Macros can be used within any click URL, rich media creative, impression tracker URL or click tracker URL. The syntax for our macros are as follows:

{{MANTIS_xxxx}}

Supported macros

Here are the macros Mantis currently supports:

{{MANTIS_CLICK}} = A URL to prepend to your destination URL that will allow our system to track clicks.

Note: Unless a member of our team has setup a rich media campaign for you, you should not need to use this.

{{MANTIS_CLICK_ENC}} = The same as MANTIS_CLICK except it is URL encoded
{{MANTIS_TIMESTAMP}} = The current date/time in timestamp format, used mostly for cache-busting.
{{MANTIS_AD}} = Internal MANTIS identifier for the ad in our system
{{MANTIS_CAMPAIGN}} = Internal MANTIS identifier for the campaign in our system
{{MANTIS_VIEW}} = A unique identifier we use for tracing clicks/impressions.
{{MANTIS_PROPERTY_ID}} = A unique identifier we use for the website/property/publisher where the ad was served.
{{MANTIS_PROPERTY_NAME}} = The name of the website/property/publisher where the ad was served.

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Google Analytics

If you are looking to track clicks within google analytics, here is an example click URL you could use to breakdown each website within your stats:

http://mywebsite.com/?utm_source=mantis&utm_campaign=campaign-1&utm_medium={{MANTIS_PROPERTY_NAME_ENC}}

Note: It is important to always use the encoded version of the macros when building your URLs like so:

http://mywebsite.com/?var1={{MANTIS_CLICK_ENC}}&var2={{MANTIS_CAMPAIGN_ENC}}

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HTML5 Creatives

In order to track clicks properly, all outbound links must use the following format:

{{MANTIS_CLICK}}http://url.com/.....

The second part (the destination URL), must be URL encoded using a tool like this:

https://www.urlencoder.org/

So with a destination of:

http://google.com?foo=bar

The final URL to use in your HTML5 creative should be:

{{MANTIS_CLICK}}http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%3Ffoo%3Dbar