Change is the only constant in the performance marketing industry and when competition is breathing down your neck, it is never a bad thing to take a quick look around the corner.
In this session Marin Software’s Jon Myers will take a look at five of the next big changes set to take the industry by storm, including shake-ups to how search and display will be targeted, the effects of increased social and mobile use, and how the offline world will optimise the offline world- as well as tips on how to futureproof your business in advance.
14. Audience activation in RLSA: “Credit Card”
Audience Search Ad Copy Bid
• High HHI
• Affluent Cluster
• Senior Mgmt
Existing Customer
Top Rewards
Card Perks
Low Rate
Double Miles
No Messing
Negative bid boost: - 100%
• Student
• Frequent Traveler
15. Adjust bids based on audience data
12% uplift in generic query CTRs for Motor Insurance vs. standard campaigns
7% reduction in CPCs across Motor Insurance vs. standard campaigns
14% uplift in margin across the Insurance vertical
22. The buyer’s journey is highly fragmented
47% of revenue comes from purchases made in more than one day (Google)
65% of revenue comes from purchases made in more than one step (Google)
Search engines and social networks are the top two sources used to research and
inspire purchase decisions (eMarketer)
Sources: Brand Perfect, “Adventures in Retail”, November 9 2012 and
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/tools/customer-journey-to-online-purchase.html
23. Search and social have become our go-to channels
Rapid and Continuous Growth
Consumer Usage is Omnipresent
Marketers Are Embracing
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50% of Total
Media Budgets
50% of Marketers
Will Increase
6 Billion Google
Searches / Day
1 Billion Daily
Facebook Users
Google / Facebook
= #1 / #2 for ROI
75% See as Critical
for Cross-Channel
Sources: RBC Capital Markets and Advertising Age, “Facebook, Inc.” September 12, 2013, and
http://news.magnaglobal.com/ipgmediabrands/press-releases/magna-global-advertising-forecast-2014-ipg-mediabrands.htm
24. Looking at search and social separately doesn’t tell the full story
Social is more likely to “assist” sales made in other channels
For every Social click resulting in a purchase, there are two clicks assisting another
converting channel
Source: Google http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/tools/customer-journey-to-online-purchase.html
25. Social advertising drives better search performance
Consumers Are 2.8x More Likely to Search for Your Brand
If they’ve been exposed your Social ad
Brands Experience a 11% Lift in Brand Searches
If they’re also running FB ads
Brands Experience a 50% Increase in Search CTR
When their target audience is also exposed to Social ad
44% of Marketers Have Seen Search Performance Improve
Following launch of a Social campaign
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26. Customers who touch both channels are more valuable
Google / Bing Click
+ Facebook Click
Search Touches + Social Touches = Better Performance
• 2X higher conversion rate, 2X higher revenue / click than Search only
• 4.5X higher conversion rate, 4X higher revenue / click than Social only
Focus on Acquiring Customers Across Channels
• Focusing on a single channel ignores the customers’ path to conversion
• Focusing on a single channel limits the potential results you can achieve
Facebook Click
Only
Google /Bing
Click Only
3.56% CR
$3.16 RPC
1.88% CR
$1.56 RPC
.76% CR
$.77 RPC
Source: Marin Software’s Combining the Power of Search and
Social for Exponential ROI report
27. Is search and social campaign integration worth it?
Search Revenue per Click is Higher When Managed with Social
o + 36% higher than Search campaigns managed independently
Search Revenue per Conversion is Higher When Managed with Social
o + 68% higher than Search campaigns managed independently
Source: Marin Software’s Combining the Power of Search and Social for Exponential ROI report
35. You need to gain transparency & control from programmatic display
Transparent bid
calculations
Second-party
data visibility
Full view of
media costs
36. Performance Marketing in the Future:
What other media could become
programmatic?
October, 2014
@JonDMyers
Bid Boosts for customers in-flight, remove customers
Relevant Landing Page for Searchers put them in the process
Search Remarketing
Performance-driven audience activation across search, social and display
Audience Connect empowers advertisers not only to gain valuable insight by audience by also provides a variety of activation channels. Advertisers can see which audiences are performing best then build comparable look-alike audiences to acquire new potential customers across display and social networks. Tight integration with Google RLSA enable advertisers to separate return visitors into different segments and apply different bidding or creative.
Search Remarketing
Performance-driven audience activation across search, social and display
Audience Connect empowers advertisers not only to gain valuable insight by audience by also provides a variety of activation channels. Advertisers can see which audiences are performing best then build comparable look-alike audiences to acquire new potential customers across display and social networks. Tight integration with Google RLSA enable advertisers to separate return visitors into different segments and apply different bidding or creative.
Buyer Journey fragmentation
So how can we explain some of these numbers, and the differences in how the two channels behavior?
Well its easy when you take a step back and consider how a buyer makes a purchase decision today.
As buyers, when we set out to make a purchase, we often use 2, 3 maybe even 10 different sources of information over the course of 20-30 days that span across different channels.
In fact occurring to Google, more than 65% of revenue comes from purchases that involve multiple touchpoints and 47% of revenue comes from purchases that span across several days.
