What are Media Vehicles?
Media Vehicles are typically referred to as marketing platforms or vendors; for example, BBC, ELLE Magazine, Radio 1, Facebook, etc.
Media Vehicles function as tags, as they are configured specifically to each media type, and are displayed as a drop-down in the sheet view. Media Vehicles can be used to filter and create reports on associated data.
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Add a Media Vehicle
⚠️ You need to have Admin access to Camphouse to add Media Vehicles.
To add a Media Vehicle:
Access Settings: Enter Settings in the left-hand menu of your parent account and then select Media Vehicles.
Select a Media type: Click on the drop-down menu and select a media type to which you want to add Media Vehicle(s).
Add a New Media Vehicle: Click on the blue button "Add vehicles" and enter one vehicle name per line. You can add multiple vehicles at once. After that click on the green button 'Create vehicles'.
💡 You can add multiple vehicles at once. Just make sure to start a new row for each new media vehicle.
💡 The Number of Entries indicates how many times a vehicle has been tagged in the sheet view(s).
⚠️ You can add 'Local Media Vehicles' in your subsidiary following the same process. They will only be available to your Market.
Don't forget to create relationships in the Media Inventory section if you have a Media Inventory that includes Media Vehicles. Otherwise, your new local Vehicles won't be selectable in the plan section.
What happens after adding media vehicles
When you bulk-add media vehicles, Camphouse flags any Media Inventory relationships that still need updating before the new vehicles can be used in entries.
You'll see:
A confirmation message letting you know the vehicles were added, with a reminder to update the Media Inventory.
An in-page yellow banner listing the Media Inventory relationships that are missing combinations for the new vehicles.
A warning icon on each new vehicle row, with a "Missing inventory combination" tooltip linking into Media Inventory.
Click any of the deep-links to open Media Inventory pre-filtered to that relationship and add the missing rows. Skipping this step means planners will hit a "Media inventory mismatch" error in the sheet when they try to use the new vehicle. See Fixing a "Media inventory mismatch" error.
💡 The link opens the right relationship pre-filtered, so an admin can add the missing combinations in just a few clicks.
Edit a Media Vehicle
To edit a media vehicle:
Access Settings: Enter Settings in the left-hand menu of your parent account and then select Media Vehicles.
Select a Media Type: Click on the drop-down menu and select a media type that owns the Media Vehicle(s) you want to edit.
Edit a Media Vehicle: You can edit the name and/or abbreviation. You can also disable a media vehicle meaning it will be neither deleted nor shown in the drop-down menu as an option.
Merge a Media Vehicle
To merge media vehicles:
Access Settings: Enter Settings in the left-hand menu of your parent account and then select Media Vehicles.
Select a Media type: Click on the drop-down menu and select a media type that owns the Media Vehicle(s) you want to edit.
Merge Media Vehicles: Check the small box to the left of each media vehicle you want to be merged, then select what Media vehicle to merge with.
Delete a Media Vehicle
To delete a media vehicle(s):
Access Settings: Enter Settings in the left-hand menu of your parent account and then select Media Vehicles.
Select a Media type: Click on the drop-down menu and select a media type that owns the Media Vehicle(s) you want to edit.
Delete Media Vehicles: Hit the trash icon next to the media vehicle(s) you want to delete.
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