Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence

whitePaper | July 27, 2020

As governments gradually remove pandemic induced restrictions and businesses begin to reopen, there’s a sense that we might be on the verge of returning to “normal.” That is unlikely. During the months of lockdown and self-isolation, we have been, in fact, writing a new future.

whitePaper | December 2, 2019

One of the ways that Russian agents interfered in the 2016 election was by using online advertising to spread disinformation. In 2018, Facebook, Google, and Twitter created new resources to help the public track political ads on their platforms, bringing more transparency to the sponsors of digital ads. Snapchat followed suit in September 2019. But these databases of political ads are woefully inadequate, as Issue One has detailed in a major report. They lack uniform standards, display uneven amounts of information, and are difcult to use. Here’s what you need to know about them.

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

As expectations of customers evolve rapidly due to their everyday interactions with big tech companies, the sales and marketing function across industries is striving to deliver carefully curated, hyper-personalized experiences to consumers. Success in today’s experience economy largely depends on ensuring customer-centricity throughout the customer lifecycle. However, creating better emotional connections with customers may prove to be a daunting exercise considering the explosion of data, lack of in-house data and analytics expertise, decreasing attention spans of consumers, and shrinking marketing budgets.

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Today’s pharma marketers are adapting their advertising strategies and investments in a world of digital choice. By embracing new online video and digital audio channels, advertisers are taking advantage of more precise targeting tactics, more efficiently reaching key patients and HCPs, and improving the overall ROI of their marketing investments.

whitePaper | August 10, 2022

It’s critical for marketers to know if their campaigns are influencing behavior in response to an ad. But to really know if a campaign actually works, consumer response must be compared with those who hadn’t been exposed to the ad. This new study demonstrates the dramatic power of “ghost bidding” in revealing true campaign effectiveness. A large U.S.-based apparel company ran an extended ad campaign to a targeted audience. The difference? The company used demand-side platform technology to simultaneously expose and exclude identical user groups from viewing the ad. This A/B study used “ghost bidding”—withdrawing bids from the excluded group at the last moment—to plot the true effectiveness of display, video and audio ads, and demonstrated a powerful validation of marketing effectiveness.

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

In 2022, as marketers meet audiences where they are, they are increasingly on the pages of individual creators. TikTok influencers, Reels creators, and YouTube personalities are dominating digital engagement, creating and producing consistent, high-quality content that rivals major brands.