Private campaigns

Restrict your offer to specific publishers - useful for exclusive deals, quality control, or testing with one partner before opening it up.

By default every campaign you launch is public - every publisher on the network can see it in their offers list and run it. That's the right setting for most campaigns. For some cases though, you want tighter control over who runs your offer. That's what private campaigns are for.

When to use a private campaign

Exclusive deals. You negotiated a special rate or promo with one specific publisher and don't want anyone else to see it.
Quality control. Your offer requires a particular kind of audience and you've vetted specific publishers. Locking it to those publishers prevents misalignment.
Compliance. Some offers are only legally valid on certain types of sites - a private campaign keeps you out of regions or contexts where it shouldn't run.
Testing. You want to validate creative + landing-page performance with one trusted publisher before scaling.

How to make a campaign private

Open the campaign detail page (Campaigns → click your campaign's name).
Find the Visibility & access section near the top.
Click Make private.
An approval list appears. Add publishers by their account ID (a number) or the email they signed up with.

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The moment you flip a campaign to private, it stops serving everywhere - including on publishers who already pasted the snippet. They'll see and serve it again only after you approve them. Plan the cutover carefully if the campaign is already live.

Approving publishers

The approval form accepts either:

Publisher account ID - a number like 17. Your publisher partner can find this on their Settings page under "Account ID".
Publisher email - the email they signed up with. Same field on their Settings page.

You don't need to ask them for their authentik or technical IDs - the account ID is the user-friendly identifier.

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You can pre-populate the approval list before flipping the campaign to private, so the cutover is smoother. The list just gets ignored while the campaign is still public.

Revoking a publisher

Click the icon at the right of any row in the approved-publishers table. They'll stop seeing the offer immediately and any snippets they already pasted stop serving on the next request.

Going back to public

You can flip a private campaign back to public any time. Click Make public. The approval list stays where it is (in case you want to flip back to private later), but it's ignored while public.

What publishers see

Approved publishers see private campaigns in their Offers page alongside public ones. Nothing identifies the offer as "exclusive" - the price they're paid is the same as if it were public.

Unapproved publishers simply don't see the offer at all. They can't tell whether the campaign exists or not.

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