Digital Marketing - Unit-2
Digital Marketing - Unit-2
DIGITAL MARKETING
UNIT-2
Internet marketing, also called digital marketing or online marketing, involves promoting
a brand and its products or services to online audiences using the Internet and digital
media. With Internet marketing, you use a combination of online strategies to help you
build better relationships with your audience and attract more interested leads.
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. For any type of company to move into digital marketing, be it a traditional firm with
more physical products and services mix or one that has transformed itself to a large
degree to tweak its products for the internet generation, there needs to be an underlying
framework which helps to map the process and its progress.
. Assessment phase
. strategy phase
. Refinement phase
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ASSESSMENT – Phase 1
The first phase involves any firm’s or individual’s assessment and analysis of their
present external/internal market place environment to ascertain that they have clearly
assessed their current Digital Presence state to develop high-level digital marketing
objectives and review criteria. This stage involves executing all the necessary market
research to assess present market trends impacting them.
a) External Analysis
Includes the analysis of Macro-Micro Environment (entities that surround and influence
the firm, its products, operations and opportunities) and Market situation analysis
(includes market and competition analysis, specific to the industry where the firm and its
product are operating)
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Involves an analysis of factors that are internal to a company and within their control to
influence their goal setting and create successful and realistic Digital Marketing
objectives. It includes four main analysis areas- Offerings mix, Marketing mix, Resources
mix and Competencies mix
This is a 2X2 Matrix that helps firms identify their present Digital State through a
combined analysis of External and Internal factors. There are four key Digital Presence
States depending upon the present “Extent of Digital Presence” of any firm and its
“Market Standing” with respect to direct competition in their specific industry segment
and market category
Involves setting high-level Digital Marketing Objectives based upon the specific Digital
State in which the firm is present. The Review stage consists of activities that involve
monitoring, evaluating and controlling marketing activities continuously
Strategy- Phase 2
The second phase involves creating the Digital Marketing strategy roadmap in line with
traditional marketing strategy and objectives. Key stages include-
Defining Business Strategy for firms going digital, their impact factors and emerging
Business Structures. Also involves alignment of firm’s Core Competencies to changing
Value Function shifts to develop appropriate OVPs
Involves looking at the classic 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) with a digital view
and also developing the new set of 4Ps for modern marketing (People, Process, Programs
& Performance)
d) 6S Implementation Framework
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This stage involves a more in-depth communication and channel mix plan created for
each of the marketing objectives
Involves developing the strategy towards creating a Digital Media Plan post the Digital
Strategy Definition exercise from the last phase to determine the communication and
channel mix for brand’s specific offerings taking into the present Product Lifecycle and
Digital Presence Stage
Details seven steps to creating an overall communications strategy and helps create an
implementation plan towards developing the communication message and its orientation
for specific end objectives
Details the nature of each channel and the type of communication which can be targeted
through the particular channel to meet a specific communication objective. Also involves
looking at the positives of one channel over the other for specific marketing objectives
and strategies
Budget Allocation for Channel Mix- Involves utilizing the four key methods commonly
used for Budget allocation to ensure appropriate emphasis is given to each channel
depending on communication objectives and the nature of returns expected from each of
the channels in the overall mix
Operations- Phase 4
MARKETING OPERATIONS- This is the deployment stage for digital operations and
involves the actual planning, implementation, monitoring and optimization of campaigns
during the media flight dates so that marketers obtain the maximum impact for their
investments during the campaign run period.
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Involves the actual operations work for setting up the campaign across multiple channels
and begins with developing a campaign calendar and getting it approved internally before
sharing it with execution teams for implementation.
c) Campaign Execution
This step involves all the activities performed by campaign managers’ right from the time
they make the campaign “Go-Live”. Typical representative parameters (which we would
learn more about in the upcoming chapters too) include Bid, Geo, Targeting, Networks,
Devices, Languages, Ad Extensions, Advanced Settings, etc.
REFINEMENT Phase 5
This is the final stage of Digital Marketing wherein Marketers and the Campaign Team
analyze overall RoI for the effort and investments, create reports and analytics
dashboards and refine present strategies for further digital marketing activities based on
customer response and collated data.
Traditionally web analytics helped evaluate website performance, but the emerging Web
2.0 world involves analytics activities like Multiple-Outcome Analysis, Site Testing,
understanding customer & competition, etc
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As a final step, the overall digital marketing strategy is refined using a five-step model of
Define, Measure, Analyze, Action and Improve or Eliminate to make sure that campaigns
are run most effective in future executions.
