Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit December 2023 Recap

Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit December 2023 Recap

December 13, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

The final industry conference for 2023 was Digiday’s Programmatic Marketing Summit, which took place December 4-6 in New Orleans, LA. AdDaptive sponsored the event once again – our fourth Digiday conference for the year following the two Media Buying Summits in March and October and another Programmatic Marketing Summit back in May. 

The Programmatic Marketing Summit brings industry professionals from across the country to one central location to connect with fellow marketing leaders and build trusted relationships. During the various presentations, town halls, one-on-one meetings, dinners, and more, attendees discussed the various pain points, challenges, opportunities, and new solutions advertisers are currently facing. 

Attribution was a hot topic again at December’s conference; in fact, attribution has been a keyword at all four of the Digiday events in 2023. Another main topic of discussion was the removal of cookies from Google quickly approaching in 2024, and the various available alternatives to cookies. AdDaptive’s own VP of Sales, Ted McNulty, hosted a presentation at the end of the first day on one such alternative: validated offline data. Read on for a synopsis of these three key topics.

Attribution

This conference’s challenge board revealed that attribution still remains top-of-mind for many industry experts and professionals. With the ever-changing landscape of digital advertising,
accurate attribution moving forward is a big question. And furthermore, as attribution methods continue to shift, how will advertisers apply these changes in attribution learnings to future campaigns?

How will attribution work in the cookieless environment of 2024 and beyond? The answer depends upon the ad tech being put to use. Accurate attribution and transparent reporting go hand-in-hand to elevate campaign success, both
in anticipation of and in response to the looming cookie depreciation. Relying on cookies to monitor engagement levels, allocate budgets, and prove ROAS is no longer feasible.

Going Cookieless

Agencies are feeling increasing pressure to find alternative solutions to those technologies which rely on cookies. The Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit revealed that many decision-makers in the industry still aren’t ready for the removal of the third-party cookie. Industry executives rated the preparedness of the industry for next year’s cookie depreciation around a 4 or 5 on a scale of 1-10, and predict that some major steps still need to be taken in preparation of their full removal. 

There are a few options that are currently available from major ad tech providers that avoid reliance on cookies, but many of them are still in beta testing or first-round trials. AdDaptive’s cookieless solutions, on the other hand, have been in use and proven successful for the last decade. Our VP of Sales, Ted McNulty, went into more detail regarding the benefits of working with validated offline data in his presentation on December 4th.

Validated Offline Data

The main benefit of using validated offline data – from SEC filings and business registration data, to census data, building permits, and beyond – is the overall accuracy. While cookies attempt to guess information about an individual based upon their browsing history, offline data is factual and provided by the company itself. 

As McNulty further explained at the conference, targeting unique digital identifiers rather than using cookies allows for accurate targeting and scalability, regardless of how niche the intended audience may be.

“The harder your audience is to reach, the more valuable AdDaptive’s platform becomes” – Ted McNulty, VP of Sales at AdDaptive Intelligence

 

Over the last decade AdDaptive has worked with over 500 agencies to launch tens of thousands of campaigns, none of which have relied on third-party cookies. What makes AdDaptive different is our ability to connect validated offline data to online identifiers, to avoid wasted impressions and produce positive business outcomes for our clients.

Trust in AdDaptive’s future-proof technology to improve the accuracy, scalability, and transparency of your campaigns.

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Applying Attribution Learnings to Future Campaigns

Applying Attribution Learnings to Future Campaigns

November 15, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

This blog post serves to follow the first post of our Attribution series, Accurate Attribution to Drive Campaign Success, and goes into detail on how to effectively apply the attribution-related lessons learned from robust, transparent analytics reports.

Implementing Analytics Insights

Once an agency has formed a strategic partnership with a trusted ad tech vendor that helps you understand accurate attribution through robust, transparent reports, one big question still remains: What are the next steps?

How do you apply attribution learnings?
What actions should be taken moving forward to optimize future campaigns?

The answer is multi-faceted. The results of each ad campaign are unique and can vary significantly. Valuable insights from post-campaign analytics reports can be implemented across many categories, four of which we will highlight here: search, social, sales and marketing, and subsequent campaigns. Let’s take a deeper look at exactly how these insights can be applied in each category.

