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Saturday 26 September 2015

B2B REMARKETING


Remarketing is a form of online advertisement that enables advertisers to show ads on various digital channels (Web, Social etc.) to users who have already visited their website.

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(Remarketing process)

A remarketing campaign execution starts with an analysis of the remarketing capabilities of various service providers (Adroll, LinkedIn Lead Accelerator, Google remarketing etc.). B2B remarketing campaign planning and execution broadly include following steps:

STEP 1: The primary step is to analyze website analytics including website conversion rate, bounce rate, average time on page etc.

STEP 2: Audience is then segmented primarily on the basis of the type of the content browsed by them. Remarketing lists should be created on the basis of parameters like pages viewed, source/medium, geography etc. With LinkedIn Lead Accelerator, audience can also be segmented on the basis of Industry they belong to.

STEP 3: In addition to business pages, a separate remarketing list should also be created for all home page & lead form abandoners. It is important to generate desire to bring them back to the corporate website so that they can browse pages or fill up the lead form.

STEP 4: The next step is to create tailored ads for each remarketing lists and serve remarketing ads on various platforms such web/ content network, LinkedIn sponsored updates, Facebook newsfeed, Facebook right hand column ads and on Twitter as promoted tweets 

STEP 5: The campaign is set up in the dashboards of various remarketing service providers and optimized on timely basis. Campaign reports must be analyzed for optimizations.


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(Steps involved in a B2B remarketing process)

The objectives of doing a remarketing campaign are:
a. Lower the cost per lead,
b. Bring quality audience (& new audience in case of targeting similar audience) to your website again where you can show them more relevant offer
c. Nurture your own audience in a controlled way over a long period of time with different messages.

Remarketing could be very annoying to your users. Marketers need to be very careful of not spamming their audience with same messaging everyday. Hence, do not be very persuasive in your banner or ad copy content, Schedule campaign wisely and optimize your remarketing campaigns on timely basis.

Friday 25 September 2015

Apple iOS 9 Ad-Blocking: What it is and How will it affect Publishers?


Safari in iOS 9 will come with a content blocker, that can stop images, scripts and other content from loading in the devices. It will not only block advertisements, cookies and pop-ups but will also disable tracking scripts and malware domains. Acc. to September 2014 report from PageFair and Adobe - the number of ad-block users around 200 million worldwide. The increase is even more pronounced on the Mac, with the number of Safari users running ad blocking extensions rising 71 percent to 9 million.

There are a number of benefits for the user with content blocking:
a. User privacy protection, 
b. Reduce data usage
c. Preserve up to 20% of the battery life
d. Improves page load time. 
e. The new iOS 9 web view, which can be used in many third-party apps, like Twitter and Facebook, would make external links faster to load. 

NOTE: Safari in iOS 9 will, however include a feature that lets you long-press on the reload button to load the site again without the content blocker running.

Reports say - The change will costs publishers more than $20 billion per year. Content blocking in iOS 9 is going to screw up way more than just ads. These new applications, which are mostly used to block ads, block JavaScript code from loading on websites based on a list that specifies which sources are disallowed. Advertisers may not be able to use tools such Google Analytics (for website analytics), Optimizely (A/B Testing tool for websites), Remarketing advertisements etc. to their fullest potential.

The publishers will likely lean toward different types of advertisements that aren’t as easily stopped – like native ads, IP based targeting ads etc. 

Publishers will also be driven to Apple’s forthcoming News app arriving in iOS 9, where Apple can generate revenue via its own advertising system, iAd.  

A Nieman Lab report noted that Apple’s News app will rely on iAd, an OS-level ad platform that can’t be vanquished or bypassed with ad-block software. Publishers who see declining mobile ad revenue might be persuaded to sign on with News, where Apple reportedly could take a 30 percent cut of ads that iAd sells on behalf of the publisher.

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