YouTube Google Audience Solutions

 Why Ads on YouTube? 

More than 2 billion users hang around YouTube in a month and around one billion hours of daily watching take place. From this, you can make out the potential of an advertisement on the platform.  More than fifty percent of the videos are watched on mobile devices. The secret is robust content loaded with diverse offerings. Log in for browser-specific interest.

Unlike watching on mobile devices Smart TV, Comcast and Apple TV recommend content for a better viewing experience. The phenomenal reach of the infrastructure and freedom to express along with the opportunity to earn is unique to this format. 

Next-Gen Solutions

The next-generation efforts are live streaming, VR 80 for virtual reality immersive videos with 180 degrees panorama, 360 videos or spherical videos,  YouTube TV, premieres for scheduled events, YouTube on TV Screens, stories by YouTube creators, YouTube go app to download videos for offline viewing,.

Advanced Audiences. 

The system pulls signals from Google search, Maps, and app downloads to predict who's most likely to engage with your brand and deliver results. The benefit is a fifty percent lift in brand awareness, forty percent in purchase intent, and 30 percent in consideration.

The platform is effective for the brand because of an extensive engagement or audience attention powered by Google data tools that have resulted in impressive proven results. The impact is magnified in terms of intent to purchase and perceive brands because the medium is both audible and visual. The combination is ideal for in-depth attention and perception of brand values to drive action and videos supersede all other mediums in marketing campaigns. 

The targeting is based on both demographics and intent for greater results. Brand awareness lift is fifty percent while that of consideration and purchase intent is 30 and 40 percent respectively. 

Measurement of ad performance is equally important and Google's Brand Lift is an innovative solution to measure brand metrics like awareness and recall. Subscribers get a clear data-driven picture through Google Analytics, Ads, the marketing platform, and Google search itself. Those using third-party analytical solutions can download this data for offline use. 

Using solutions provided by Youtube and Google Videos advertisers avail unique extra reach and recall. On this platform, advertising means engaging users during their high-intent purchase moments. Benefit from increased conversions, lift in the store visits for sales, and consideration. 

YouTube Audience Solutions

The ads are based on signals from search, the platform itself, and maps. The data is updated in real-time on every impression for targeting a realistic and relevant audience.

The platform offers demographic data and analysis:

• Economical Status
• Parenting Stages
• Employment
• House Ownership
• Education  

Data is collected from Google Survey and its other properties besides ad personalization data taken from individual accounts from the ads preference manager.

As per buyers journey choose Audience based on:

Awareness Solutions

• Demographic
• Affinity 
• Custom Affinity

Measurement is awareness lift, recall, and unique reach.

Considerations Solutions

• In-Market
• Life Events

Measurements are CPV, Views, and Consideration Lift

Action Solutions

• Custom Intent 
• Customer Match
• Remarketing 
• Similar Audiences

Measurement: Conversion Tracking, CPAs, Store Visits, 3 rd party media mix model, and Geo-Experiment (CPG only).

YouTube for Action 

The aim is to drive specific action from the platform. It comprises formats powered by smart bidding, intent-rich audiences, and from result measurement capabilities. 

More than 55 % audience complements their search with a visit to YouTube before buying. Forty percent of shoppers buy products discovered on this platform.

TrueView for Action

Skippable Format is meant to drive action with extension to lead form and website. Consistent call to action shapes this video Ad with end screen CTA for 5 seconds. Available bidding formats are tCPM for experienced and Maximise Conversions for newcomers. With this, you can reach an in-market audience. Trueview whence combined with a custom intent audience generates 30% more conversions than any other format. The custom Intent audiences are people who recently made related searches on Google. 

Measurement. An online visit and click lead to conversion within  30 days are counted as a click-through conversion.  The user watches for 10 minutes and converts within 3 days. It is counted as video engagement for smart bidding tCPA and Max conversion campaigns. The user converts after seeing an impression within 24 hours. This is known as view-through conversions. 

Store visit from TrueView actions visiting within 30 days after clicking on an element of the Ad or seeing it for 10 seconds. 

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Types of Google Ad Campaigns & Youtube Ads

Display Ads: Increase brand awareness when users are browsing content they’re interested in online. These ads appear on a network of more than two million sites. 

Shopping: Promote your products, share details about your inventory, and boost traffic to your online or physical store. Display merchant name and prices. They are created from Google Merchant Center data attributes using the product information.   

