Expert Optimization: Post-Campaign and Beyond

Expert Optimization: Post-Campaign and Beyond

August 24, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Part three of our Expert Optimization series

In our first two blog posts of the series, we discussed how to prep your ad campaign and how our team makes mid-flight optimizations after launch. But what happens after your campaign has run its course? Our team of advertising experts know that optimization doesn’t stop after the last ad is delivered – it continues through post-campaign analytics.

We sat down with our team of experts to delve into what an AdDaptive partnership looks like following campaign completion.

 Post-Campaign Insights

After your campaign ends, the AdDaptive team provides post-campaign insights along with the context needed to fully decipher the results and recommendations for future campaigns. Our resident post-campaign experts explained how they interpret these insights, make recommendations, and arm clients with the knowledge to leverage their results in the future.

Similar to in-flight campaign updates discussed in the previous blog post in the Expert Optimization Series, post-campaign analytics are also broken down into firmographic sections for insights into performance among your target audience.

AdDaptive is proud to offer in-depth insights that go beyond the traditional metrics like CTR, Viewability, CPC, VCR and connect them to your activities, audience segments, and ROI. Senior Director of Customer Success Max Shaller said, “the ability to show the client a list of target businesses that received impressions, generated clicks or pageviews, and connecting that back to sales activity is FAR more impactful than solely relying on vanity metrics.”

Site Analytics and Beyond

Our team will also provide you with the Site Analytics report, which takes our in-depth reporting a step further by showing which of your target accounts engaged with your website via your ad campaign. By including strategic conversations along with these insightful analytics, AdDaptive’s team of experts can help our clients turn the analytics from insightful to actionable.

How can clients use this information after their campaign is over? Customer Success Manager Sam Donahue explained: “Clients can leverage firmographic reporting from AdDaptive’s analytics to build look-a-like audiences for future campaigns.” The resulting list of accounts can be turned into an ABM list to target with a subsequent campaign. Then, clients can continue to hone in on their desired audience for future campaign success and minimal wasted ad spend.

“Each targeting parameter within our platform is also a reporting parameter within our analytics, which provides seemingly unlimited optimization possibilities.” – Max Shaller

 

When asked what this looks like Max Shaller shared that “clients can be as broad or as granular as they like, adding/removing entire industries/revenue ranges OR optimizing single business locations. Each targeting parameter within our platform is also a reporting parameter within our analytics, which provides seemingly unlimited optimization possibilities.”

Gabby Lopez added that “this could mean stripping out those businesses that clicked or engaged with the ads and continuing to stay in front of those users. This could also mean, taking those businesses that did not click or engage and continue to serve them ads until they show interest. It really depends on the client’s overall KPI and campaign goals.”

Proving ROAS with Actionable Analytics

In addition to leveraging analytics in order to create new campaigns, these insights can be used to prove ROAS and support your sales and marketing teams. With the Site Analytics report, you can build out and track a target account’s journey from your ad campaign to site engagement to help prove ROAS.

With actionable insights that can be leveraged even after the campaign has run its course, AdDaptive’s number one priority is setting up clients for success while providing support during each stage of the full campaign cycle and beyond.

In our next installment of the Expert Optimization series, AdDaptive’s experts will share their tips and advice for getting the most out of your ad tech partnership beyond the campaign through a flexible, data-centric approach built on open communication.

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Expert Optimization: Campaign in Motion

Expert Optimization: Campaign in Motion

August 17, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Part two of our Expert Optimization series

In our previous blog post in this series, we spoke to a few of our advertising experts about how to properly build an advertising campaign and prepare to launch. At AdDaptive, we’re proud to offer holistic campaign support from start to finish. While the campaign is running, our experts are hard at work making optimizations to ensure you meet and exceed your goals.

Today we are speaking with our resident campaign experts about what an ad tech partnership with AdDaptive looks like during the campaign flight.

Mid-Flight Optimization

After the flight begins, AdDaptive’s team of experts continue their support through campaign optimizations and open communication through strategic updates. Progress is tracked through the Campaign Analytics report where impressions, clicks, CTR, and engagement metrics are broken down into firmographic sections like heat map, business location by state, business size, NAICS codes, and more. AdDaptive’s experts closely monitor the campaign and interpret the results of the Campaign Analytics report, looking for ways to further enhance results.

