This presentation was originally delivered at the Casino Marketing & Technology Conference on July 18, 2018 by William Crozer, Director of Content Marketing and Digital Strategy for Wide Awake, a gaming and hospitality marketing agency.
Presentation Summary:
Most of your best players are also Facebook users, and when they’re on Facebook, they like to stay there. With more than 2 billion users globally, Facebook remains the largest and most widely used social media network. The chances are that not only are your best players on Facebook, but they're spending 20 minutes on average each day.
Fortunately for marketers, Facebook’s Custom Audience tool offers an efficient and effective way to communicate with a specific audience to accomplish any number of business goals. Building campaign frequency and reach, communicating membership perks and re-engaging inactive players are just a few real-world ways to use Custom Audiences. In this how-to session, you will learn the ins-and-outs of using Custom Audiences on Facebook from creating and launching a campaign to recording the results.
12. ASSUMPTIONS
• Tracking player activity.
• Database membership means brand familiarity.
• Already engaged in social media marketing.
• Intent signals to understand future behavior.
• Understand jurisdictional laws and regulations for data.
• The correlation between audience size and cost.
14. CREATING AUDIENCES
1.Upload a Customer File
2.Install a Facebook Pixel on your website
3.App Activity
4.Offline Activity
5.Engagement
6.Lookalikes
15. CREATING AUDIENCES
#1 - UPLOAD A CUSTOMER FILE
Use a customer file to match your customers with people on Facebook and
create an audience from the matches.
• Create segments before uploading.
• “Match Rate” is the number of Facebook users that match your data. Expect
60% to 80%.
• Must include at least an email, but full name, phones a number and address
can help.
16. CREATING AUDIENCES
#1 - UPLOAD A CUSTOMER FILE
• Data is “hashed” before uploading.
“Your customer list is hashed locally on your browser and then sent to Facebook. There,
it's matched against our existing list of our users' hashed IDs and the matches are added
to your Custom Audience.
Hashing turns the data in your customer list into short fingerprints that can't be reversed.
It happens before your data is sent to Facebook..”
17. CREATING AUDIENCES
#2 - INSTALL A FACEBOOK PIXEL TO A WEBSITE
Create a list of people who visited your website or took specific actions by using a
Facebook Pixel.
• Website activities that can fire the pixel include:
• People who visit a specific page
• People who complete a form or registration
• People who initiate checkout, add payment info or purchase.
18. CREATING AUDIENCES
#2 - INSTALL A FACEBOOK PIXEL TO A WEBSITE
• Associating a conversion value to an even can add an additional layer of information.
• Takes time for a pixel to build an audience.
19. CREATING AUDIENCES
#3 - APP ACTIVITY
Create a list of people who launched your app or game, or took specific
actions within a recent time period.
• Pixel events include:
• Anyone who opened the app
• Most active users
• Users by purchase amount
• Users by demographic segment
20. CREATING AUDIENCES
#4 - OFFLINE ACTIVITY
Create a list of people who interacted with your business in-store, by
phone, or through other offline channels.
• Your offline conversion results help you understand how effectively your ads
are driving offline events.
• Labor intensive, must be set-up ahead of time and must follow Facebook’s
requirements.
21. CREATING AUDIENCES
#5 - ENGAGEMENT
Create a list of people who engaged with your content on Facebook or
Instagram.
• Types of engagement:
• People who visited your Facebook Page
• Engaged with a piece of content (reactions, shares, comments, link
clicks, and carousel swipes).
• Sent Direct Messages
• Saved a page or post
22. CREATING AUDIENCES
#6 - LOOKALIKES
Choose a source and Facebook will identify the common qualities of the
people in it and then find people who are similar to, or "look like," them.
• Recommended source audience size is 1,000 to 50,000 people.
23. CREATING AUDIENCES
1. Upload a Customer File
2. Install a Facebook Pixel on your website
3. App Activity
4. Offline Activity
5. Engagement
6. Lookalikes
26. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
AWARENESS AD OBJECTIVES
• Brand Awareness
Reach people who are more likely to be interested in your brand within the
target audience.
• Reach
Show your ad to the maximum number of people within the target audience.
27. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
CONSIDERATION AD OBJECTIVES
• Traffic
Send more people to a destination on or off Facebook such as a website,
app or Messenger conversation within the target audience.
• Engagement
Get more post engagements, Page likes, event responses or offer claims
within the target audience.
28. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
CONSIDERATION AD OBJECTIVES (CONTINUED)
• App Installs
Get more people to install your app within the
target audience.
• Video Views
Get more people to view your video content within
the target audience.
29. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
CONSIDERATION AD OBJECTIVES (CONTINUED)
• Lead Generation
Drive more sales leads, such as email addresses,
from people interested in your brand or business
within the target audience.
• Messages
Get more people to send messages to your business
in Messenger within the target audience.
30. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
CONVERSION AD OBJECTIVES (CONTINUED)
• Conversions
Drive valuable actions on your website, app or in Messenger within the
target audience.
