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Website Targeting

Learn how to choose website categories and effectively run campaigns across various website tiers using Teads Ad Manager.

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Websites

At Line Item > Targeting > Websites > You can include or exclude websites or pre-created site lists

Caution:

  • No other websites from Teads inventory except the included ones will deliver.

  • A minimum of 20 websites is required to be included.

  • Websites that are not listed in Teads inventory will not deliver.

Creating a Sitelist:

Caution:

Due to a recent technical update to web domain targeting, you may notice that you can no longer update some existing site lists. This impacts site lists created before 22nd October 2025.

For these cases, you will need to recreate the site list from scratch, re-uploading your list of domains. In the case that some of these domains are rejected by the system, please check and ensure that you are using the correct website domain intended.

If you have any doubts, please contact your Teads representative for further information.

  1. To create a sitelist, start by navigating to the Data Management tab> Sitelists section found in the left column list.

  2. From there, click on New List on the top right.

  3. Enter your domain names.

  4. Click Next

  5. Name your Site list

  6. Click Save

Note: Sitelist can accommodate a maximum of 20,000 domains.

Targeting a Sitelist

  1. At Line item level > Targeting > Websites, you can choose to include or exclude your site list.

Website Category Targeting

You can filter websites based on the IAB category using the inclusion/exclusion option.

Below is the list of available categories :

  • Arts & Entertainment

  • Automotive

  • Business

  • Career

  • Education

  • Family & Parenting

  • Food & Drink

  • Health & Fitness

  • Hobbies & interests

  • Home & Garden

  • Illegal content

  • Law, Governement & Politics

  • News

  • Non-Standard Content

  • Personal Finance

  • Pets

  • Real Estate

  • Religion & Spirituality

  • Science

  • Shopping

  • Society

  • Sports

  • Style & Fashion

  • Technology & Computing

  • Travel

  • Uncategorized

For more information, see Full IAB categories taxonomy.

Website Tier Targeting

You can filter websites based on their tier. Upon onboarding into Teads, every publisher is assigned a tier, after manual review from our Publisher team.

There are 3 categories of websites/publishers.

  • Premier Tier
    Globally recognized publisher brands.

  • Select Tier
    Premier including regional and verticalized publisher brands.

  • Reach Tier
    Full inventory access for optimal scale.

Note: If you wish to run your campaign across the entire Teads Marketplace, we strongly recommend keeping this option set to the default setting.

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