 Hi everyone, welcome back to the channel. So today I wanted to cover some details around the off-site ads, how they interact or not interact with promoted listings standard, as well as the offer that the site is currently offering to use and redeem against an off-site ad campaign. Now, just to clarify straight ahead of time, I'm on eBay UK. The specifics of the discount may differ for .com, so you may want to double check some of these points with your customer services to make sure that they still cover the same for yourself. So let's go into this straight away. So we can see here from my screen that we have the offer of the redeemable discount against an off-site ad beta campaign stating that it will give you up to a £100 discount to create your first off-site ad on beta. The offer ends or the activation ends by the 31st of December. We're currently on the 5th of December now, so we've got 26 days left, which means that that campaign window to activate is less than a month now. So I wanted to check on how this is going to affect my current promoted listings on the platform. So I've got some questions together for customer services and we did call them and we went through the questions. The advisor, the first call actually, once I started questioning what I wanted to check on, the call got dropped, whether they dropped it, got dropped, transferred, dropped, however, we all know the scenario of how these happen. I had to call back again. The advisor stated they dealt with this, but I don't think they did, and then had to go away and check details. So I was put on hold several times. I have cut out the whole music, but I will play the calls. But before I go into that, I just wanted to clarify the questions I wanted to ask them, and then we can listen to the call and work from there. So my first question was the obvious one, which is, if I run an off-site ad campaign, would it stop the promoted listing standard promotion impressions? Because obviously when you read, when you're creating an off-site ad campaign, it says that you can only have one or the other. Well, this is incorrect, specifically. So what it basically means is you can run promoted off-site ads campaign or the beta campaigns at the same time as your promoted listing campaigns. The only thing it doesn't do is on the promoted listing standard, if there's any part of that that promotes off-site, that part will not happen. It will still promote on-site. All the aspects that promoted listing standards does on-site still happens. The off-site part won't happen if you have an off-site ad beta campaign running that covers those specific listings that you have promoted. So you can have both. It just means that one will be on-site, one will be off-site, so they are both being promoted at the same time, which is great. Whether this happens, we shall see. I wanted to try it out. I wanted to give you the information and we'll see on a daily or by daily or a few daily basis. We'll have a look and see how it works and see when it activates and when it runs. So what I wanted to go into here, there was a couple of points within it that I wanted to just double check on. So as we say, yes, we've got the £100 discount to create your first off-site ads beta campaign. You need to activate it before the 31st of December, midnight UK. From there, there is a Terms and Conditions tab. Now, when you click on this, it brings you to this page. Now, from here, we can see that the £100 will automatically be deducted from your off-site ads beta ad fees. Now, I did double check how that actually works and we'll listen to the call and it'll answer the question. But the questions that I wanted to ask were, one, is there a minimum daily spend? So I have noticed on some of the US videos where they've stated that there's a minimum $5 spend. Whether that's the fact or not, I don't know. But I do know on UK, we asked them the question, is there a minimum spend? Because obviously, if it's $100, they give you on an average month campaign. If you cancel early, there is a penalization costing which has been mentioned on the US videos. I still don't know if that actually runs on UK. It was one question I forgot to ask. I do apologize. But they did say that the £100 is credited to the campaign straight away. And it is then as the day calculates how much it's using, it will take it out of that £100 credit pot as it were first. If you then go beyond the £100, it will then charge you on a daily basis of what you're using. So I will go through creating the details here. We can see also I wanted to check, could we then just use the £100, spread it across the remaining days of the month. I think it still needs to be a full month, not just a case of 26 days left to activate it. So you can activate it for 26 days, but the campaign length must be for a month. At which point we'll have a look and see, excuse me, we'll see how that goes. So I'll just cut that short there for the moment and we'll go over to the call and we'll listen to that and then we'll come back and discuss some more details. And if you're finding any of this of any use or any