• Catalog sales
Create ads that automatically show items from your catalog based on
your target audience within the target audience.
31. CHOOSING OBJECTIVES
CONVERSION AD OBJECTIVES (CONTINUED)
• Store Visits
Get more people nearby to visit your brick-and-mortar locations within the target
audience.
34. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
AD OBJECTIVES
• Brand awareness
• Reach
• Traffic
• App installs
• Video views
• Lead generation
• Messages
• Catalog sales
• Store visits
CUSTOM AUDIENCES
• Upload a Customer File
• Install a Facebook Pixel on your
website
• App Activity
• Offline Activity
• Engagement
• Lookalikes
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COMBINE A BUSINESS OBJECTIVE WITH A CUSTOM AUDIENCE
AND AN AD OBJECTIVE.
35. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Generating New Players
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Lookalike
AD OBJECTIVE:
Lead Generation
DESCRIPTION:
Create a segment of the most active
players, then create a lookalike
audience. Create a simple offer that
people can redeem after they join a
marketing list. To redeem the offer, they
need to formally sign-up to the database.
36. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Generating New Players
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Lookalike
AD OBJECTIVE:
Reach
DESCRIPTION:
Create a segment of the players with the
most desirable ADT and then generate a
lookalike audience. Create an event that
targets the barriers to participation.
37. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Get Current Players to
Play More
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Video Views
DESCRIPTION:
Create a segment of players who are
moving to a higher tier. Create a
campaign around views of a video that
highlights the benefits in the next tier.
38. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Get Current Players to
Play More
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Reach
DESCRIPTION:
Encourage RSVPs to an exclusive event
by uploading a list of invited players and
optimizing reach ads for frequency.
39. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Get Current Players to
Play More
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Messages
DESCRIPTION:
Create a segment of players who are on
the cusp of moving to a lower tier. Create
a campaign around FB messages that
reminds them of the benefits they're
currently enjoying.
40. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Reactivating Inactive Players
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Engagement
DESCRIPTION:
Identify the players who are inactive and
create a carousel campaign around
current promotions, events and
upcoming entertainment.
41. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Property Events
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Sales
DESCRIPTION:
Generate more ticket sales for a show by
creating a lookalike audience from
people who have already purchased
tickets already.
42. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Property Events
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Engagement
AD OBJECTIVE:
App Installs
DESCRIPTION:
Run a campaign to people who engage
with a post about an upcoming show that
if they buy tickets through the property
app, they will be eligible for an added
value at the show.
43. SAMPLE CAMPAIGNS
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE:
Build Brand Awareness
CUSTOM AUDIENCE:
Upload a Customer File
AD OBJECTIVE:
Page Likes
DESCRIPTION:
Upload a list of the entire database and
regularly run campaigns to generate
page likes.
William Crozer, Director of Content Strategy and Digital Marketing for Wide Awake.
- We are a modern marketing agency for gaming and hospitality properties.
- Our primary objective is to help properties differentiate and innovate through modern marketing and advertising techniques.
We have 45 slides and thirty minutes
Questions for in between segments and at the end
Email me and I’ll send you a link to the presentation.
This presentation is geared to small and medium casinos. It’s more tactical, nuts and bolts and DIY.
Also, I have an entrepreneur’s mindset. I believe that this entire presentation only makes sense if it is tied to a real business outcome.
Facebook’s Custom Audiences is a valuable tool to reach these specific audiences in a medium where time is spent.
Custom audience targeting allows advertisers to message self-defined audiences on social media.
I’ll be talking about matching audience creation with ad objectives.
While I’ll be talking primarily about Facebook, similar campaigns can be run on Google’s Display Network, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and SnapChat
How many have used paid social media for their business?
How many people have used Custom Audience targeting?
Before we get too far, let’s step back and look at some larger assumptions that are critical to using custom audiences.
Casino marketers are incredibly skilled at tracking activity to the individual.
Adept at using tools to manage a database to create insightful segmenting.
Segmenting is an art based on intuition as much as it is a science based on logic.
Uploading from an existing database means people are already familiar with your brand.
Your property is already engaged in social media marketing, specifically Facebook.
- 2.2 B active monthly FB users
- 66% are considered daily active users for March 2018, which represents a 13 percent increase year over year
- 79% are active mobile users
- 29.7% of users are 25 to 34
- Average time spent is 20 minutes
Intent signals are critical for understanding future behavior based on past activity.
- Relying strictly on age, gender, income and education is an antiquated approach.
- New approaches based on behavior offer the opportunity to deliver more relevant and personalized messages.
- Why focus on 65-year-old women when you can focus on people who like your property or gaming, and people who look like those people.
The laws that regulate your casino allow for uploading a player list.
The correlation between audience size and cost.
- Wider audiences have lower costs per conversion
- Narrower audiences cost more but are more relevant and have a higher value.
