Create unforgettable digital experiences with our campaign publisher. Write articles, upload videos, add images, polls, links, and more. Use our drag-and-drop content blocks and rich designer to make your content more visually appealing than ever before. Just one campaign design can be sent to email, mobile app, web experience, and any other system that you've connected to your Firstup platform, just with the click of a button. This article helps you with your most basic campaign creation steps, but we also have articles on creating specific styles of campaigns, like newsletters or polls.
How to Create a New Campaign
- Sign in to Creator Studio.
- From the left navigation menu, select Create.
Note: Campaigns autosave as a draft after 30 seconds once a template or simple template is selected, or once a content block is added to a blank campaign. If a user leaves the page without explicitly saving changes made within that time frame, the changes will not be automatically retained. Drafts can be edited from the Draft tab by selecting the 3 vertical dots and clicking Edit.
- Click Blank to create a new campaign, a simple template, or a pre-designed template.
- Compose your post. (Refer to our block type articles to learn how to create specific blocks.)
- Using a simple template selection, the block is automatically created for you. When selecting a blank campaign, click on + Add block to add a block of content.
Select your blocks from multiple categories and click the Select blocks button to return to the Design page.
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To add an additional block of content, hover over the block to choose from a selection of simple blocks, or click on the plus sign to choose from the full library of content blocks.
You can also click on the block icon to add frequently used blocks.
- Using a simple template selection, the block is automatically created for you. When selecting a blank campaign, click on + Add block to add a block of content.
- Hover over existing content blocks to edit, duplicate, style (individually), save, or delete. Blocks can be rearranged by clicking on the six dots to the left of the block and dragging and dropping.
- Click on the Style tab to review Global Styles panel for the entire campaign. Fonts, colors, and formatting styles applied on this panel will be applied to all blocks in your campaign that have not already been individually styled. Refer to Global and Individual Block Styles for more details.
Note: All font sizes are in px (not pt).
- Click on the Cover tab to control how the content cover will appear in feed-like views such as the mobile app or web experience. Upload an image or select an existing image from the campaign, and add a title and description.
Note: If “Use text and images from content” is checked, the title and description will be hidden from the post details info panel in the member experience. This will avoid replication of this content in the post. However, if this option is unchecked, a new title and description will need to be added or the existing title and description will be duplicated in the info panel.
Example: "Use text and images from content" checked (title and description hidden from info panel)
Example: "Use text and images from content" unchecked (title and description duplicated in info panel)
Example: "Use text and images from content" unchecked (title and description updated)
- Click Preview to send a test email for the campaign before publishing.
- Once you've finished editing your campaign, you can click on the campaign menu to save as a draft or a template, as well as to view other options.
- Or click Deliver in the bottom navigation bar to move on to Deliver.
- Configure the Deliver settings.
- Click Review in the bottom right corner to review your campaign summary and projected delivery.
- On the Review tab, review the campaign summary and projected delivery details.
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Then schedule and click Publish to publish the campaign, or Content Creators can save the campaign as a draft for review by selecting the save icon from the top right corner.
Note: Once a campaign has been scheduled or published, the campaign will no longer autosave. If a user leaves or refreshes the page without explicitly saving changes they’ve made, the changes will not be automatically retained.
Additional Resources
Training
To dive deeper into campaign creation, we encourage you to check out the following courses in the Firstup Training Center:
- Campaign Basics for Brand Super Admins
- Campaign Basics for Community Admins
- Campaign Basics for Content Publishers
- Campaign Basics for Content Creators
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