Digital Media News

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!’

Apr 19, 2021 11:00:00 AM

4 Ways To Distinguish Your Banner Ads From Your Competitors

Establishing your own unique personality and brand identity online is a crucial part of managing a successful digital marketing strategy. Although there are various areas that you may need to focus on when it comes to maintaining brand identity, one of the primary things you'll want to concentrate on - is how you're going to distinguish your banner advertisements from those of your competitors. According to Business Insider, you're already fighting against tough odds if you've decided to use banner advertising as your primary form of online representation, but the truth is that poor design is often the cause of poor results. If you know how to make your banner distinct, innovative, and interesting, you can prove the statistics wrong and achieve a fantastic new rate of traffic and conversions. Following are four ways that you can optimize your banner advertisement design and leave your competitors in the dust.

Dec 14, 2020 12:14:00 PM

Extend Your Reach With Effective Online Advertising

Advertising online can really boost the bottom line of your business because of the reach of the Internet. Across the globe, we all use the Internet and access content. And not only is your net of potential customers vast, but the Internet also allows you to reach your leads instantly. There’s zero lead-time in the digital world.

Make sure that you accurately measure your online advertising campaigns and embrace an interactive approach to business. With the Internet, you can get instant feedback from the public on your marketing ideas. That feedback could be in the shape of an online form, a survey or a conversation on a social media platform. Either way, use this as a bonus opportunity to grab an email address and market future products and services to your audience.

Apr 18, 2018 9:05:00 AM

The Benefits of Online Advertising: An Efficient Way to Reach Customers

While the world of online advertising may seem somewhat intimidating at first, it can actually streamline your marketing campaign. Not only can online advertising save you money, reach a broader audience, convert more viewers into clients and target the appropriate audience, but you can generally set up most of your campaigns from the privacy of your office or home.

Jun 16, 2016 12:20:51 PM

Types of Online Advertising

Online advertising is perhaps one of the most important forms of marketing available today. If you aren't making yourself heard online, then the chances are you're missing out on the majority of the traffic, and profits you could otherwise be benefiting from.

The term "online advertising" is incredibly broad, and refers to everything from banner ads, to YouTube video ads, dynamic retargeting, and keyword search. Following, we're going to address some of the most popular forms of online advertising around in 2016, and how you can use them to drive traffic towards your website.

Sep 14, 2015 8:00:00 AM

Ad Viewability Versus Above-the-Fold Targeting: Which Matters More?

What does the concept of ad viewability mean in the context of strategy? And what makes it more significant than above-the-fold targeting? Viewability is more important in digital marketing than ever before. But why? A large percentage of marketers still judge the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns by tracking the cost per thousand and click-through rates. Though this may work for some, unfortunately, the results of such an analysis are easy to skew. Various forms of digital advertising are beginning to see an increase in fraud, thanks to bots.

Lately, many scientific studies agree that "your ad being seen" is more important than your ad getting clicked. The simple reasoning behind this is that an advertisement is useless unless it can be seen. With this in mind, the concept of ad viewability continues to gain momentum within the tech industry.

May 6, 2015 9:12:00 AM

5 Critical Tips To Master Online Advertising

According to the National Office of Statistics, in 2014, 38 million adults (76%) in Great Britain accessed the Internet every day (21 million more than in 2006, when directly comparable records began). So making a splash online and advertising in the digital arena is a business no-brainer.

Unlike traditional advertising channels, online advertising is less expensive, far faster to market and easy to measure. But without the right tools, it can be a minefield and tricky to keep a lid on your budget. So if you want the best return for your advertising budget you need to utilize some of the online tools that cangauge how effective and wide-reaching your online advertising is.

In no particular order, here’s what ExactDrive recommendstoensurethat your business, products and/or services are seen by the right people:

Mar 12, 2015 8:00:00 AM

The Biggest Problems With Online Advertising And How You Can Fix Them

Digital marketing plays an ever more central role in most business's marketing plans. From retargeting, to social; there are plenty of creative and cost effective ways to get your brand under the noses of hundreds, if not thousands of potential customers.

However, despite the many benefits of touting your brand on the internet, online advertising continues to be plagued by fraud and viewability issues, as well as low creative standards, leading critics to question its effectiveness, and future.

Is online advertising broken?

Some say that display advertising has some fundamental problems that may never get fixed. They argue that it suffers from low click-through rates (0.1% on display ads), widespread click fraud and low viewability – (only half of the ads served online are actually seen by users). Concerns have also been voiced about the "creepy" nature of retargeting, irritating pop-ups and the prevalent use of ad-blocking software.

So is it broken?

We don’t think so. It’s just suffering from an image problem, and progress is already being made to fix the issues. For example, the Media Rating Council (MRC) and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) recently released their ‘Viewable Impression Measurement Guidelines’, which set out parameters to measure viewable impressions. They state that 50% of pixels must be in the viewable portion of an internet browser for a minimum of one second, (two seconds for video ads), to qualify as a ‘viewable’ display impression.

By adopting this standard, marketers and publishers will benefit from the improved quality and accountability of their digital advertising efforts.

Mar 3, 2015 8:00:00 AM

Signs You Should Invest In Dynamic Ads

The era of the “one size fits all” ad creative is over. In case you somehow missed it, there has been a major shift from the old model of display advertising, which depended on advertisers distributing generic content everywhere in the hope of reaching their target audience, to highly personalized content within dynamic ads delivered directly to pre-targeted consumers on whatever device they happen to be using. Learn more about implementing dynamic ads in our brochure.

What has fueled the shift?

Advancements in technology and data capture have fueled the shift - providing online advertisers with access to detailed information on target audiences such as their location, interests, environment and even their preferred ways of communicating with brands. Marketers are now able to turn data into actionable information in real-time, for example, by segmenting audiences and brands while simultaneously considering weather, location, date and time, device, and more.

Jan 6, 2015 7:00:00 AM

Understand Psychology To Nail Your Advertising Campaigns

When it comes to advertising campaigns, marketing content and experiential marketing strategies, success lies in the planning. It’s not enough to simply be creative, and losing sight of what you’re trying to achieve will hinder your chances of attaining any goal.

Ideally, you need experience. That’s experience of what works and what doesn't. And most of the top marketing experts gather that experience by analyzing campaigns from the customer’s perspective, not from their own. Whether they know it or not, what they’re actually doing is analyzing human behavior.

Yes – to consistently deliver marketing that works, you need to be something of a psychologist. Here are 4 top tips to help you connect with your audience like never before.

1. Pick your words carefully.

Sounds obvious, so let’s be specific. People put a lot of emphasis on what they read first, so make sure any headlines or initial copy is working as hard as it possibly can be. Remember that visually, less is often more. Take Apple’s approach - when they’re in full ‘product launch’ state, their messaging is less about marketing and more about the product.