The digital marketing Mix is essentially the same as the marketing mix. It is simply the
adaptation of price, place, product and promotion to the digital marketing context of
course one could also include people, process, programmes, and performance when
marketing planning for an online service.
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channel of purchase
Any product or service which is being sold online and across digital platform
needs to be reasonably differentiated and have brand attributes or element attached to
them to differentiate from competitors.
Further product can be classified in five states of an offering mix which starts with pure
tangible product with no service element and ends as being a pure service with no
product components.
state A: only tangible product which are primarily physical in form and mostly
commodity in nature. . sugar, steel etc. (pure tangible goods)
E.g. mobile, automobile, furniture (and most of the productsold through e-commerce) etc.
(Tangible goods and related service)
state C:It has an equal mix of product and service elements built it.
E.g. hospitality services like them park, restaurants etc. (Hybrid Model)
state D: In this state, the intangible part forms the core service, while intangible part is
built as a support element.
E.g. Air travel, Banking, Insurance, and software developer etc. (Major service with few
goods)
state E:This final state involves as offering having complete intangible attributes.
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product changing their form to digital — media broadcasting, books, music, Tv content
etc.
service firms can use intangible elements like social networks to provide new service
Marketer should combined various tangible and intangible elements to create multiple
Pricing product and service for digital sales has changed in quite a many ways from how
it was done traditionally. key trends which have impacted this shift includes;
2. Determining demand
3. Estimating cost
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1. Mark-up pricing
2. Target return
3. perceived value
4. Going rate
comparative pricing — compare competitor price, price also varies in relation to data on
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customer visits, their loyalty, influence of the channel, e-commerce site on which it is
being sold.
Ad supported model — This is one of the core model on which digital business was
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developed wherein instead of charging the customer, business and advertisers were
charged for placing ads across most read content.
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pay-per content/use model — It is possible to charge customer for each content piece as
even on the usage time for that content as digital medium can provide all if this
information.
Auction type -
Last minute pricing — possible only in online mode (Air-lines prices) customized
pricing/ cart based pricing - loyal customer free coupon
state A (pure tangible good): comparative, mark-up, auction pricing are applicable
state B (tangible good and related service): subscription, maybe perceived value and
customized pricing model
state c (hybrid model): subscription, price per content, price per usage
state E (pure service) : online industry mostly started out with content, networks, and
sharing as its core model which did not charge initially but developed delighted and loyal
customer base. Then typically charged through advertising, subscription, and pay per
content/use model. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc. are ad supported whereas LinkedIn,
whatsApp, wiki are subscription or donation way.
companies can make sure that their products and services are present at right place where
their e-consumers would be looking for them.
channel ownership
sales orientation
. pull based
. push based
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. Reach
. Engage
. Active
People:
Involve developing online teams with a mix of digital marketing expertise, technology,
know-how, multi-channel experience, knowledge of automation tools, target customers
insights. It also includeshow to look at customers with all their human impulses and
desire to know what would tempt them most towards marketing efforts both on the
content and creativeside.
Processes:
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Programs:
It is defined as the entire set of consumer-driven programs which are run in a holistic
manner online and offline to meet a firm's marketing objectives. It also includes all the
multi-channel initiatives which are taken across traditional and new platforms to make
sure that customers at all stages, be it targets, prospects, or leads are touched upon and
impacted in a 360-degree manner.
Performance:
setting up the system and ways to measure the performance and desired output at each
stage of marketing activities. It requires well defines metrics and KpIs performance
evolution touch all of the other ps to continually refine
Digital marketing affects all aspects of the traditional and services marketing mix
including:
Product – looking at opportunities for modifying the core or extended product for digital
environments. For example, offering digital products.
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Place – considering the implications for distribution for digital marketing. For example
affiliate or co-marketing.
Promotion – exploring inbound marketing techniques such as search, email and social
media marketing.
People, process and physical evidence – the extended mix of improving customer service
via Livechat and online knowledge bases.
Internet is the zero moment of truth, consumers first search for products or services
online before visiting the store. Hence, it is imperative for marketers to be present on
search engines
First advertiging search engine is google, the remaining yahoo and other are very less.
Yahoo wich mix with content bar with search where as google primary business is search.
Yahoo’s focus is on content and hence it display an advertisement. Google does not
show any adds on tis first page keep the focus on search query, keeps its page unculttered.
