Changelog¶

This page will list changes to the platform that happen often. It could be anything from a big new feature to bug fixes and interface tweaks.

14th November 2024¶

New Revenue Analytics Insights Hub providing in-depth revenue based analytical data across a range of individual views
New Core Web Vitals Insights providing analysis of CWV data over periods of time
Updated Publisher Dashboard with new statistics and Insight page links
Sidebar navigation offering new sub-level links

5th November 2024¶

New integration: Mantis

4th November 2024¶

New integration: Ex.Co (Video)

30th October 2024¶

New integration: Project Agora

14th October 2024¶

New integration: Nexxen

19th September 2024¶

Managed Ads.txt file link and instructions added within Ads.txt Requirements to allow publishers to direct to a hosted version of the file from their website domain.

17th September 2024¶

New integrations added: Epsilon (FKA Conversant), Teads, Media.net and OpenX

16th September 2024¶

New campaign reporting, providing visual insights, grouped table and raw data to analyse and track campaign performance and progress

19th August 2024¶

New Health Check Report (V2) with comprehensive reporting and metrics gathering

5th August 2024¶

New 'Load on scroll' behavior for Adhesion

24th July 2024¶

Option to support guaranteed roadblocks

17th July 2024¶

New "Auto-activate" setting for experiments, to activate the winner on completion
New experiment reporting, providing visual insights, raw data and various actions from one page

6th June 2024¶

New Exchange Insights feature added to Ads.txt Insights Hub page for more in-depth exchange analysis
New "Third Party Ads.txt Requirements" available in publisher settings for including other demand partner inventory to be tracked in Fusion

28th May 2024¶

New integrations: The MediaGrid and Opti Digital
New ad unit mapping ability. Added to: AdYouLike, IndexExchange, Pubmatic, Magnite, Sharethrough, Sovrn, TripleLift, Xandr

23rd May 2024¶

Introduced new Publisher Hub page for reporting on Ads.Txt Insights

13th May 2024¶

New integrations: AdHash, NoBid, Seedtag and Sharethrough

18th March 2024¶

New global search feature accessible from ⌘+P, allowing you to search across the whole system easily
Table search - search from the foot of most system tables for quick filtering
More consistent table actions via a single-action menu
Publisher Integrations: Connect in ad tech such as ad block recovery or CMPs
System Integrations: Connect analytics providers and communication tools such as Slack
Drag & drop ad stacks: Build incredibly powerful and flexible stacks (ad servers, ad demand, fallbacks) including Prebid and Amazon Publisher Services. Read more here: blog.contentignite.com
New "Month" reporting dimension, for a handy month-by-month breakdown of stats

1st February 2024¶

Introduced custom key-value mapping functionality, available through your account manager

31st January 2024¶

You can now set the 1x1 pixel unit to be injected at the top or bottom of the body element

28th November 2023¶

Live performance report now open to all users

6th November 2023¶

Introduced new viewport filtering for tag configs and experiments

14th August 2023¶

New reporting dimension & filter for "Campaign Name"
New reporting metrics "Campaign CTR" and "Campaign Clicks"
We have changed "Creative size" to a more true-to-life reporting dimension

27th July 2023¶

Added new reporting dimension & filter "Channel"

24th July 2023¶

Introduced "double wildcard" for expanded config URL path matching

19th June 2023¶

New "All" option for "Rows per page" on tables
Persistent "Rows per page" selection
Fixed header layout to no longer hide elements

18th May 2023¶

Implemented new MCM structure, enforcing a direct and unique link between MCM and platform organisation. This makes MCM manageable from the integrations section and improves the structure of the supply chain object and our sellers.json, while also consolidating our contentignite.com ads.txt requirements
UI tweaks to integration selection
Fixed reporting bug where selected date ranges shift when saved
Tag configs are now enabled by default for inactive publisher tags
There is now a handy link to a publishers site on the publishers dashboard

3rd April 2023¶

IAB 1x1 unit moved to new "Pixel" unit
IAB units now support multi-size
Adhesion, In-Image and In-Article now support size customisation
Introduced audience filter to tag configs
Introduced tag config scheduling
New "Experiments" to pit two or more tag configs against one another
All filters now show in the tag config lists as icons for quick reference
Tag configs can now be named to help identify them
New refined design to tag config fields
Refined design for publisher dashboard
Improved responsive mobile design
Revenue report has become a report builder, to customise fields and filters and save for repeated use
Introduced lower level reporting now down to: config id, device, geo, creative size, yield partner, platform
Added new health report metrics; "Tag latency" & "CMP not found"
Organisation domain is a new and required field for better supply chain handling
List searches can follow the first match with the return key (cmd+p to search, return to follow)

