Presenting Work to Client

[Macbox Reklamebyrå]

Hello everyone!
Hello Jaz, I can see that you are being very helpful on this forum and I thank you for that!

I work for ad agency and a new client has a need for animated banners but also wants to use Google AdWords as a service of their marketing.

That is why we are decided on start using GWD as a new platform for providing our service. However we need some startup help.

What is the best way to present sketch/work from GWD to a client? How can we send them design/animation for approval before we upload final .zip for use in Google AdWord? Is it posible to upload to google drive and than share link to html5 file or...?

Dusan

[Jaz]

Hi Dusan!

Thanks for the kind words, the community is pretty awesome, so I'm happy to help. I've given your question over to our preview guru Emily; I want to make sure you get the best answer possible for previewing to clients, which is a pretty critical step in the process :-)

Have a wonderful weekend!

jaz
Jasmine Rogers
Program Manager, GWD

[ebeing]

I host them on one of our websites if that helps.

you can then create a nice framework and show their new ad on a website mockup or something similar.

[ewschang]

Hi Dusan,

In GWD, we have provided three Publish options: Publish Locally, Publish to Google Drive and Publish to DoubleClick Studio. So it is possible for you to upload to Google Drive and then share the link with your client.

Here are the steps:

1. Create your creative in GWD.

2. Click the arrow icon next to Publish button, and select Publish to Google Drive.

3. Please sign in with your Gmail account when prompted and accept the GWD permission request.

4. GWD will upload the published file to Google Drive. 

5. Go to your Google Drive account, open the uploaded folder and select the index.html file. Open the Details info like the following screenshot, you will see the URL link under Hosting. You can then send this link to your client.

Please also see our tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QM2SPaDfQ

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Emily (GWD Team)

[a...@scratchtosave.com]

Hello guys,

I'm happy to see a forum on GWD! I'm looking for a freelancer that has experience in designing html5 ads for adwords. Could some of you send me your website or contact details?
We're looking for someone with good design skill (high impact banners)

Thanks!

[Macbox Reklamebyrå]

Hello Emily. Thanks for your reply. It realy seams like an easy thing to do but I have one problem.
I uploaded my work to a google drive and when I am trying to see this hosting link it shows nothing.
I tried both from google chrome and latest firefox.

[ewschang]

Hi,

You may be using new drive format on Google Drive. Can you click on the Settings (gear) icon and see if you see the "Leave new drive" option in the pop-up menu as shown below?

Please select it to change it back to old drive then you should be able to see the hosting link under the Details section.

Thanks,

Emily (GWD Team)

[Macbox Reklamebyrå]

Hello Emily,
I followed your instructions and changed it to old drive but still no luck with displaying of hosting link. I even tried sharing folder with at least 1 person and filled in description but still no luck.

[ewschang]

Hi,

I saw that in your screenshot the Sharing setting is showing "Privately only to me".

To see the hosting link you have to set the Sharing to Public.

Please click on the Edit (pencil) icon to open the Sharing setting dialog:

Then click on "More..." to see the sharing options, and select Public on the web.

Hope this will work for you.

When your client has done preview, please change the setting back to Private.

Thanks,

Emily (GWD Team)

[sean.p....@gmail.com]

Hi, I appear to be having a similar issue, and would like to be able to preview this for a client, can someone help?

[San Khong]

Hi Sean,

Unfortunately Drive discontinued the web hosting capability in August 2016.

If you use DoubleClick Studio, you can publish the creative to Studio and use the QR code to the get the preview link to the creative to share with the clients.

Otherwise, another way is to send the client the published zip with the instruction to unzip and open the index.html in browser to preview.  And of course, this will not work for dynamic ads. For dynamic ads, you can zip the preview folder and send that instead.

I'm sorry there is no easy way to share the preview link with clients. We do not have plan to provide a public web server for preview in Google Web Designer.

San

Google Web Designer team

[dem...@demiankrentz.com]

> send the client the published zip with the instruction to unzip and open the index.html in browser to preview. And of course, this will not work for dynamic ads. For dynamic ads, you can zip the preview folder and send that instead.

Yeah, neither of those answers work anymore.

[Kent]

There are several ways to share a Google Web Designer file.

I share preview links quickly by uploading the gwd-preview folder to a web server and emailing a link to the client. However you need a web server for that, like yourCustomDomain.com.

Otherwise DoubleClick & Adwords both provide means to share an ad preview once uploaded to their platform. Just check with the relevant support group to learn how.

Another way is to zip your Web Designer layout, post to Google Drive, and share a link with your client, instructing them to install Google Web Designer then extract your zip, open and preview your file.

Hope that helps,

Kent

Google Web Designer team

[RΛVEN]

If someone still needs help with this and you don't know how - write me in Private Messages!