Activate Campaign

Set a campaign's status to active.

curl -X POST "https://api.5centscdn.com/v2/ad-manager/101/campaigns/cmp_4c19/activate" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.5centscdn.com/v2/ad-manager/101/campaigns/cmp_4c19/activate"
headers = {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://api.5centscdn.com/v2/ad-manager/101/campaigns/cmp_4c19/activate", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
  "Content-Type": "application/json",
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {

    req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.5centscdn.com/v2/ad-manager/101/campaigns/cmp_4c19/activate", nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("X-API-Key", "YOUR_API_KEY")

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    fmt.Println("Response Status:", resp.Status)
}

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://api.5centscdn.com/v2/ad-manager/101/campaigns/cmp_4c19/activate')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['X-API-Key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.body

{
  "result": "success",
  "campaign": {
    "id": "cmp_4c19",
    "admanager_id": 4019,
    "advertiser_id": "adv_8f2a",
    "advertiser_name": "Acme Corp",
    "name": "Summer Promo 2026",
    "category": "3",
    "campaign_type": "guaranteed_impressions",
    "status": "draft",
    "priority": 50,
    "timezone": "America/New_York",
    "start_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00-04:00",
    "end_at": "2026-08-31T23:59:59-04:00",
    "budget": {
      "pricing_model": "cpm",
      "cpm_micros": 5000000,
      "total_budget_micros": 500000000,
      "daily_budget_cap_micros": 50000000,
      "impression_goal": 1000000,
      "daily_impression_cap": 100000,
      "lifetime_impression_cap": 1000000
    },
    "pacing": {
      "pacing_mode": "even"
    },
    "pacing_mode": "even",
    "pod_rules": {
      "allow_in_pods": true,
      "max_ads_per_pod": 1,
      "max_seconds_per_pod": 30,
      "allow_multiple_creatives_per_pod": false,
      "allow_same_creative_repeat": false,
      "preferred_pod_position": "any",
      "competitive_category": [
        10,
        25
      ]
    },
    "share_of_voice_percent": 25,
    "fallback_allowed": false,
    "is_house": false,
    "pricing_model": "example_string",
    "cpm_micros": 5000000,
    "total_budget_micros": 500000000,
    "daily_budget_cap_micros": 50000000,
    "impression_goal": 1000000,
    "daily_impression_cap": 100000,
    "lifetime_impression_cap": 1000000,
    "delivery_status": {
      "status": "ended",
      "expected_delivery_percent": 100,
      "actual_delivery_percent": 0,
      "impression_goal": 50000,
      "delivered_impressions": 0,
      "remaining_impressions": 50000,
      "today_impressions": 0,
      "daily_impression_cap": 500,
      "budget_spent_micros": 0,
      "budget_remaining_micros": 0,
      "pacing_mode": "asap"
    }
  }
}

POST

/ad-manager/{pid}/campaigns/{cid}/activate

POST

Base URLstring

Target server for requests. Edit to use your own host.

API Key (header: X-API-Key)

X-API-Keystring

Required

API key (sent in header)

path

pidinteger

Required

ID of the Ad Manager project.

ID of the campaign.

The media type of the request body

Options: application/json

No request body parameters defined

Request Preview

Response

Response will appear here after sending the request

Authentication

header

X-API-Keystring

Required

API Key for authentication. Provide your API key in the header.

Path Parameters

pidinteger

Required

ID of the Ad Manager project.

Example:

101

cidstring

Required

ID of the campaign.

Example:

cmp_4c19

Body

application/json

dataobject

Required

Raw application/json data

Responses

resultstring

Operation outcome.

Allowed values:successerror

campaignstring

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{ "result": "success", "campaign": { "id": "cmp_4c19", "admanager_id": 4019, "advertiser_id": "adv_8f2a", "advertiser_name": "Acme Corp", "name": "Summer Promo 2026", "category": "3", "campaign_type": "guaranteed_impressions", "status": "draft", "priority": 50, "timezone": "America/New_York", "start_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end_at": "2026-08-31T23:59:59-04:00", "budget": { "pricing_model": "cpm", "cpm_micros": 5000000, "total_budget_micros": 500000000, "daily_budget_cap_micros": 50000000, "impression_goal": 1000000, "daily_impression_cap": 100000, "lifetime_impression_cap": 1000000 }, "pacing": { "pacing_mode": "even" }, "pacing_mode": "even", "pod_rules": { "allow_in_pods": true, "max_ads_per_pod": 1, "max_seconds_per_pod": 30, "allow_multiple_creatives_per_pod": false, "allow_same_creative_repeat": false, "preferred_pod_position": "any", "competitive_category": [ 10, 25 ] }, "share_of_voice_percent": 25, "fallback_allowed": false, "is_house": false, "pricing_model": "example_string", "cpm_micros": 5000000, "total_budget_micros": 500000000, "daily_budget_cap_micros": 50000000, "impression_goal": 1000000, "daily_impression_cap": 100000, "lifetime_impression_cap": 1000000, "delivery_status": { "status": "ended", "expected_delivery_percent": 100, "actual_delivery_percent": 0, "impression_goal": 50000, "delivered_impressions": 0, "remaining_impressions": 50000, "today_impressions": 0, "daily_impression_cap": 500, "budget_spent_micros": 0, "budget_remaining_micros": 0, "pacing_mode": "asap" } } }