Still, according to eMarketer through all of these different touchpoints along what has become a highly fragmented buyer journey, Search and Social remain the top two most important channels for influencing buying decisions.
http://www.exacttarget.com/blog/20-stats-about-how-social-media-influences-purchasing-decisions/
http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/direct/global-marketers-still-rate-seo-email-marketing-as-tops-for-roi-28385/attachment/econsultancyadestra-channel-roi-ratings-apr2013/
http://totalaccess.emarketer.com/Chart.aspx?R=130718&dsNav=Ntk:P_Title|research+and+sources|1|,Ro:5,N:405&Adv=1&SearchTitle=1&All=research+sources
Its no wonder why, according to emarketer Google and FB are considered the #1 and #2 channels by digital marketers. http://totalaccess.emarketer.com/Chart.aspx?R=145069&dsNav=Ntk:basic|roi|1|,Ro:15,N:500-781&kwredirect=n%2cn%2cn%2cn%2cn%2cn
65% of revenue comes from purchase made in more than one step *
Purchases involving 6+ steps have a 30% higher AoV than purchases with one step *
Search and Social have become our go to channels
First lets take a moment to reflect on why these two channels have become so important to us
By a show of hands, how many people are managing at least one of these channels today? Keep your hands raised if you’re managing both
Well there is a reason why so many of you raised your hands, and why Search and Social have really become our “go to channels” as digital marketers over the past several years.
Fastest growing channels in the digital marketing space with Social at 25% YoY and Search at 16% YoY
Size of the audience – Literally access to billions of potential customers across the globe
Engagement of the audience – Almost 6 billion searches happen in Google every day and 1 billion people use FB once / day. And check newsfeed an average of 14x / day. Also highest CTRs
Measurable – very easy to understand and track the performance of your investments.
When you consider these things, its easy to see why digital marketers consider Google and Facebook the #1 and #2 most important channels for driving ROI and why almost 50% of marketers plan to increase their budgets for these channels this year.
Google Picture
Still despite tall their similarities and parallels, ample evidence supports that Search and Social behave quite differently when we consider how they are used as channels the customer’s buying journey
Google has a great fee resource which I’ve provided a link to below that shows that Social is far more likely to assist other than channels in the conversion path rather than to be the last channel in the path to conversion.
In fact, for every Social click occurs that directly contributes to a conversion, there are two more clicks that occur that contribute to another channel.
So if you’re managing Social media through a vacuum in isolation, you’re likely undervaluing it as a channel and overvaluing other channels. Furthermore, if you look at the performance of these two channels in isolation, you’re really not seeing the big picture of your performance.
We have already seen numerous 3rd party studies that demonstrate the synergies between the two channels when they are run in an integrated manner, particularly how Social advertising is helping to drive incremental lift for Paid Search.
Marketers are more likely to receive brand searches, a better CTR and a better overall performance when they’re running social advertising.
So we really start to see here the ways here your social advertising efforts in particular is assist Search, and help its performance in addition to driving stellar performance on its own.
And not only do we see evidence that the channels can assist each other in driving incremental lift in interest and engagement with your brand, but when we look at this from a customer perspective, we find that those who engage with a brand both through Social and Search are more valuable to you than if they had just engaged with you through one single channel.
Marin recently conducted a study across more than 200 of our Search and Social advertisers and found that audiences who touch both a brand’s Search and Social ads have + 89% higher conversion rate, 367% higher revenue / click than if they had only touched the brand’s Search ad
103% higher conversion rate, 313% higher revenue / click than if they had only touched a brand’s Social ad
So in other words, when a customer touches both your Search and Social ads, they are 1.) more likely to buy, and when they do buy they buy more
And why might this be – Think about your own experience during a purchase decision. Aren’t you more likely to buy and more confident in your buying decision when you’ve gathered information from multiple sources? – Both from recommendations from those you trust and also from your own research?
So if we know that Social and Search help each other to drive incremental performance, and we know that a customer who touches both channels is incrementally more valuable, the question becomes, how can we are marketers target these customers across both channels and measure the performance of these channels in an integrated way?
Is it worth it?
So you may be saying, well managing the two channels together makes sense theoretically, but will it actually improve my performance?
In our study we found that there was a massive difference in Search campaign performance for advertisers who manage their campaigns alongside Search.
Search campaigns that are managed with Social have a 36% higher Rev / click and a 68% higher Rev / conversion than Search campaigns managed independently.
Who these people are is fuzzy “It’s our challenge as performance marketers to learn and understand our customers”.
We have the tools to do this better than ever before!
This is incredible and it’s happening now.
3 Things
Knowing Optimization”s” is plural, not one size fits all.
Right time, place, price.
Complexity is worth it
But silos remain
But silos remain
One of the trends that we’re seeing in the marketplace and increasing in importance with our client base is this movement around transparency. The question though has been what exactly does transparency mean?
We’ve seen it go a couple different ways:
- One is ownership of data. Ask to see ALL your data and determine how much control you have – all the way down to creative level performance, Individual conversion level insight, Revenue and cost performance, Domain-level reporting and control. You may not necessarily be managing the campaigns or viewing reporting on a day-to-day basis, but with retargeting where daily and even intraday insight can make or break the performance of a campaign, the option to have that data be accessible to you is
If leaning on a managed service:
Inquire on how are they bidding for media and optimizing campaigns? Is your retargeting partners incentives aligned with the marketer’s incentives. For example, CPC/CPA pricing is common for some managed service providers, but the issue with that is all the display and social inventory is bought on a CPM basis, so there’s an opportunity for arbitrage. And the problem there isn’t about the margins they can make on the arbitrage, but the potential openness to gaming, so for example, running ads on lower quality inventory, or the incentive to turn a blind eye to click fraud.
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See all your data (screenshot)
How are they bidding? (screenshot)
Below:
Understand cross-channel performance
CPM/CPC performance