{"id":"71423154-4d03-4aa6-a211-efa7484bc7ce","task":"Create an advertiser, campaign, ad group, and ad via The Trade Desk Platform API","domain":"advertising","steps":["Confirm your organization has an existing Trade Desk seat and has been explicitly granted Platform API access/credentials by your TTD account team, since the API is not self-serve","Authenticate against the Partner Portal API using your issued credentials, then create or select an Advertiser under your Partner/Seat","Create the Campaign under that Advertiser with budget, flight dates, and channel/objective settings","Create one or more Ad Groups under the campaign specifying targeting (audience, inventory, geo), bid strategy, and budget allocation","Create Ads within each Ad Group referencing approved creative assets","Use the Data Integration API separately for first-party audience data, and the My Reports/reporting endpoints to pull performance once the campaign is live"],"gotchas":["API access is gated behind an existing seat/partnership plus explicit enablement — there is no public self-serve signup for the Platform API","The resource hierarchy (Partner/Seat to Advertiser to Campaign to Ad Group to Ad) must be created strictly top-down; skipping a level fails validation","My Reports (reporting) is a functionally separate API area from campaign management, so Platform API access for building campaigns does not automatically include reporting access/credentials"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T14:29:42.075Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/71423154-4d03-4aa6-a211-efa7484bc7ce"}