Here’s an agenda of the things we brought to share today. We may not to get all and that’s a totally fine – we’re here to share insights that are most meaningful for each of you and if our conversation goes astray, albeit about best practices in search+social, I’m fine with that. I want to make this as much of a conversation as possible.
We all want the net effects of synergy and the scale it creates
A while back eMarketer polled folks about the importance of cross channel by sr. level folks
Forrester did a similar study and found similar findings – of course. Interestingly, having more efficient operations was top of the list followed by ROI, and Improved customer relationships.
Some of the biggest challenges we face as marketers are our own orgs, technical limitations, etc.
What do you guys think about that data and lets see a show of hands about which you feel are the bigger issues in your own orgs
What is the content that people are actively requesting from you – trip info, product info, requests that you’re there for via Search
And
The information consumers get passively from you – website content, other assets, content that you may have sprinkled across the web or on mobile environments
Here’s a great example of from one of our Retail clients and how the push and pull synergy works over the course of nearly 2 weeks.
First engaging with content within a social environment one evening and then again a few days later and using that engagement to when he’s expressing search intent and how being there with the right message as the level of intent and direction increase.
Ultimlately, connecting that search information back into a social environment and closing the sale.
So a great example of a real world push and pull relationship across channels
In fact you may have some great examples of how push and pull in different areas of your organization is already working.
I want to share 3 reasons why search and social should be the next channels on your list for integration.
We know folks are spending a lot of time online and that’s why we all have great jobs in digital.
The research about time spent in search and social continues to go up and to the right – this report listed time at 42% and I know from another recent report that it’s even higher
According to eMarketer - Trust is a big reason why search and social has also grown – what are my friends saying and the meritocracy of search and transparency
Again, eMarketer research shows the rapid growth of Search and Social – compared to other areas. As we all know brands invest in channels that provide the ROI and build your respective businesses.
And 70% of our clients are allocating more than half of their digital marketing budget to search+social – because they’re seeing the payoff
That’s a lot of information to digest.
Now, I’m not asking anyone to reveal secret information… with that said, lets what would you say the %age of your spend is search and social ?
Ask for comments about the levels
Recently, we released a Q2 infographic with the latest numbers for Search and Social. Ad spending continues to grow at double digit pace for both Search and Social
Search is up 19% YoY
Social is up 81% YoY
And advertiser revenue is up 25% YoY and 191% respectively
So your peers are certainly seeing the ROI for their businesses
Group M released a report that showed the benefits of the search and social intersection
The good news is that this is a trend across much of eCommerce, not just one company. eCommerce is expected to grow significantly over the next 5 years. Much of that growth will be driven by search. So since search works so well, why do we need anything else?
Any non last click model gives weight to Facebook
Earlier funnel gets more credit shift towards social
Any environment where you don’t look just at last click, it’s benefits
Goya Bada con queisjo
Lets take a look at a high level
- As marketers we know that it takes a lot of time to create, manage and optimize direct response social marketing campaigns.
- Kenshoo Social enables you to do it faster and more effectively by leveraging creative and insights from other channels.
Kenshoo Social, enables you to integrate your your most successful search engine and product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to automatically inventory feeds and copy create pre-optimized campaigns on Facebook,
Saving valuable time and resources of your team.
- You can also leverage insights from their search and PLA campaigns to bid more effectively on their Facebook Exchange retargeting campaigns and bid to the true value of the consumer
Kenshoo Social is the only solution that leverages success from other channels to improve efficiency and performance of social marketing campaigns.
Kenshoo Unique Selling Point (USP) on FBX:
Kenshoo Social’s USP for retargeting consumers on FBX is the only remarketing solution for Facebook that leverages campaign performance data from search and product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to improve targeting and bidding out of the gate.
Proofpoint:
About a year ago we launched DDC
- This was last years Facebook Innovation winner
Feed based – It’s like Spagahatti – Kenshoo knows what sticks and applies that into facebook
Here are a couple of examples of how two retailers have found success using DDC
Alex and Ani – the eco-friendly jewelry retailer. DDC helped increase their ROI by 80%
Using DDC the Alex and Ani team could automatically create and manage product-specific advertising on Facebook based on Alex and Ani’s product feed.
This dynamic ad creation enabled product-specific ads to launch quickly, while prioritizing top-performing products based on demand and performance signals – both improving performance and better optimizing spend.
Again, everyone is going to see different results – another one of our retail clients saw CTRs go up by 62% While seeing their CPA go DOWN by 45% as well as seeing a time savings of 4X on their team.
So, DDC has some great proven performance and depending on what your key metrics are, DDC is tool that can help you find success and save time.
