16 Key Advertising Metrics to Dominate Ad Networks in 2025
G2
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Master the 16 key advertising metrics that matter most for ad network success. Learn to optimize CTR, ROAS, and CPA for better campaign performance in 2025
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G2
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Master the 16 key advertising metrics that matter most for ad network success. Learn to optimize CTR, ROAS, and CPA for better campaign performance in 2025
ConversionXL
MAY 14, 2019
If you’re not running YouTube Ads campaigns , you’re missing out on key advertising opportunities. Although YouTube Ads campaigns run via Google Ads, YouTube advertising is different from other online ad options. Upload it as “Public” or “Unlisted” for use in YouTube Ads campaigns.
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Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Learn how the mandatory Audience Network expansion impacted this software company, which saw 26% of its budget spent with no added conversions or performance benefits. Through their multi-channel studies, Microsoft found that accounts that utilized both the Search and Audience Network performed better than those using only Search.
Search Engine Land
MARCH 19, 2024
Performance Max ads have been touted as an efficient way to manage Google Ads across multiple Google-owned channels, making campaign management simpler for PPC advertisers. On the surface, I’ve seen great results from our clients’ Performance Max campaigns, but it’s certainly left me wondering which channels performed best.
Hubspot
JULY 10, 2018
It’s no surprise that LinkedIn, the go-to B2B social network, has above-the-board figures when it comes to B2B social media conversion. Facebook Lead Ad solves this problem because it allows B2B users to sign up for your offer in just two taps, without leaving the social network. This lets you evaluate your campaign results better.
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
LinkedIn is a highly valuable tool to network with like-minded professionals. Download our free two-week planner on running LinkedIn Sponsored Content campaigns. But if you're new to LinkedIn ads, fear not — we've put together a step-by-step guide to setting up your first LinkedIn ad campaign. How LinkedIn Ad Campaigns Work.
Martech
AUGUST 5, 2024
Prompt: What’s the best campaign tactic today for new contact discovery? Answer: In today’s dynamic marketing landscape, one of the most effective campaign tactics for new contact discovery is leveraging targeted content marketing combined with data-driven social media advertising. Here’s something somebody asked me!
Search Engine Land
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Google introduced a feature called “ optimized targeting ” for Google Display Network, or GDN, campaigns in 2021. This feature promises to look beyond your campaigns’ manually selected audiences to seek out ones you may have missed. Go to your GDN campaign > Audiences. Get the newsletter search marketers rely on.
Hubspot
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
With over 100 million users, LinkedIn is the most popular social network for business professionals. In addition to creating groups, answering questions, and posting updates to your profile, you can also engage with users on the network by participating in LinkedIn Ads. What an Effective LinkedIn CTR Looks Like.
Search Engine Land
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Advertisers have been encouraged to reevaluate their match type and bidding strategies to effectively optimize costs and maximize campaign performance. For advertisers, it’s crucial to test new strategies in your campaigns before making decisions. Conversion rate. Why we care. This ensures enhanced performance. The results.
Hubspot
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Millions of dollars are poured into the Google Display Network (GDN) every day. Google offers endless options for marketers to promote their products, so how is this network different? Why Use the Google Display Network? GDN, by comparison, bypasses a lot of costly competition from other networks.
Search Engine Land
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Having a higher CTR will get you more organic traffic and influence ranking. Create a PPC campaign. Whatever has the highest CTR should be the meta title or description you should use for that page. How PPC and SEO teams can diversify their efforts PPC Migrate your top Google Ads campaigns to Microsoft Bing.
Search Engine Land
JULY 31, 2023
Programmatic advertising streamlines the process of buying ad inventory across a huge network of platforms. Here are five tips to ensure your programmatic campaign is as successful as possible. Aligning your objectives with your campaign strategy from the outset is key. Leaning on automation is nothing new to most marketers.
Hubspot
JANUARY 21, 2013
Most of us have figured out that LinkedIn is a fantastic tool to network with like-minded professionals. If you're new to LinkedIn ads, reference this post, which will walk you through the steps to set up your own LinkedIn ad campaign. Setting Up Your LinkedIn Ad Campaign. Step 1: Create a New Ad Campaign.
