We're excited to share two fantastic new updates to Alli Actions, all aimed at improving your user experience.

1. "View Source" Button for Alli Data Sources
You can now open your Alli Data reports or datasources directly in a new tab with the new "View Source" button. This enhancement simplifies your workflow by enabling quick access to data, making QA and connectivity between Actions and the data provided much more efficient.

Why This Matters: 

🔍 Easier Data Access: No more jumping through hoops to find or preview your datasource or report.
⚡ Improved Efficiency: Facilitate quicker and more accurate quality assurance processes.

2. Google Sheets Datasource Update
For those using the Google Sheets datasource in Alli Actions, you now have the option to select the Google account used to access the Google Sheet. Previously, Alli Actions always used the action’s creator's Google account, which could cause issues when team members switched teams or left PMG 😢 , and was generally unclear whose account Alli Actions was using. This update allows for greater flexibility, clarity, and reliability. By default, the action's creator's account is selected.

Why This Matters:

 🔄 Flexibility: Choose the right Google account for accessing sheets, avoiding access issues when team members change.
🛡️ Reliability: Ensure the correct account is used, enhancing reliability and continuity in your workflows.
🚀 Seamless Transitions: No more disruptions when team members switch roles or leave the company.

Both features are live in Alli Actions now, so you can immediately begin adjusting the account settings as needed or previewing data to your hearts content!

For any questions or feedback, please visit the #alli-actions Slack channel.

We’re thrilled to introduce the Alli Creative Scorecard, designed to enhance your video ad strategies by evaluating adherence to industry best practices based on the ABCD Framework.

What’s New?

• Comprehensive Scoring: Every video ad is scored across four key categories: Attract, Brand, Connect, and Direct.
• Detailed Insights: View overall scores and individual attribute ratings in the Ad Details section of Creative Insights.
• Automatic Labeling: Our ML algorithms label videos with 15-23 key attributes, streamlining the review process against industry best practices.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Effortless Optimization: Save time and enhance ad performance by automatically checking your videos against best practice playbooks.
• Actionable Recommendations: Identify strengths and improvement areas to boost campaign effectiveness.
• Strategic Impact: Inform creative conceptualizing and presentations with data-driven insights.

To explore the new feature, simply go to the Creative tab and click on any video ad to access its ad details page. Look for the “Alli Scorecard” tab!

Search teams activating PMax campaigns will be thrilled to know, the Alli Pmax tool has been tweaked with a speed boost! The homepage for Pmax that displays campaigns, asset groups and version statuses now loads faster, with an average 15% decrease in load times. 🙌

Enjoy the improvement to your workflows, getting into the tool quicker and finishing tasks faster than ever before! This speed boost is already in effect, ready to view today. 

Big news! Later this month, we’ll be launching a comprehensive UI upgrade to the Alli platform. This platform redesign marks our most significant UI enhancement since 2018, streamlining the user experience and elevating the platform’s design.

Highlights Include:

• New Collapsible Side Navigation: Get ready for an expansive view of the platform! The new side navigation is designed to collapse, allowing the platform to display at full screen. This means better visibility for your large omnichannel, global dashboards, and our cutting-edge AI-powered Creative Insights tool.
• Simplified Navigation: We've decluttered and clarified the side nav menu, making it easier to find what you need.
  • The “Reporting” section will be changed to “Data”
  • The “My Apps” section will be removed, one point of access to “Marketplace”
  • “Manage Client” and “Cloud Storage” will be under “Settings” in the bottom left of the navigation bar
• Integrated Top Nav: To make features more accessible and navigation less buried, we're integrating the top toggle bar into the side nav. This change means you can explore the full depth of the platform with ease, making every feature readily accessible from one place.
• Light/Dark Modes: Tailor your platform's look to match your desktop environment or personal preference with our new light and dark modes. It's a fun way to personalize your Alli experience.

This upgrade is all about making Alli work better for you, thanks to valuable feedback from our community. Many have expressed a desire for full-screen dashboards and more intuitive navigation—consider it done.

Bonus: Check out the hype video for a sneak peek of what's coming! And stay tuned for more details.

Thanks for your continued support. We're excited to bring you these enhancements and can't wait for you to experience them. We’re always open to feedback; work with your PMG contact to provide any ideas or suggestions on the updated UI.

As we approach the busy holiday season, we want to inform you about an important upcoming event: Code Freeze.

What is Code Freeze?

During this period, which begins on Tuesday, November 14th and continues until Tuesday, January 2nd, our engineering and development teams will temporarily halt the release of new features and code changes to Alli. Instead, our focus will be on ensuring the stability and reliability of our platform to provide you with the best possible experience during this critical time, while also working on some exciting features launching in early 2024.

Why Code Freeze?

Code freeze is essential to maintain a stable environment, especially during the high-demand holiday season. It allows us to fine-tune our systems, optimize performance, and prevent any unexpected disruptions.

What to Expect?