benefit, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button if you want to get future content. Share if you wish. Let's get this out to the community as a whole. Let more people understand exactly how this is going to work. And then from there we can all benefit. If you have any comments, you have any experiences, by all means pop it in the comments below. We can then discuss that in future content and we can then pass that information on to the wider audience as well. Okay, so let's get straight into it. Yes, I need to speak to someone that deals with promotions that you send out to us. Yeah, you've sent me a promotion for £100 off £100 discount off on the costs of the paper clip, paper clip, paper click for the offsite ads campaign that you've got running at the moment. I'm after some details to clarify before I go ahead and activate it. I'm just wanting some details to what it does, how it works, how it's being charged, etc. Yes, thank you. Hello. Hello, thank you so much for having me on the line. I just checked on this one and the offsite ads, these promotions, as it shows there are these offsite ads, you should increase your traffic on your listing. Right, okay, can I stop you there? I don't need you to tell me what offsite ads are. I'm aware of that. That's not what I'm getting at. I received a communication from yourselves. They're offering me £100 redeemable offer discount off of my offsite ads campaign. If I create it somewhere between the 15th of November and the 31st of December. Now I need to clarify some points around the offer and I also need to clarify some points around the campaign itself. So I need to speak to somebody who deals with the offsite ads beta campaigns and the offer. Okay, so let me just say this again. You've sent me a communication for £100 off of my offsite ads beta campaign this peak season. Okay, so my first question then is if I create the campaign today, do you automatically discount the £100 straight away to the campaign? Or do you take or do you credit it to the account as it's used? Does that make sense? So obviously there's a daily limit you can put on your campaign, which I'll come to in a bit. But does it just say I put say £5 a day, £10 a day, whatever. Does it then just zero that amount cost for the day at the end of the day? Or does it credit the campaign instantly with £100? And then if there's anything else accrued beyond that, then I get charged. Which way? How does it work? Thank you. The thing is, as you said, you have the limited amount that you can put for a day. But the thing is, until £100 you don't get charged anything. Right. Okay. So to clarify again then, so it would activate the redemption of the offer. And then if I said, for example, £5 a day for sake of conversation, at the end of the day, where it accrues to £5 it will then just zero itself. Okay, so that is exactly how it's done. I just need to confirm this with you before I go ahead. So you're 100% sure that's how it happens. Yes. Okay. So I can hold you to that, yes? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So it's credited instantly. And then until you use anything above or beyond the £100 it won't charge. Yeah. If you use above 100 then you'll get charged. Until 100 pounds you don't get charged anything. Okay. So on the back of that I've heard that there is a minimum daily spend that you have to select, which is £5. Can you confirm this? So if I was to start a campaign regardless of the offer, the minimum daily spend is £5 for the paper clicks. Whilst you're looking at that, the reason I'm asking that is if it is a minimum of £5 spend and there is £100 off that wouldn't cover the full campaign. What that would basically do because obviously if you say an average of 30 days in a month that would mean that a minimum pet spend of £5 today would be £150 total for a month's campaign. So what I'm trying to work out is does it charge me £150 to my account straight away which puts me in a negative £150 or does it just put it at negative 50 or does it just accrue as and when it goes outside of the £100 offer? Does that make sense? Yeah. This will cover so... Yeah because I don't want my account balance to be sitting on like minus 50 or minus 150 or something because then any sales I get I'm not getting any payouts until this accrued is out the way. Does that make sense? I'm not sure if it's on a daily basis it'll charge the account of what it uses if it needs to charge or does it charge it all up front or does it you know this is what I'm trying to work out? Everything because of the resolution right? For sure, thank you. How do I feel something? Is it okay if you give me the points that you want to know and I can check on everything? A few minutes and check on everything? Yeah well some of them lead into other things and they're more detailed so I don't want to throw them all out at once but firstly is there a minimum daily spend? Yeah. Secondly, does it charge my account with the full campaigns cost straight away or does it just accrue to the account on a daily basis? So we'll start with those. Just a few minutes and I'll... Yes of course, thank you. I was just