Technology is changing the way users interact and data is changing how marketers make decisions. In today’s digital age, marketers need to re-think how they’re segmenting customers and use the right data not big data. Find out: #1) Why context can be key to unlocking big data for advertisers to make smarter decisions. #2) Why being #1 has never been more important in advertising. And finally #3) How marketers can move from being reactive to predictive
17. Example Campaign Plan
Inventory: Hold onto inventory, create special packages
Landing Pages Highlight event offers
Ad titles and
descriptions:
Discounts, special packages
Important
keywords
Event specific keywords
Cross-Channel:
Align timing of demand generating media retargeting,
social
Bids/budget: Make sure your budget is robust
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22. Calculate your break-even CPC
Conversions per click
CPA x CVR= Break-even CPC
How much money
you make per action
The most you can
responsibly pay for a click
– and still make money
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28. 177% Year Over Year Growth: Bing Ads Mobile Clicks
+177%
2013-Q1 2013-Q2 2013-Q3 2013-Q4 2014-Q1 2014-Q2
Source: Bing Ads Internal Data
mobile Ad Clicks
29. iOS Users Drive Majority of mCommerce Transactions
In spite of Android’s lead in device share
Apple, 53.53%
Other, 16.20%
Samsung,
30.27%
Source: Custora Mobile Pulse, July 2014
30. Mobile first: Next gen mobile search experiences
70% of mobile queries on Bing Ads are from iOS platform
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42. Bing Product Ads
Product Ads put the searcher closer to a purchase decision.
Products Ads include custom
images from an advertiser’s
own product catalog, plus
promotional text, pricing and
your company name.
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44. Big UI improvements and speed increases
Manage more keywords in one view, over 1 million keywords
Auto-tagging enabled
Electronic IOs
Improved targeting – Early August
Target users by zip code
Serve ads in 15 minute scheduled increments
Target by intent – searching for or viewing pages
about your targeted location
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45. Coming! Agency Dashboard
Manage all of your Bing Ads advertisers from one dashboard
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48. Half the top shopping days occur the same week
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Source: Experian.com, Jan 2014
Fridays are top shopping days.
Top 10 transaction days – Holiday 2013
Event Day Transaction rank
Cyber Monday Monday 1
Black Friday Friday 2
Thanksgiving Thursday 3
Sunday after Black Friday Sunday 4
November 15th Friday 5
Day Before Thanksgiving Wednesday 6
November 8th Friday 7
12 days until Christmas Friday 8
Day after Cyber Monday Tuesday 9
7 days until Christmas Wednesday 10
49. Black Friday 11/29/13
Black Friday shopping starts
before the sun comes up.
55%
of shoppers checked
availability of an item
via mobile before
going to the store.
Time zone iab, Nov 2013 is PST. IBM Core Metrics, 2012 @jmgagnon @bingads
52. When does the 1st day of school really start?
September
4th, 2014
New York City, the largest
school district in the US,
will have 1,000,000
students back in school
August
25th, 2014
All 5,000,000 of Texas’s
K-12 Public School
students go back
August
1st, 2014
All 180,000 of Hawaii’s
K-12 Public School
students go back
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53. When parents will shop for back-to-school 2012
Use staggered start dates to hit
the 1 week to 1 month sweet
spot. Two months for New York
means, July 9, whereas it means
June 5 for Hawaii.
22.4% will shop
as early as June.
<6% will shop the
‘week of’ or ‘after’
school starts. Keep
budgets low during
this time.
2 Months prior
1 Months prior
1-2 Weeks prior
Week of
After
22.3%
47.8%
24.0%
2.7%
3.2%
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58. Example Action Plan
Tools Power Map, Power BI, Tableau
Ad Copy Back to School
Bids Incremental bids by geo during peaks
Structure Separate for major school districts: TX, NYC, LA
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60. @jmgagnon @bingads
Key takeaways
Step back. Look up.
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Understanding context leads to
better timing and profitability
Work for the #1 spot on mobile
Unlock data with awesome tools
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1. Selective attention: How many insights are we missing because we’re focusing on the gorilla?
2. Bing Ads for schools – sometimes not advertising is the right thing to do
Advanced targeting idea / Better return
Innovation – not showing ads where nobody’s buying. What about prison’s? [What is our IP exclusion range?]
3. Power Map – Using real world events to drive marketing strategy
4. Creative customization of Office 365. Puts you in the story. Mass customization of ad copy and targeting using Social Graph and other backend tools. How do we create moments that really matter as search marketers?
5. Power Query and/or Q & A
Interaction model of Excel. Go from pivot tables to asking it a question
Excel putting the web and tables at your fingertips with power query
6. Combined list of all heatmaps – cool Bing data
This is just a cool thing.
7. Road map – what’s coming. What’s on tap for 2015. – see email from JG flagged in email
Our audience is unique and our job is to connect you, our advertisers, to your next customer – efficiently and successfully. Bing Ads is the platform that enables you to connect to
the audience you cannot find on Google – and we are moving faster
than ever.
And we will not stop there – as we continue to drive investments and
innovation … yes, we have some exciting things to talk about … and I
will share them with you today.