Originally presented by Yahoo at Catalyst and Yahoo's Digital Boost event in March 2017, this presentation provides ideas and strategies for accelerating your business through search and native.
There are more channels to discovery today than ever before in our history. In a recent study we uncovered that users reported a 55% YoY increase in video watching on their smartphone… How we experience content as consumers is changing, so it is incredibly important for us to keep up with these changes as an industry.
As we look at eMarketer data, we see that from 2013, time spent on smartphones has increased significantly over the past four years alone. Soon time spent on smartphones will surpass that of time spent on TV.
However, going back to traditional media, we see this all to familiar chart: showing TV viewing trends throughout the day where prime time is still king
But primetime is not just for traditional TV watching anymore. When looking at Flurry data, we saw that primetime usage is where the majority of app sessions take place
And of all the ways one can multitask, TV + Laptop is actually the most frequent independent of age. The main difference is that Millennials are more likely to be multitasking on their smartphone and their laptop or on all three devices at the same time…
In fact, during primetime, we saw that both Gen Xers and Millennials are switching from device to device on average about 9 times per hour. This makes for an incredibly distracted consumer.
So at the end of the day, how does this prolific multitasking behavior impact the emotional responsiveness consumers have to the content and advertising in the different devices?
Well what we learned is that that Millennials’ brains are actually rewiring themselves as a result of being digital natives and allowing them to be more likely to both remember and remain attentive to multiple stimulus. Whereas Gen Xers, as digital immigrants, are not hard-wired to deal with this added stimulus and thus are not able to emotionally respond when multitasking no matter what devices they are engaging with.
So with all of this data, can we identify a victor? Who is winning the war for your consumer attention? During primetime, when TV usage is at its peak… smartphones are the device that receives the highest amount of primary attention, more so than any other device.
And finally, the most impactful stat we learned in this study… We’ve all heard the old saying from John Wannamaker: “half of my advertising dollars is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half”… well let us help with the determination here.
57% of the time an ad was on the TV screen, the users’ attention was diverted to a digital device. Conversely only 15% of the time an ad was on a laptop were consumers diverting their attention to another device, and only 25% for smartphones.
It is abundantly clear here that digital is winning the battle for consumer attention when it comes to advertising.
CPM Source: Media Dynamics Inc, July 2016 (eMarketer)
To wrapup this section, In the battle for eyeballs during prime time where an average CPM for TV is $27 and the average daily CPM for mobile is $3*, smartphones win in:
Attention – Smartphones are the primary device of attention for consumers of all ages.
Engagement – Over half of the time a TV ad is on screen the consumer’s attention is diverted to another secondary screen (laptop or smartphone).
Source:
US Ecommerce Performance StatPack: Including Mobile Performance
Yory Wurmser | December 23, 2016
Source:
US Ecommerce Performance StatPack: Including Mobile Performance
Yory Wurmser | December 23, 2016
Source:
US Ecommerce Performance StatPack: Including Mobile Performance
Yory Wurmser | December 23, 2016
Note: According to Hitwise, factors that may explain why mobile searches were found to be longer than desktop searches include the use of voice search and greater reliance on suggested autocomplete when searching via mobile.
Source:
US Ecommerce Performance StatPack: Including Mobile Performance
Yory Wurmser | December 23, 2016
Source:
US Ecommerce Performance StatPack: Including Mobile Performance
Yory Wurmser | December 23, 2016
The world’s brands are already taking this approach. And they’re doing it with Yahoo.
Gemini now helps you advertise across Yahoo and delivers the performance and relevance you’re used to with traditional search advertising with the scale and creativity of native advertising.
Yahoo Gemini is the only place you can buy, manage, and optimize your search and native campaigns in one place.
What if, with one partner, you could combine information from search, mail, content, apps, social...and more, and integrate your own data and third party data? You’d be putting a new combination of data, content and technology to work to exceed your consumers’ expectations – and your own.
Yahoo touches consumers at every point in their journey (upper, mid, lower funnel, etc). We gather 165B data events daily from the 1B consumers that visit our site each month.
We then put this data to work for you in ways no other company can.
By leveraging our user data, your first party data, and any additional custom segments - on top of your keyword targeting- you’ll be sure to target your most valuable audience with a precise message. Plus, with Yahoo Gemini you get exclusive access to Yahoo demographic, geographic, and interest data that’s unavailable anywhere else.
Yahoo’s new custom audience targeting capabilities bring the benefits of audience-based buying to search advertising - enabling advertisers to target searchers by their online behavior and interests, in addition to their search queries.
By leveraging the additional data inputs available in Yahoo Gemini you can amplify your efficiency and performance.
During the pilot phase, on average advertisers saw a 200 percent higher click through rate and improved ad positioning for audience targeted traffic. In addition, by leveraging conversion tracking through Dot and optimizing bids for their designated keywords, advertisers saw an average 90 percent higher conversion rates and 30 percent savings in cost per acquisition.
A major department store using custom audiences in Gemini saw a 230% increase in CVR at a 51% lower cost!
People use Yahoo for other things besides search, so be sure to capture them across their Yahoo experience. Another way to extend your reach is to think beyond search. Use Gemini to target customers that searched for your product and continued to browse their Mail, Sports, and more Yahoo properties. With the help of retargeting, search ads will serve on Yahoo Gemini’s massive native supply, providing you additional volume for your search campaigns.
Search retargeting on native is more cost effective and performs better than running native ads independently. Consumers will see more personalized ads based on their intent coming from previous search signals as soon as 15 minutes after the search.
The creative, landing page and bid are all based on your search campaigns, and are tailored to the individual query that the user performed, allowing you to serve dynamic creative that will be personally relevant to our users. Bid modifiers will be applied to help maintain return on ad spend.
Pilot campaigns have seen big results. Up to 20% more volume plus 50% savings in CPC, on average.
By leveraging our user data, your first party data, and any additional custom segments - on top of your keyword targeting- you’ll be sure to target your most valuable audience with a precise message. Plus, with Yahoo Gemini you get exclusive access to Yahoo demographic, geographic, and interest data that’s unavailable anywhere else.