10th February 2023¶

Reduced minimum audience character length to 2
Fixes for custom branding fields not saving
Fixed issue where SaaS reports were not getting imported daily
Fixed issue that prevented seller IDs showing as ads.txt requirements

10th January 2023¶

New platform onboarding guide with walkthrough
New publisher approval process
New publisher go-live task list UI with more detailed steps
Performance improvement for publisher stats graph and the performance report page
New "Incomplete supply chain" metric in health report
Self guided MCM set up for new publishers
Fix for 'Single-Serve' units where user were told the target field was required
Revamped dashboard, see page impressions on a bigger performance graph and see viewability & CTR's at a glance
Better consistency for statuses; colors and title, across all entities
Better search matching across all entities
Simplified legal help center, explaining our use of (or should we say, non-use of) PII
Filter on publisher label in revenue report
Fix to ensure integration filters are applied to current org and its children only

31st October 2022¶

Fixed issue causing some SaaS records to be missing from revenue report
Added note on setting up SaaS video config inside GAM

19th October 2022¶

Removal of upfront SaaS vs P&P choice (read more in our blog post)
- Choose your ad server per tag config for super flexible setups
- New billing options to accommodate mixed setups
New integrations section to manage multiple ad server connections under one organisation
- Ability to drop in your own ad servers ads.txt requirements
- Target individual ad servers to particular child organisations or publishers
Refined user role management via a new interface
Overhauled docs site with lots more content! (more to come...)
Ability for white labelled platforms to change the "About our ads" link on our ad units
Publisher onboarding now correctly skips steps that don't apply to SaaS customers
Ability to control invoice information (Tax ID and Country) at any time
Ability to easily set dashboard currency independent of billing details
Onboarding is now much more streamlined
SaaS connections now benefit from deeper API integration to select ad units from a list

16th August 2022¶

Upgraded revenue report
- Summary footer is back after a previous regression
- Change the aggregation function used for the footer summary per column
- Group by any column

1st July 2022¶

Video v2.0 launched in beta
- Auto-generated content
- Video uploads and playlist
- New behaviour to "Stick on load"
- Ability to mute video by default
- Media library
Revamped revenue report
- New video metrics
- Ability to pin columns
- Reorder, resize and show/hide columns
- Sort and filter by multiple columns
- Table preferences are stored across page views
URL segmentation moved from publisher settings to audiences
Ability to set your own "Key" for audiences
New publisher branding and RSS feed fields
Tag build status now updated without updating page
New "Prefix text" field in certain unit configs (YMAL removed from publisher settings)

4th April 2022¶

Changed how fill is calculated in the revenue report; this now matches Googles calculation of ad responses / ad requests and will no longer exceed 100% when ad refresh is enabled.
Pubmatic stats are now correctly stored using monetised impressions rather than total impressions, no longer skewing reporting stats.

29th March 2022¶

User & Organisation that are archived are now hidden from the UI (bug fix)
Revenue report will no longer show "-" as unit for some records
Interstitial units are now full configs (not a toggle under publisher settings)
Introduced shortcuts for search (⌘+p) and creating new (n)
New table actions menu for publisher configs
Device icons in publisher configs table
Onboarding now takes into account child organisations (bug fix)
Improved consistency when using the word "Impressions", page vs ad now clearly differentiated
New publisher upload option: Bulk upload & duplicate from another publisher
Publisher label now correctly used in dashboard stats
SaaS billing is now handled per ad unit, taking the greatest value from ad impression vs ad unit impressions for each used ad unit
SaaS reporting now uses monthly impression totals to give an accurate eCPM and therefore accurate costings
SaaS reporting now breaks reports down to the ad unit level
[Regression] Billing terms removed from billing page, these terms are agreed with your account manager up front, please reach out if you would like these resupplied at any point
[Regression] Channel partner organisations and referrer users no longer get access to reporting for their target organisation by default, speak to the organisation directly to get access if needed. Invoicing summaries continue as normal.

