- Choose Series or Model, then select specific series or models to target.

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- Publishing Tips & Best Practices: Trusted strategies to optimize your campaign performance.
Last Updated on March 1, 2021