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How to Get Smart About Retargeting Ads

Sharpspring

The True Costs of Paid Advertising. Most PPC campaigns focus on the top-of-the-funnel (awareness building) and run on Google AdWords, Bing Ads, etc. A relatively low conversion rate and high cost-per-click (CPC), ultimately resulting in an extremely high cost-per-acquisition (CPA). cost-per-mille (CPM), 5.2%

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How to Train Your Media Planning AI (The Right Way)

Bionic

However, as recent AI failures with Google Bard and Microsoft Bing warn, you need to take great care in creating your AI. Efficiency KPIs and Dependent Variables If you want to predict the cost efficiency of media placements, you need to include cost efficiency KPIs as dependent variables in your training data.

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The Ultimate Guide to PPC

Hubspot

Pay-per-click advertising is most common in search engine results pages (SERPs), like Google or Bing, but is also used on social channels (although CPM is more common). If you’re wondering where you can find pay-per-click ads, they’re the results you see before and to the right of the organic search results.

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How to use YouTube Analytics to optimize your video performance

Sprout Social

Think of it as YouTube’s version of the Google Analytics homepage. Click Rate: The clickthrough rate for cards, which is calculated as the ratio of card clicks to card impressions. Playback-based CPM: The estimated gross revenue per thousand playbacks. To kick things off, we’ll break down the basics.

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SMX Advanced Day 1 – Google + Bing Keynotes, Conversion Optimization, Audience Targeting and Social + PPC

QuanticMind

Day 1 of #SMX Advanced includes keynote addresses from Google and Bing, conversion optimization best practices, audience targeting tips and social + PPC discussion. Here’s our list of the quick hits: Day 1 Keynote – Welcome & SEM Keynote Conversation: Google & SEM. pictured: @jdischler , @GinnyMarvin ).

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Digital Advertising Terms and Jargon Every Marketer Should Know

Act-On

Google search ad placements, among others, require a careful bidding strategy. For example, an advertiser could choose to bid a flat rate, bid based on the expected clickthrough rate, or use past performance data. What is Cost Per Mille Advertising? CPM is used as a standard measure for buying display ads.

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The Scoop on Facebook Mobile Ads: Are They Working? [Data]

Hubspot

When a Facebook user clicks on one of these ads, they are prompted to install apps on their mobile devices via iTunes or the Google Play store. Ecommerce website Fab (a client of Nanigans), saw a 5X better return on its Mobile App-Install ads than any other mobile app download ad it placed on other networks, including Google and Yahoo!