Paid Search Ads: Drive action on your site when users are searching for similar products or services. They appear next to Google Search Results on SERPs. This type of advertisement is also known as Google Search Marketing.  

Video: Reach your target audience at scale and bring your business’ story to life. Ads on YouTube and googles network of sites and mobile apps. Pay only when people choose to watch the ad shown before their favorite video. They engage customers.  

APP Ads: App campaigns run ads in Google Play Store, mobile sites, apps, and YouTube. Add bids are automatically adjusted. You have to add the text line and your bid. Using these ads you can boost engagement, encourage app installs, and app actions like making a purchase or opting for a newsletter. 

Automated Smart Campaigns

Fully automated smart Ad campaigns are best suited for newcomers to the World of online advertisement.

Googles Ads can be targeted based on language and location, based on device, based on bid limit based on a daily budget.  Using Ad extensions links, phone numbers and location details can be provided. 

YouTube Ads 

YouTube has over two million monthly logged-in users.  People spend over 180 million hours a day viewing these videos over Smart TV while half of the users use mobile devices to view YouTube content. 

Google Video Partners (GVP): are videos played outside YouTube in apps, on the web & in games. GVP increase reach by 50 % over YouTube as a compliment. Outstream Ads with the sound off ads are only available on GVP preferred in gaming and news platforms. 

YouTube Ads are powered by Google Data insights and Advance Tools and it is one of the most engaging platforms preferred by businesses globally. Besides Advertisers benefit from easily measurable and proven results. The ads on YouTube have the highest viewability 95% and audibility 95% on the web.

Measurement solutions like Brand Lift aid in result comparison against the brand metrics and awareness recall. Advanced analytics offer a clear data-driven platform on wide spectrum channels online. The expanding suite of measurement solutions to include plug-in to the third party offline sales solutions and compare with goals achieved using YouTube Ads online.  

• 60 % of watch time is on mobile
• Ads are 3 times more effective on YouTube than on generic mediums. 
• Real-Time Data Update 
• Interaction with Google Properties Maps, Youtube, and Search
• Cross-Device Reach
• Connect Users based on Demographic Profiles 
• Connect Users based on Interest, Habits, and Purchase Intent
• Ads based on Affinity (passionate lifestyles, interests & consumption habits)

Targeting using Google Intent-Based Solutions 

• In-Market Audience actively seeking purchase
• Based on Life Events or Milestones 
• Custom Intent Audience who have used Google SERPs
• Remarketing Audience that has shown an Intent already 
• Similar or Custom Match Audience Likelihood of Purchase

YouTube 2nd Largest Search Engine

Youtube audience includes two billion subscribers There are 500 hours of video being uploaded every day. The statistics show the power of this social media site. It has become a major generation site for ads in terms of publishing and viewing. This video hosting site is now more popular than live TV. With over 30 million visitors every day it pays to publish Ads on this medium and more so if you are doing it in the right manner.    

YouTube Ad Formats

For Awareness 

CPM cost per 1000 impressions

CPV cost per view

vCPM pay $2 each time add is viewed 1000 times.

tCPA Target Cost for 1000 impressions

Format	Bidding Approach	Inventory
Bumper ads (6.0 sec Non Skippable)	CPM	YouTube and Google Video Partners
TrueView for reach (Skippable)	CPM	YouTube and Google Video Partners
Non-skippable in-stream ads	CPM	YouTube and Google Video Partners
Outstream video ads	vCPM	YouTube and Google Video Partners
Masthead	CPD or CPM	YouTube

TrueView in-stream	CPV or Maximize lift	YouTube and Google Video Partners
TrueView discovery	CPV	YouTube

TrueView for action	CPA and Maximize conversions	YouTube and Google Video Partners (beta)

Consideration 

Format	Bidding Approach	Inventory
TrueView in-stream	CPV or Maximize lift	YouTube and Google Video Partners
TrueView discovery	CPV	YouTube

Action

Format	Bidding Approach	Inventory
TrueView for action	CPA and Maximize conversions	YouTube and Google Video Partners (beta)

Bumper Ads: Stand Alone Video Solution they are 6-sec non-skippable in-stream ads for reach, frequency, and brand awareness. Ideally suited for visitors on the go with a short attention span. They have a high completion rate. 

True View: Skippable Ad Formats (Skip Ad Option)  

True View for Reach: Lowest CPM for Awareness and Recall (20 %)

TrueView in-stream for Consideration - 11 sec plus ads: View charged after 30-sec watch or till completion. Can skip after 5 sec. 

