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content/common/navigation/engine/guides.yaml

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- title: Guidelines
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- title: Experience Guidelines
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path: /production/promotion/experience-guidelines
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- title: Content Maturity
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path: /production/promotion/content-maturity
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- title: About GDPR and CCPA
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- title: DMCA Guidelines

content/en-us/get-started.md

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<h2 style={{marginBottom: 24}}>Learn with Curriculum Paths</h2>
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<h2 style={{marginBottom: 24, marginTop: 48}}>Learn with Curriculum Paths</h2>
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To dive deeper, follow along with guided curriculum
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that teaches you the skills you need to create and monetize your experiences.

content/en-us/production/monetization/immersive-ads.md

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- For group-owned experiences, this requirement applies to the owner of the group.
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- Requirement is persistent - if a publisher disables identity verification, they will lose eligibility.
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- Your experience must be **Public**. If a publisher makes the experience Private, the experience will lose eligibility.
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- You must complete the **Experience Guidelines Questionnaire** for your experience.
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- You must complete the **Content & Maturity Questionnaire** for your experience.
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- Your experience must maintain **2,000 unique visitors per month**.
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- This is calculated and updated monthly, based on visitor data.
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content/en-us/production/promotion/ads-manager.md

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**Ads Manager** offers advertisers valuable control over their ad campaigns, empowering them to create, optimize, and measure ads effectively while reaching their campaign objectives. Advertisers can use this tool to manage their ad campaigns, ads reporting, and ads billings in one place. Ads Manager allows you to create campaigns for **Immersive Ads** for ad units within experiences ([image](#image-ads) ads, [video](#video-ads) ads, [portal](#portal-ads) ads), [**sponsored experiences**](#sponsored-experiences), which appear on the Home page, and [search ads](./search-ads.md) that appear on Search results.
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**Ads Manager** offers advertisers valuable control over their ad campaigns, empowering them to create, optimize, and measure ads effectively while reaching their campaign objectives. Advertisers can use this tool to manage their ad campaigns, ads reporting, and ads billings in one place. Ads Manager allows you to create campaigns for **immersive ads** for ad units within experiences ([image](#image-ads) ads, [video](#video-ads) ads, [portal](#portal-ads) ads), [**sponsored experiences**](#sponsored-experiences), which appear on the Home page, and [search ads](./search-ads.md) that appear on Search results.
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- **Awareness:** Campaigns focused on awareness show image or autoplaying video ads to increase awareness of your brand within an experience.
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- **Visits:** Campaigns focused on visits aim to attract people to your experience on Roblox. These can take the form of either **Immersive Ads** placed within portal ad units in publisher experiences, or as **sponsored experiences** on the Home page. Advertisers are not able to promote their 17+ experiences using the **Visits** objective.
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- **Video Views:** Campaigns focused on 15-second click-to-play video views to engage audiences in-experience.
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- **Awareness**: Campaigns focused on awareness show image or autoplaying video ads to increase awareness of your brand within an experience.
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- **Visits**: Campaigns focused on visits aim to attract people to your experience on Roblox. These can take the form of either **immersive ads** placed within portal ad units in publisher experiences, or as **sponsored experiences** on the Home page. Advertisers are not able to promote their 17+ experiences using the **Visits** objective.
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- **Video Views**: Campaigns focused on 15-second click-to-play video views to engage audiences in-experience.
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**Ad sets** are a group of ads within a campaign that share the same targeting and bidding parameters. When defining an ad set, you can customize the audience, ad placement, brand suitability, and bidding settings.
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Ad sets are a group of ads within a campaign that share the same targeting and bidding parameters. When defining an ad set, you can customize your ad campaigns according to the following areas:
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**Audience** settings on Roblox enables you to choose who will see your ad. You're able to determine their geographical location, gender, age, and what device they're playing on.
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- **Audience settings** - Choose who sees your ad according to their geographical location, gender, age, and what device they're playing on.
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- **Ad placement** - Determine where your ads are discoverable on the platform, such as in search results or within experiences.
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- **Brand Suitability** - Filter what kinds of experiences your ads are served in according to the content within the experiences.
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**Ad placement** refers to where your ads will be discoverable.
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By adjusting all three categories, you can control who sees your ad to meet the needs of your respective campaign goals. To define an ad set:
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- Advertisers with a visits campaign objective can choose between an **in-experience portal** within an experience or a **sponsored experience** on the Home page.
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**Brand Suitability** controls give you the ability to filter what kinds of experiences your ads will be served in. You're able to select among three inventory tiers: Full, Standard, and Limited.
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- **Full Inventory** — Ads served in experiences with **All Ages**, **9+**, **13+**, and **17+** age recommendations. Choosing this option will maximize your reach.
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- **Standard Inventory** — Ads served in experiences with **All Ages** and **9+** age recommendations.
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- **Limited Inventory** — Ads served in experiences with **All Ages** age recommendations. Choosing this option will lower your reach and may increase CPM.
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<td>**Full Inventory**</td>
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These Brand Suitability controls only affect which experiences ads can appear in, not who can see an ad. Per our [advertising standards](https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/13722260778260-Advertising-Standards), no users under the age of 13 will see Roblox ads. For example, if an advertiser chooses Standard Inventory, their ads may be shown in an experience with a 9+ age recommendation to audiences who are 13+.
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**Bidding** refers to advertisers competing to show their ads to players through the available ad units placed in experiences. Bids are reflected as CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions). Your **max bid** for CPM is the maximum amount you're willing to pay every thousand impressions. For more information about Roblox's bidding system, see [Bidding and Auction](#bidding-and-auction).
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