Martech
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Traditional media ads can’t measure the true ROI of media campaigns in real-time. They don’t let you pinpoint what makes an ad and a campaign successful. Programmatic advertising gives you all those good, actionable insights into campaign performance. What is a retail media network? Ad network vs. ad exchange.
Search Engine Land
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
LinkedIn introduced tools and upgrades to assist marketers in measuring their ad campaigns more effectively: Conversions API (CAPI). Accurate measurement of campaign performance enables advertisers to make informed decisions, allocate resources efficiently and demonstrate the value of their efforts to clients and management.
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
LinkedIn is a highly valuable tool to network with like-minded professionals. But if you're new to LinkedIn ads, fear not -- we've put together a step-by-step guide to setting up your first LinkedIn ad campaign. How to Run LinkedIn Ad Campaigns. 1) Create a New Ad Campaign. It might seem a little bit intimidating.
Hubspot
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
If you''ve never used retargeting before, don''t worry -- in the following post, we''ll go through all the basics of how retargeting works, explain how you can use it to support your larger marketing goals, and even outline an example of a Facebook Ad retargeting campaign. Let''s dive right in. How Retargeting Works. Conversion.
Hubspot
JANUARY 29, 2015
With so much opportunity with retargeting, it''s hard to decide on which types of campaigns to run. This is the most common form of retargeting, and will be familiar to anyone retargeting through Google''s display network (Note: Google refers to retargeting as ‘remarketing’). One campaign in particular delivered a 35.5X
Hubspot
MAY 16, 2017
At Socedo , our nurture emails get a 1% CTR on average. A 2% CTR is now considered "good". Instead of starting a campaign because a senior leader thinks it's a good idea, we can use customer data to inform the campaign strategy, content and execution. At this point, simply turning up the volume doesn't work anymore.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Digital marketing metrics are values that are used to track and measure campaign performance. With this in mind, let’s look at 13 digital marketing metrics to track for campaign effectiveness. Campaign conversion rate.
ConversionXL
MAY 22, 2014
To ensure you don’t end up burning a ton of money, start testing your ad creative on a sample group that is large enough to get reliable data, but not so large it’s going to cost you a fortune to run the campaign. In general these are great rules of thumb when starting your ad campaigns. Change One Variable at a Time. image source.
Hubspot
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
There is without a doubt no shortage of data for each action you take in your marketing campaigns , nor is there a lack of tools to help you measure them. How many individual page viewers are also sharing your content on their social networks is a more accurate signal of long-term SEO benefits from a popular blog post. Email Open Rate.
Hubspot
APRIL 6, 2021
Your Campaign Goal. What do you want to accomplish with your campaign? But if that doesn't align with your broader objectives, knowing the main goal of your campaign will help you determine which platform is better suited to achieve it. With any ad campaign, your goal is to maximize your return on ad spend (ROAS).
Salesforce
APRIL 4, 2022
This is where everything should start when reviewing your campaigns. Click-through rate (CTR) is the percentage of email recipients who not only opened your email but also clicked on at least one of the links in the email. A high CTR can look nice on the surface, but what if all those clicks are for the unsubscribe button?
Search Engine Land
JANUARY 17, 2024
Surprisingly, many lack clearly defined campaign goals beyond boosting traffic or conversions. PPC campaigns can help achieve many objectives, so understanding the difference between KPIs and metrics is key to setting yourself up for success. KPIs for top-of-funnel PPC campaigns Increase brand awareness.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
impressions, CTR, conversions, profitability), increase the budget and roll them out to more people to see. HubSpot has an article on split-testing tips for Facebook ads —they’re great guidelines for your ad campaigns. Imagine you had a client who sold interior design services and wanted to run a display campaign.
Search Engine Land
MARCH 21, 2023
We will dive into each quality score factor and explore how they impact your overall campaign and account success. Google calculates quality score based on the combined performance of three components: Expected click-through rate (CTR) : The anticipated CTR of the ad against what the ad platform considers similar ads.
Search Engine Land
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Microsoft says “Smart remarketing lists have been proven to drive increased performance across the Microsoft Search and Audience Networks. Advertisers who leverage these lists see a 92% increase in click-through rate (CTR) and a 45% reduction in cost-per-acquisition (CPA) when they use these lists on the Microsoft Search Network.1
Hubspot
MAY 25, 2012
Including social sharing modules in every lead nurturing email you send lets leads blast your content to their networks, effectively building your company’s social reach while building a more personal lead-company relationship. Even better, including social share modules can also increase email click-through-rate!