Search

Since 89% of all buyer journeys – both B2B and B2C – begin with a search engine, search ad placement is crucial and top-of-mind for all kinds of advertisers and the brands they represent. As buyers’ needs are constantly shifting, so are their
online searches. Advertisers need to stay ahead of the game with their targeting techniques based on the data behind buyer intent.

That’s where analytics come into play. 

AdDaptive’s reporting solutions provide industry-leading, transparent data to equip agencies and brands with the insights needed to target the right audience and the right time, with scale and accuracy. These campaign insights also help you determine which keywords to put your money behind based on which terms worked best in previous ad campaigns. 

Forming a proper understanding of the data presented in these robust analytics reports can also help advertisers predict their target accounts’ intent to purchase. Our unique data-mapping uses over 1 billion trade experiences and over 178 million public records to score past and potential future performances of buyers across the US, providing pinpoint targeting. This precise targeting generates higher campaign engagement levels, and then leads to accurate attribution. 

Social

The popularity of social media platforms has surged year over year since its conception and is predicted to continue to do so for the next few years. Social media users around the world aren’t tied to a single platform, either. “The average user now spreads their digital footprint across a staggering six to seven platforms every month.” As of 2023, around 4.9 billion people across the globe use social media – more than half of the current world population. By 2027, that number is expected to grow to 5.85 billion. 

Since the universe of social media advertising is so extensive, ad spend could easily be wasted on an improper audience with no interest or need for the product or service being presented to them in a digital ad format. Strategic targeting is extremely important to reaching the right accounts and maximizing ROAS. This also entails proper attribution and complementing other social media ad formats on walled gardens such as LinkedIn, including native ads and boosted posts.  For example, adding video – the most popular and effective media format in terms of generating ROI – to your existing media mix of display and native ads can boost campaign performance significantly. 

Once again, the insights gained from post-campaign analytics reports can aid in the strategy and creation of supplemental social media ads to reach the right audience and fuel future sales. Looking specifically at which creative types or messages performed best in your ad campaigns gives you the opportunity to properly retarget your most receptive audience members in complementary social media campaigns.

Sales and Marketing

The more you know about your target accounts, including their online viewing habits, preferences, and buying intentions, the better equipped your sales and marketing teams will be to push said accounts through the sales funnel with
speed and ease. 

The insights gained from robust analytics reports with transparent data are exactly what your sales and marketing teams need. 

This information can be used to help personalize sales outreach in the form of emails, phone calls, social media messages, and more. Generic sales outreach messaging rarely gains attention from the target audience; personalization in the form of understanding each potential buyer’s needs is imperative when it comes to eliciting a response from the account. This personalization goes beyond simple use of the person’s name, job title, company, etc.; using the data insights from ad campaign reports, outreach can be personalized to mention the target account’s current purchasing interests.

Marketing teams similarly require access to in-depth insights about prospective customers in order to create buyer personas and segmented marketing campaigns for each persona, filled with personalized messaging and custom content. Accurate attribution is a necessity.

The combination of sales and marketing efforts, as guided by analytics insights from post-campaign reports, is essential to warming leads, closing sales, and increasing ROAS. 

Subsequent Ad Campaigns

A fourth and final category to highlight is the optimization of future ad campaigns. Analytics reports clearly present impressions served and engagement levels for each list of target accounts, so agencies and brands can revamp their ABM lists to streamline their targeting in subsequent ad campaigns. 

Above and beyond rebuilding said lists, forming a full understanding of audience engagement with each brand’s content benefits future strategization, creation, and optimization of each flight to achieve the highest level of campaign success across all digital media platforms. Seeing exactly which target accounts are engaging with your content, and in which format – display, native, video, CTV, or programmatic audio – helps streamline re-targeting efforts. Breaking the ABM lists down further into hot, warm, and cold accounts and allocating ad spend to the preferred media types for each segment leads to the highest level of ROAS and overall future campaign success. 

Summary

From search to social, sales and marketing, subsequent campaigns and beyond, detailed analytics are extremely important for advertisers at each and every step throughout campaign flights. Being able to attribute successful efforts to engagement or revenue will help you determine where to allocate your time and resources to give the best results. Streamline your future advertising efforts and push accounts through the sales funnel with ease and efficiency using transparent data insights.

