vocabulary: - term: boost definition: A RevContent campaign unit. Boosts encapsulate budget, bidding, targeting, scheduling, and associated ad content. Equivalent to a "campaign" in most advertising platforms. related: - campaign - ad group - term: widget definition: A content recommendation placement unit deployed on publisher pages. Widgets display native ad content to end users and are the primary delivery mechanism for RevContent ads. related: - placement - widget_id - term: bid definition: The cost-per-click (CPC) amount an advertiser is willing to pay for a click on their boost content. Minimum bid is $0.01. related: - CPC - cost-per-click - term: CPC definition: Cost Per Click — the pricing model used by RevContent for boost campaigns. Advertisers pay a set bid amount each time a user clicks on their native ad content. - term: content definition: Individual ad creative items within a boost, comprising a headline and image. Content performance is tracked at the widget and aggregate boost level. related: - creative - headline - term: targeting definition: The configuration of which widgets, devices, operating systems, DMAs, zip codes, and traffic types a boost's ads will serve on. related: - widget targets - geo-targeting - device targeting - term: DMA definition: Designated Market Area — a geographic region used for audience targeting in the United States. RevContent provides a list of DMA codes and names via the helpers/dma endpoint. related: - geo-targeting - DMA code - term: publisher_id definition: Unique identifier for a RevContent publisher account. Publisher IDs are included in widget-level content statistics for advertiser reporting. related: - pub_id - widget - term: OAuth 2.0 client credentials definition: The authentication method used by the RevContent API. Advertisers and publishers supply a client_id and client_secret to obtain a Bearer access token valid for 24 hours. related: - access_token - Bearer token - term: CCPA definition: California Consumer Privacy Act — US privacy regulation requiring platforms to honor consumer data access and deletion requests. RevContent provides a dedicated API endpoint for submitting CCPA data requests and deletions. related: - data_request - delete_data - term: do_all definition: A safety parameter in the Update Boost Status endpoint. Must be explicitly set to true to apply a status change to all boosts simultaneously, preventing accidental bulk operations. - term: cost_per_conversion definition: A performance metric representing the average spend required to generate one conversion event. Available in boost performance and content performance reporting endpoints. - term: RevGPT definition: RevContent's generative AI headline creation tool that uses large language models to suggest native ad headlines for boost content. # Added 2026-08-13 from RevContent's published contract # (https://api.revcontent.io/docs/stats/api_data.json, regenerated 2026-07-31). - term: campaign definition: What RevContent's own current documentation calls a boost. The provider renamed the concept in its API reference (group "Campaigns", titles "Add Campaign", "Get All Campaigns") while leaving the URL space on /boosts. Both names refer to the same object. related: - boost - term: sub_account_id definition: The tenancy parameter. Omit it to act on the authenticating account; supply it to act on a child account. Present on 18 of 43 operations as a plain query or body parameter, not as a token boundary — one client-credentials token reaches every child account. related: - sub account - tenancy - term: pacing definition: Spreads a limited campaign budget evenly through the day rather than spending as fast as possible. Defaults to on for limited budgets; forced off when budget is "unlimited". - term: default_bids definition: The current per-surface bid structure on a campaign, with web, email and apple_news keys. Supersedes the flat bid_amount field, which RevContent's contract marks deprecated and retained only for backward compatibility. related: - bid - bid_amount - term: widget optimizer definition: The campaign-level widget blacklist. Distinct from widget targeting — a widget can be an enabled target and still be blacklisted. Managed under /boosts/{boost_id}/targets/blacklist/widgets. related: - blacklist - targeting - term: Sub ID definition: A publisher-set identifier placed in the widget ad code and reported back through GET /stats/api/v1.0/widgets/{widget_id}/revsub. The only join between what a publisher deployed on-page and what the API reports. related: - revsub - term: internal content definition: Publisher-owned articles injected into that publisher's own widget alongside RevContent demand. - term: vCPM definition: Viewable cost per thousand impressions. The alternative bid_type to cpc on a campaign. - term: conversion pixel definition: A tracking definition created through the Conversions API and bound to a campaign via conversion.id. Mandatory whenever a campaign sets optimize to "cpa". - term: aggregate definition: A query parameter on three list operations. When set to "yes" the response carries an additional statistics rollup keyed by date alongside the row-level data. - term: traffic_type definition: RETIRED. Announced 2020-10-14 as a campaign targeting parameter with a matching helper endpoint, and documented as such through 2021. Neither the parameter nor the /helpers/traffic-types endpoint appears in the contract RevContent generated on 2026-07-31. No removal notice was ever published. status: retired