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Platform maximum radius
Ad platforms often cap point-radius targeting at an upper bound (e.g. 50 km); a computed circumscribed or equal-area radius above that ceiling is silently clamped by the platform, shrinking actual coverage below what was reported.
Class
Case to account for
Affects
3 conversions
01
Detection
Requested radius exceeds platform.maxRadius.
02
Mitigation
01
Clamp and re-tile with multiple smaller circles instead of one oversized request
02
Report executed radius, not requested radius, in delivery reconciliation
03
Affected conversions
H3circumscribed circle
OPENH3equal-area circle
OPENPoint+radiusH3
OPENMore in Platform
Asynchronous boundary updatesOptimized targeting expansionPlatform accepts only native IDsPlatform coordinate roundingPlatform minimum radiusRadius rounding / incrementsReporting at a coarser level than executionUndocumented deduplicationUnsupported exclusionsUnsupported polygon targeting