Trust in AdDaptive’s robust, transparent reporting solutions to elevate your advertising efforts now and in the long-term, with accurate attribution. 

 

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Digiday Media Buying Summit October 2023 Recap

Digiday Media Buying Summit October 2023 Recap

October 26, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

This year’s October Digiday Media Buying Summit was held October 3-5 in Naples, Florida at the Ritz Carlton. AdDaptive was proud to sponsor a third Digiday conference thus far in 2023, following the March Media Buying Summit and May’s Programmatic Marketing Summit.

Leaders from top tier agencies all around the country met to discuss the latest trends, news, developments, and opportunities in the ad tech industry. AdDaptive’s Sales Directors and Sales Managers were delighted to have the opportunity once again to connect with clients, prospects, and industry experts face-to-face. Topics of conversation and presentations ranged from omnichannel approaches, to the impending removal of cookies, to data transparency, and even AI. Here are some key takeaways.

Accurate Attribution and Measurement

Vendors and agencies alike have a constant focus on accurate ad measurement and proper attribution. With the impending changes coming from Google in the form of Sandbox initiatives and the accompanying removal of third-party cookies, alternative forms of measurement have been quickly gaining attention and popularity. This diversity of measurement tools and techniques also aids accurate tracking between various media types, especially newer formats like CTV.

Data Transparency

Another hot topic from various panels, presentations, and general conversations at the conference was data transparency. Transparency matters at two stages of the ad buying process – transparency between agencies and brands, and transparency between vendors and agencies.

Open sharing of data and insights builds trust and encourages future business with the ad tech partner or brand in question.

Brand In-Housing Still Provides Opportunity for Agencies

Transparency is also key when it comes to working with brand in-housing teams. A recent increase in in-housing initiatives is not necessarily a negative sign for agencies. Many newly launched in-house solutions only focus on one form of advertisement, such as search or social. They still need help from agencies to run and report on their programmatic advertising.

Brands with partial in-housing solutions still work closely with agencies around strategy, data onboarding, customer service, and analytics. There is still a large need for agencies, especially those who offer full transparency to their brands in a true sign of partnership.

Forming Strategic Ad Tech Partnerships

Speaking of partnerships, AdDaptive’s Senior National Sales Director, Michael Powell, spoke during a featured session titled “Leverage Strategic Partnerships for Programmatic Success.”​​​

Michael’s presentation focused on the importance of finding an ad tech partner that offers accurate and transparent targeting, optimization, analytics, and insights alongside a wide range of measurement tools. This helps agencies and their brands stay ahead of the competition and appropriately prioritize their advertising efforts to maximize the success of each campaign. Finding a strategic partner like AdDaptive will significantly boost ROAS and streamline the campaign planning process.

As always, the October 2023 Digiday Media Buying Summit provided helpful industry insights for vendors and agencies alike, and AdDaptive was thrilled to participate in and sponsor the event. We hope to see some familiar faces as well as make new connections at the next Digiday conference – the Programmatic Marketing Summit, December 4-6 in New Orleans, LA

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Add Video Advertising to Campaigns to Boost Engagement

Add Video Advertising to Campaigns to Boost Engagement

October 24, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

The Popularity of Video Ads

Among the available digital advertising media types, video has been proven to be the most popular medium among advertisers, B2B buyers, and consumers alike when paired with display and native ads. As Hubspot’s 2023 State of Marketing Report shows:

Millennials in particular prefer to consume content through online videos over any other form. But still, among all generations of decision-makers 75% view work-related videos at least once a week, and two thirds of these decision-makers visit the company’s website after viewing said videos. 

Marketers have also been picking up on the success of video. Since 2020, over 90% of digital marketers have considered video advertising to be an essential part of their media mix, with 88% reporting increased ROI thanks to their video marketing efforts. 

So, what exactly contributes to video advertising’s popularity?

Prioritizing Audience Preferences Leads to Positive Results

Social media platforms – including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and more – favor video over static images and text-based ads and position them more prominently. Well-made ads in the form of a video are more appealing than short-form text, since they help potential buyers visualize a company’s product and/or service offerings in a format that is faster and easier to consume. 