- Custom Audience campaigns produce higher value conversions that cost more, but because they tend to - be smaller, cost less overall.
Here are all of the assumptions
Let’s talk now about how to create an audience
Spoiler alert, all of the pretty pics have been used.
Six ways to create an audience
Upload a Customer File
Install a Facebook Pixel on your website
App Activity
Offline Activity
Engagement
Lookalikes
Upload a Customer File
Use a customer file to match your customers with people on Facebook and create an audience from the matches.
Create segments before uploading.
“Match Rate” is the number of Facebook users that match your data. Expect 60% to 80%.
Must include at least an email, but full name, phones a number and address can help.
Security for your data is a big concern
Here’s what FB says:
Your customer list is hashed locally on your browser and then sent to Facebook. There, it's matched against our existing list of our users' hashed IDs and the matches are added to your Custom Audience.
Hashing turns the data in your customer list into short fingerprints that can't be reversed. It happens before your data is sent to Facebook..”
#2 - Install a Facebook Pixel to a Website
Create a list of people who visited your website or took specific actions by using a Facebook Pixel.
This is also known as retargeting
Website activities that can fire the pixel include:
People who visit any or a specific page
People who complete a form or registration
People who initiate checkout, add payment info or purchase.
#2 - Install a Facebook Pixel to a Website
Associating a conversion value to an even can add an additional layer of information.
Takes time for a pixel to build an audience.
#3 - App Activity
Create a list of people who launched your app or game, or took specific actions within a recent time period.
Pixel events include:
Anyone who opened the app
Most active users
Users by demographic segment
#4 - Offline Activity
Create a list of people who interacted with your business in-store, by phone, or through other offline channels.
Your offline conversion results help you understand how effectively your ads are driving offline events.
Labor intensive, must be set-up ahead of time and must follow Facebook’s requirements.
#5 - Engagement
Create a list of people who engaged with your content on Facebook or Instagram.
Types of engagement:
People who visited your Facebook Page
Engaged with a piece of content (reactions, shares, comments, link clicks, and carousel swipes).
Sent Direct Messages
Saved a page or post
#6 - Lookalikes
Choose a source and Facebook will identify the common qualities of the people in it and then find people who are similar to, or "look like," them.
Recommended source audience size is 1,000 to 50,000 people.
Here are is wrap up of the different ways to create audiences
Once you have an audience in mind, you must consider what is the ad objective
Facebook offers 10 different ad objectives.
Each ad objective type is optimized for performance within that objective regardless of creative.
AWARENESS
Brand awareness
Reach
CONSIDERATION
Traffic
App installs
Video views
Lead generation
Messages
CONVERSION
Conversions
Catalog sales
Store visits
Awareness Ad Objectives
Brand Awareness
Reach people who are more likely to be interested in your brand within the target audience.
Reach
Show your ad to the maximum number of people within the target audience.
Consideration Ad Objectives
Traffic
Send more people to a destination on or off Facebook such as a website, app or Messenger conversation within the target audience.
Engagement
Get more post engagements, Page likes, event responses or offer claims within the target audience.
Consideration Ad Objectives (continued)
App installs.
Get more people to install your app within the target audience.
Video views.
Get more people to view your video content within the target audience.
Consideration Ad Objectives (continued)
Lead generation.
Drive more sales leads, such as email addresses, from people interested in your brand or business within the target audience.
Messages.
Get more people to send messages to your business in Messenger within the target audience.
Conversion Ad Objectives (continued)
Conversions.
Drive valuable actions on your website, app or in Messenger within the target audience.
Catalog sales.
Create ads that automatically show items from your catalog based on your target audience within the target audience.
Conversion Ad Objectives (continued)
Store visits.
Get more people nearby to visit your brick-and-mortar locations within the target audience.
Let’s look at putting everything together now into a few sample campaigns
Custom audiences and ad objectives are just two parts of the equation.
You also need to consider the business objective and the creative elements.
Create a segment of the most active players, then create a lookalike audience. Create a simple offer that people can redeem after they join a marketing list. To redeem the offer, they need to formally sign-up to the database.
Create a segment of the players with the most desirable ADT and then generate a lookalike audience. Create an event that targets the barriers to participation.
Create a segment of players who are moving to a higher tier. Create a campaign around views of a video that highlights the benefits in the next tier.
Encourage RSVPs to an exclusive event by uploading a list of invited players and optimizing reach ads for frequency.
Description:
Create a segment of players who are on the cusp of moving to a lower tier. Create a campaign around FB messages that reminds them of the benefits they're currently enjoying.
Description:
Identify the players who are inactive and create a carousel campaign around current promotions, events and upcoming entertainment.
Description:
Generate more ticket sales for a show by creating a lookalike audience from people who have already purchased tickets already.
Run a campaign to people who engage with a post about an upcoming show that if they buy tickets through the property app, they will be eligible for an added value at the show.
Upload a list of the entire database and regularly run campaigns to generate page likes.