In this social media masterclass, we’ll be exploring Google Display Ads and why you should be using them as part of your digital advertising strategy. The session will include a tutorial on how to set them up.
What you’ll learn:
What are Google Display Ads
Types of Google Display Ads
Audience targeting for Google Display Ads
How to set up a Google Display Ad
Measuring the success of Google Display Ads
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About Google Display Ads
Google Display Ads enable you to reach people with targeted visual ads while they’re browsing their favourite websites, showing a friend a YouTube video, checking their Gmail account or using mobile devices and apps.
These help to capture a person much earlier in the buying cycle than a Search Ad.
Benefits of Google Display Ads
- Reach people in multiple places: Display campaigns can reach people worldwide across 35 million websites and apps, and on Google-owned properties (YouTube and Gmail). This allows you to expand your reach beyond just Google Search.
- Build campaigns around your goals: Drive sales, leads and website traffic or build awareness and consideration for your business, product or service.
- Designed for ease of use: Display campaigns use machine learning solutions across targeting, bidding and formats to reach a new or existing audience. This can help your campaign deliver the best campaign results, friction-free.
How do Google Display Ads work?
The Google Display Network helps you find the right audience with its targeting options that strategically show your message to potential customers at the right place and the right time. Here are some examples of how you can approach targeting with Display ads…
1. Find new customers or engage existing customers using audience segments
Similar segments and in-market segments help you find new prospective customers by targeting people who are interested in your products. You can also use your data segments to help you reengage people who previously visited your site.
2. Drive more conversions using automation
Automated targeting increases conversions by finding highperforming audience segments based on your existing audiences and landing page. By automatically optimising over time, Google Ads can learn which audience segments work for you.
How do Google Display Ads work?
- The Display Network can help you capture someone’s attention earlier in the buying cycle.
- You can put your ads in front of people before they start searching for what you offer.
- You can also remind people of what they’re interested in when you use your data segments to reach people who’ve previously visited your website or app.
Google Display Vs Search
The main difference between Google Search Ads and Display Ads is that Search Ads are a form of “pull” advertising while Display Ads are “push” advertising.
What does this mean?
Search Ads only appear to those who are already searching for your product or service, while Display Ads are paid placements that appear based on various targeting parameters.
Types of Google Display Ads
Currently, there are 2 types of Google Display Ads:
1. Responsive Display Ads
- Responsive Display Ads automatically adjust their size, appearance and format to fit just about any available ad space and improve performance.
- You upload various assets (images, headlines, logos, videos and descriptions) in Google Ads and the optimal combination and size of assets will appear in ads across websites, apps, YouTube and Gmail.
2. Uploaded Image Ads
- For more control, you can create and upload ads. You can upload ads as images in different sizes or HTML5.
- This can be done if you only want ads to be shown in a certain format.
Display Ads Specs:
Audience Targeting for Google Display Ads
Audience Targeting
You can use ad group targeting to help get your ads seen by certain types of people or in certain contexts or content.
Targeting People
When you focus your targeting on certain types of people, you can aim to get your ads seen by a particular audience (for example, people who’ve visited your site, or people who are likely to be in the market for a given product) or demographics (for example, young men).
Targeting Certain Moments
When you focus your targeting on certain moments, you can specify keywords or topics to get your ads seen in the context of specific kinds of content (for example, bicycle-related content) or on specific websites (for example, a placement on news.com.au)
How To Set Up Google Display Ads
1. Create a new Display Campaign.
2. Choose a new objective
3. Select Campaign Type
4. Add your URL & campaign name
5. Choose Location & Languages
6. Choose additional campaign settings
7. Set your budget and bidding strategy
8. Choose Your Targeting Strategy
8. Create your Ads
10. Review and Launch
Measuring the success of your Google Display Ads
Measuring Success
- Unlike Search Ads, Display Ads can attract a customer’s interest in your brand or product even if they don’t click on your ad.
- Often customers take note of your Display Ad and then visit your website or physical store at a later time.
- Clicks don’t always tell the full story with Display Ads.
- Display Impressions shouldn’t be overlooked when measuring the success of your ads because they influence your customers’ decisions to buy.
Remember Your Objective
When measuring the success of your Display Ads campaign, always draw back to your campaign objective and determine which metrics are the most suitable.
Sales = Conversions
Brand Awareness = Impressions
Website Traffic = Clicks