Senior Director of Technical Media Solutions and Analytics Eli Moger shared a few examples of optimizations that the AdDaptive team makes during the flight to get the most out of each client’s ad spend:

You don’t have to wait until the next iteration of your campaign to make effective adjustments.

These recommendations come in the form of strategic conversations throughout the campaign at the client’s preferred cadence. With an AdDaptive partnership, you will never be completely locked into your campaign the second it launches. Our team of experts can help actively hone the campaign during the flight to yield the results that matter most to your business. 

Launch Campaigns with Experts on Your Side

Whether you’re building your first campaign or your thousandth, AdDaptive’s team of experts are here to support you at each step of the process. From defining your audience and goals to optimizing your campaign mid-flight and providing strategic conversations, our number one priority is helping you meet and exceed your goals.

In our next installment of the Expert Optimization series, we will dive into what an AdDaptive partnership looks like post-campaign.

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Expert Optimization: Prepping Your Campaign

Expert Optimization: Prepping Your Campaign

August 10, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Part one of our Expert Optimization series

Choosing an ad tech partner is a big decision. You need a partner that will be with you each step of the way and provide support throughout the process. AdDaptive Intelligence is composed of advertising experts that are ready to help set up and optimize your ad campaigns to help you reach your desired audience.

But what exactly does this process look like? We sat down with a few of our resident experts for a look inside an AdDaptive partnership and asked them to share tips for creating a successful ad campaign.

Campaign Setup

When asked about the first step in creating a successful ad campaign, Manager of Client and Media Services Sami Bourgeois shared the importance of strong communication and goal-setting. Discussing campaign elements such as target audience, campaign budget, expected reporting cadence, and desired outcomes are just a few of the important conversations to be had pre-campaign launch.

When it comes time to build out the target audience for an ad campaign, Senior Director of Technical Media Solutions and Analytics Eli Moger explained how the AdDaptive team approaches this process:

Audience Composition

These recommendations based on the above criteria will form the Audience Composition report which gives you a full look into the audience that AdDaptive will build. The report has a heat map showing the locations your ads will be delivered as well as the firmographic breakdown of the desired accounts you are targeting including business size, NAICS codes, sales volume, and more. Once the Audience Composition report has been approved by the client and the audience segments have been created, it’s time to launch the campaign.

A Strong Start

Taking the time to identify your goals and target audience is critical to advertising success. AdDaptive’s team of experts is here to help you narrow down your KPIs and pinpoint the high quality accounts you care about for exceptional engagement.

In our next installment of our Expert Optimization Series, we’ll share insights into the mid-flight optimizations that keep your campaign on track after the campaign has launched.

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Case Study Sessions: Reaching Niche Audiences in Hospitality, Aerospace, and Animal Health

Case Study Sessions: Reaching Niche Audiences in Hospitality, Aerospace, and Animal Health

July 24, 2023 |
Matt Shore

When cautious optimism is dictating ad spend decisions, many brands and agencies are expected to “do more with less.” Avoiding wasted impressions is crucial for advertising success especially when you’re trying to reach a very niche audience. 

No matter how specific your audience is, AdDaptive’s cookieless targeting can help get the right eyes in front of your ad campaign and ultimately drive positive outcomes for your business.

How granular are AdDaptive’s targeting capabilities? Just ask these clients from industries including Hospitality, Aerospace Manufacturing and Animal Health.

 It’s time for a Case Study Session. 

Hospitality Company Reaches Niche Audience of Hotel GMs

Goals

A hospitality company was looking to reach a niche audience of hotel general managers with a goal of 5000 conversions in three months

Solution

By leveraging our validated offline data, NAICS codes, and title overlay, we were able to hone in on potential prospects with the GM title that would benefit from the company’s offering. 

Results

This yielded 8,457 conversions in three months, exceeding the client’s original goal. They were thrilled with the results and ended up developing a long-term partnership with AdDaptive for continued advertising success.

 

Aerospace Manufacturing Company Reaches Industry Thought Leaders

Goals

One of the top 3 aerospace companies approached AdDaptive with the goal of building more engagement around a new product from a very specific audience of global industry decision-makers. 

Solution

AdDaptive leveraged validated offline data mapped onto digital identifiers to ensure the company’s ads were delivered to the intended accounts.. 

Results

The company’s expectations were exceeded with 6.7 million desktop and mobile impressions with a CTR of 0.15%. AdDaptive was praised for our holistic advertising approach and ability to hone in on valuable industry thought leader accounts.

