Digital Media News

Jun 17, 2020 11:54:00 AM

Three Critical Retargeting Strategies

Depending on whom you ask, conversion rates on websites hover around the 2 - 3% mark. This leaves at least 97% of website visitors with unfinished business potential. While your maximum unrealized potential isn't likely to be 97%, it's not 0% either. Somewhere between these two extremes lies the size of the missed opportunity - and this is where retargeting comes in.

Retargeting is a tool designed to help companies reach that elusive 97% of users who don’t convert right away.These visitors abandon the sales funnel for many reasons;they mayjust be window shopping, or not have their credit card on hand; but in the highly competitive world of online advertising, it is more important than ever to maximize the value of each visitor that shows an interest in your brand.

What is retargeting?

Retargeting is an advertising strategy in which marketers attempt to 're-attract' previous website visitors by serving them with highly-targeted ad campaigns and personalized advertisements.

May 24, 2016 9:00:00 AM

Display Retargeting Best Practices

Retargeting or Remarketing, is a simple and often highly economical way to draw people back towards your website after they've visited once and chosen to leave without converting. In some cases, conversions are lost simply because a prospect wasn't in the right position to buy when they came across your website, or because someone was distracted away from your page by another matter. When used properly, display retargeting gives you a second chance to prompt that all-important action, whether you're looking for subscriptions, sales, or anything else.

Unfortunately, simply jumping into retargeting isn't the best way to make the most of the technique. Failing to properly plan out your retargeting efforts could leave you with diminished results - or worse, damage your brand image. The following best practices should help you to avoid the digital threats, and achieve your marketing goals.

Dec 30, 2015 9:07:29 AM

Did Retargeting Ruin Your Christmas?

When you visit a website and start shopping for a product, then see the same or similar products through an advertisement on Facebook or Google a couple of days later - it isn't a coincidence. Savvy online companies everywhere are making use of the effective strategy of "retargeting" - a technique designed to tailor ads specifically to the behavior a certain user displays.

Though retargeting has many benefits for consumer and company alike, it can become a problem during the festive season, if you want to keep your searched-for items a secret from other people using your computer. Fortunately, managing the ways in which you are served advertisements is possible if you know how to adjust your online activities.

Jun 24, 2015 9:36:00 AM

Supercharge Your Bottom Line With Search Retargeting

To put it simply, search stats are a great indicator of consumer intent. You can’t argue with the stats: Google alone handles over 40,000 searches every second. To put that into perspective, that’s 3.5 billion searches every day and 1.2 trillion each year. Businesses plow millions of dollars into market research, yet one of the most powerful pieces of market research lie at our fingertips. And, quite often, the data is free.

That’s why search retargeting is so powerful. When you take the masses of search data out there and combine it with creative, intelligent digital advertising, the results can be outstanding. As we know, with online advertising, context is everything. As such, advertisers can use search retargeting to drive huge amounts of customer acquisition, not to mention acquiring new leads and a new audience.

Apr 10, 2015 9:00:00 AM

Doing Retargeting the Right Way Via ClickZ

Retargeting can be an effective way to increase conversions among online customers, but many marketers aren't using the strategy to its full potential.

Many of us are shadowed around the Web by our favorite (or not-so-favorite) companies. You’ll be flicking through your friend’s Facebook photos, and an ad will pop up for the dress you were checking out the other day. This isn’t coincidental – it’s retargeting in action.

Retargeting is a hot topic in the online advertising space, as it gives marketers a chance to get their product in front of indecisive customers, or "window shoppers," with attractive, tailored ads that relate to an experience they had previously on your site. Basically, you get another chance to close the deal.

Despite the fact that retargeting has become an established part of the digital marketing lexicon, many marketers are still unfamiliar with what it is and how it should be used. So let’s look at how to do retargeting "right."

Apr 3, 2014 9:57:00 PM

Is your CPC campaign just a big gift to your retargeting platform?

A lot of retargeting platforms push advertisers into buying ads on a cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-action (CPA) basis. Many advertisers are just fine with this arrangement, as it comes with a long list of advantages, but to make fully-informed decisions about how you allocate your ad budget, it’s important to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.

Isn’t CPC basically a “risk-free” way of buying ads?

CPC buying seems like a logical way to buy ads: in order to generate sales, you need clicks, and you’re happy to pay up to $X per click in pursuit of your sales targets. If you don’t get clicks, you don’t pay a dime. Sales revenue rises and falls in lockstep with advertising spend. It’s the holy grail of advertising!