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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The Power of a Foundational Ad Tech Partnership

The Power of a Foundational Ad Tech Partnership

June 01, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Brands have unique needs and goals when it comes to advertising especially when “cautious optimism” is influencing their ad spend decisions. Balancing their needs and keeping them confident in your agency is both rewarding… and tiring. Multiply the energy spent on one specific brand relationship by the full portfolio of brands you represent and you’re at risk of burnout. You have the skills and the talent to give these brands the experience they deserve, but a little bit of support could go a long way.

What you need is a strong foundation. You can’t always see the foundation of a building, but without one, a gust of wind could put the entire structural integrity in jeopardy. This concept should be kept in mind when choosing an ad tech partner. Your tech stack might go unseen by your clients, but these partnerships should help stabilize all of your competing priorities and make your relationships with stakeholders easier.

AdDaptive has the pleasure of being the foundation for countless agencies through our precise targeting, scalability, and insightful reporting. This partnership opens the door to leveraging AdDaptive’s success to boost your own efforts. For example, each quarter on average AdDaptive runs between 4,000-5,000 campaigns serving 600-700 million impressions. Our technology analyzes over 50 billion data points every day to fuel the best optimizations for each of your unique campaign needs. Having a baseline like this allows you to confidently move forward with your own daily tasks knowing that your clients will be getting the most out of their ad spend. 

Clients rely on your agency to help them reach their desired audience. AdDaptive is happy to provide you with our precise, cookieless targeting capabilities to ensure campaign engagement from high-quality accounts. Our technology allows you to define a specific audience set and deliver your hand-selected message and creative to the right recipients. While the average ad tech partner has match rates around 50%, our targeting capabilities have match rates that hover around 75-80%, effectively helping to reach your desired audience. Then, as the campaign runs its course, AdDaptive provides updates and performs optimizations to keep you in the know and to further your reach. When the campaign finishes, AdDaptive shares insightful analytics along with the context behind the numbers to pave the way for stronger campaigns in the future. 

AdDaptive has your back behind the scenes for each campaign. A strong ad tech partnership foundation is meant to lift up the work you’re already doing while offering support where bandwidth cracks start to show. 

Let us help you to help them. 

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage. 

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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. 

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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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Keep Top-of-Funnel Top-of-Mind

Keep Top-of-Funnel Top-of-Mind

April 24, 2023 |
Matt Shore

The advertising industry has seen a shift in budgets in 2023 with more brands approaching their ad spend with “cautious optimism.” Since brands are looking to be as efficient as possible with their ad spend, many are turning to bottom-of-funnel tactics to hopefully increase their conversion rates and close more deals. But as agencies know, a holistic pipeline approach is the best way to build funnel strength resulting in more lifelong customers compared to a couple quick conversions. In fact, in this recent study CMOs rated brand development a 5.5 out of 7 on a scale of importance. Savvy marketers see the value in spending more time and efforts on top-of-funnel brand engagement as a strategic move that builds relationships and trust, fueling revenue over time. Top-of-funnel tactics should be top-of-mind for your clients, and with the help of insightful analytics, efficient and effective ad spend is easily achievable.

By allocating resources to top-of-funnel tactics you’re able to reach more prospects who are colder or completely unfamiliar with the brand. But how can you be sure a brand awareness campaign is efficient and effective? 

With AdDaptive as your strategic partner you can build precise audience segments by uploading your own ABM lists, utilizing AdDaptive’s Platform to refine firmographic parameters, or leveraging your Campaign Analytics account list from your last campaign. When leveraging insightful analytics you’ll get a deeper understanding of your target audience’s preferences, and the tools to further optimize your advertising approach. This eliminates wasted ad spend and allows the capture of high-quality accounts in your pipeline. 

Now that more desired accounts have entered the funnel, you can more accurately nurture them along from the top of the funnel all the way to purchase. By continuing to leverage detailed insights about your audience, you can tailor your advertising approach to their behaviors and meet them where they are in their journey. The right message at the right time is the difference between closing a deal and letting potential customers slip through the cracks, and the use of transparent analytics will help enable timely and personalized communication. 

In times of “cautious optimism,” brands tend to start looking for immediate short-term solutions. But without new prospects entering the pipeline, they will quickly run out of “quick conversions” at the bottom. The top of your funnel should be just as strong as the bottom of your funnel. When insightful analytics enter the picture, top-of-funnel tactics are no longer a budget risk. A deep understanding of your audience and the tools to reach high-quality accounts where they are in their unique buyer journey will reflect positively on your client’s ROAS. 