ConversionXL
JULY 7, 2020
And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. For some of my personal Pinterest pages, the pins that I reuse I have an average click-through rate (CTR) of 2%. Pinterest, for most, does not. Research Pinterest trends.
Hubspot
DECEMBER 5, 2011
That way, you can compare each campaign’s performance against your own averages to know whether a specific campaign outperformed or underperformed your internal email benchmarks. Your email service provider (ESP) should provide a wealth of reporting on each campaign and on your ongoing email performance.
Search Engine Land
MARCH 1, 2023
Measuring impressions can give you an idea of the reach of your video game ad campaign. Click-Through Rate (CTR) Click-through rate (CTR) measures the number of clicks an ad receives divided by the number of impressions. CTR is a good indication of how engaging your video game ad is.
Hubspot
OCTOBER 9, 2014
What''s So Awesome About the Google Display Network? You''re going to learn how to use remarketing strategies with the Google Display Network to dramatically increase the effectiveness of your inbound marketing efforts. 2) What''s So Awesome About the Google Display Network (GDN)? Ad Formats on the Google Display Network.
ConversionXL
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Cold email is not a replacement for inbound methods but a supplement—a way to drive near-term growth while inbound campaigns gain traction. The most important thing you can do for your cold email campaign is to send relevant messages. Here’s an excerpt from one of his successful campaigns: ( Image source ).
Hubspot
OCTOBER 3, 2012
According to Todd Wasserman's recap on Mashable and a blog on Facebook Studio that recaps the talk, marketers are focusing too much on clicks to measure the effectiveness of their Facebook campaigns, and not enough on two far more critical metrics -- reach, and frequency. When we're measuring our Facebook ad campaigns, do clicks matter?
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
According to Hanapin Marketing’s 2015/2016 State of Paid Search Report , most people feel pretty good about their PPC campaigns… Image Source. When this happens, the PPC campaign doesn’t get the credit because there’s simply no way to track it. You don’t want to optimize for CTR or conversion rate.
Heinz Marketing
JUNE 27, 2023
We hit rock bottom that month with a CTR of 2.2%. Ironically, we featured the start of my Email Deliverability blog series in that April newsletter email, but heard some comments from CMOs in our network that our newsletter email landed in their spam folder. It was the highest Newsletter CTR we’ve seen since September of 2021.
Hubspot
JANUARY 19, 2012
That's why each of your ad campaigns should always have a clear goal and a set of metrics through which you can measure its performance. CTR (Click-Through Rate). Social CTR. Unique CTR. It’s best to have your Unique CTR come close to your CTR. Reporting is a crucial part of Facebook advertising.
Hubspot
MAY 25, 2016
One of the most daunting things about social media advertising is the fact that you are dropping cold hard cash on your campaigns. Before launching your ad campaigns, align your marketing objectives with your advertising strategy. There are many social networks you can advertise on, but here are four of the most common: Facebook.
Hubspot
JUNE 29, 2020
These case studies will dive into every ad type LinkedIn has to offer and what those corresponding campaigns look like. Use this ad type, if you want to create highly stylized Ads for your campaign. As a result of this campaign, ESCP Europe saw over two million impressions from potential students. Results: Noodle.ai
Hubspot
APRIL 6, 2015
And yet, over 90% of marketers surveyed in a study commissioned by AdRoll said remarketing is as effective or more effective than email, search, and other display campaigns. For starters, it gives you absolutely massive reach on the Google Display Network (over 92% of sites on the web, in fact). What''s so great about remarketing?
Hubspot
OCTOBER 31, 2012
For B2B companies, increasingly, that means shifting some ad dollars to LinkedIn , the networking site for professionals that has garnered 175 million users (40 million in the U.S.) As with any marketing initiative, you’re going to want to closely monitor which ad campaigns and keywords are most effective. since 2002. Most likely not.
Search Engine Land
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2020: You could see the projected impact of making bid or budget changes in your campaigns that used these smart bidding strategies. Yahoo Adds Network Distribution & Improved Importing To Search Ads. 2016: Use External Data In Your AdWords Campaigns With Scripts To Call APIs by Russell Savage. by Miles Carter.
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