Create a Premium Placement Ad

How-to | 1/28/2026 | Learn how to use a Premium Placement

Use this channel to grow engagement with customers browsing and shopping Kroger Owned and Operated Pages with banner ads featuring your brand displayed across relevant department, seasonal, or promotional pages.

Premium Placements provide you the opportunity to amplify and support your brand's message to a broad group of shoppers on relevant pages like:

  • Kroger's Homepage

  • Department and Seasonal Pages

  • Promotions Page

For other Premium Placements (like Zone 1 and Zone 2 options), you'll use the Kroger Ad Platform.

To learn more, visit Premium Placement: HOME Carousels in the Kroger Ad Platform Learning Center.

If you don't have access, contact your Account Management team.

Populate Schedule

A six (6) week lead time is needed for this type of Campaign.

  1. Select an Ad Location for your ad.

    This location is where your ad will run on a Kroger Owned and Operated Page.

  2. Based on your selection, use the dropdown or make selections to any prompts or that appear to complete Ad Location selection.

  3. Use the calendars to enter your Display Start Date and Display End Date.

    As these dates may be inventory restricted, work with your Account Manager to verify inventory availability before selecting your dates.

    Premium Placements run for one (1) week starting on Wednesdays.

The recommended length of this type of Campaign is at least one (1) week.

Once you enter these dates, the Milestones table with important milestones is automatically populated.

Select Primary Initiative

Select an answer to, "What is the primary initiative of this channel?".

  • Awareness — Introduce and raise awareness of your brand with targeted customers

  • Consideration — Raise consideration of your products with targeted customers

Add Coupons

Select Yes or No to answer, "Is this channel driving to a coupon?".

If adding a coupon, you'll need to perform some more coupon-related tasks.

  1. Select which Coupon Targeting Type you want for this coupon.

  2. Use the dropdown to select any State Exclusions for your coupon.

  3. Select an answer to the question, "What type of transactions should this coupon be redeemable for?".

  4. Use the calendars to select Coupon Display Start, Coupon Display End, and Expiration Dates.

  5. Review Divisions and selected coupon UPCs Universal Product Codes.

Add Click-Through Destination

Select a Click-Through Destination Where customers land when they click on a campaign ad. from the dropdown menu.

Option

Definition

Instructions

Curated Product List

  • Group of products available on Kroger Owned and Operated Pages for a customer to add directly to their Pickup order or online shopping list

  • 84.51°'s recommended best practice

  • Select the Type of Product List.

  • If you select, Custom Product List, click Add UPCs to start creating your list.

  • If using a coupon, select which coupons should appear on the Click-Through Destination.

General Coupon Pool

  • Direct link to a specific coupon in the General Coupon Pool

If using a coupon, select which coupons should appear on the Click-Through Destination.

Kroger Owned and Operated Page

  • Department or seasonal page hosted on Kroger Owned and Operated Pages

  • MUST go live a minimum three (3) business days prior to the media live date

  • Use the dropdown to answer, "Where will this page be located?".

  • If using a coupon, select which coupons should appear on the Click-Through Destination.

Landing Page

  • Temporary Landing Page where brand content, recipes, and/or coupons can be hosted for a specific campaign

  • Creative development required and additional lead times apply

  • Select a Landing Page Template.

  • If using a coupon, select which coupons should appear on the Click-Through Destination.

Add Promoted Products

  1. Click Add UPCs.

  2. In the new window, click Add UPCs to select a method for adding UPCs.

    Method

    Use Case

    Instructions

    CPG to Brand Drilldown

    • Find specific brands by their CPG (like Simple Truth within The Kroger Co.)

    • Use when you want to add an entire brand to your coupon to ensure everything tied to a brand is captured; good for portfolio activations

    1. Click through the Kroger hierarchy until you reach the desired level (like The Kroger Co. > The Kroger Co. > Simple Truth).

    2. Click the checkbox next to the brand you want to add.

      The summary box on the left confirms the number of UPCs in the selected brand.

    Location in Hierarchy

    1. Click through the Kroger hierarchy until you reach the desired level (like All > Grocery > Groc-All Other > Dry Noodles and Pasta).

    2. Click the checkbox next to the group of products you want to add.

    UPC Description Search

    • Find UPCs with keywords (like Kroger Pasta Sauce)

    • Use when you don't have UPCs on hand, but know what product you are looking for or when you want to include pack sizes (like six (6) pack Sprite)

    1. Enter a search term for the UPC. 84.51° Prism searches for the search term in the UPC description and returns results accordingly.

    2. Select all the UPCs you want to add.

    Manual Entry

    • Copy and paste your UPCs directly into 84.51° Prism

    • Use when you have a prepared list of product UPCs

    1. Enter (or copy / paste) your 13-digit UPCs.

    2. Click Validate UPCs.

    3. Select all the UPCs you want to add from each column (Matching UPCs All UPCs matching what you entered/pasted, Alternate UPCs UPCs that you entered / pasted that are found when dropping the check digit (the last number of the UPC)., and/or Not Found UPCs UPCs that you entered/pasted that were not found. If these are new products, they may not validate, but you should still include them.).

    Product Groups

    • Add UPCs from a previously saved Product Group

    • Create a new Product Group

    • Use when you have a group of frequently used UPCs

    1. Search for your Product Groups by entering a search term.

      If you don't have any Product Groups or want to create a new one, click Create Product Group.

      To learn how, see Create and modify Product Groups.

    2. Select the Product Group(s) you want to add.

  3. Click Add UPCs to Campaign to add the select UPCs.

  4. Select answers to "Which divisions should be included?".

    Based on your Campaign type, some divisions are excluded.

    For example, Roundy's (including Metro Market and Pick & Save), Jay C, Owen’s, Payless, Harris Teeter, Food 4 Less, and Foods Co. divisions are excluded from several Campaign types.

  5. Select Yes or No to answer, "Are any promoted products New at Kroger Introduces new items to Kroger customers with offers targeting category-relevant householdss with highest propensity for trial.?".

    If Yes, enter the On-Shelf Date for the products.

    New products must be on-shelf for at least 30 days prior to Campaign start date to ensure they are available to customers.

Save Campaign Details

After you enter all of your Campaign Details, click Save.

You can click Save at any time and return to finish your Campaign Details later, if desired.

View report

A report is available two (2) weeks post Campaign end date and can include, but not limited to, the following media metrics:

  • Impressions

  • Clicks

Cross-Channel Campaign report

If you're running a Cross-Channel Campaign, you may qualify for PrecisionView 360 measurement.

To learn more, see Cross-Channel Campaign reporting.

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