All digital campaigns measure clicks - as in how many people “clicked” on the ad. The Click-Through-Rate (CTR) is merely the beginning of the story. CTR’s serve a purpose. They allow you to gauge the results of your digital campaign in a very simple form and these metrics are important – however, they do not provide the complete engagement picture. [...]
A/B Testing: When you compare different versions of digital ads or website landing pages to see which one performs better. An A/B test for digital ads would be running two different versions of ad creative and then measuring which version gets a higher engagement from viewers. Above The Fold: This is a term from the print advertising industry. In digital, [...]
If you do any type of advertising it is likely that you have been approached by a digital advertising salesperson or digital advertising vendor. With so many people seemingly toting the same products it is hard to know who to go with. Here are questions to ask that lead to some key points of differentiation. These items set digital advertising [...]
If you want pixels for your campaign, container tags are essential. A container tag is a snippet of code used in digital ad campaigns. It makes it possible to track various campaign targets because it removes the need for multiple data tracking codes being placed directly on the site. Instead, one code is placed across every page of a [...]
When Retargeting was first rolled out, it was a fairly straightforward process. A visitor goes to your website, you drop a cookie on the person, follow that person around the web and show your ad, the person comes back to your website and converts. But, as with all things digital, it is constantly evolving, just as the customer path to [...]
Think click-through rates (CTR) are the only way to manage engagement with your digital ads? WRONG! View-through rate (VTR) can make a huge impact on your advertising strategy by showing what digital elements are working for your campaign. A view-through measures someone seeing an ad, and then returning to your homepage through another channel, without clicking on the ad itself. [...]
How many display ads do you think you are exposed to in one day? Tens, twenties or even hundreds? Believe it or not, the number falls closer to the upper levels of the spectrum. Between the countless billboards, magazines, television and internet ads we pass by hundreds of times a day, it is apparent that display advertising has made a [...]
Google recommends that advertisers track View-Through Conversions. Here’s what Google says, “Measure the success of your display ad campaigns by using View-Through Conversions… View-Through Conversions are what happens when a customer sees an ad (but doesn’t click), and then later completes a conversion on your site.” In order to track View-Throughs, a pixel code is placed on your website. Google [...]