A holistic pipeline solution for a healthy advertising approach?

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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Analytics in Action: Audience Composition

Analytics in Action: Audience Composition

January 12, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

This blog post is the first of a three-part series featuring samples of AdDaptive’s three separate report offerings. 

The most imperative step before the launch of any B2B ad campaign is building the target audience or ABM list. Even the most strategic content messages and designs are wasted if they don’t reach the right accounts.

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” 

If a message is delivered to the wrong audience, does it have any effect?

 

Ensure that your content is reaching your target list of accounts with AdDaptive’s Audience Composition tool. Our B2B experts will build out the finer details of your intended audience in order to validate and attribute impressions throughout the flight of the campaign.

Once a list of target accounts has been established, it’s time for AdDaptive to start building out your Audience Composition report. The first section of the report will show a heatmap of your target geographic areas.

Over the course of the campaign, your ads will be delivered to prospective accounts, closely following the customized heatmap presented in the pre-launch Audience Composition report. This stage of the report also provides a state-by-state and zipcode-based breakdown of the target accounts included.

 

Diving deeper into firmographic data, AdDaptive’s Audience Composition report provides a breakdown of the companies you’ve identified as wanting to target based upon their annual revenue, employee size, years in business, NAICS/SIC code, and more. This combination of data points allows for targeting companies of all sizes with equal precision.

Beyond these niche targeting options, the report provides vital information to target at scale. This reduces the amount of wasted impressions, makes it easier to hit target KPIs, and increases ROAS.

 

While average B2B targeting match rates hit just below 50%, AdDaptive’s match rates hover around 75-80%. Our technology aligns with your business strategy for optimal delivery to a valid audience within your targeting parameters. High match rates are achieved by taking your unique targeting preferences into account and presenting them in a pre-campaign Audience Composition report to ensure that we are on the same page, then by executing on these guidelines using our proprietary technology and years of experience. Advertisers can prepare to optimize their ad spend in this pre-campaign launch stage, since proper audience segmentation and scaling play such a key role in the success of each campaign.

The report provides the necessary information in an easily comprehensible visual format, with pie charts and bar graphs to highlight the range of accounts in terms of firmographics such as sales volume, employee size, and years in business.

 

 

Once your audience has been properly segmented and the Audience Composition report reflects aligning data for the target accounts, your campaign is ready to launch! After that, AdDaptive’s Campaign Analytics and Site Analytics reports will provide the actionable reporting insights and suggestions for optimization you need to help fuel your campaign’s success. 

Start off on the right foot and get a full preview of your campaign to ensure that it will reach the right accounts with AdDaptive’s Audience Composition report. 

**The report included in the photos here is a sample report. An AdDaptive Audience Composition report will show real data, including business names and zip codes.**

Read the second and third blog posts in this series here:

Analytics in Action: Campaign Analytics

Analytics in Action: Site Analytics

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A Diversified Approach To B2B Targeting In A Cookieless World

A Diversified Approach To B2B Targeting In A Cookieless World

March 15, 2021 |
Laura Bakopolus Goldstone

Survival of the fittest has never been a more relevant concept in B2B advertising.

The only challenge is that the idea of what it takes to be ‘the fittest’ keeps changing. As such, companies with the ability to change with the market are the ones that survive.

From a business standpoint, an industry that is consistently evolving to serve the changing needs of its market is one that is listening and working hard to resonate with its buyers – in this case, media planners and key marketing influencers at agencies and brands. It is viewed positively, as the changes being made are in their favor. As such, members of an ever-evolving market tend to appreciate the tweaks providers make to constantly improve their experience. And if needs are not being met, agencies will adjust their media plans to match brands with solutions that deliver.

From a provider standpoint, there can be a lot to keep track of externally – and to iterate on internally – in order to keep up with the rapidly changing market. As each idea gets adopted, each need is heard, and each change is made, companies must step up and act accordingly in order to survive. Companies that rely solely on one product or feature or who have cut corners in the past will not be able to navigate changes as smoothly. In other words, the more tech-savvy our audience grows, the less room for error and cover-ups exists. More optimistically, and better for their clients, the companies that have anticipated these changes and built their business on a strong mission executed by a diversified, success-proven solution are the ones that can accommodate each shifting audience need while still leveraging their strengths and continuing to thrive.

Thus, as needs and trends in the B2B advertising industry evolve, some tech providers can continue meeting these changing needs, enabling long-term strategic partnerships with agencies and brands.