TrueView Discovery for Consideration: Viewer Need to Click to Watch

TrueView for Action :

Mast Head Marquee Placement: Runs on Home Page and Home Feed. For high-impact placement and awareness. 

Non Skippable Ads in Stream Ads:  15 sec or less. 

TrueView for reach (CPM)  Awareness

TrueView in-stream          Consideration

(CPV and Maximize lift)

TrueView discovery (CPV)Consideration

  

TrueView for action             Action

(tCPA and Maximize conversions)

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Optimizing YouTube Video Performance

YouTube videos are often made with passion because they are an extension of one's preferred recreation or hobby. The buck does not stop here they are also made for professional purposes for business, highlighting and promoting brands, advertisement, and just for increasing awareness as knowledge portals. 

Partner Program

As a YouTube partner, the owner can promote videos for various purposes besides earning revenue from the partner program.   In this, you get part of the revenue generated from ads on the platform. The eligibility of becoming a partner is based on some set conditions you can find details under the monetization section in your dashboard.  

Your channel should have clocked four thousand hours of viewership besides having 100,000 visits and a minimum of 1000 subscribers.  Good quality and engagement will lead to greater watched hours while high ranking and relevance will lead to greater traffic. For this purpose, YouTube optimization is important.  

Quality Production 

The first step is to record your preferred topic. The quality of the broadcast should be of high standards this is one of the prerequisites.  High resolution with an output of 4k is the most preferred quality yardstick. The minimum should be 1080p.  The filming should be steady with all important sequences included to the fullest. Always edit your video before uploading for the best viewing experience. 

Shoot for Target Audience

The next equally important is shooting what people would like to view and view often. Happening instances, bizarre events, animals in action, animal behavior, celebrities, gala events, political turmoil and speech, recent news, epic battles,  religious songs, popular music, spectacular sports and events,  wildlife, these are some of the preferences among the masses.  There is no limit to preferences and it depends upon how purposeful, relevant, and how well you have created the broadcast.    

The length of the broadcast should be more than a minute up to a few minutes. Short clips are not very successful unless the event itself is short and engaging. Creating relevant and engaging content is the key to success on this platform. Tell a story to engage the viewers and they will keep coming for more. 

Uploading & Optimizing 

Once you have a video made you can open an account at Google and enter YouTube using the account dashboard. Signing or enter and create a channel. Give a suitable easy to remember the name to the channel, and describe it well in the about us section. The channel URL will help you in promoting it on social medial along with all your works. This is an easy way to promote since all your work is visible under one URL. 

Channel Example

Channel URL

Playlist URL

Upload your property using the option given on the top right hand. If you have more than one videos create a playlist for each topic and add them accordingly. Relevancy is very important and a playlist should help categorize the properties for viewers and search engines. All the optimization elements above can be filled while uploading and this will save time and your product will be ready for viewing as soon as the upload is complete. 

Once the channel and playlists have been created you can begin optimizing each property. If you visit the uploaded videos on the right-hand side, you will come across an option to edit.  

Add a suitable title, description, and keywords. Also, add subtitles and mark the playlist the video belongs to.  The keyword usage is important and besides your personal experience, you can take the help of the keyword tools. It is best to keep visiting the result pages for absorbing fruitful and meaningful terms. You can make easy entry by optimizing on less competitive terms and then rely on the sharing option for further promotion on social media. 

An engaging and well-liked experience will mean that visitors will use the share option extensively to promote your video. You can use the sharing option yourself to promote on social media platforms in the online friends' community or on topic relevant community pages where you are a member.  

Add a title that depicts the video using popular keywords followed by an apt description and keywords separated by a comma, this will help search engines index and rank properly. For ranking, at top spots, the search engines will check quality, keywords, and relevancy. 

Use Card or End Screen Option to race ahead in suggested video performance. 

Many factors are considered while ranking, and you can discover them by visiting the analytics of the channel, and that of each video.  

YouTube Analytics 

The analytics are extensive and you will get details on the performance of the channel and individual videos this will help tremendously in promoting your property. You can view how your property is faring on a daily or weekly basis.  If you keep visiting the analytics or read tutorials you will learn to analyze video performance much better.  

As for the partner program eligibility, you will get an email from the company whence you have complied. 

