Channel Management is where you run your DiscoBeat channel day to day: your keys, your publishers, your widgets, your network-wide controls, and your reporting. This article walks the dashboard tab by tab.
Your dashboard at a glance
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| Developers | Provision and manage the secret API keys your servers use to call the Channel API. |
| Publishers | The publishers on your channel: search, add, export, and manage each one. |
| Widgets | Set up the widgets your publishers see on each page type, channel-wide. |
| Channel Settings | Global subcategory exclusions that apply to every publisher on your channel. |
| Reporting | Build channel performance reports with the metrics and breakdowns enabled for your channel. |
Developers: your API keys
The Developers tab is where you create, rotate, and revoke the secret keys your servers use to call the Channel API and Reporting API. Sandbox and live keys are managed separately.
A note on keys, because it trips people up: secret keys are for the management APIs only. They are never used for ad serving. Each publisher serves with its own ad-serving key, shown in the Publishers list and created automatically when Disco approves the publisher.
Publishers: who's on your channel
The Publishers tab lists every publisher on your channel with its status, subcategory exclusions, and ad-serving key. Search by brand name, add publishers one at a time or in bulk, export the list as CSV, or open any publisher to manage it individually. For the full workflow, from adding publishers through approval, see Managing your publishers.
Widgets: what renders on each page
The Widgets tab controls the widgets your publishers see, set per page type and applied channel-wide. Add a page type to configure what renders there. To change the setup for a single publisher instead, use that publisher's own page under Publishers.
Channel Settings: network-wide controls
Channel Settings holds your global subcategory exclusions: subcategories excluded from recommendations across every publisher on your channel. To exclude a subcategory for a single publisher only, set it on that publisher's page instead. For how exclusions work and how the two levels combine, see Network controls.
Reporting: channel performance
The Reporting tab is a report builder: pick a date range, choose your breakdowns and metrics, and export what you build. For the full walkthrough, see Channel performance reporting.