Considering the continual rise in popularity of TikTok videos and Facebook reels, it’s no wonder why advertisers have shifted their budgets towards videos. Especially since, on average: 

Source: Video Marketing Statistics 2023: Latest trends and insights you need to know

Since everyone is watching more videos now than ever before, marketers continue to re-focus their efforts on video advertising. 33% of brands revealed that they will be investing in video advertising for the first time in 2023, while only 3% of brands plan to reduce their video budget. The future of video advertising remains promising. 

AdDaptive’s Video Advertising Advantage

AdDaptive is well versed in running video ads pre, mid, and post-roll across all screens and devices. Our trusted technology, along with the optimization skills of our expert account management team, deploys video ads in the most effective way, achieving an average VCR of 77% compared to the industry average of 70%. 

Our Media Type Combinations report exemplifies the success that agencies and brands have experienced by adding video to their media mix. A combination of display, native, and video yielded the highest unique account reach at 93.05%. In contrast, when video was not included there was a sharp decrease across all levels of engagement. The addition of video to the foundational media mix of display and native advertisements increases CTR and landing page engagement significantly.

Trust in AdDaptive to help you strategically organize your media type investments, to increase campaign success and overall ROI with the use of video advertising. 

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Case Study Sessions: Drive New Business with a Supportive Ad Tech Partnership

Case Study Sessions: Drive New Business with a Supportive Ad Tech Partnership

September 18, 2023 |
Matt Shore

In our previous installment of Case Study Sessions, we shared success stories from three different companies that leveraged AdDaptive’s targeting solutions to effectively re-engage with their audience. Re-engagement is a powerful tool to drive conversions for your business, but it’s not the only option.

Every campaign is unique, which is why having an ad tech partner that can build a personalized approach to help you reach your goals while supporting the work you’re already doing is extremely valuable. In the days of cautious optimism when it comes to ad spend, the importance of efficiently moving prospects through the funnel towards purchase is crucial.

These three clients were able to drive new business and conversions with the help of unique advertising strategies built by AdDaptive.

 It’s time for another Case Study Session. 

Glass manufacturer reaches niche vertical at scale using AdDaptive’s display advertising to engage qualified leads, increasing site traffic by 218% and yielding new business

Goals

 A leading glass manufacturer aspired to engage a niche audience of architects. The company intended to expose the audience to their brand through banner ads and drive traffic to their website, where relevant content would inspire qualified leads to fill out a form to learn more. Previous vendors’ efforts proved this audience was difficult to reach digitally at scale; in search of both accuracy and reach, they turned to AdDaptive.

Solution

Fueled by validated online and offline data, AdDaptive’s powerful technology was able to identify the niche audience, learn about their engagement habits, and deliver banner ads accurately and at scale. Over three months, the campaign was constantly optimized to ensure ads were being delivered to high-quality accounts that would impact the customer’s bottom line.

Results

A high CTR (0.19%) and over 16,000 engagements proved the combination of data, technology, insights, and strategy were aligned with the customer’s goals and the audience’s interests. The campaign caused a 218% increase in site traffic, which led to many new business opportunities. In understanding the customer’s goals and audience, AdDaptive crafted a custom solution that proved beneficial for the customer, even beyond the flight of the campaign.

Healthcare client achieves conversion goal by complementing its internal solution with AdDaptive’s refined B2B targeting

Goals

A client sought to increase its white paper downloads and optimize its conversion rate among oncologists and medical professionals. They chose to complement their in-house solution by partnering with AdDaptive.

Solution

AdDaptive deployed a tailored strategy using validated, offline data matched to unique, digital identifiers to pinpoint the target audience within the healthcare industry. These efforts resulted in 7,275 white paper downloads and over 16 million impressions.

Results

Seeing the results from AdDaptive’s B2B targeting exceed its internal solution, the company reallocated resources and increased its budget with AdDaptive by 180%. Investing in AdDaptive’s solution brought over 18,000 conversions in 2 months, and the client’s site traffic, form fills, and orders were up 16% YOY.

AdDaptive produces 69,000+ conversions for world leader in lab equipment manufacturing

 Goals

An American public research, development and manufacturing company aimed to increase purchase intent among tech-savvy shoppers.

Solution

AdDaptive’s proprietary B2B Data and Technology enabled the client to efficiently reach the target audience of lab managers, technicians, and decision makers on a multinational scale.