While there won't be new features released during the code freeze, you can still enjoy our platform as usual. We'll be actively monitoring for any issues, and our support team will be available to assist you promptly with any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support. We appreciate your trust in Alli, and we're committed to delivering a seamless experience throughout the holiday season.

If you have any questions or require assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team at allicustomersupport@pmg.com or use the Alli Service Desk.

Wishing you a joyful and stress-free holiday season!

Unlock insights with Alli’s latest revolutionary feature

Who hasn’t wanted to talk to Alli? 

Now, you can! 

With the latest feature drop from the Alli Data team, Ask Alli revolutionizes the way you can interact with the platform to discover data-backed insights and pull dynamic reporting!

Ask Alli utilizes advanced AI to process your natural language search queries. No need to be a data expert—simply type your questions in plain English. Whether you're analyzing campaign performance, audience behavior, or budget pacing, Ask Alli provides instant visualizations, reporting tables, and SQL statements.

Your search can use natural language, so you don’t have to worry about your technical or analytical proficiency. Examples of burning questions you can ask are: 

• “Can you show me the performance of TikTok vs Snapchat vs Meta for the past 7 days?” 
• “What are my best performing audiences?”
• “How is my social budget pacing over the last month?”
• “How is monthly performance for my fall men's line during the fourth quarter?”

So, how does it work? 

Ask Alli uses several different large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI’s GPT, creating a proprietary AI model with PMG in full control of privacy, providing pristine protection of client data. 

To unlock this level of data accessibility, Ask Alli also marks the launch of Alli Certified Datasources. Alli Certified Datasources, the backbone of Ask Alli, ensure clean, cross-channel data accessibility. Designed by the Data Engineering team, these datasources are clean and harmonized, making Ask Alli a powerful cross-channel analytics tool. Certified Datasources allow you to unlock comprehensive full-funnel, cross-channel insights effortlessly. Ask Alli can utilize any datasources within Alli, however using Certified Datasources is the best way to ensure that visualizations and reporting are accurate and clean–look for the blue checkmark next to the datasource. 

Get started using Ask Alli today, head to “Reporting” in the left nav bar, then “Explorer” in the top toggle bar. Check out this guide to help you uplevel your prompts for more accurate results! Being that it is a new technology, accuracy and performance may vary. We will be making ongoing, consistent updates to the feature over the coming weeks, including refining the model and updating the visualizations. If you have any questions, please reach out using the Alli Service Desk. 

TikTok's rise has made it a priority for brands seeking engagement on rapidly growing platforms. In this era of data protection, secure audience targeting is crucial, and that's where Alli Audiences comes into play.

Alli Audiences provides a secure solution to store, segment, and seamlessly deliver your audience lists to various platforms. We're thrilled to announce that Alli Audiences now supports TikTok, joining a roster that includes Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon S3, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and the Trade Desk.

With TikTok as our latest platform, you can:

• Authenticate your TikTok account for audience delivery to TikTok business accounts you have access to.
• Send your audiences to TikTok for precise campaign targeting within the platform.

Alli is establishing a competitive advantage in managing and analyzing TikTok campaigns. With TikTok datasources integrated into Alli Data, you can collect comprehensive and actionable data to make informed campaign decisions. With this new feature, you can refine your audience lists based on data, enhancing targeting precision and campaign performance on TikTok.

Power your TikTok marketing efforts with Alli, streamlining audience management to simplify campaign management. Read the documentation to learn how to send audiences directly to TikTok. 

For help with Alli Audiences, you can also reach out to the Alli Service Desk through the question mark button in the top right corner of Alli.

Update to Snapchat Datasources

The Snapchat datasource, a valuable tool to bring campaign and performance data into Alli from Snapchat, has an upgrade. Due to an increase in data needed from Snapchat, we've developed a second Snapchat datasource called "Snapchat Structure." 

This new datasource imports campaign-related data like campaign names, ad squads, and ad names, while the original “Snapchat” datasource continues to handle performance metrics such as impressions, clicks, and conversions. 

To maximize your Snapchat data integration within Alli, we recommend using both the Snapchat and Snapchat Structure datasources. Read the documentation about setting up the Snapchat Structure datasource to ensure complete, clean data within Alli.

New Salesforce Datasource

Salesforce is a comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) platform that empowers marketers to effectively manage customer data, streamline communication, and drive personalized marketing campaigns.

Alli has a new “Salesforce” datasource to connect to Salesforce through a direct API!

With the API connection in place, you can now pull in clean, complete data from Salesforce into Alli automatically and leverage that data for management and reporting.

Check out the documentation on the Salesforce datasource to get started.

For help with either of these new datasources, you can also reach out to the Alli Service Desk through the question mark button in the top right corner of Alli.

Hello Alli users! Alli Updates is a new feature that lets the Alli team drop you messages in the platform.

These communications will include things like newly-released features, enhancements to the platform, and updates to our support services. 

Click the expand box next to "Alli Updates" above to see your announcements landing page, where you can go to see all the messages ever sent.

You can also drop comments on these messages below or react with an emoji to give the Alli team your direct feedback. 

Thank you!