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Home / Blog / Two New Ad Types You Should Be Implementing

Two New Ad Types You Should Be Implementing

April 21, 2017 By John E Lincoln

2 new types of ads

This week: More evidence that social proof is important, Google adds an important new feature to GMB, and wait until you hear how many manual action penalties Google dispensed last year.

Here’s what happened this week in digital marketing.

Google Releases Automated “Smart” Campaigns for Display Ads

Google is releasing a new Smart display campaign that will automate targeting, bidding, graphics, and text in display ads.

Here’s what Google says about the new campaigns:

Google Smart Display

Smart display campaigns combine your assets — headlines, images, and so on — to create image and text ads. They can even transform into native ads, blending seamlessly into the fonts and feel of publishers’ sites. Over time, your ads optimize based on what wins you conversions.

Smart campaigns also support retargeting.

Study: Native Ads Beat Display Ads at Bringing Visitors to Local Stores

Speaking of display ads, they’re not as good at bringing foot traffic into local stores as native ads.

That’s according to a joint study conducted late last year by native ad provider Sharethrough and location analytics provider Placed.

According to the research: “people exposed to native ads were 21 percent more likely on average to visit a brand’s physical retail location than those who weren’t.”

Native ads

On average, the in-store lift from native ads was 300% more than lift from other ads.

It should be noted, though, that the study didn’t not account for a number of other factors related to digital ads. For example, it didn’t distinguish between video and static ads or between mobile and desktop ads.

Even Sharethrough founder and CEO Dan Greenberg said to take the conclusions with “a grain of salt.”

That’s significant considering that he runs a native ad provider.

Google My Business Now Reports on Returning Customers

It’s typically cheaper to keep the customers you have than to recruit new ones. Google understands that and is now offering a new report on returning customers in Google My Business (GMB).

The report is presented as a circle graph. It’s color-coded to show you the number of customers who only visited once, the number who visited twice, the number who visited 3-9 times, and so on.

As of now, though, not every Google My Business user has access to the new report. Apparently, it’s rolling out gradually.

Google More Than Doubled Manual Action Penalties in 2016

According to Google’s annual webspam report for 2016, the company sent about 9 million messages to site owners on spam issues last year. That’s more than double the 4.3 million messages sent in 2015.

Google also claims to have received 180,000 user-submitted spam reports in 2016. That’s down from the 400,000 reports the company received the year before.

Twitter Announces Mid-Roll Video Ads

You might have thought that you could escape commercials by watching videos online. You were wrong.

Now, even Twitter is including mid-roll video ads. As the name implies, those are ads that run in the middle of the video.

Twitter Announces Mid-Roll Video Ads, Continuing Focus on Video Monetization | Social Media Today

Here’s what Twitter has to say about that: “It should come as no surprise that consumers are watching more video on their mobile devices than ever. What you may not know is that video impressions on Twitter grew significantly from Q3 to Q4 2016 as Twitter is fast becoming the place for people to tune in and watch what’s happening.”

Twitter has already been running pre-roll video ads for a while.

New Study Shows the Importance of Online Reviews in Local Search

Another study validates the importance of social proof.

According to ReviewTrackers’ Local Search and Online Reviews Survey, more than 50% of consumers often or always check out online reviews of a business.

Only 34% of those surveyed look for online pricing and discount info.

In addition to that, 62.7% of consumers view online reviews as “important” or “very important” when choosing a local business. Only 3% don’t even consider reviews when choosing a business.

Finally, the research shows that almost 70% of consumers read reviews while researching a purchase decision.

About John E Lincoln

John Lincoln (MBA) is CEO of Ignite Visibility (a 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 company) a highly sought-after digital marketing strategist, industry speaker and author of two books, "The Forecaster Method" and "Digital Influencer." Over the course of his career, Lincoln has worked with over 1,000 online businesses ranging from small startups to amazing clients such as Office Depot, Tony Robbins, Morgan Stanley, Fox, USA Today, COX and The Knot World Wide. John Lincoln is the editor of the Ignite Visibility blog. While he is a contributor, he does not write all of the articles and in many cases he is supported to ensure timely content.

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