Help Center
Help for publishers
Sell ad space in your newsletter.
From sign-up to your first paid impression
- 1What MailAdx is and how the sides fitAn ad exchange for email newsletters. Who does what, and how an ad gets from a campaign to a subscriber who opens the email.
- 2Create your accountSign up as a publisher, advertiser or agency, with an email address or with Google.
- 3Verify your emailConfirm your address so your account can go to review, and get a new link if the first one has expired.
- 4Account review and what pending meansWhat you can do while your account is in review, what unlocks once it's approved, and what to do if it isn't.
- 5The Getting started checklist and guided tourWhat the checklist on your Overview page tracks, how to hide it, and how the guided tour works.
- 6Add your newsletterGet a publisher account, fill in your details and see what you can do before your account is approved.
- 7Create an ad unitSet up one ad slot in your newsletter, with its placement key, format, accepted sizes and floor price.
- 8Place the ad tag in your newsletterCopy the tag for a slot, paste it into your email template and test it with a real send.
- 9Merge tags for your mailing platformThe exact value each mailing platform needs in your ad tag, and what to do if yours can't hash an email.
- 10Check Tag HealthSee every ad request from your newsletters, how it ended, and how to fix any problem with your tag.
- 11Fill in Inventory DetailsTell advertisers what you sell, read what was measured from your traffic and see your listing as buyers do.
- 12Publish your ads.txt lineVerify your newsletter with ads.txt, understand each check result and control how you appear in sellers.json.
- 13Choose who can buy your slotsTurn network campaigns, retargeting and your own advertiser account on or off for your newsletter.
- 14No ads are showingWork out why a newsletter slot is empty, from the tag to your account, your settings and your campaigns.
- 15See your publisher earnings and statementsWhere to see what you earned, why Revenue in reports is not the same as money credited, and how to get a statement.
Getting started
Create your account and get ready to run or sell ads.
Account and team
Your profile, your team, security and activity.
Selling your inventory
Ad units, tags, your mailing platform and who may buy from you.
- Ad branding on your slots
- Add your newsletter
- Block ad categories and brands
- Check Tag Health
- Choose who can buy your slots
- Connect your own DSP
- Create an ad unit
- Use your own domain for ad tags
- Merge tags for your mailing platform
- Fill in Inventory Details
- Give a sponsor a login
- No ads are showing
- Place the ad tag in your newsletter
- Publish your ads.txt line
- Read your Publisher Portal
- Reader location and mailboxes
- Run a campaign you sold yourself
- Set a floor price
- Upload subscriber details
Campaigns
Orders, line items, targeting, budgets and creatives.
Ad formats and audiences
Interactive ads, native ads, journeys, retargeting and leads.
- Audience data, consent and who can use it
- Build an interactive ad
- Create an interactive ad unit and copy its tag
- What interactive ads are
- Set up interactive ads on your newsletter
- What readers see when an interactive ad can't run
- Read your interactive ad reports
- Read and export your leads
- Run an interactive ad on a line item
Deals and policies
Private deals, political ads, traffic quality and your data.
- Accept political ads on your newsletter
- Restrictions, suspension and appeals
- Ad Choices and reader opt-outs
- What ads are allowed, and how to fix a rejection
- Answer a deal offer
- How deals work
- The public political ads library
- Run an agreed deal
- Start a deal
- Traffic quality and invalid traffic
- What verified inventory means
- Your data and privacy
Money
Wallet, invoices, statements and payouts.
- Add money to your wallet
- Add billing details and get your invoices
- Use a free impression grant
- How billing works for each deal type
- What happens when your wallet runs low or empty
- Read the Payouts card in your wallet
- See your publisher earnings and statements
- How publisher payouts work
- Check your balance and transactions
- Refunds, credits and invalid traffic adjustments
Reports and alerts
Read your numbers and act on what needs attention.
Still stuck? support@mailadx.com