2. Modes of display advertisements
PRINT MEDIA
The most traditional mode of
communication
Metric: circulation / no. of readers
TELEVISION
Has video content and has better
engagement rates.
Metric: number of viewers
DIGITAL
Includes ads served both via
mobile and website
Metric: unique users & page views
3. AD IMPRESSION
Recorded whenever an ad is displayed on the user’s screen
CLICKS
Counted whenever a user clicks on an ad
CLICK THROUGH RATE
Total number of clicks divided by the total number of
impressions
DIGITAL METRICS
4. FORMAT
TYPES OF DISPLAY
ADS
DISPLAY ADS
SIZE
IMAGE AD
RICH MEDIA AD
VIDEO AD
MEDIUM RECTANGLE
LARGE RECTANGLE
LEADER BOARD
HALF PAGE
LARGE MOBILE BANNER
LARGE FORMAT AD
TAKEOVER AD
8. HOW TO MAKE A
GOOD AD?
EMOTIONAL APPEAL VS RATIONAL APPEAL
INFORMATIONAL AD VS TRANSFORMATION AD
CENTRAL VS PERIPHERAL ROUTES OF PERSUATION
PRODUCT AS A HERO VS USER AS A HERO
FOCUS ON EXPOSURE, SALIENCE & FAMILIARITY A N E X A M P L E O F N E T F L I
X D I S P L A Y AD
9. Buying Models
CPM
CPC
CPL/CPA
SPONSORSHIPS
Cannot select section/placement.
Auto-runs based on inventory
availability
Allows planner to select best
performing sites &
placements
Suited for transaction/sign-up
based campaigns
Long-term branding
initiatives
Measured in terms of clicks, CTR
Measured in terms of actual
deliveries and cost efficiency
Measured in terms of sign-
ups achieved and cost
efficiency
However still measured in terms of
clicks, CTR
CPM : Cost per 1000
impressions CPC : Cost per
Click
CPL : Cost per Lead
CPA : Cost per
Action/Acquisition
12. Landing Page
1. Deictic Gaze – Place Action where Eyes lead naturally
2. Primary Effect – Convey the central message
3. Von Restorff Effect – What’s different
4. No Diversion on Landing Page
5. Social Proof
6. Loss Aversion – FOMO, Timer, One-Time deal etc
19. DATA
MANAGEMENT
PLATFORM
•Bluekai, Datalogix, eXelate.
White labeling to media houses
•DMP – brings all first party, third
party, public data together
•Lookalike modeling – possible
only when you know your
existing or best customers
WORKING OF DMP
20. SUPPLY SIDE PLATFORM
(SSP)
•It’s a yield manager for publisher
•Sell the impressions for as much as possible
•Send request to DSP to bid for
placements
•Shares the context (topic, keywords
targeting), page url, demographic, location,
device, browser, browser behaviour
data of its audience which is seeking
impression.
•Shares cookie ID
•DSP checks its cookies for people
who are visiting the publisher site. Flurry of activity for
each impression
DEMAND SIDE PLATFORM
(DSP)
•Optimize for your strategy - (goal such as
clicks/conversions, ROAS, budget, bid strategy)
•Turn, Appnexus, mediamath, doubleclick,
AudienceScience
•Cost efficiency and Buying efficiency
•Real time optimization – no time lag
•Granular targeting
•Scale/Reach – Contextual, Remarketing
•Media optimization
•Match audiences with the placement
targeting available with SSP
•Each DSP interacts with more than 15 SSPs and can serve
more than 15 billion impressions per day
•Programmatic
21. TRADING DESK
At media houses eg. WPP, Omnicom. Buy placements through RTB on behalf of client. Do planning–Targeting,
strategy for bid, budget
AD SERVER
•Independent reporting and analytics, verification
•Creative optimisation
•.swf file and .xml file (parent and child file)
•Dynamic Creative Optimisation
•Currently only 40% advertisers using ad server. Consider it as cost
VIEWABILITY
•When 50% of ad pixels are in view on the screen for min 1 sec and video seen for min 2 sec (Media Rating Council)
•Viewability rate – Percent of ads determined viewable out of total number of ads measured
•Most viewable position is just above the fold and not at the top of page.
Vertical ad units have higher viewability rate as they stay on screen longer as users scroll up and down.
24. Ad Fraud
Click/Impression/Conversion Fraud
• Click-Farms pay people for false digital activities
Bot Activity
• Robots use advance techniques to mask IP Addresses and create false impressions, clicks etc
Ad-Stacking
• Multiple Ads stacked on top of each other
• Technically Ad is there on the page but invisible to the eye
Pixel Stuffing
• Real Ad is compressed to 1x1 pixel
• Technically Ad is there on the page but invisible to the eye
25. Ad Fraud Detection
IP Address
• Same IP frequenting = Click-
Farms
Click Time-Stamp
• If high incidence of Clicks not
followed by Action, these might
be fraudulent
Action Time-Stamp
• If Action Time-Stamp is very
near the Click Time-Stamp,
then might be fraudulent
User Agent
• We note the Brower, hardware,
software etc to investigate
background of clicks being
human or bot-driven
Google Anti-Click Fraud
Programme
• Algorithm driven, Manual
investigation and Advertiser’s
Suspicion-based Investigation
labels clicks as invalid.
29. Ad Blocking – Recourse for Marketers
• Destabilize Webpage but UX suffers
• Private ‘Whitelisting’ Pact between Ad-Blocking Software and
Brand
• Turn Ad-Blocker Off request
• Subscription (Freemium Model) Model for Ad-Free Content
• Native Ads embedded in Website Code
•