The move away from cookies is one such change. Needs are being heard, raising the standard in the market; providers must meet these needs to survive.

And the strongest provider is the one that is already doing what other companies are pivoting towards – one that is already providing cookieless avenues for precise B2B targeting and can leverage its solution and experience to help agencies and brands succeed amidst industry changes.

AdDaptive is prepared to lead the charge. We’ve watched the market meander and audience preference shift throughout the years, and staying true to our name, we have adapted to each change while staying true to our mission. At the end of the day, AdDaptive is committed to connecting agencies and brands to their customers with superior accuracy. Luckily, our diversified approach has allowed us to lean on various avenues to achieve that end depending on what has worked best for our customers over time.

But with this particular change proposed by Google, we are at an advantage – we have never relied solely on cookies. Therefore, moving away from the use of cookies is a standard we have already met. Others will need to pivot, shifting resources and capabilities into this new territory, in order to survive; they will be moving into a space where we already have found comfort and success.

As we all work to emerge from a pandemic that had redefined risk in B2B advertising, marketers want to reduce risk as much as possible moving forward. One way to do that is to work with a tech vendor that is already well-versed in the language everyone else is learning, one that is already well-positioned to handle the looming changes that others will need to learn and pivot towards in order to survive.

That is not to say that we will not be affected at all – that would be naïve to the power of such large-scale shifts. Everyone in advertising will be affected – even amidst a cloud of uncertainty, we all can agree on that. But we firmly believe our existing setup will leave us at the front of the pack, potentially less impacted than others in the industry. Our customers can rest assured that in an ever-changing world, AdDaptive’s mission is steadfast and will continue to bring them B2B success.

How will AdDaptive remain strong and successful through Chrome changes?

  • Our focus on B2B Account-Based Advertising enables validated first-party data without private user information being saved.
  • We can build upon our focus on B2B IP Targeting at the rooftop level in aggregate rather than relying on third-party cookies as the sole basis of our B2B targeting.
  • Our solution is comprehensive and diversified rather than putting all of our eggs in one basket. Our proprietary technology links all of these together for one reliable result.
  • Our B2B reporting is universally linkable, so we can combine our analytics offering with any solution to resolve targeting back to key accounts.

We’re here to be your strategic partner. We thrive when working with customers that ask our opinion on how to turn an analytics report into an ABM list or how to create a phased strategy to build an increasingly refined audience at each step. We’re here for the long haul, and we love working with companies that value that relationship-based approach in order to create a synergy that leaves all parties better off in the end.

In short, AdDaptive’s diversified, comprehensive approach to B2B advertising, with an emphasis on account-level targeting in aggregate (instead of a reliance on cookies), a focus on a long-term strategic partnership, and a reliable analytics product, can help you continue to achieve B2B success in a cookieless world.

 

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Your B2B Ad Campaign May Be Missing These Audience Segments

Your B2B Ad Campaign May Be Missing These Audience Segments

March 10, 2020 |
Mikaela Alioto

Re-Defining The Business Professional

In B2B advertising, business audiences consist of an array of verticals, and digital advertising efforts require a robust solution to build successful, far-reaching campaigns. AdDaptive’s B2B targeting maximizes the ability to reach your intended audience—whether they wear a suit or a lab coat—through precise firmographic data and premium inventory placement.

Expanding your B2B Advertising Solution

In the age of technology, professionals across various fields rely on online platforms for conducting business and assisting with their daily objectives. Some business professionals choose social media as a resource for networking and remaining up to date on relevant industry news. Platforms can then use the information users provide for paid advertising. For instance, LinkedIn Advertising can target the users who are active on the LinkedIn platform, identifying job titles and personal interests for ad targeting. However, since not all professionals need a LinkedIn profile, it falls short when it comes to industry diversity. There are still millions of decision-makers inherently excluded from ad campaigns on social media simply because their profession does not network on particular social media sites. Medical professionals, for example, are less likely to have a professional profile; if they do, they would be inactive on a daily basis given the in-person nature of their work and the specialized requirements of their field. Other hands-on fields, such as construction, would also be inactive when conducting business for similar reasons. Relying solely on one channel for advertising would mean excluding entire industries from your B2B ad campaign, leaving a wide gap in your B2B audience.