Results

By pinpointing the appropriate audience members based on their likelihood to invest in the advertised technology, AdDaptive’s campaigns drove over 69,000 conversions (e.g.,. poster downloads, form fills, information requests, contact forms, etc.) for the company.

Strategy that Fuels Conversions

AdDaptive is proud to support our clients no matter what their goals are at every step of the campaign journey. Our advertising experts make sure that the right strategy is put in place before launch to drive the results you need from start to finish and beyond. This way you can reach the accounts that matter most to you and deliver the right message at the right time to spark conversion.

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage. 

 

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Accurate Attribution to Drive Campaign Success

Accurate Attribution to Drive Campaign Success

September 14, 2023 |
Helen Bartkiewicz

Measure Campaign Engagement with Actionable Analytics

Shifting from one campaign to the next, agencies and brands aim to continuously optimize their targeting and resonance to reach KPIs and achieve overall campaign success. Accurate measurement of engagement in one campaign – along with context and recommendations from transparent reports – should be used to make decisions about future campaigns. Does your team currently have access to the full suite of transparent reports necessary to measure engagement from each target account?

Without proper attribution, targeting efforts can be inaccurate. A lack of in-depth campaign analysis in terms of engagement, budget allocation, funnel placement, and beyond leads to wasted ad spend and loss of ROI. To foster the success of your campaigns, reports should be fully analyzed and their actionable insights should be taken into consideration.

Accurate attribution is aided by comprehensive reporting, showing the effectiveness of each campaign in terms of revenue and the progression of accounts through the sales funnel. Retargeting and optimization are key, especially when budgets are tight.

Find an Established Ad Tech Partner to Trust

Reaching the right accounts at scale requires a holistic pipeline approach backed by analytics. The accuracy of reports can fluctuate significantly from one platform to another, so finding a trusted ad tech partner is paramount to receiving actionable insights for the most accurate attribution.

While many ad tech vendors only offer simple post-campaign metrics such as clicks and impressions, robust analytics with deeper, actionable insights and strategic recommendations for optimization are needed to measure current engagement levels and fuel future campaign success. AdDaptive’s solutions, backed by our analytics experts, provide the necessary context behind the data to arm you with the information you need to adjust your campaigns to maximize their reach and success while providing attribution with precision.

Gaining a comprehensive understanding of which accounts are engaging with which type of creative and why gives advertisers and brands the power to retarget their audience with a higher level of accuracy in terms of content and media mix.

Additional metrics AdDaptive’s reports track include (but aren’t limited to):

  • List of targeted companies who received ads
  • Location (states and zip codes)
  • Sales volume
  • Number of employees
  • Job titles
  • NAICS codes
  • Clicks and CTR
  • Website pageviews
  • Conversions
  • Which creatives performed best

Lastly, we can customize clients’ reporting based on custom targeting dimensions, so any ways in which you choose to target your audience we can report back on post-campaign. Provide any dimension you’d like and we can filter the other report details around it.

AdDaptive’s Solutions

AdDaptive’s leading ABM analytics offerings aid you throughout the entire campaign process, from audience activation to post-campaign analysis. Our analytics provide the most thorough, accurate data and insights so you can properly attribute each metric to each advertising effort. This holistic level of reporting allows you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the overall effectiveness of your campaigns and how they drive revenue and pipeline movement.

In the pre-flight stage, AdDaptive’s Audience Composition report ensures that your campaigns are reaching the right accounts with a match rate that hovers around 75-80% – far exceeding the industry average match rate of just below 50%. Once your campaign is launched, our Campaign Analytics and Site Analytics reports provide detailed data and recommendations for optimization based on engagement levels and traffic driven to your website as a result of your campaign.

This full suite of transparent, in-depth reports from AdDaptive gives you the power to measure your campaign performance down to the level of each target account with a comprehensive overview that goes above and beyond industry reporting standards.

Trust in AdDaptive for highly accurate attribution tools to elevate your campaign strategy and stimulate future success.

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Expert Optimization: What Sets AdDaptive Apart in the Market?

Expert Optimization: What Sets AdDaptive Apart in the Market?

September 07, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Part five of our Expert Optimization series

Over the past month, we shared the incredibly valuable thoughts, tips, and recommendations from our team of advertising experts about how to achieve campaign success. These blog posts covered how to build success in the pre-campaign stage, mid-flight stage, and post-campaign stage as well as an insightful advice roundtable for strong ad tech partnership. 

