Outcome based buying

You’ll no longer be able to create new outcome based buying entities after June 1, 2023 followed by full deprecation on July 1, 2023. 

Learn more about the changes in Coming soon: Outcome based buying will be deprecated on July 1st, 2023.

You can change the billable outcome of your campaign to increase its overall performance and simplify measurement. When you pay for an outcome other than impressions (like clicks), you'll spend less time analyzing metrics that aren't as important to you (like impressions). You'll also increase performance by not paying for impressions that don't lead to your preferred outcome.  When you set an insertion order to use outcome based buying, the campaign's data is shared with Google to optimize performance.

Here's how:

1. Navigate to Partner settings   Advertiser configurations  scroll to Outcome based buying to enable your partner or advertiser.

2. Navigate to a new insertion order  Insertion order details  Goal  
   What goal would you like to focus on?
   1. Select CPA (cost per action) and enter an amount.​
3. Under Billable outcome What would you like to pay for?, choose a new outcome from the list.
   1. Insertion orders can't contain line items with different billable outcomes. Once an insertion order has been created with a given billable outcome, it can't be changed.

Billable outcome types

Clicks 

Pay for clicks. Keep in mind:

• Click outcomes can only be used with display line items with CPA bidding strategies. You can set target bidding goals per line item. Remember to set your CPA accordingly. It should be higher now that you are paying for clicks instead of impressions.
• In Display & Video 360 reporting, Post Click Conversions will equal Total Conversions (because conversions now only come from clicks). Post View Conversions will be zero.
• In Campaign Manager 360 reporting, Post View Conversions will still be counted.
• Line items must have at least 1 Floodlight activity assigned.

Data requirements

• Click based outcomes require a minimum of 10 Post Click Conversions per insertion order per day, and two Post Click Conversions per line item per day.

Viewable Impressions

Pay for Active View: Viewable impressions. Keep in mind:

• Viewable impression outcomes can be used with display and video line items with Maximize conversions or Maximize viewable impressions bid strategies.
• Native inventory is supported.

Limitations 

Features that rely on impressions aren't supported when not paying for impressions, including: impression based budgets, non-invoiceable CPM fees, attribution models for impressions, and average CPM constraints.

HTML5 creatives are supported for click outcomes, but note that a clickable overlay will be added to the creative to ensure that it's clickable. Creatives with other buttons or clickable elements should not be used, as the clickable overlay will block interactions with these buttons and redirect to the landing page instead.

Limitations:

• Third-party wrapped creatives are supported for Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify only. You'll need to contact Google Support to add IAS or DoubleVerify to your account's allow list

The following aren't supported:

• Creatives hosted outside of Display & Video 360 or Campaign Manager 360
• Custom bidding algorithms
• Non-clickable ads (when paying for clicks), and other ads that don't follow our advertising policies
• YouTube, Video (when using post click conversions), Native (when using post click conversions)
• Deal inventory
• Third party viewability targeting
• Rich Media custom metrics in Campaign Manager 360