Create a Live activity create-mobile-live
After configuring your mobile configuration and implement your Adobe Experience Platform mobile SDK, you can start creating your Live activity in Journey Optimizer:
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Access the Campaigns menu, then click Create campaign.
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Select the API triggered campaign type.
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Select API-triggered Marketing for audience-based campaigns
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Select API-triggered Transactional for individual campaigns.
note important IMPORTANT Note that for API-triggered Transactional, High Throughput option should not be enabled. 
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From the Properties section, edit your Campaign’s Title and Description.
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In the Actions section, choose Live activity and select or create a new configuration.
Learn more about Live activity configuration on this page.
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Click Create experiment to start configuring your content experiment and create treatments to measure their performance and identify the best option for your target audience. Learn more
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From the Audience tab, choose your Identity type Learn more.
note note NOTE For API-triggered Marketing campaigns, you can select an existing audience that acts as the first segmentation before checking APNs channelID subscription from the API payload. -
Campaigns are designed to be executed on a specific date or on a recurring frequency. Learn how to configure the Schedule of your campaign in this section.
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Once configured, click Review to activate, then click Activate.
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After the campaign is activated, use the provided cURL request as a template to trigger Live activity start, update, or end events. Update the sample payload with your specific data before execution.
Ensure that you also copy the Campaign ID identifiers to include in your payload.
➡️ Refer to the API Triggered Campaigns Documentation for authentication requirements, including OAuth tokens and API keys.
accordion Example of a Payload for Unitary use cases (API-triggered Transactional campaign) This payload example is for individual campaigns using API-triggered Transactional campaign type. Note that most of the fields from the following payload example are mandatory, only
requestId,dismissal-dateandalertare optional.code language-json { "requestId": "your-request-id", "campaignId": "your-campaign-id", "recipients": [ { "type": "aep", "userId": "testemail@gmail.com", "namespace": "email", "context": { "requestPayload": { "aps": { "content-available": 1, "timestamp": 1756984054, // current epoch time "dismissal-date": 1756984084, // optional – auto remove when event="end" "event": "update", // start | update | end // Fields from FoodDeliveryLiveActivityAttributes "content-state": { "orderStatus": "Delivered" }, "attributes-type": "FoodDeliveryLiveActivityAttributes", "attributes": { "restaurantName": "Pizza", "liveActivityData": { "liveActivityID": "orderId1" // customer reference ID } }, "alert": { "title": "Order Delivered!", "body": "Your pizza has arrived." } } } } } ] }accordion Example of a Payload for Broadcast use cases (API-triggered Marketing campaign) This payload example is for audience-based campaigns using API-triggered Marketing campaign type.
code language-json { "requestId": "123400000", "campaignId": "d32e6f6c-56df-4a98-a2c0-6db6008f8f32", "audience": { "id": "508f9416-52d0-4898-ba47-08baaa22e9c7" }, "context": { "requestPayload": { "aps": { "input-push-channel": "V+8UslywEfAAAOq9SbTrLg==", //apns-channel-id "content-available": 1, "timestamp": 1770808339, "event": "update", // start | update | end // Fields from GameScoreLiveActivityAttributes "content-state": { "homeTeamScore": 33, "awayTeamScore": 49, "statusText": "Wingdom keeps scoring!" }, "attributes-type": "GameScoreLiveActivityAttributes", "attributes": { "liveActivityData": { "channelID": "V+8UslywEfAAAOq9SbTrLg==" //apns-channel-id, must match the "input-push-channel" value } }, "alert": { "title": "This is the title for game", "body": "This is the body for body" } } } } }
After designing your Live activity, you can track measuring the impact of your Live activity with built-in reports.
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