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When it comes to campaign setups, weāve seen it all ā the good, the bad, and even the ugly. We all know that campaign success is largely determined by strategy, but what does a healthy strategy actually look like?
The start of the New Year is a great time to take a look at the health of your campaigns. Use this time of the year to dive into the performance of your creative, your copy, and more to make sure youāre set to drive the best possible success. Follow these steps and youāll be well on your way to ensuring a profitable start to 2019.
Help drive users toward conversion by reaching them at every step of their consideration phase. We typically recommend including a high-intent audience segment (such as cart abandoners), a mid-intent audience segment (such as products viewed), and a low-intent audience segment (such as pages viewed).
For optimal performance and scale, try to keep your targeted cookie durations at 30 days or higher. You should also keep audience segments broad enough to capture the majority of your user base. Trying to hyper-focus your targeting on one exact product or one single page of your site can actually hinder your campaignās ability to optimally perform.
Avoid overlapping targeting by only targeting one audience segment per AdGroup and excluding the high-intent segments from the low-intent segments. This will not only prevent your users from being served multiple different AdGroups at the same time, but it also allows you to see which portion of your audience is driving the best performanceāgiving you more insight and control over campaign optimizations. In the example strategy discussed above, an ideal campaign setup would look something like this:
Donāt miss an opportunity to bid on an ideal user because you donāt have enough ad sizes. The more ad sizes you run across the web, the better chance youāll have of reaching your best users at the best timeāthereby driving the best performance. By the way, did you know native ads have a 9% higher lift for brand affinity and an 18% higher purchase intent compared to regular banner ads? Happy New Year to you indeed.
Avoid ad fatigue by keeping your creative fresh, engaging, and relevant to your audience base. Donāt have a full-fledged creative team to help you with updates? Weāre here to help. Provide us with a few pieces of basic information, and weāll help you build a set of custom created ads, free of charge.
With the 5 healthy campaign tips above, weāre confident your campaigns will greet 2019 already running on the path to success. If the holidays have you feeling overwhelmed, reach out to our incredible Account Management team, who can help guide you through your own unique campaign setup while recommending optimizations along the way.
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Last updated on September 16th, 2022.