Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Audience Reach and Effectiveness Measurement of Online Ads

Today, I received an e-mail from one of the partners of the ad agency that I interned for this past summer. I thought it would be interesting to share:


Two new Nielsen reports, "Reaching the Right Audiences Online" and "Beyond Clicks and Impression," have some interesting revelations about audience reach and effectiveness measurement of online ads, such as:
  • Online campaigns are consistently delivered to people who are not a part of the intended audience.
  • Campaigns with high impressions only manage to reach a small percentage of the intended audience.
  • Online is more effective than some popular TV shows in delivering audiences.
  • Click-through rates are not a strong measure of brand impact as there is almost no correlation between click-through rates and brand opinion or offline sales.
  • However, brand metrics for online campaigns can predict offline sales.

1 comment:

Daniel Mochon said...

Interesting articles. Here is where Facebook has a huge advantage since you can predict quite accurately the demographics of any ad.