Digital Media News (3)

Dec 29, 2021 5:26:00 PM

Why Does Retargeting Work?

What happens when someone visits your website and then chooses to click away without converting into a subscriber, customer, or anything else? Do you simply give up and hope that the next potential lead will provide better results, or do you make the effort to have a second chance at a first impression?

Retargeting allows you to present your visitors with unique, paid ad solutions whenever they've already visited your website. This advert focuses on the fact that the visitor in question already knows your brand and what you offer, then prompts them to come back and finish the conversion that they didn't complete before. By placing a tiny piece of code on your website, you can use retarding to:

Dec 21, 2021 5:38:00 PM

How Retargeting Will Improve Your Conversion Rate

The chances are that you've heard plenty of online advertising websites commend the values of retargeting. After all, for online advertising experts, PPC consultants, and digital strategists, nothing is more important than being able to understand and reflect your target audience's online behavior when attempting to grab their attention and maximize conversions. By understanding your audience, you can engage with them on a deeper level, and convince them to buy from you, even if they already visited your website in the past and decided against it.

Retargeting helps you to learn:

What environments and destinations do your customers come from.
Which concepts best attract your audiences' attention.
What motivates your customer to make a purchase.

Through that crucial data, you can maximize return on investment, and help potential consumers move along the sales funnel, and deliver incredible profits. But how exactly does retargeting work to improve your conversion rate?

Dec 17, 2021 12:52:55 PM

Video Advertising 101: Benefits and Types

When you think about advertising using videos your mind might immediately jump to those cringe-worthy and often hilarious car insurance ads with the talking animals. But video advertising doesn't have to be cheesy or gimmicky, it can be a very effective way to reach and connect with potential customers. In fact, according to eMarketer, spending on video advertising is expected to grow by 30% this year, reaching $4.1 billion in the US alone. The best part is that online video advertising doesn't just reach a global audience, it also has the potential to target very specific groups of people - depending on what you want to advertise and who you think might be looking for it.

Video advertising is an effective way for brands to interact with their audiences in a more personal way than traditional advertisements do. Videos can be interactive and it's easier for companies to gain consumers. It can be used to build brand awareness, drive engagement, increase sales and leads, and more. But with so many different types of video advertising available, it can be difficult to know which type is right for your business.

Dec 15, 2021 9:15:00 AM

Digital Media Buying 101: How does it work?

What is digital media planning? Today seems like as good of a day as any to open up a discussion about digital media planning for online advertising campaigns. Have you ever found yourself traveling in a new city, right after it has gotten dark, without a map, no money, hungry, thirsty, and no place to sleep for the night? Well, if you have had such an experience, it’s not very fun, and you probably developed a pretty skewed view of the city and your related experiences. This is because you visited the city without a proper plan and limited information and as a result, you most likely had a stressful and negative experience. You could have been visiting a great city, full of wonderful potential, but without proper planning ahead of time, you had a very difficult time experiencing the full potential of your environment.

Dec 12, 2021 5:53:00 PM

5 Ways To Build The Best Banner Creatives For Your Ad Campaign

Today, it's safe to say that businesses have more opportunities and more avenues for advertisement than ever before. However, deciding on an effective advertising method - particularly when your business is small or mid-sized, can be difficult, depending on the resources that are available to you. Creative marketing can be time-consuming and expensive when done improperly, but when you know how to get the most out of your creatives, you can be rewarded with the revenue that your company so desperately needs to survive.

Online advertising is an essential part of gaining steam in the business world today, and part of delivering great advertising campaigns on the World Wide Web can be attributed to the delivery of highly effective and eye-catching creative. Regardless of who you're selling to, the right creative can lead to brand recognition, which leads to conversions, profits, and of course: business success. So how do you build the best creatives for your campaign?

Dec 9, 2021 10:00:00 AM

Improve Click Through Rates

Most companies put a great deal of time and effort into their advertising campaigns. After all, you could have the best idea for a service or product in the world - but you're not going to start making a profit until you start getting the right level of exposure. Perhaps the best way to advertise today is online - as more people are browsing the web through their smartphones, laptops, tablets, and desktops than ever before.

However, a problem occurs when you place your banner ad online, and start to notice that people aren't clicking on it as often as they should be. CTR - or click-through rate, is one of the most important metrics that can be measured during an online advertising campaign. The reason for this is that the click-through rate calculates exactly how much your ad is resonating with the people who see it. So what can you do if your click-through rate is lower than you would like?

Dec 6, 2021 9:36:00 AM

3 Key Tips About Behavioral Advertising

Have you ever wondered how banner ads seem to know what you are thinking? That you were coveting that new pair of Jimmy Choo’s, or that vacation in the Bahamas? Or, have you been curious about how that dynamic banner ad knew to tell you about the new coffee shop that has opened at the end of your street?

Every time you surf the Internet, advanced data mining operations are cataloging your interests so that businesses can serve you personalized advertisements. The practice is known as “Interest-Based” or “Behavioral Advertising (or behavioral targeting,” and it enables advertisers to speak directly to their target audience with timely and relevant messages.

What is behavioral advertising?

As opposed to direct marketing, where advertisers send the same message to everyone,behavioral advertising takes online information and uses it to tailor the message to the user.

Dec 5, 2021 5:15:00 PM

4 Reasons Why Programmatic Ad Buying Is Important

Programmatic advertising - which is the purchase of media inventory based on audience-focused factors - has recently established itself as one of the most popular topics in the world of digital marketing. Within the B2B community, programmatic ad buying has taken center stage for companies looking to get ahead of the trends, to innovate and optimize how they reach out to and connect with potential customers and clients.

The programmatic ad buying process utilizes automated technology for the buying and selling of digital media, across a wide range of websites. This option is generally used as a fast-paced, effective alternative to relying on human interaction to secure ad placements. Basically, if you use a machine to deliver or purchase a digital ad, then you've become a part of a programmatic transaction.

Dec 2, 2021 9:39:00 AM

Personalization and Display Advertising: How Personal Is Too Personal?

In an overcrowded and competitive marketplace, companies will do anything to make their brand and products stand out from the crowd. One of the many benefits of online advertising is the ability to tailor adverts based on first and third-party data.But is tailoring effective and how far should you take it?

Let’s take the gaming industry as an example. Consider some of the detail you could potentially get from placing a retargeting pixel on your website:

The user’s account name
The sport they last bet on
How much they bet
If they won or lost
How long since their last bet

Knowing all this personal information and using dynamic ads, you could create a very personalized message, such as: ‘Hi Jim, congrats on the $1,000 win yesterday. Fancy a bet on the game tonight? Bet now!’

Nov 29, 2021 9:00:00 AM

4 Tips To Supercharge Your Retargeting Campaign

Getting new traffic to your site is one thing, but creating customers out of that traffic is an entirely different proposition. As little as 2% of visitors to a website will actually become customers or take some sort of action towards a purchase, so how can advertising entice the remaining 98% to become customers? With retargeting that's how.

What is retargeting?

Retargeting is a cookie-based technology that uses a small snippet of code to 'follow' your audience around the Web. Here's how it works: a small piece of code is placed on your website. The code is unnoticeable and won’t affect your site’s performance. Every time a new visitor comes to your site, the code drops a browser cookie. Later, when your cookied visitors browse the Web, the cookie will let your retargeting provider know to serve ads, ensuring that they are served only to people who have previously visited your site.