Register your placements on the Hierarchical Grid
When you finish, every place your video will appear has an address on one map that inventory, feed layout, and reporting all share, so a placement you create today reports correctly forever. Your part takes about 10 minutes for a typical site; retailers with many templates can import a sheet.
Before you begin
- Properties verified in Connect your website, app, and podcast feed.
- A rough list of page types where video should appear (homepage, category, article, product, checkout confirmation, app home, and so on).
How the grid works
The Hierarchical Grid has four levels: Network → Property → Page type → Placement. A placement is a named slot with a size, an allowed set of player experiences, and a context (the topics, categories, or products that page type is about). Everything else in Genuin, from Maya's ranking to the revenue report, reads from this grid rather than keeping its own list.
What Octo does
- Octo builds the grid from the crawl: for each verified property it proposes page types named the way your site already names them (PDP, Category, Episode page, Support) and one or more placements per page type, each with a size from the IAB list (see Player card sizes and IAB footprint spec), the allowed experiences, and the context (category tree, product taxonomy, or topics) it read off the pages.
- For large sites and aggregators Octo imports the grid from your ad server's ad units or your inventory map instead of the crawl, one row per placement, and reconciles the two.
- Octo shows the grid as a tree with the placements it recommends launching first marked.
What you approve
- The tree. Rename, merge, or remove page types and placements; add a placement Octo missed; change a context.
- Choose Approve and publish grid. Every placement gets its
placementId, which Octo uses in the embed snippets and reports from here on.
Make Octo smarter
- Connect your ad server or CMS (Network → Grid → Sources); Octo keeps the grid in sync as templates change, and proposes new placements when it sees a new page type in the crawl.
Need help? Octo is available 24/7 in BCC and on every page of these docs. Ask it in plain language; when the answer needs a person, Octo brings the right account manager, developer, or Ops engineer into the same thread and stays on it until it is solved. Every Business Account owner has this, on every plan (see 24/7 Octo-enabled support: how Octo brings in account managers, developers, and Ops).
What you get
- Placement IDs you will paste into the embed snippet in Launch your first community: your owned-and-operated space.
- A context map that Maya uses to decide which video belongs on which page.
- The exact rows your revenue and margin reports (see Margin reporting: revenue per impression and net margin on ad spend) will be broken down by.