When choosing an ad tech partner there are many things to consider. A long-lasting partnership with consistent results is the ultimate goal, but it can be difficult to compare offerings between different vendors when building and evolving your media plans and tech stacks.

For the conclusion of our Expert Optimization Series, we decided to pose one question to all of our advertising experts:

What sets AdDaptive apart from other competitors in the market?

As expected, the answers ranged across many different aspects of AdDaptive’s solution.

Cross-Team Support

Senior Customer Success Manager Gabby Lopez provided insight into the makeup of AdDaptive’s support team and how collaboration across the AdDaptive team helps bring campaigns to the next level:

The diversification of expertise across AdDaptive’s team ensures that all goals are met through effective communication and strong optimization tactics. An ad tech partnership with AdDaptive means world-class support from experts who are proud to make you and your campaign their number one priority.

In addition to supporting your campaign, AdDaptive also prides itself on focusing on both short-term and long-term goals for a well-rounded partnership. Sami Bourgeois, Manager of Client and Media Services, shared insights into how the team works towards a robust partnership throughout the entire campaign process:

Strong Media Activation and Scaling

On the technical side of things, Senior Director of Customer Success Max Shaller shared his thoughts on AdDaptive’s unique position starting as an audience activation platform and how it plays into our media execution today:

AdDaptive wants to be your one-stop shop for ad tech partnership. By offering solutions in audience activation, targeting, and reporting we can provide support each step of the way towards campaign success.

Flexible and Solution-Focused

When choosing an ad tech partner, it’s important to find a partnership that works for you and doesn’t disrupt the processes your organization has already put in place. Senior Director of Technical Solutions and Analytics Eli Moger demonstrated AdDaptive’s flexible and solution-focused approach to advertising:

This flexibility is extended to each and every one of our partners to ensure that they not only can reach their advertising goals, but also feel comfortable and supported by the partnership making the advertising process more streamlined.

We’re proud to have a team of incredibly thoughtful and talented advertising experts who are dedicated to supporting your campaign efforts from start to finish and beyond.

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Expert Optimization: Advice Roundtable

Expert Optimization: Advice Roundtable

August 31, 2023 |
Matt Shore

Part four of our Expert Optimization series

AdDaptive’s granular approach to advertising has helped countless clients consistently reach their advertising goals. In our previous blog posts, we sat down with our team of advertising experts to discuss preparation during the pre-campaign stage, mid-flight optimizations made during your campaign run, and ways to leverage post-campaign analytics.

To continue our Expert Optimization series, we brought all of our experts together for an advice roundtable on how to get the most out of your campaigns and ad tech partnership.

Stronger Partnership Through Communication

When asked about tips for a successful ad tech partnership, many of our experts pointed towards building a strong foundational partnership on open communication throughout the entire campaign cycle.

The more that we receive feedback for reports, optimizations, and recommendations, the better we can tailor current and future campaigns! -Sami Bourgeois, Manager of Client and Media Services

 

Senior Customer Success Manager Gabby Lopez agreed with Sami and added a statement about the importance of strategic conversations and check-ins with clients:

An ad campaign is a living, breathing thing that needs constant attention throughout the entire process. Having these open lines of communication between the AdDaptive team and the clients ensures the correct optimizations are being made and goals are being met.

A Flexible Partnership Built on Analytics

In addition to open communication, AdDaptive is committed to flexibility when it comes to the needs of our clients. Senior Director of Customer Success Max Shaller utilized one of AdDaptive’s favorite puns that demonstrates our goals as an organization:

One of the most effective ways of building long-term relationships with our clients is by adapting (get it?) our targeting and analytics to align with their existing business practices and reporting structures. – Max Shaller

 

We want our partnership to support the work you’re already doing and provide you the tools to succeed. This is why we integrate AdDaptive’s actionable analytics and strategic conversations to fit the needs and goals of our clients. Customer Success Manager Sam Donahue contributed his thoughts in this area explaining how analytics and the context behind the numbers can help set up clients to make effective campaign decisions:

When a client’s goals, targeting, and analytics align, the power of a comprehensive advertising approach is unlocked. The right optimizations can be made at the right time and campaign insights can be leveraged into future campaigns and beyond.

