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Manage Treatments

How to add, remove, rename, and handle treatment slots in your feed.

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Written by Austin Alexander
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Multi-treatment feeds allow you to run multiple ad concepts simultaneously within a single catalog. Once you've created your multi-treatment feed, you'll be able to manage all of your designs and treatments.

Whenever editing, adding, or removing treatment you will need to publish the updates to your output feed before the changes will be committed.


Add Treatment

In order to add a new treatment to assign to its own set of ads, click + New Treatment at the bottom of your Output Feed, name your treatment, and click Create.

This will create a treatment slot for you to add designs and assign to ads.

Meta restricts the total number of treatments a product can have to 20. If your output feed contains more than 20 treatments, your new treatment may not appear in the assigned ad as expected. It's best to remove or replace old treatments in your feed in order to stay within this limit.

Empty treatment slots do not count toward your total number of treatments


Managing designs in your treatments

Once you've created a treatment slot, you can begin adding and managing the designs within it. You can add and manage multiple designs in the same treatment slot for added creative control. If you click on the design name, it will open up the canvas editor.

Filtering Designs

Once a design is added, you can update its filters by clicking the Filter icon:

You can also access additional management options by click the three dots to the right of the design:

Clone Design

Cloning a design inside a treatment will create an exact duplicate of your design, grouping it in the same slot as the original treatment. To clone your design, click the three dots to the right of it and select Clone

Removing a Design

In order to remove a design from its current treatment slot, select Remove from treatment. You can also click Archive to send the design to your archive folder

Designs will be staged for removal and appear at the bottom of your output feed page. They will not be fully removed until you click Publish Updates

Updates to your managed designs will not take effect until you click Publish Updates


Treatment Options

To rename your treatment, hover over the treatment name of the treatment you want to edit. A pencil, trash can, and crown will appear next to the treatment name. Click the pencil to rename the treatment.

Renaming Treatments

You can rename your treatments to make it easy to know what creative is being used to populate it. Renaming treatments is just for organization purposes. It does not affect the type of designs that can go into it.

Removing Treatments

Removing a treatment will stop the creative from being sent to the Meta catalog, as well as cut the tie to the ads it's been assigned to. Once a treatment is removed, in order to have the creative show on ads again, you'll need to create a new treatment and reassign to your ads.

Removing a treatment will send its designs back into Drafts. You will still be able to use these designs later in new treatment slots

To remove your treatment, click the trash can icon next to the treatment. In order to confirm this removal, you'll need to click Publish Updates to fully remove it.

Set a Primary Treatment

Multi-treatment feeds output the added treatments as additional images, leaving the main image (image_link) as the original source feed image. Unless another creative treatment is already assigned to an ad, existing and new catalog ads will show your primary treatment by default. You can set one of your treatments to run as the main image, so all unassigned catalog ads will use the set Marpipe creative instead.

To set a primary treatment, hover over the treatment name, then click the crown the appears.

The primary treatment will be marked by a yellow crown next to the treatment name:

You can remove the primary treatment by hovering over the treatment and clicking on the crown icon that appears.

As there is only one image_link column in the feed, only one treatment can be set as the primary at a time


Removing designs from treatments vs removing treatments themselves

Because you can only send up to 20 treatments across all products within your output feed, there may come a time in which you'll need to either remove treatments to make way for new ones, or remove designs to create empty treatment slots. In order to decide, you can use the following as guidance:

The treatment is being used for a temporary promotion (ie Black Friday, Labor Day, etc)

  • Since the ads will be turned off after the promotion ends, you can remove this treatment from the feed when you are finished with it

The ads using this treatment will be paused indefinitely, with no intention of turning back on

  • Since the ads will be paused indefinitely and not turned on in the future, you can just remove this treatment

The treatment is being used for evergreen/year-round purposes, but the ads using them will temporarily be paused

  • Since these ads will be turned on in the future, it's best to keep the treatment slot open and just remove the designs from them, emptying it out. Designs can be added back in later without having to re-assign the treatment.

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