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OpenFGA for Advertising Platforms

Use Case

This model represents the authorization needs of an advertising platform, like Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, or LinkedIn Ads. These platforms manage campaigns, ad groups, ads, creatives, and performance reports across advertising accounts.

The model captures the following requirements:

• Multi-tenancy: Multiple organizations, each with their own advertising campaigns, creatives, and reporting data.
• Advertising roles: Organization-level roles (admin, campaign_manager, analyst) control access to ad resources. Admins have full access, campaign managers can create and edit campaigns, and analysts have read-only access.
• Parent-scoped report creation: Report creation is checked on the organization (can_create_report) instead of on report objects that do not exist yet.
• Hierarchical ad editing: Ad groups inherit campaign editing rights, and ads inherit ad-group editing rights, so ad-group owners and campaign editors can manage contained ads without repeating the same role list on each child type.
• Ad approval workflow: Campaign managers create ads, but only admins can approve them for publishing, ensuring quality control before ads go live.
• Campaign publishing: Only admins can publish campaigns (go live), preventing unauthorized changes to active advertising spend.
• Analyst read-only access: Analysts can view all campaigns, ads, creatives, and reports but cannot modify anything, enabling safe access to performance data.
• Creative ownership: Creators can view and edit their own creatives. Campaign managers have broader access across the organization.
• Report access control: Analysts and campaign managers can view reports, campaign managers can create reports, but only admins can delete them.

The model, tuples, and tests are in model.fga and store.fga.yaml.

Try It Out

1. Make sure you have the FGA CLI

2. In the ads directory, run fga model test --tests store.fga.yaml