When asked about the key elements that yield success in an advertising campaign, Senior Director of Technical Solutions and Analytics Eli Moger shared his overarching thoughts for tactics to consider to get the most out of your vendor partnership. He pointed to specific actions one could take such as:

  • Rapid ad deployment across channels
  • Leveraging Campaign Analytics to inform other marketing & sales strategies
  • Making campaign adjustments based on high-performing accounts 
  • Investing in and focusing efforts around a data-centric approach to advertising 

From communication to leveraging analytics, AdDaptive is proud to offer extensive advertising solutions that not only enhance your current campaign, but also set up your future campaigns for success.

In our final installment of the Expert Optimization series, we will be discussing the many aspects of an AdDaptive partnership that our experts believe sets us apart from the competition.

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Case Study Sessions: Re-engage Your Audience Effectively

Case Study Sessions: Re-engage Your Audience Effectively

August 29, 2023 |
Matt Shore

In our previous installment of Case Study Sessions, we shared three examples of companies that were able to reach their incredibly unique audiences through AdDaptive’s powerful targeting capabilities. But what happens when you need to reach out to your audience a second time?

Re-engaging your audience is a great way to move previously interested prospects through the funnel, enhance market presence during peak selling seasons, and upsell existing customers. Most importantly, finding the perfect spot where you can effectively engage your audience without overwhelming them is crucial for campaign success.

With AdDaptive’s accurate targeting solution, you can ensure your re-engagement campaigns are being delivered to the right accounts at the right time with the right message. What does a successful re-engagement campaign look like? Just ask these three clients who leveraged re-engagement in their advertising approach.

 It’s time for another Case Study Session. 

Software Company Drives Conversions From Previously Interested Prospects

Goals

A B2B software company aimed to achieve conversions among users who previously engaged with their creatives.

Solution

AdDaptive devised a tailored, comprehensive strategy to re-engage users who had shown prior interest without overwhelming them. This included frequency caps across various devices as well as rigorous brand safety measures to ensure relevant and safe ad placement.

Results

After two months, the company saw over 12 million impressions and over 1,000 conversions, exceeding their previously defined KPIs. The ease of communication and the transparency with optimization between the AdDaptive and the client led to additional successful monthly campaigns.

Roofing Company Re-engages Prospects Successfully During Peak Season

Goals

 

A roofing company strived to achieve a high CTR despite the construction industry not seeing great success in digital advertising as work typically occurs in the field rather than behind a screen. They were looking to engage roofing contractors during peak roofing seasons.

Solution

AdDaptive created a strategy that not only targeted the client’s unique audience but re-engaged those users through peak selling season. AdDaptive suggested including B2B Sponsored Content in addition to B2B IP targeting to maximize CTR. Offline data was utilized to reach contractors within the construction industry, and online data was leveraged to re-target those users to further engage them with the brand.

Results

Leveraging online and offline data, B2B Sponsored Content, and retargeting led to above-industry-average CTR during four one-month campaigns (0.18%, 0.20%, 0.20%, 0.14%). Retargeting produced organic traffic on the client’s website and cross-device capabilities provided an opportunity to serve impressions to a business despite the lack of online exposure typical of this industry.

Utilities Company Builds New Service Awareness Among Current Customers

 Goals

A gas and electric company sought to increase awareness surrounding a new service, re-engage their current clients, and inspire them to upgrade their current plan.

Solution

AdDaptive deployed a customized targeting strategy to re-engage the company’s existing clientele by onboarding a list of companies to target through Account-Based Marketing. Display and video media types were combined to strengthen the campaign impact and achieve maximum optimization.

Results

The client was pleased to see the brand awareness AdDaptive had spread among the desired audience. The campaign succeeded in promoting the brand’s new product and services to existing clients, motivating them to take advantage of the upgrade promoted in the ad campaign.

Leverage Re-engagement to Make a Powerful Impact

The buying process has historically been long with multiple touchpoints to move multiple stakeholders through the funnel. Being able to accurately re-engage your audience opens the door for high-quality interactions and a more personalized buying experience for your prospects. AdDaptive is proud to offer word-class targeting measures that can reach and engage unique audiences more than once with the right message and the right time.

That’s the AdDaptive Advantage. 

 

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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.

Read the other installments from the series here:

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