checking with one of our experts that we have that we can consult with and I wanted to make sure that I got everything right so I just checked on this one. There is no minimum charge that you have to do. You can for example put it as two pounds, three pounds, five pounds, whatever you want. See that it's going to charge you, it's going to charge you day by day after the 100 pounds. So after you spend 100 pounds you're going to be charged day by day as it goes. Okay that's brilliant, thank you. Right so that actually finishes some of my questions so I could technically work out say for example if it's 100 pounds and then literally do 100 divided by 30 for example so that's like three pound 33. So for example if I set it to about three pound or three 33 whatever then there would be no additional cost. It would literally stay within the allowance of the free promotional offer. Would that sound right? Yeah and since this, since it's the 6th of December and it's until 21 of December. 31st yeah so it's even less isn't it so that's even better. Yeah it's 26 days. 26 so 100 divided by 26 so I could set it for three pound 84. Okay that's wonderful thank you for that. So on the back of that the next question then is obviously at the moment I promote all of my listings with promoted listing standard. Now I know this is onsite promotion. Now it does say when I originally looked at offsite ads it says you don't get double promotion. So what it basically says is if you choose the offsite ads campaign it promotes offsite under that campaign but then it won't do any offsite promoted impressions under the promoted listing standard campaign. So I get that part but what I wanted to double check is if I leave everything as my standard promoted listing campaign but then additionally choose. The pay-per-click option any listings that are covered under the pay-per-click. I appreciate it won't use promoted listing standards to promote offsite but does it still promote onsite even though I have them both running at the same time. Does that make sense because I don't want I don't want to lose my onsite promotion under promoted listing campaigns. If I'm going to run the offsite ads which is specifically for offsite does that make sense. Yeah I understand you're asking for any pay you want to still have the promoted listing standard running on that on those listings but I also then want to separately run offsite ad promotion on the pay-per-click. So I just want to make sure that it does understand the one is onsite promotions and the other is offsite and will it run them both on the same listings. Otherwise there's no point of promoting offsite because it will only give me the offsite promotion and I'll lose all my onsite promotion which loses positioning on searches etc. Thank you very much. Hello. Thank you so much for writing on the line. So I just checked on that one and as I can see this is the thing is this promotion is just for outside of eBay. So everything that you have on eBay is going to be the same like if you have the listing promoted on eBay the listing are going to stay promoted. If you have just to activate this offer this is going to give you the ability outside of eBay so you can also have the items promoted on eBay and outside of it. Excellent that's wonderful thank you that that's absolutely answered every question I have there thank you very much. eBay we have a site for this kind of campaign I'm going to send you my email to link if you want. I think it will automatically do it because obviously within that coup I mean you can send it that would be great but in the coupon email it says activate now and then when you click on the terms and conditions there is also an option to activate it from there. So I would imagine once you activate there it will probably give you an option to start a campaign but yes please send me the link and then obviously at least I've got that as an extra. Yeah this link is just explaining more. Okay. You also have some questions that are frequently asked from buyers and sellers. Okay I'm going to send the link right now and you have it on both your ebay messages and email. Thank you very much. Yes I think you've covered absolutely everything there thank you so much. Thank you take care bye bye. So there we have it so it's clarified a few points which is good there's no minimum spend so you don't actually find yourself committing yourself to over stretching on your financial budget on a campaign. You are charged daily. The discount is credited to the campaign instantly and you don't start getting charged until you've gone beyond that hundred pounds. So I'm going to set up the campaign. I'm going to keep an eye on how long it takes for it to start working. And we will see what sort of success or lack of success that you receive from this campaign in the current climate and will work from there. So hopefully this is going to be a good test for those that are considering using the offsite promotions and from there we can see some results. So I hope this was of help and if you have any questions drop them in the comments below. Okay take care and keep you real.