 

Animal Health Company Builds Brand Awareness Among Veterinarians

 Goals

A livestock medicine and vaccine manufacturer sought to increase their brand awareness among a niche group of veterinarians. 

Solution

AdDaptive customized validated offline data segments tailored to the company’s unique targeting needs. 

Results

In less than a month, the campaign had already yielded over 2 million impressions from the desired niche audience. The company was thrilled with the results which inspired them to double their media executions with AdDaptive for the coming year.

 

Target with Confidence

AdDaptive understands that every dollar of ad spend counts when you’re building a budget. That’s why we are proud to support our clients in reaching their target audience across vertical markets with ease. Customizing our targeting approach based on specific industries, goals, KPIs, and more is what keeps our clients coming back for continued advertising success. 

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage. 

 

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Analytics Command Center: Launch Campaigns with Confidence

Analytics Command Center: Launch Campaigns with Confidence

July 06, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Preparation is critical when astronauts plan a trip to space. Even when the course is charted and the ship has launched, consistent communication with ground control and in-flight optimizations allow for a successful trip and pave the way for future missions. At the heart of the space journey, where all of these crucial steps are managed, is the command center. 

AdDaptive’s Audience Composition report, Campaign Analytics report, and Site Analytics report act as your Analytics Command Center. These reports are paired with strategic conversations and insights from our team of experts to give you a holistic view of your audience and campaign performance needed for continued success.

The Analytics Command Center eBook will give you the detailed steps needed to navigate your campaign through the stars to reach your target audience efficiently and effectively. It will also provide you with the tools needed to go beyond the numbers and leverage your analytics to personalize your advertising approach, prove ROAS, optimize future campaigns, and more.

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Flexible and AdDapt-able

Flexible and AdDapt-able

June 29, 2023 |
Matt Shore

The advertising industry is known for its fast-paced nature and constantly evolving landscape. Savvy advertisers know keeping a finger on the pulse of industry trends and changes is vital for success. They also know being flexible and adapting to change is the only way to stay ahead of the competition.

An ad tech partner should not only be able to keep up with you and the ever-changing landscape, but also anticipate what’s coming around the bend. We at AdDaptive pride ourselves on our ability to deliver both flexibility and success. During a time of “cautious optimism” when it comes to ad spend, adjusting to the needs of our clients is our number one priority.

Our flexibility begins with a simple rule: no long-term commitments. Having room to choose and pivot your partnership is not only beneficial to you financially, but it also mirrors our industry. Things are always changing, and you can be ready for anything with the ability to adjust your partnership to fit your needs. You don’t have to choose between booking long-term or short-term. With AdDaptive, you can run several types of campaigns at once and customize your approach to reach your goals. This gives you the freedom to shift your strategy based on the success of your previous campaigns. You can reallocate your budget accordingly, refine your audience, and more thanks to actionable analytics.

AdDaptive’s flexibility also extends beyond commitments to the ad campaigns themselves. When running an ad campaign with AdDaptive, our team of experts provides campaign updates via our Campaign Analytics report along with insightful context behind the numbers through strategic conversation. The report includes your ad campaign’s impressions, clicks, CTR, and engagement metrics organized into firmographic sections like:

  • Heat map
  • Business location by state 
  • Business size
  • Sales revenue
  • NAICS codes
  • Creative type
  • Creative size 

      and more

AdDaptive optimizes your campaign throughout to ensure maximum ROAS. You can also work together with AdDaptive’s experts to shift your strategy to better fit the needs of your unique campaigns and to reach your KPIs. You shouldn’t have to be locked into a campaign the second after it deploys. The ability to adapt and adjust minimizes wasted ad spend and prepares you for future campaign success.

AdDaptive is growing and changing right alongside the industry. Through flexible commitments and campaigns, we are devoted to supporting our clients and their needs. Run different length campaigns across various audience segments, channels, and KPIs, and use analytics to optimize your campaigns based on engagement from high-quality accounts.

An ad tech partner that promotes flexibility and AdDapt-ability? 

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage. 

