How do I view an ad on a site?
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Available for display campaigns and unified performance campaigns.
You can see what your ad looks like on any site without spending your budget on it. You can do this only if your ad has passed moderation and your campaign is running.
You can preview ads only in the Yandex Advertising Network, search results, and the product gallery. Preview is not available for other placements, including Telegram channels, dynamic placements in search results, promotion in Yandex Maps, the service gallery, and the list of organizations in search results.
How do I preview an ad?
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On the Campaigns page, select your campaign from the list, go to the Ads tab, and choose the ad you want to preview. You can only preview the ads that are in the Ads are served status. In the upper-right corner, click
→ Preview ad.
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The preview window will open. Allow cookies and click Preview. The cookie is stored in your browser. The lifetime of a cookie is 10 minutes.
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Before previewing in the Safari browser, disable Prevent cross-site tracking or you will get an error. To do this, click Safari → Settings at the top. Disable Prevent cross-site tracking under Privacy.
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During this time, you can view the ad on any site where it can be displayed (for example, sites where the ad has already been served). You can view a list of these sites either in a new window (after clicking the Preview button and completing the preview settings) or in the Report Wizard. If you can't find the ad, try refreshing your page several times or viewing it on another site.
You can only view the ad in the browser where you saved the cookies. Incognito mode in Yandex Browser or similar modes in other browsers must be disabled.
How to preview an ad based on its placement:
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Yandex Advertising Network: Go to the site, and the ad will automatically be served in the available ad units.
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Yandex Search and other search sites: Go to the site and enter a search query.
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Product gallery in Yandex Search: Go to the Yandex Search page and enter the product name.
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Retargeting will replace cookies with the new ones, even if the previous cookies haven't expired yet. For this reason, you can't preview multiple ads at once.
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Your ad clicks and impressions that occur before the cookie expires will not be counted in your statistics and you will not be charged for them.
Preview conditions
The ad will display if the site has an available placement.
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A fixed-size ad may not fit the ad unit's aspect ratio.
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When you click Preview, the ad is displayed in all ad units on the site for 10 minutes.
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