Ranking & Viewing Determinants

• Quality 
• Engagement
• Video Optimization
• Social Media Promotion 
• Consistency

For ranking purposes hire an SEO and Digital Marketing specialist. Keep producing more and more content to achieve the targets and succeed. It pays to be on youtube!

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Video Marketing an Inbound Methodology

Video Marketing Mix Essentials 

Know your audience and build upon it...

Video Marketing is a popular means of enhancing social media reach and achieving goals in order to make your content marketing a huge success. 

But creating and floating videos targeting brands and companies cannot be effective if the marketing plan path followed does not subscribe to logic. Remember the audience or in this case, buyer personae do not like to be bombarded with audio-visual which does not make any sense or does not subscribe to a logical pathway. Create videos revolving around your topics and subtopics without losing relevancy.  

What is the logical pathway?

Breaking Complex Procedures into small manageable tasks! 

The first stage of video marketing is creating videos that attract or invite more as an introductory and a less full blast of company offerings. Disseminating company information, speaking about the brand value and company profile. Creating curiosity about the brand and company is the first step in this kind of endeavor.  This will also lead to building trust and empathy among your audience using videos relevant to the topic or industry. Avoid speaking too much about your brand and lay greater emphasis on brand value and company mission. 

Engagement

This audio-visual pathway is one of the finest mediums with billions of vids being circulated on the Net. This can also be referred to as the second stage of marketing using this medium.  

Engagement audiovisuals are in response to buyer personae feedback or testimonials, webinars, demos, how-to or educational, promotional stuff usually on landing pages and case studies. The aim is to engage and convert the leads to achieve the final goal. This is ideal for increasing conversions and thus the customer base. 

Denouement Stage - Creating Brand Evangelists

This is to thank customers for purchasing the products, speak about educational or tutorials about the products, and a video about the products purchased for further usage. Pair your production with a blog post, place a link on the home page or any other relevant pages, publish on hosting sites, and post on social media to extend reach.  

Marketing Team Mix

Your whole team could be involved (temporarily) in producing a number of videos as per your budget. Create a stream of these audiovisuals using, cameras, smart phones, and handy cams At this stage create scripts (often relate to company events, festivals, and locally or globally applicable news and events.  

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Video Marketing As Company Strategy

Not only search engine optimization but social media marketing has accorded an amazing boost to generate traffic online. Hence video is a social  media tool which most people and companies think are for entertainment and nothing else. Well Wrong! Anything That Entertains Can Promote!

Utilized properly this amazing online media can be used for both b2b and b2c strategies. It all depends upon how the media is made. A company usually makes one for the purpose of advertising like in any other medium. A regular stuff that you are familiar with on the cinema and TV screen.

But what we do not realize, videos are limited by time, well to  great extant since readability in contents also applies here and can be termed as watchable. Very long ones may not engage visitor's attention until unless it is a movie which cannot be a part of company strategy. Keep the limit to 2 or 3 minutes. 

Hence this article calls for a diverse production efforts. Make videos for separate purposes, one solely meant for advertisement, another meant for the company's uniqueness detailing especial processes, another for highlighting company's stress on quality, or any other aspect that fortifies the brand. Case studies can also be presented online this way.

Company stories filmed in an engaging manner best high light the corporate culture and create trust among the visitors and yes subscribers too! Those with ethical images gain trust from the customer and believers within the B2B circle.

How innovative your social media marketer is will depend upon his ability to create diverse videos for various aspects. A terse outcome of this para is - "Video Not Only For Ads"        

Businesses that ignore this most engaging social media platform are doing so at their own peril.   

Well the purpose here for is to deliver a message that highlights various aspects of the businesses. This marketing channel is thus for educating the potential client or customer and at the same acts a subtle conversion tool to convert. This is what the proselytizers do. Don't They! 

In this World of cut throat competition use this marketing tool to outdo the competition. 

We have already read about video optimization in previous article and can thus utilize the techniques to create referral and consequently rank first  on the SERPs.
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Video Optimization A Shot at Success

Video are the most watched attributes on the Internet need we say. Videos may be long innumerating an event or action while they may be short and are reffered as clips. Those that fit into a sequence are generally called footage. They can be of many types like music, marketing, advertisement, action, wildlife, tutorials, films, lectures, propoganda, science and what not.  

For those into search engine optimization or online marketing these attributes often embeded in a web page for various purposes are major marketing tool. Some of the companies that publish subscriber videos are youtube, vimeo and so on. Youtube is most popular company subscribed and posted by millions. This video sharing company has been purchased by Google and publishes to many formats. 

