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How To Track Requests

Follow what you've asked media owners for, chase what's late, and cross-check against your plan's Availability filter.

Written by Zachary Cuva

Once requests are out with media owners, ManageRequests is where you follow them. It answers the question you will ask most often on a live campaign: what am I still waiting on?


What It Shows

Requests are grouped so you can see the state of play rather than a flat list — what has been sent, what has come back, and what is outstanding.


Chasing What Is Outstanding

Media owners do not always reply by your due date. When something is late:

  1. Check the request actually reached the right person. If a media owner has several contacts, the request may have gone to a general mailbox.

  2. Use the unit's Comments to ask directly, so the exchange stays on the unit where colleagues can see it.

  3. Re-send from Send RFPs if the original has gone stale.

  4. Line up alternatives in the same area, rather than waiting indefinitely on one site.


Cross-Checking Against Your Plan

The Requests page and the Availability filter on your plan are two views of the same thing, and each is better at a different job:

Use

For

Requests

Following the conversation with media owners — what was asked, what has been answered.

Availability filter

Seeing the consequence on the buy — which specific units are available, held or expired.

*Note: When responses are in, filter your plan by Available and request holds on what you want. Availability alone reserves nothing, and a unit sitting available is a unit someone else can still take.

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