Newsbreak and RedTrack
Newsbreak is the American’s leading local news app. The platform consists of thousands of publishing partners and independent contributors.
Newsbreak is integrated with RedTrack via API, which gives you the possibility to automatically update the costs.
Integration
Important before you start
Before you proceed with the integration, make sure to have the already added:
- Custom tracking domain
- Offer source and Offer (if you’re an Affiliate)/ Brand and Website (if you’re an Advertiser)
- Conversion types you’re planning to work with
Integration steps
1. Add Newsbreak template to RedTrack.
1.1 Traffic channels → New from template → find Newsbreak → Add → save the template:
1.2 Change the Cost update depth level (if needed) → Save changes to the template:
2. Integrate Newsbreak with RedTrack.
In the added Newsbreak traffic channel template go to NewsBreak API integration → add the API access token from Newsbreak (the token is provided by Newsbreak support) → Save changes to the template:
3. Set up a campaign in RedTrack with Newsbreak as a traffic source.
3.1 Campaigns → Create new campaign → use this guide (for Affiliates)/ this guide (for Advertisers) to help you create your campaign with Newsbreak as your traffic channel → once the Campaign is added, your tracking link is automatically created, copy Click URL:
3.2 In your campaign settings enable the Auto update costs toggle → Save changes to the campaign:
4. Set up the tracking on the Newsbreak side.
4.1 Set up the Postback in Newsbreak. Refer to this article for guidance.
4.2 Add RT Click URL to the Newsbreak Ad Campaign. Create your campaign in Newsbreak → Extra tracking Options → add the Click URL from RedTrack (copied in step 3.1) to the Third party click tracking URL field:
5. Set up the Postback URL in RedTrack.
In RedTrack go to campaign settings (created within step 3) → scroll down to S2S Postback for Newsbreak → Add → replace the conversion_event part with the actual conversion event type → Save changes to the campaign:
