Before creating your interactive campaign, it's best to set up your sequence so that you can have a clearer idea of the stories you will have to create.
Connected Stories Journey Designer is the tool that allows you to create sequences of video ads based on 1st and 3rd-party data.
SETTING UP A SEQUENCE
To access the Journey Designer, select your campaign in the
section and go to your Stories. - When viewing your campaign stories, select the
tab. - To start editing your Journey Design, click
icon. Firstly, give a "Name" to your new sequence.
Then you can start to select and move all the blocks you need. Remember that every sequence always begins with a
that represents the beginning of the consumer journey and the User's Data.- Don't forget to Save your new Consumer Journey Design.
After setting your Consumer Journey, you can always go back and adjust its parts according to your furnished stories or changes you want to make in the sequence.
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Through its intuitive and visually striking interface, you can easily set up stages (orange boxes) and conditions (blue and light blue boxes) through a select and drag motion.
THREE MAIN BLOCKS FOR A SEQUENCE
When setting up a sequence, you can find three types of boxes:
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In order to save the sequence, you need to make sure all blocks are properly connected to one another!
1. 
This block allows you to set conditions and sub-conditions to further break down your sequence.
The Journey Designer includes 1st party conditions and even 3rd party conditions that can be easily selected through a dynamic drop-down list.
See below how to insert an "If then else" box:
To insert an "If" block just click the block on the left top corner into your main framework;
Name the block;
Define the conditions: you can set up a block to have a true output if "All" or "Any" of the conditions are met;
Each "If" block has one input and two outputs: to link blocks you need to drag and drop the dot from a block to another one;
The two outputs need to be connected to a respective block each representing an answer to the condition. They are:
True (green-labeled) 
False (red-labeled).
- Don't forget to Save your new Consumer Journey Design.
If this is your first block, connect the 
block to it.
For a detailed list of all the Journey Designer's conditions visit the Conditions section.
The image above gives a sample of how to set up a condition. In this case, "Video View" is chosen: it will be true if more than 25% of the whole video duration has been seen by the user. Later on you can select the exact Story you wish this to lead to.
2. 
This block behaves like the "If " block only with multiple outputs.
- To insert a "Switch" block just click the block on the left top corner into your main framework;
- Name the block;
- Define the conditions: you can set up a block to have a true output if "All" or "Any" of the conditions are met;
Each "Switch" block has one input and multiple outputs: to link blocks you need to drag and drop the white dot from a block to another;
The outputs need to be connected to a respective block each representing an answer to the condition. If this is your first block, connect the
block to it.- Don't forget to Save your new Consumer Journey Design.
For a detailed list of all the conditions visit the Conditions section.
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In every switch box you can add as many outputs you need, and you'll always have one more output The default one which will need to be linked to the respective default stage.
3. STAGE:
This block represents each single story of your sequence. It is key to remember that in a sequence you can add as many stages as the number of stories you have to create.
To insert a "Stage" block just drag and drop the block on the left top corner into your main framework;
Name the block according to the respective stage of the consumer journey in that specific sequence or in a way that you will able to recognize it from the others;
Each "Stage" block has only one input: to link blocks to their condition, you need to drag and drop the arrow from a block to another one;
- Don't forget to Save your new Consumer Journey Design.
After creating your Consumer Journey Design, you can always go back and adjust its parts according to your finished stories.
Below a sample sequence execution following a consumer journey of 4 main stages: Awareness, Engagement, Consideration, and Conversion.
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It is key to appreciate how the consumer journey is a non-linear path. Every user goes from A to Z in a different way and not necessarily going through all the intermediate stages. The beauty of the Journey Designer is that users don't get stuck into stages they don't belong to. Everybody is unique and the Journey Designer can take into consideration everybody's unique behavior.
LINK EACH STAGE TO ITS STORY
Once you have set up your sequence and created all the stories you need (see here how to create one), all is left to do is to link each stage (orange box) to the respective story in your campaign.
Below we explain step by step how to do this:
Enter into the "Story" level: there you will see all the story you have created within a single format;
Select the three dots
on the right side of a story to open a drop down list;Choose "Edit";
There you will se the same "Story Data" window as when you created that story;
Stage: next to the field "stage" you will see another drop down list with all the stages and the names you gave to each one when you created your Journey Designer' sequence;
Choose the corresponding stage name to the story you are working on.
Don't forget to Save your new Design.
Repeat for your the other campaigns.
