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title: Scheduling and evaluating campaigns
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns/setting-up-campaigns.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/configuring-and-customizing-your-on-line-marketing-features/changing-the-campaign-report-update-interval.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/email-marketing.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/email-marketing/a-b-testing-marketing-emails.md
---

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>
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> **Info:** **Kentico EMS required**
>
> Features described on this page require the **Kentico EMS** license.

After you [set up a campaign](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns/setting-up-campaigns.md) based on your needs, you can either schedule the campaign or launch it right now. You can also schedule the campaign's finish time or finish it manually if the campaign is running.

> **Tip:** **Not sure what campaigns are?**
>
> - To learn general information about on-line marketing campaigns in Kentico, see [Campaigns](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns.md).
> - To learn how to set up a campaign, see [Setting up campaigns](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns/setting-up-campaigns.md).

## Scheduling and launching campaigns

Look at the table to find out which action is possible in which campaign status:

|                              | Draft                                | Scheduled | Running | Finished |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------- | ------- | -------- |
| Schedule a campaign's launch |                                      |           |         |          |
| Launch a campaign            |                                      |           |         |          |
| Schedule a campaign's finish |  (only with a specified launch time) |           |         |          |
| Finish a campaign            |                                      |           |         |          |

> **Info:** You need to add at least one conversion to launch a campaign.

To schedule or launch a campaign:

1. Open the **Campaigns** application.
2. **Edit** () the campaign that you want to schedule or launch.
3. Switch to the **Schedule** tab.
4. Schedule or launch the campaign:
   - To schedule the campaign:
     1. Enter a date to the **Launch** field
        - You can click the **Calendar** () button to pick a date and time from a calendar.
     2. (Optional) Enter a date to the **Finish** field if you want to plan the campaign's finish time.
     3. Click **Save schedule**.

        ![Filling out the Schedule tab](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-and-evaluating-campaigns/schedule_tab.png "Filling out the Schedule tab")
   - To launch the campaign immediately:
     1. Click **Launch campaign**.
     2. Confirm the dialog.

The system saves the launch preferences and either schedules or launches the campaign based on your setting.

> **Tip:** **Launch manually, schedule the finish**
>
> To schedule just the finish time, follow the same process.
>
> 1. Schedule the campaign:
>
>    - **Launch** – click **Now**
>    - **Finish** – set to your desired date and time
> 2. **Save schedule**.

If you schedule or launch a campaign, you _cannot_ do the following actions in the campaign:

- Change the display name
- Change the UTM parameter
- Remove a conversion when there is only one left

### After the campaign launch

The launch:

- Publishes content from the **Campaign content inventory** section on the **Properties** tab that is not published at the moment.
  - Does NOT publish content that has the publish date specified directly. For example, when a [page](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md) has its _Publish from_ field filled (when editing a page in the _Pages_ application on the _Form_ tab).
- Sends emails from the **Campaign promotion** section on the **Properties** tab.
  - Does NOT send [emails](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/email-marketing.md) that have the send date specified directly (_Email marketing_ application -> edit an email campaign -> edit an email -> _Send_ tab -> _Date and time_ field).
  - Does NOT send [A/B tested emails](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/email-marketing/a-b-testing-marketing-emails.md) that have send date specified directly (_Email marketing_ application -> edit an email campaign -> edit an A/B tested email -> _Send_ tab -> _Change mail-out time_ _to_ field).
  - Does NOT send already sent emails.

After the campaign is launched, you can check the campaign's reports on the **Report** tab when viewing or editing the campaign. The reports are recalculated regularly to provide the most recent data. By default, the reports are recalculated every hour until the campaign is finished.

> **Tip:** **Changing the report recalculation interval**
>
> An administrator can change the interval if desired, see [Changing the campaign report update interval](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/configuring-and-customizing-your-on-line-marketing-features/changing-the-campaign-report-update-interval.md).

## Evaluating campaigns

When you no longer want to track the actions that visitors perform through this campaign, finish the campaign.

> **Tip:** **Finishing a campaign**
>
> If you are not sure how to finish a campaign:
>
> 1. Open the **Campaigns** application.
> 2. **Edit** () the campaign that you want to finish.
> 3. Switch to the **Schedule** tab.
> 4. Click **Finish now**.
> 5. Confirm the dialog.
>
> The system stops tracking the visitors. You cannot run a campaign again once it was finished.

Then, see the reports to evaluate the campaign:

1. Open the **Campaigns** application.
2. **Edit** () the campaign that you want to evaluate.
3. Make sure you are on the **Report** tab.

On the _Report_ tab, you can see conversion tables with campaign statistics and track how it fulfills the defined campaign objective. Click **Campaign journey** to display the campaign journey statistics.

See the following example if you are not sure about the difference between conversions and the campaign journey.

### Example – Evaluating a campaign

In the following example, the goal is to promote visits of our cafes by offering free coffee samples. In the best case scenario, the visitors subscribe for a free coffee sample.

As conversions, add a submission to free coffee sample, opening a poster, and a user registration.

![Setting conversions](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-and-evaluating-campaigns/setting_conversions.png "Setting conversions")

To set the campaign's journey, add that the visitor opens the landing page, then subscribes for a free coffee sample, and at the end, opens the coffee poster.

![Setting the campaign journey](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-and-evaluating-campaigns/setting_journey.png "Setting the campaign journey")

Finally, set the campaign objective to be the number of submitted forms for a free coffee sample. The goal is to reach 418 submissions, so just type _418_ into the **Target** field of the objective.

Then, launch the campaign and let it run. After finishing the campaign and switching to the **Report** tab, you can see reports for the set conversions.

#### Evaluating conversions

Conversion reports display whether your campaign objective was fulfilled, and you can also see a table with statistics for each conversion you added on the _Properties_ tab. In the tables, you can see how many conversions were tracked from each action from each traffic source (based on the _utm\_source_ parameter). Campaign emails are displayed separately.

> **Tip:** **More information about emails**
>
> To display more data about individual emails, see [Tracking marketing emails](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/email-marketing/tracking-marketing-emails.md).

![Evaluating conversions](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-and-evaluating-campaigns/evaluating_conversions.png "Evaluating conversions")

#### Evaluating the campaign journey

To see the campaign journey report, click the **Campaign journey** button. In the chart and the table, you can see which steps and sources were effective.

![Evaluating the campaign journey](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-and-evaluating-campaigns/evaluating_journey.png "Evaluating the campaign journey")