For SEO or marketing purposes high quality or HD videos should be used. If you make a video for marketing or advertisement purpose embed companies name and URL such that they are visible throughout. Like in URL naming the Brand or Company Name and TLD should be to remember. 

While uploading be careful to write an SEO friendly title and description of about one hundred fifty characters and add URL of your company website below. Also add relevant hash tags in limit. Simultaneous create a playlist accurately describing the topic and add the clip.

Clips are usually videos of four second or more. A footage is limited to the action while others may be longer as in the case of documentory. All are called videos as well so do not get confused.   

Once published save the URL and share. Publish your video in all articles, blogs and forums that are related to the topic. Promote using SEO links and on Social Media sites like FB, Twitter, Linkedin, Reddit etc. If the video goes viral you will get lots of traffic and the URL that is contained in the desciption will deliver referrals in thousands.

With keyword research you create links or embed them in relevant blogs and articles and of course your website. Web saturation efforts will deliver success. They can also be used for publishing adsense and earn a revenue. Sometimes the traffic is in millions of visitors making it possible to earn a huge sum. But there are preconditions to publish ad in your channel restricted to publishers with large subscriber base and traffic.   

Link Embedded : Example

Indian Wildlife Videos
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Creating an Ad Group & Text Ad in Google Adwords

Sign in Google Adwords and create a campaign. The net step is to create an Ad Group based on a campaign you have created. 

Next name the Adgroup and then fill in the details like the default bid you will place based on your currency. The next step is to fill in the keywords in the empty panel that follows. Place broad match and exact match search terms along with exact match phrases. Also add stand alone words which combine to make popular phrases. Place one phrase or one word per  line. 

After you have created an Ad Group the nexdt step is to create an Ad. 

Creating A Text Ad

Whence you have created a campaign and added an Ad Group under it you will get an option to create an AD.

Add the Final URL correctly since this is where the Ad will land the visitor to. 

They you have an option for Headline 1 & Headline 2

Remember write a title that will attract attension as well as tempt the visitor to click. You will also get an option to describe the AD. In both instances you need to be creative and add keywords wisely. The write up should be focused and should inform about the product, services etc.  Information, features, benefits should be explicit along with appealing call to action.  Do write the call out which will further create an appeal to the visitor. This option will appear whence you have saved the Ad. At the end you will get the Ad as you have created or a compact one. Choose.

Call Only Ad

This Ad leads the visitor driectly to a moblie call. Here you have to add the location correctly and the mobile number. There is an option to target the defined location as well as customers searching for the product/services in another location.

Adwords offers lot of options which you have to fill in properly to create a highly targed Text or Call Out Ad.

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Google Adwords - Setting A Campaign!

After creating a google account you can search for Adwords site online sign in and enter. This will lead you to an interface which Google is constantly updating. 

Google Adwords is a pay per click advertisement interface from Google and offers multitude of features ranging from creating campaigns, Ad blocks and then fine tuning the whole campign in order to get the best results. Remember Adword campaigns may be large especially that initiated by big companies...but you can set a limit and run as per your budget.  

Hence upon entering create a campaign. There is an option for creating a new campaign for starters. The new campaign panel offers option to set you Ad goal. Are you advertising for website traffic? Brand Awareness? Sales? App Promotion? For Leads? You can even set a goalless campaign. Hence depending upon the nature of your campaign you would click on the suitable panel. 

For Ads on Google.com you would choose the panel which is labeled as SEARCH. This further gives an Ad option to be visible on website, phone call, store visit or apps download.    

The Adwords features are comprehensive and require intense involvment to fine tune your campiagns but nevertheless learn more feature and youtube tutorials will help a beginner.

The ads coverage is wide and you can advertiseusing Gmail where is a link to landing page is pasted. Or the Gmal Ad itself expands with the message. You can also link the Ad with Merchant Account thus enabling product data with the campaign.   

Using the Display feature you can initiate striking Ads to display on stores, in apps and online. There is an option for using standard or advanced features the former is for beginner. However if you wish to control the display of Ads using many aspects than you have to go in for advance settings.  

Ads are also shown in Youtube videos and are charged whence a viewer watches an Ad for atleast thirty seconds. 

Whence you click on the panel for the goal you have chosen you will contnue to get options till the final goal is set.

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