A marketer could build an excellent website and invest in SEO techniques to get the
highest rank for the website in organic results. despite the best efforts, the website may
not come on top, the algorithem for organic results is complex and not under the controler
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capture Intent : These people are actively searching because they are interested in either
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finding out more information about the product or service or are buying it.click through
rates (CTRs)
Ease of Action: search engine ads are meant to be clickable. once a person clicks on the
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ad, the search engine directs the user to the brand's webpage, custom designed for the ad.
controlled costs: search engines charge a marketer only if a person clicks on the ad
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(cost per click model). The advertisers are not charged for impressions
Analytics: search engines help in creating and downloading reports about the
performance of ads. average cost per click(CPC), the number of clicks for each ad, the
total amount spent, the click through rate, and the number of impressions to analyse the
effectiveness of their campaigns.
. For example, when Flipkart ran the campaign-Big Billion Day-during Diwali,
Amazon showed ads against the keyword and purchased the Big Billion Day' domain
name.
Understanding Ad placement
search engines show advertisements in predefined areason the result pages. Google shows
ads in two areas-top and bottom.Maximum four ads can appear on the top and three at the
bottom. It is not necessary though that search engines will display all potential ads on the
results page.
The reason is that there is the high cost of serving ads.The entire algorithm is optimised
for the probability of click the advertisers pay only when they receive aclick. Hence,
search engines show ads only when the probability or click is higher than the threshold
level.
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TOP
The top position is considered the prime location in Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
How many times have you gone second or the third page of the results? Users usually
click on results on the first page and that too which are above the scroll. Hence the
competition is for the top four positions on the first page. Click rates are high for them
and drastically reduce for below the scroll and subsequent pages.
SIDE
Google majorly displays shopping ads on the side. The shopping ads depict the picture of
the product with the prices, enabling purchase by users. Google search also displays
Knowledge graphs on the right side of search results page to make the experience of the
customers even better by giving them concise m ormation a out the business. Left side
ads are called ‘native ads’ as they appear at the same place that organic results appear.
BOTTOM
If the ad rank for an ad is lower than the threshold for the top position, in that case even if
the top position does not show any ads, this ad is shown in the bottom area.
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UNDERSTANDING AD RANKS :
Ad Rank is the position at which the ad appears in the search engine results. A study by
chitika (2013) has shown that results that appear in the top three positions combined
attract more than 60 per cent of traffic compared to all other results. The traffic decreases
exponentially as we go down the page Rank.
Ad Rank
Do you know that Google is not the first search advertising platform?
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Although Google does not provide weights of the components of Quality score, but some
analytics companies have analysed the Quality score of large scale number of keywords
and drawn some inferences about weights. (Relevancy, Landing page, cTR (click
Through rate))
. primacy Effects - serial position effects have been described as the effect of the
position
. Competition for Attention Theory - The competition for attention theory explains
biases in information processing. Djamasbi et al. (2010) find that the position of a
particular item has an influence on the individual's choice to process it. As Faraday (2000)
suggests,
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Google provides an online platform called Adwords to create and manage one's online
advertisements. Now Google Ads, Advertisers must create an account to use Google Ads.
create separate campaigns for different product lines or services. For example, an online
grocery store can have separate campaigns for each of the product categories like home
care products', personal care items. within the product category of home care, each sub-
category such as detergents, cleansers could be different ad groups.
Each ad group should have related items since the set of keywords is defined at ad group
level. one might create a separate campaign for each location. similarly, if one is running
discounts on certain products and wants to allocate greater budget to advertise that
product, then they should run it as a separate campaign as the budget setting can be done
only at the campaign level.
Campaigns
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Advertiser can choose among cost per click (CPC) (most popular), cost per acquisition
(CPA), or cost per lead (CPL)
Another important setting is location. (i) geographical location (ii) location of interest by
user.
Ad Groups
E.g. The company is a large corporation with global operations and many divisions,
for example, samsung, for which keywords can be runs into millions, so selection of bids
for individual keywords may not be possible.
keywords
. keywords are the single most important component of the search advertisement
. Appropriateness of keywords
. Long tails: phrases which has small search volume but together they add up to
significant per cent of all searchers.
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According to PSE, the human brain is more likely to remember images and pictures than
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words. The company developed interactive display banners and coupled them with tailor
made content aimed at engaging with customers across different websites. Google
Display Networks (GDN) to channel all its online resources towards driving
prospective customers to showrooms.
Average time spent on the website by audience tripled Number of website visitors
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increased by 60 per cent year over year (yoy). Bounce rate on the website dropped from
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65 percent to 1.5 percent. 5 per cent of the leads in the year came directly because of
display advertising.
