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Richard Crittenden

Richard Crittenden

Digital Media Buyer at ExactDrive. Wisconsin native. Interested in all things programmatic.

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Apr 5, 2022 3:47:00 PM

Real-Time Bidding Not Automatically Less Expensive According To ExactDrive’s New Research

ExactDrive believes Real-time bidding (RTB) can erroneously motivate media buyers to pay lower prices to advertise online while still expecting equal performance.

ExactDrive has recently analyzed the performance and effective bid price (average media cost) of several hundred online advertising campaigns. The results indicate that just because real-time bidding technology is being utilized to advertise online doesn't necessarily mean that the inventory should be purchased at a lower price.

Real-time bidding is a relatively new and very dynamic way to buy online advertising. Real-time bidding technology enables the buying process to be automated where media buyers can evaluate, bid on, and purchase ad inventory on an impression-by-impression basis. As a result, real-time bidding and real-time media buying creates one-to-one connections to consumers with greater scale, effectiveness, and efficiency. However, ExactDrive's internal research shows that Real-time bidding (RTB) could potentially motivate media buyers to erroneously pay lower prices to advertise online while still expecting equal performance,

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Mar 24, 2022 11:00:00 AM

Master Video Advertising in 5 Easy Steps

Capture the attention of your target audience through high-impact video advertising. Advertisers are able to build strong brand engagement by connecting with audiences anytime and anywhere by displaying video advertisements across the screens used by people in their everyday lives. Video advertising is a great way to engage your audience and give information they want.

Digital video is presenting a big opportunity for brands across the globe who want to interact with their audiences on a new level. Combined with content marketing and other forms of digital advertising, video provides a versatile way for brands to have their voices heard, and make themselves known in their industry. 

According to the data, video advertising can be a highly efficient and effective option for brands around the globe. People tend to automatically ignore television advertisements, so if you want to make a visual impact on your audience, there's really no better option besides video advertising. What's more, videos itself have become a common activity on the web, with the mass majority of people on the internet watching online videos.

So how can you make the most of this medium for your own digital strategy?

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Feb 28, 2022 10:30:00 AM

3 Steps to Take Your Mobile Advertising Campaigns from Zero to Hero

Despite the incredibly high amount of time that consumers are spending on tablets and smartphones, mobile advertising on a whole remains mostly an underutilized and overlooked concept. This year, mobile use finally exceeded PC use in the U.S, establishing itself once and for all as a leader in digital media marketing strategy. As innovation continues to rise and the channel of mobile marketing evolves, it seems that mobile marketing will only grow bigger.

In the United States alone, there are now 10s of millions of active smartphones, and mobile consumption continues to grow. If one thing is clear about business marketing efforts, it is that mobile interaction should play a significant part. Unfortunately, the thing that remains unclear to most businesses is how they can best utilize mobile advertising to ensure that they are making the right impression with their target market. For example, should you focus your mobile effort on a desktop format? Should you develop an app or try something new?

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Feb 17, 2022 11:47:00 AM

How In-App Advertising Should Change Your Media Strategy

Shopping. The end goal is the same, but the process has changed dramatically over the years. It is said that two-thirds of the World’s Internet consumption will come via smartphones and tablets. What does that mean for your business? Well, the mobile experience will change how we shop forever and that means your advertising campaigns need to be different too.

Smart brands know that apps build loyalty. Most mobile users seem to want an app to enhance their shopping journey, whether they’re looking for groceries or a new sofa. On a broad level, apps present advertisers with a unique opportunity to interact with consumers who could become brand advocates.

In-app advertising is effective. While some people continue to harbor reservations about clicking on banner ads within a web browser context, in-app advertising is far subtler. Those sorts of ads are less intrusive and don’t interrupt the user’s experience in the same way. Because of those reasons, people are more reception in-app advertising.

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Jan 28, 2022 9:30:00 AM

Is There Really “No Such Thing As Bad Publicity”?

According to Brendan Behan, an Irish writer and playwright, there‘s no such thing as bad publicity - except for your own obituary. Is he right?

Businesses that find success through controversy might be scorned in public, but theycan often attract enough consumers to suggest that the emotional responseacts as a form of free advertising. And in terms of their bottom line, they may not seem to suffer. Maybe they have a monopoly on the marketplace and a league of followers who love what they do enough to revel in the controversy (or ignore it)?

But courting controversy is very different from a media stunt or PR campaign turning sour.There’s nothing more powerful than a polished, engaging, and emotive PR stunt. But similarly, there’s nothing more damaging for a business than PR going pear-shaped. Here are some media of the biggest disasters – do you agree with Mr. Behan?

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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:

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Aug 4, 2021 11:15:00 AM

3 Ways To Annoy People With Your Retargeted Ads

Retargeting has been proven time and time again to be one of the most effective ways to reach an audience. By reminding website visitors of their past interest in a product, service, or brand, advertisers are able to reach out and bring them back through the networks and sites they have interacted with.

Simple and cost-effective, there’s every reason to use retargeting as part of your advertising campaign. But, as with every other strategy, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

Read on for 3 of the worst ways to annoy people with your retargeted ads.

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Jul 9, 2021 10:15:00 AM

Online Media Buying Recommendations

As the online advertising industry continues to popularize a programmatic media buying format with real-time bidding abilities that work in tandem with automated advertising optimization our jobs seem to be getting busier and more overwhelming. Yes, technology is getting faster and smarter but the amount of expected work output and expert knowledge required is increasing in parallel. Or so that's how a person can easily start to feel if they don't read our online media buying recommendations we are sharing below. Kidding.

We deal with thousands of online advertising campaigns and have built a proprietary advertising platform around the process of buying media online. As a result, we are constantly refining the process, observing issues, and working to make the entire online advertising process easier, more effective, and successful.

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