Use buyer monitoring grids

Microsoft Invest consists of these three grids: Advertisers, Insertion Orders, and Line Items. These buyer monitoring grids help campaign managers monitor delivery and performance for insertion orders and line items across advertisers.

View metrics

Various metrics are available and organized as follows per grid:

Grid Description
Advertisers Metrics are organized by advertiser to present a holistic delivery and performance outlook for each one.
Insertion Orders and Line Items Metrics are organized by object.
The Insertion Orders and Line Items grids consist of three tabs: Upcoming, In Progress, and Completed. Insertion orders and line items move into the:
- Upcoming tab on the hour that they go live.
- In Progress tab when they are between flights (start date/time of the first flight and end date/time of the last flight).
- Completed tab on the hour that they have completed.

The metrics provided on these tabs will vary.

These metrics are cached regularly to provide fast access. Use the tooltips that display at the top of each column to better understand how these metrics are calculated.

Note

Because these metrics are cached more regularly than the reporting data, there may be discrepancies between them. For more information, see Availability of Reporting Data.

Search for objects

You can use the search field at the top of the buyer monitoring grids to search for objects by name, ID, or code.

Note

Inactive objects will display with their name, ID, and metrics grayed out.

If you don't know the specific name, ID, or code for an object, search for it using the pagination functionality at the bottom of the grids:

  1. Select the number of rows that you want to display per page by selecting a value from the Rows per page menu.
  2. Enter a specific page in the designated text field or select the right arrow to navigate from page to page.

Configure custom filters

You can create, apply, and save custom filters. To configure custom filters:

  1. Select Advanced Filters.
  2. Make your selections.
  3. Select the arrow to the right of the Apply button.
  4. Select Apply and Save As. To apply a filter to the grid without saving it for future use, select the Apply button.
  5. Enter a name for the new filter.
  6. Select the Make Default checkbox if you want the filter to be automatically applied to the grid by default.
  7. Select the Apply and Save As button.
    All saved filters are available from the Select a Filter pull-down menu. To remove an applied filter, select Clear All. You can update any saved filter at any time. To update any of the saved filters, select the Edit link or select Advanced Filters. From the Advanced Filters dialog, you can rename, delete, or make the saved filter a default filter.

Sort and show/hide columns

Select the name of the column to sort columns in ascending or descending order.

You can also choose the columns that you want to show or hide by selecting Modify Columns. This opens the Modify Columns dialog. Select or deselect the columns that you want to show or hide.

View object details

To view specific object details, select anywhere in the corresponding row in the grid. From the Details pane, you can view the necessary details for that object and additional details for child objects.

To view child object details:

  1. Select the Associated Objects menu on the right of the Details pane.
  2. Select the appropriate object category such as Creatives.

For more information, see View Advertiser Details, View Insertion Order Details, and View Line Item Details.