Your publishers are the sub-publishers in your channel — the individual brands (your child accounts) where your Disco offers serve. This guide covers adding them and getting each one live. You set things up once — from then on, publisher #1 and publisher #1,000 work the same way.
When you log in as a channel partner, Disco takes you to Channel Management. The left nav has three sections: Developers (your secret Channel Management API keys), Publishers, and Channel Settings.
Add publishers
On Publishers, click Add publishers. You can:
- Manual — add publishers by entering each one's brand name, domain, and category (up to 50 per submission — use Add row for more than one).
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CSV upload — for bulk. Download the Template, fill in
brand_nameanddomain(plus optionalcategoryandsubcategories), and upload; Disco validates the file before importing. The form suggests up to 5,000 rows as a starting point, but there's no hard limit.
Your developers can also add publishers programmatically through the Channel Management API (see Developers → API keys).
Submitted publishers appear in your list with a Pending status ("Awaiting review"). Disco reviews and approves each one on the back end — matching it to an existing publisher in the network, or creating a new one. As they're approved, their status and ad-serving key update in the list.
You can also Export CSV from the Publishers list to download your full publisher list.
One ask: only submit real publishers — test accounts are hard to remove on our side.
Find a publisher
The Publishers list shows each one's Brand, Category, Status, Subcategory exclusions, and Ad-serving key. Search by brand name to find one quickly.
Get a publisher live
Once a publisher is approved, open it to find its Ad-serving key — the public key that's safe to embed in the browser — and a ready-made Web SDK embed snippet with that key already in it. Click Copy, place the snippet on that publisher's site, and they're serving Disco recommendations. The per-publisher key is how Disco knows whose page each impression belongs to, which keeps reporting and payouts clean. Rolling out to many publishers? Your developers can pull each ad-serving key through the Channel Management API.