Display advertising is a type of online advertising that comes in several forms, including
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banner ads, rich media and more. unlike text-based ads, display advertising relies
on elements such as images, audio and video to communicate an advertising message.
Display advertising refers to the act of communicating the advertising message
using visually rich media. Display advertising (banner advertising) is a form of
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advertising that conveys a commercial message visually using text, logos, animations,
videos, photographs, or other graphics. Display advertisers frequently target users with
particular traits to increase the ads, effect. Display advertising is very powerful in
creating awareness as it is a push medium
Flash ads are interactive web banners made with Adobe Flash that can feature complex
animations, movies and sound. This technology became extremely popular online
because of how it can react to users. For example, an entire ad can transform into a full
multimedia experience all with a simple mouse-over
HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the
world wide web. It is the fifth and latest major version of HTML that is a world wide web
consortium recommendation
HTML5 ads are ads that use HTML5 files created in Google web Designer to
create attention-catching, interactive ads. You can design and build HTML5
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HTML5 ads are the replacement for Flash-based ads that designers often built when they
wanted to use animations or interactivity in their design. Flash was used extensively from
the early 2000s through to 2016. Flash support started falling considerably after 2010
due to mobile operating systems like Apple,s ios not supporting Flash, and Google,s
Android having limited support.
HTML5 ads enable animation, and interactive content, but are also responsive/adaptive,
meaning that your design will look good across any browser, os, or device. since
HTML5 ads are based off of HTML5 code, any device that can render HTML5 can
render your ad as well.
Format
. Rich Ads
. video Ads
Display size
. Medium rectangle
. Large rectangle
. Leaderboard
BUYING MODELS
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. An amount you pay for acquiring a customers who buys your products
. You pay fixed cost per day irrespective of number of impression (YouTube
homepage banner ads are sold on fixed cost model)
Display plan
. site
. section
. Ad size
. Impressions
. Rate
. cost
“programmatic” ad buying typically refers to the use of software to purchase digital
advertising, as opposed to the traditional process that involves Rfps (request for
proposal), human negotiations and manual insertion orders. It,s using machines to buy
ads, basically.
Efficiency
. car portals,
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Target audience, who have visited car portal atleast once visited finance site atleast once
in the last one month
The user requests for a webpage, which means there is a potential to show ad impressions
to the user. Everytime a user requests for a page, ad exchange holds a live auction. on
behalf of the publisher, supply side platforms (ssp) send a bid request to the Demand,
side platform (Dsp). Dsp examines the potential impression in terms target audience,
context match, and returns abid amount based on its value to advertiser. Winning bid is
chosen by the ad exchange and that ad is shown on the publisher's website.
Ad exchange
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publishers
. It integrates multiple networks together. It shares the context of the webpage, such
as topic, keywords, page URL and the profile of the user such as demography, location,
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. ssps - LiveRail, openx, Rubicon project, Double click for publishers, pubNative and
AdJuggler.
. A platform that allows advertiser to buy the inventory from various ad exchanges and
data exchange accounts through one interface called RTB. The Dsps represent the interest
of the advertiser and attempt to find the most efficient impressions given the constraints
imposed by the advertiser.
. Dsp companies are Double click for Advertisers, Rocket Fuel, Turn, Appnexus.
Mediamath, Double click, and Audience science.
. It is used by publishers and buyers to store and manage audience data from multiple
sources. These sources include publisher,s websites, apps, videos etc.
. Ad server
. There are Ad server technology companies that will host your ad and give
independent reporting, analytics and verification of display of ads.
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Ad Exchange : Ad exchange brings together buyers and sellers to buy and sell online ad
inventory in an automated manner. Like a stock exchange, realtime auctioning for ad
spaces on publisher websites happens in an ad exchange
Open Exchanges : Ad exchanges open for everybody on the web. There is no restriction
on the purchase of inventory available in these exchanges.
Private Exchanges :An exchange wherein a group of publishers pooled up to sell their
advertising inventory only through select agencies or to reputed companies.
Analytics Tools
View ability — As per Integral Ad science & Media Rating council Data in 2015 57% of
display ads were not viewable. 50 per cent of ad pixel should display for minimum for
one second in image ads and 2 seconds for video ads for an ads to be considered viewable.
Tools such as Integral Ad science and MOAT provide matrices such as in-view
impression, out-of-view impression and viewable rate on Target Reach - these tools
determine accuracy based on real people logins across mobile and desktop.
Tools — “Atlas” provide on target reach publisher wise; Nielsen DAR do cross device
measurement and providereach overlap report.