11th February 2022¶

Upgraded Google sync, this now happens on tag build to ensure that everything is perfectly in place for the latest tag build
Tag build status information now shown on hover
MCM id field introduced

8th February 2022¶

Dark mode made a lot.. Darker...

28th January 2022¶

New tag build system in place, you will now see the status of this process
New organisation tag launched

17th January 2022¶

Introduced "Target Injection" option to inject ads inside and above chosen target

13th January 2022¶

Moved all URL based targeting to URL path targeting for consistency and simplicity
Launched v1 Video unit

20th December 2021¶

Added ability to duplicate a tag config

9th December 2021¶

New URL path targeting for tag configs

5th November 2021¶

New device targeting for tag configs
New 1x1 IAB unit size option

24th August 2021¶

Big content update to help docs
New Content Recommendation unit
New dashboard! See insights across your network in one place
Health report (combines and replaces drop and ads.txt reports)
Yield report has been merged into revenue report
New publisher page
- Guided tour
- Onboarding checklist
- Supporting Google MCM
- New quick integration option (DFP)
Ads.txt upgrades to accurately report on requirements

10th June 2021¶

Introduced segment based audiences
Bulk matching now available in audience builder
Negative term matching made available
Live reach counter in audience builder
Live term search
All charts have been replaced with new design
Fixed "Loading chunk failed" errors

9th March 2021¶

Rolled out our OpenWrap partner support opening up additional ad demand

8th March 2021¶

Fixed issue where payments were showing against all "pay parent" organisations

23rd February 2021¶

Released our Audience Builder in limited availability
Fixed issue with parent organisation field being uneditable

22rd February 2021¶

Introduced 15 minute browser cache to reflect config changes more quickly

28th January 2021¶

Removed "High Viewability" publisher toggle; this is now a default feature
Introduced "Interstitial" publisher toggle
Fixed issue where Google Ad Manager sync was incorrectly showing as not connected

11th January 2021¶

Introduced organisation management functionality
Introduced user management functionality
Introduced "Invoice Parent" toggle
Introduced auto-invoicing and billing for referrer and channel partner payments
Introduced billing management for user targeted invoices
Introduced additional inter-currency payment methods for P&P organisations and users
Introduced infinite organisational hierarchy model
Billing status is now color coded for visual identification, and shows the last updated date

2nd December 2020¶

Introduced two additional IAB sizes: 125x125 (Button), 320x100 (Large Mobile Banner)

26th November 2020¶

Invoices and payments are now split out in the billing history table
Added new logo field for white label to customise favicon
General tweaks to white labelled assets to better mirror chosen colors

21st October 2020¶

Introduced our contextual offering in βeta
Additional options in publisher settings for enabling:
- Tag debugging
- Contextual (βeta)
- High viewability (βeta)
- βeta tag
Publisher field for fixing CSS conflicts

27th July 2020¶

Launched new Ad Manager integration, allowing for one time authentication for a more streamlined work flow
On boarding tasks now link to their relevant sections
Users can now cancel their payment details, and recreate at will
CSS tweaks can now easily be applied on a per publisher basis, reach out to your account manager who can apply these tweaks for you
Fixed issue in Safari where search field and action button would span multiple lines

21th July 2020¶

Fixed issue where "YMAL" field was uneditable

13th July 2020¶

Opened up API reporting access, check it out and give us your feedback!

9th July 2020¶

Introduced branding options for SaaS and white label customer, this includes: primary color & brand logo, both with light and dark theme options
Updated legal help centre design; easier to navigate and branded by default using the new branding options

10th June 2020¶

Corrected an issue where CPM and RPM columns were showing the wrong way around
Corrected a decimal place issue with billing estimate inside the SaaS impressions report

9th June 2020¶

Upgraded publisher insights graph. We now have the ability to toggle between various presets
Added ability to archive a publisher from the publisher settings page
Added ability to close the live chat bubble for when it blocks an interface element
Added ability for unsupported SaaS payment countries to skip payment set up

8th June 2020¶

Fixed bug in the revenue report for P&P customers where the two impression columns where the wrong way around
Fixed bug which caused ad unit impressions to all display the same value for a given day and publisher

4th June 2020¶

Added support for 25 new currencies for P&P customers
Added footnotes wherever currency is used to state the currency code, to clarify the currency symbol meaning

3rd June 2020¶

Added live chat bubble to help with any integration issues more efficiently

1st June 2020¶

Official BETA launch. Hello world!