A template describes how to render an image or video ad. Once it's built and published, Renable generates it automatically for every product in your catalog. This article covers starting a new template; for the editor itself see Studio overview and Elements.
Starting from the template gallery#
From the Ad Templates page, creating a new template opens "Select a template to start from" — a gallery of existing templates (including ready-made ones Renable curates) you can pick as a starting point.
Click the checkmark on any template to pick it. Renable makes a copy of that template for you to edit — the original is untouched, so picking a template from the gallery is a safe way to reskin an existing design (swap fonts, colors, images) rather than starting from a blank canvas.
Starting from scratch#
The gallery also includes a Blank template tile. Selecting it opens a second dialog where you set:
- Name for the template.
- Ad format — a size preset (for example Facebook Rectangular, Facebook Square, Facebook Video, Google Display Network, Instagram Video, TikTok Video) or Custom.
- Base width / height — in pixels. Picking a preset fills these in for you; editing them directly switches the Ad format to Custom.
- Duration — in seconds. Leave this at 0 for an image template. Any value greater than 0 creates a video template with a timeline, up to a maximum of 30 seconds.
The dialog shows the resulting aspect ratio as you adjust width and height, so you can sanity-check the format before creating the template.
You aren't locked into this choice — you can add more sizes to the same template later, and change dimensions per size, from the size toolbar. See Sizes and formats.
Associating catalogs#
In the editor's Settings tab, the Catalogs field lets you associate the template with one or more of your catalogs. This controls which catalogs the template is available to be attached to in a channel, and it's shown in the template list so you can see at a glance which catalogs each template is designed for. It also picks the default catalog used for Preview in the editor when you haven't explicitly selected a product to preview.
The Catalogs field itself doesn't change number/currency formatting — that comes from whichever catalog or product the template is actually rendering for at export or preview time, not from this field.
Copying an existing template#
Once a template exists, use Copy in the top AppBar to duplicate it — including into a different organization, if you belong to more than one. This is the quickest way to spin off a variant of a template you already like without touching the original.
Autosave and drafts#
Every edit — yours or Aimée's — autosaves to a draft; nothing reaches your live ads until you publish. See Studio overview for the full draft/publish/discard model, which applies to every template you create.
Next steps#
Once your template exists, a template only starts producing ads once it's attached to a channel alongside a project and product set.