Ad Fraud - the deliberate practice of serving ads that have no potential to be viewed by a
human. offenders of ad fraud are criminal gang Publisher with higher CPM rates are
more susceptible to trust. Create millions of impression but not one there to view. Ended
with high charges
Domain Identity Theft : This is a form of fraud where fraudsters add a fake URL into
the ad unit, fooling the auction into believing that an ad will appear on an acceptable site
that it will not end up on.
Bot Activity : This is when robots carry out similar actions by masking IP addresses
through advanced algorithms. Malware can be installed on computers, giving fraudsters
the power to control what domains a computer visits and the ads it views.
Ad Fraud
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Brand Health - the process and controls implemented to protect advertisers from having
their ads appear alongside content that could damage their brand or reputation. Integral
Ad science tool assigns brand risk scores to prevent brand from getting
compromised.
YouTube Advertising
You Tube is the second largest search engine in the world behind Google search
Marketers on YouTube have two broad areas of participation: (i) YouTube channels, and
(ii) YouTube ads.
YouTube channel
. companies can promote their brands and products by creating quality video
content and curating it into a YouTube channel or profile. This will aid discovery and
engagement whenever someone searches for relevant content on YouTube.
YouTube Ads
. YouTube allows you to capitalize on the millions of partner videos already present
on YouTube, by targeting your display ads to relevant videos. These ads are available in
two different formats.
Display Ads :These ads appear next to your video while you are using YouTube on a
laptop or a desktop. This ad format not available on the mobile device and can be
purchased in both CPC and CPM formats.
Overlay Ads :An overlay ad appears in a rectangular format in the bottom 20 per cent of
the video. It is available only on a laptop or a desktop and not on a mobile devices, Tvs,
game consoles, etc. viewers can dismiss the ad anytime and can be purchased only in the
CPC model.
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YOUTube Advertising
Mid-roll Ads :Available only for videos over 15 minutes, Mid-roll ads are spaced
between the video similar to Tv commercials. For better viewing experience, publishers
can choose to place their ads at natural pauses between the scenes. They are available
only on desktop and mobile versions and not on game consoles, Tvs etc. Further, these
mid-roll ads could be skippable or non-skippable ads and the pricing model is as per the
chosen format (i.e., skippable or non-skippable).
Bumper Ads : Lightweight, non skippable video ads up to 6 seconds long. They are
especially optimized for mobile devices.
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Bumper Ads
Native Mobile Ads : Native mobile ads are display ads that appear in the same context as
organic content. only available on mobile device. And can be boughton a CPC or CPM
basis.
Trueview video discovery ads :Trueview video discovery ads can run on the YouTube
search results and watch pages for both desktop and m.youtube.com, as well as the
mobile app homepage. You are charged whenever a user clicks on a video ad thumbnail
or title and begins watching your ad video. The ad unit consists of animage thumbnail
and up to three lines of text.
cost per view (cpv) :cost per view (cpv) cpv is the amount you pay for your true video
ads. with cpv bidding, you will pay for video views or interactions (such as clicks on call-
to-action overlays). A view is counted when someone watches 30 seconds of your video
ad (or the duration if it is shorter than 30 seconds) or interacts with the ad, whichever
comes first.
. The viewer watches your ad completely (if ad length less than 30 seconds) or
watches atleast 30 seconds of your ad (if ad length greater than 30 seconds). The viewer
performs a desired action on the adi.e., clicks on the ad.
Actual cpv As an advertiser, you always do not pay the max cpv amount. As it is a
competitive bidding model, you might often strike deals at a lower price relative to your
max cpv. This price at which you strike a deal (i.e., the actual amount you are charged) is
called the actual cpv. The actual cpv you pay depends on two factors.
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. Ad Rank
Reserved media Placement : Follows the fixed pricing model. Highly beneficiary if
marketer wants to develop instant brand awareness E.g. new product commercialisation,
E.g. Entering into newmarke
CPM : standard in- stream. Non skippable video ads that play before the user play actual
video can be of 15 to 30 seconds
. In-stream select skippable ads that play before the user play actual video can be up
to 30 seconds user allow to skip after 5 seconds
CPD - cost per Day : To be booked couple of week advance, creative have to be delivered
nine business day advance. There are three formats - Desktop custom Masthead, 970*250
pixel ad unit that snaps the entire breath of the YouTube homepage below the navigation
bar
Desktop universal video Masthead: Include flash information panel on one side and a
video panel on the other side. standard size 780*195 pixel
Mobile video Masthead: Mobile tablet only, video headline, description, channel name,
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