“WORKING WITHIN ADDAPTIVE’S PLATFORM ALLOWS COMPANIES TO LEVERAGE PRECISE FIRMOGRAPHICS, SUCH AS COMPANY NAMES, EMPLOYEE SIZE, REVENUE, AND INDUSTRY TO REACH ANY BUSINESS FROM A SOLE PROPRIETOR TO THE FORTUNE 100.”

Adding AdDaptive to your Media Arsenal

Given that business is conducted in and out of traditional office settings, companies who limit their B2B targeting efforts to one social network are held back from entire verticals that may be relevant to their ad campaign. Fortunately, companies who aspire to extend their reach beyond desk jobs are able to close in on this gap and seamlessly complement their existing efforts with specialized ad tech vendors. Working within AdDaptive’s platform allows companies to leverage precise firmographics, such as company names, employee size, revenue, and industry to reach any business from a sole proprietor to the Fortune 100—including vocations such as electricians, farmers, construction workers and practitioners of medicine (AdDaptive’s case studies are just a sample of our successes across numerous industries).

AdDaptive’s pre-and post-campaign analytics provide even greater insights into your audience. Powered by a transparent, ABM approach and boosted with intelligent technology, AdDaptive’s analytics reports focus on aggregate business data and industry analysis to inform campaigns in each intended vertical. Adding AdDaptive to your arsenal does not replace your company’s current efforts; instead, we augment the scale of your B2B campaigns to include a wider audience—the impetus for successful, resonate campaigns.

Why limit your reach when you can extend it? Choose AdDaptive to fortify your B2B targeting efforts, reach niche audiences, and diversify your media buy.

 

 

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FAQ Series: How AdDaptive Targets Business Roles Using ABM

FAQ Series: How AdDaptive Targets Business Roles Using ABM

January 16, 2020 |
Mikaela Alioto

How can Companies Target Business Roles using ABM?

AdDaptive takes an Account-Based Marketing (ABM) approach tailoring campaigns to target B2B audiences with expert strategy and customization. AdDaptive’s account management team works with our proprietary technology to reach businesses, match with the intended IP addresses, and bid only on qualified users. Our team is committed to achieving your digital advertising goals through capturing your audience’s interest and needs. Using precise B2B targeting, we identify specific business roles within companies to boost engagement and maximize the reach of each ad campaign.

Follow the steps that AdDaptive takes to target business roles using ABM in this quick video:

 

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FAQ SERIES: AdDaptive’s Approach To Precise B2B Targeting

FAQ SERIES: AdDaptive’s Approach To Precise B2B Targeting

November 21, 2019 |
Mikaela Alioto

What is AdDaptive’s Approach to Precise Business Targeting?

AdDaptive’s intelligent technology leverages verified data to reach target audiences and inform future campaigns. Fortified with the most trustworthy data sources, AdDaptive’s campaigns reach your ideal accounts with precision and accuracy.

With traditional targeting, advertisers have identified their customers by relying heavily on third-party cookie data. First-party data can go even further to pinpoint key influencers at the intended accounts using verified information. By partnering with industry-leading offline data providers and optimizing our proprietary technology, AdDaptive is able to provide precise B2B targeting through the use of validated, offline data, modern insights, data mapping, and real-time analysis.

Modern Insights

Fueling B2B ad campaigns with validated, offline data allows agencies and brands to narrow in on the decision-makers that matter most to their businesses. AdDaptive’s rooftop-level targeting capabilities incorporate publicly available firmographic data sources including:

  • The U.S. Census
  • Property deeds
  • Tax assessor service
  • Professional licenses
  • Permits
  • Directories

AdDaptive doesn’t stop at the rooftop level; we then leverage IP targeting to locate the intended businesses and refine campaign targeting until your ads reach the right accounts.

ADDAPTIVE’S TECHNOLOGY ANALYZES BILLIONS OF DATA POINTS IN REAL-TIME, ENSURING ACCURACY AND RELEVANCY.

Data Mapping

AdDaptive’s proprietary use of data involves matching validated, offline data to unique B2B digital identifiers in the United States, including business IP addresses, location coordinates, domains, and job titles. This unique approach enables business targeting to be highly specific at scale.

Real-Time Analysis

AdDaptive’s technology analyzes billions of data points in real-time, ensuring accuracy and relevancy. Over 50 billion data points are analyzed everyday spanning ad serving data, geolocation data, mobile signals, and more. The results? AdDaptive’s customers exceed goals and obtain valuable insights to inform future B2B ad campaigns.

 

Harness the power of AdDaptive’s technology to reach your target audience, powered by the appropriate use of validated data.

 

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