 

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Allocating Ad Spend Appropriately with Analytics

Allocating Ad Spend Appropriately with Analytics

June 05, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz
Budget Wisely

2023 has brought continued annual growth to the ad tech industry, with digital ad spend increasing from roughly $165.5 billion in 2022 to $177.3 billion in 2023. Yet this growth is still accompanied by a wide fluctuation in advertising budgets. Many media buyers are contemplating how to designate their monthly and annual ad spend while considering the ever-increasing amount of foot traffic and competition in the digital advertising space.

In times of economic uncertainty, agencies feel the need to experiment with their ad spend – dividing budgets among the available media mix options for digital advertising. So, what is the wisest way to allocate this year’s advertising budget?

Divide and Conquer

Digital advertising spend is expected to reach the $200 billion mark in 2025, and media buyers are faced once again with the decision to divide the available budget among the various advertising platforms. With options ranging from display, native, and video, to programmatic audio and CTV advertising, decision paralysis can hinder the process of determining where to place ad spend.

Research has proven time and time again that running a combination of media types yields higher engagement levels and conversion rates.

  • The combination of display, native, and video has the highest unique account reach at 93.05%
  • Adding both native and video to display boosts display CTR by 15% on average
  • Running display along with native and video registers a 32% decrease in cost per engagement (CPE)

Read more in AdDaptive’s Media Type Combinations Report.

Personalizing the media mix for each campaign to fit the brand and the target audience’s ad viewing preferences is the key to achieving overall campaign success and boosting future advertising budgets. And the ideal multi-channel combination of media types is ever-changing from one flight to the next, so both pre-campaign and post-campaign analysis are necessary to optimize the mix each time.

Audience Insights to Guide Your Decisions

Gain a better understanding of each target audience’s ad preferences with comprehensive reporting. At the end of each flight, reflect on account engagement levels across each media type before designing the next campaign. For example, if the target accounts are clicking through more display ads than video or native, shift ad spend accordingly. If programmatic audio reach is negligible, eliminate the channel from the media mix for the next campaign. If video completion rates are favorable, consider adding more videos to future flights. And if all goals are being reached across each media type, you’ve found the combination sweet spot for your particular campaign!

Your ad spend decisions – month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year – should be supported by actionable insights to optimize future campaigns and ensure their success.

Partner with an Analytics Expert

Rely on AdDaptive’s analytics to determine the ideal, unique allocation of ad spend among a combination of media types for each campaign, leading to the highest level of engagement from your target audience. Actionable insights will help you find the ideal mix among display, native, video, programmatic audio, and CTV to reach the right audience at the right time. AdDaptive’s full suite of Audience Composition, Campaign Analytics, and Site Analytics reports provide the information needed to decide how to allocate ad spend appropriately to meet the goals of each campaign.

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Analytics for Any Market

Analytics for Any Market

May 01, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

There is a high level of variety that exists in the advertising world. Campaign messaging, media mixes, target audiences, and more can fluctuate significantly from one brand to another, and from one campaign flight to the next. So, how can an agency ensure that each campaign is reaching the intended niche accounts?

AdDaptive’s reporting suite will help you accurately target specific accounts of all sizes with accuracy and scale, from small businesses and start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our Audience Composition reports can be built based on first-party or third-party vertical market data, NAICS codes and other desired firmographic parameters. Campaign Analytics reports provide transparent, actionable insights into your target accounts’ engagement with the campaign, and Site Analytics reports show the flow of traffic to your brand’s website throughout the course of the flight.

Partnering with a trusted ad tech vendor such as AdDaptive will enhance your ad campaign reach, so you can accurately target niche audience segments and receive insightful analytics on their level of engagement with your brand. 

Learn more in our one-sheet:

For more examples of success, visit the Customers page on our website:

Discover the Success AdDaptive Brings to B2B Agencies and Brands

 

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Digiday Media Buying Summit March 2023 Recap

Digiday Media Buying Summit March 2023 Recap

March 28, 2023 |
Matt Shore

AdDaptive was thrilled for another opportunity to sponsor the March 2023 Digiday Media Buying Summit. We traveled to New Orleans March 6th through 8th to participate in this exciting three day conference. It’s always a pleasure meeting with colleagues, prospects, and fellow industry professionals face to face and having in-depth discussions about the AdTech space. Here are a few of our takeaways from the March conference.

