Digital ads: bane of the Internet or helpful guides for finding products and services? Well, that’s for your business to decide.
Many companies don’t give the average Internet user the proper respect they deserve. Instead, many businesses create intrusive and drab digital ad campaigns that focus totally on what their product or service is before—if ever—actually engaging with the potential client.
You can bet a year’s worth of revenue that that is something a digital marketing consultant like me, Mauricio Piña , won’t ever advise.
Today, I cook up an informative post that can give you some insight into what it takes to make a good digital ad. So grab a pen, some paper, and let’s jot down some notes.
What is a digital ad?
Let’s start with the basics. What exactly is a “digital ad”? Is that like a pop-up? No, not really. In fact, Google dislikes pop-up ads probably as much as you do.
Why? Well…pop-up ads are intrusive and have been shown to lose potential customers. Think about it. No one doing their thing online gets a pop-up ad, clicks on it, and says, “Boy, am I glad to see this ad because I need to buy this obscure foreign instrument.
It just doesn’t happen. In fact, in a survey conducted by HubSpot , 73 percent of respondents strongly disliked ads that popped-up over the entire screen.
Because of these old digital marketing practices, digital ads have evolved to encompass so much more than annoying pop-up windows that you have to click out of. Now, it’s the funny ad before your YouTube video starts. It’s that inviting advertisement on your Facebook feed. It’s the link that pulls up in the search engine results page when you search for a particular product or service.
It’s about being less intrusive and obnoxious; more about catering to user needs.
Kind of sounds like a no-brainer, right?
Truth is, digital marketers are just starting to get the hint, and nowadays, ads are becoming less intrusive and more aligned with the interests of potential customers.
While it may seem like advertising on the Internet is an uphill battle, reality is that advertisements (so long as they aren’t intrusive) don’t really bother the general populace. The same HubSpot survey mentioned previously reflects that fact, noting that 83 percent of respondents do NOT consider all ads to be bad. At the same time, these same respondents would like to filter out the really obnoxious ones.
Since people’s opinion regarding digital ads seems favorable, so long as you stay within polite parameters, below are some tips that you should consider before drafting plans for your next digital ad campaign. That is, if you want it to be successful and improve your click-through rate.
Food for thought for your next digital ad campaign.
Before you launch your next digital ad campaign, it would do your business well to make sure that your ads do not fall into the same old routine. Gather your team, order some take-out, and start hashing out ideas for your next ad with these pointers in mind:
One classic example that falls out of the digital marketing scope, but it rings true for great advertising, are the Geico caveman commercials from way back in the day. Their commercials hit the funny bone for of a lot of people, solidifying Geico commercials as a humorous brand of ads, while still attracting business.