Create Ads on a Large Scale

When creating large-scale campaigns, you also need to create ads on a large scale. For products in a similar category you typically want to use the same ads, but only replace the product name, "Get the latest <product> now", and replace product as many times as you have ads.

Run this code

import advertools as adv

products = ['Dubai', 'Tokyo', 'Singapore']
adv.ad_create(template='5-star Hotels in {}',
            replacements=products,
            max_len=30,
            fallback='Great Cities')

['5-star Hotels In Dubai',
'5-star Hotels In Tokyo',
'5-star Hotels In Singapore']

An important thing to to watch out for, is long product names. Since text ads have limits on each slot, you need to make sure you don't exceed that limit. For this you need to provide a fallback text in case the product name is longer than max_len.

Run this code

products = ['Lisbon', 'Porto', 'Algarve', 'Freixo de Espada à Cinta']
adv.ad_create(template='5-star Hotels in {}',
            replacements=products,
            max_len=30,
            fallback='Portugal')

['5-star Hotels In Lisbon',
'5-star Hotels In Porto',
'5-star Hotels In Algarve',
'5-star Hotels In Portugal']

ad_create(template, replacements, fallback, max_len=30, capitalize=True)

Insert each of the replacement strings in its place within template.

Parameters:

• template (str) -- A string format template, using braces e.g. "Get the latest {} today."

• replacements (list) -- Replacement strings to be inserted in template.

• fallback (str) -- The string to insert in template in case replacement is longer than max_len.

• max_len (int) -- The maximum allowed length of the full string.

• capitalize (bool) -- Whether or not to capitalize words in the result.

Returns:

formatted -- List of ads (strings).

Return type:

list

Examples

>>> ad_create("Let's count {}", ["one", "two", "three"], "one", 20)
["Let's Count One", "Let's Count Two", "Let's Count Three"]

>>> ad_create(
...     template="My favorite car is {}",
...     replacements=["Toyota", "BMW", "Mercedes", "Lamborghini"],
...     fallback="great",
...     max_len=28,
... )
['My Favorite Car Is Toyota', 'My Favorite Car Is Bmw',
'My Favorite Car Is Mercedes', 'My Favorite Car Is Great']

>>> ad_create(
...     "KeEP cApITalization {}",
...     ["As IS"],
...     fallback="fallback",
...     max_len=50,
...     capitalize=False,
... )
['KeEP cApITalization As IS']

>>> ad_create(
...     "This is very long and will produce and error",
...     replacements=["something", "long"],
...     fallback="Very long",
...     max_len=20,
... )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
File "<input>", line 26, in ad_create
ValueError: template + fallback should be <= 20 chars