Optimize Your Advertising Strategy with Transparent Analytics

Our very own VP of Sales Ted McNulty delivered an engaging presentation on day one of the conference articulating the importance of analytics to your advertising strategy. Having access to precise and actionable insights will help with every step of the advertising process from defining your target audience to reaching key accounts with precision and tracking campaign performance. Learning how to leverage actionable analytics allows you to reach your desired audience efficiently and effectively as well as optimize your campaign throughout the flight. After the flight ends, you can retarget different segments of your audience and use the insights you learned to reach your goals. After chatting with fellow AdTech colleagues, it was clear that increasing efficiency and effectiveness was a common theme of the conference as it reflects trends in the market today.

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Ad Spend

2023 has been labeled a year of “cautious optimism” when it comes to ad spend. Some advertisers are seeing an increase in budget, some are seeing a slight decrease, and others are experiencing business as usual. A portion of advertisers are allocating more resources to the bottom of the funnel initiatives in order to deliver on conversions but top-of-the-funnel brand awareness is as critical as ever when establishing credibility and trust in your company.

No matter your specific 2023 budget circumstance, efficient ad spend decisions are crucial during this time. Actionable analytics can help take the guesswork out of reaching your high priority accounts, optimizing your current and future campaigns, and tying revenue back to campaign efforts to prove ROAS. Being able to confidently approach your advertising strategy in a time of cautious optimism will set you apart from your competition. This also puts worried clients who are hyperfocused on the bottom of the funnel at ease, allowing for a more holistic pipeline approach. 

CTV and Upper Funnel Importance

Like many industry events in the past few years, CTV was a hot topic in New Orleans. Although the interest in CTV is high, especially with the announcement of Netflix’s ad supported subscription tier, some advertisers were a little reluctant about CTV and other upper funnel tactics. Many cited the lack of measurement and the need for quick conversions as their reasons for hesitation. This is where actionable analytics can help.

Having access to detailed insights about your audience can help make your upper funnel approach just as strong as your lower funnel approach. In order to personalize your messaging to high value accounts in the bottom of the funnel, you need to build brand awareness and nurture colder accounts through the entire funnel. CTV has proven to be incredibly effective at engaging audiences towards the top of the funnel and planting the seed of brand awareness. It’s clear why CTV has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. WIth actionable analytics, you can ensure the resources are being utilized effectively and take full advantage of CTV and its benefits.

The Digiday Media Buying Summit is the perfect way to keep a pulse on industry topics and find more ways to help our prospects and clients. Based on conversations about CTV, ad spend, and transparent analytics, AdDaptive is in the perfect position to be a reliable partner for advertisers striving for campaign success.

A strong AdTech partnership to achieve advertising goals?

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage.

 

 

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Take the Temperature of Your Target Accounts

Take the Temperature of Your Target Accounts

March 20, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

Pinpoint each account’s location in the sales funnel

Knowing where each of your target accounts falls in the sales funnel is vital to closing sales and ultimately proving return on ad spend. By distinguishing which accounts are hot, warm, and cold you can allocate your marketing and sales efforts appropriately and increase the overall success of your campaigns.

If the coldest accounts who are still unaware of the brand or products/services being offered are being given the most attention, the hottest accounts may fall out of the funnel or shift their focus to the competition. Hot leads should take top priority, followed by warm leads, and finally cold. So, how do you know which accounts are hot?

Your B2B thermometer

Think of B2B analytics like a thermometer to measure your audience’s engagement. Analytics reports provide the figures and insights needed to take the temperature of each target account in your campaigns and company sales funnel.

Determine which accounts in your ABM list are hot, warm, and cold based upon analytical insights from AdDaptive’s reporting. With the combination of insights from our Campaign Analytics reports and our Site Analytics reports, you can clearly deduce where each account currently falls in the sales funnel based upon their level of engagement. These reports provide a transparent, detailed breakdown of each account’s impressions, clicks, pageviews, and more throughout the flight of each campaign.

Armed with this information, you can then retarget each account based on their location in the sales funnel. The hottest accounts who are the closest to purchasing can be handed over to the sales department as qualified leads, the warm accounts can be further nurtured through the campaigns that they were the most engaged with (but this time with a deeper level of personalization), and the cold accounts can be shifted into new campaigns with messaging tailored to build general brand and product awareness and trust.

Fuel more sales by:

  1.   Properly allocating your efforts to push the hottest leads through the funnel
  2.   Refocusing your campaign messaging strategy to continue to warm the colder leads until they are hot and ready to purchase

Learn more about how AdDaptive’s analytics can act as your account thermometer in this infographic and video:

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