BUILD UP FOR IDA
We can do all 3. Lots of API intergtrations
Today we really want to talk about the Search+Social
Reach in any channel
IDA – won the FB award again this year. We’re the only ones that can do it.
Audience targeting and retargeting has been an important agenda for Kenshoo since early 2013. We have been building and learning in this area and have a strong roadmap to make it more advanced and efficient for advertisers. We are compatible with RLSA and our bidding algorithms can already help optimize RLSA audiences.
Remarketing List Ads for Search (RLSA): Optimize campaign bids to re engage consumers and capture additional conversions efficiently
Data Management Platform (DMP) Integration: leverage search insights to create intent-based audiences to increase efficiency on display and other channels. Kenshoo’s open architecture allows integration with multiple DMPs including BlueKai, X+1, Aggregate Knowledge, Turn and more.
Real Time Bidding - Use 1st party cookie data to target users based on demonstrated intent
Massive Reach - Access to Facebook’s 1 Billion+ global audience and inventory
Direct Response - High performing direct response channel complementary to Search
FBX is their display network
Maybe they searched for a wilson racket
They came back PLA
They abandoned their cart
Then you reached them on FBX - retargeting
Those are all signals
The strongest signals are the performance signals
Search and PLA click – really strong and rich data. You have the history and data
Further info on FBX:
- Kenshoo Social’s unique solution for retargeting consumers on Facebook Exchange is the only remarketing solution for Facebook that leverages campaign performance data from search and product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to improve targeting and bidding out of the gate.
Further info on FBX:
- Kenshoo Social’s unique solution for retargeting consumers on Facebook Exchange is the only remarketing solution for Facebook that leverages campaign performance data from search and product listing ad (PLA) campaigns to improve targeting and bidding out of the gate.
Kenshoo Intent-Driven Audiences was co-developed by Kenshoo and Facebook to enable intent-based advertising on Facebook through a process of matching clicks on search engine ads to audiences on Facebook.
It works in the following manner:
A consumer conducts a search on Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other major search engine and clicks on an ad managed by Kenshoo
Upon click, Kenshoo and Facebook attempt an anonymous cookie match.
If matched, the consumer is placed into a Facebook Custom Audience based on the structure defined by the advertiser in Kenshoo, down to the keyword level, or based on performance metrics.
Kenshoo IDA-based Custom Audiences are built and updated with new consumers in real-time.
Likewise, IDA-based Custom Audiences are kept fresh by removing consumers after a designated period of time if they cannot be matched to the same Custom Audience, i.e., the consumer has not clicked on a search ad connected to the keywords or campaigns associated with the Custom Audience within a certain time frame.
Currently, the default removal is after 30 days, but this can be customized by the advertiser
Once Custom Audiences are created, the advertiser can further refine the Facebook ad program using all the additional Facebook targeting capabilities available to use with Custom Audiences, including demographics, interests and behaviors, as well as Lookalike Audiences.
Create as many audiences segments as your search data describes
Go after audiences based on who they are not just what they’ve done
Leveraging the Intent Signal to Refine Your Total Addressable Audience on Facebook
Marketers should take advantage of all targeting options within Facebook to meet their goals and objectives
Facebook offers the largest reach of any media channel with its 1.2B users, and offers advertisers numerous options to refine their audiences into more granularly focused segments.
The most elemental level of audience targeting is based on Facebook’s native targeting capabilities. These are the targeting options available based on the information people have given and the actions they’ve taken on Facebook. This is information like “female, age 35, lives in California, and likes hiking.” Let’s call this “Facebook Native Targeting. Advertisers can use Facebook’s Native Targeting to refine Facebook’s 1.2B users down to what we call the advertiser’s “Total Addressable Audience” on Facebook.
While the advertiser’s Total Addressable Audience is much more refined than the total FB population, it is generally a very large and widely varied audience with different interests and purchase intent. In this way, it provides a relatively low signal of intent.
Within this audience is a subset that can be further refined through ‘online behavioral targeting” information based on the actions consumers have taken on other sites and apps that use the Facebook pixel and SDK. This information enables advertisers to use Facebook targeting to leverage a stronger intent signal.
Within this audience is an even more refine audience based on those who have visited the advertiser’s website and used its mobile apps. This audience can be targeted through Website Custom Audiences (WCA) and FBX and offers a relatively high signal of intent.
Using Kenshoo IDA, we can refine this last audience even further to target using the intent people demonstrate through their search engine activity and by clicking on the advertiser’s search ads. This is the strongest signal of intent that we know of in digital marketing.
But while Kenshoo IDA provides the strongest signal of intent, by definition, it’s comprised of a smaller subset of the advertiser’s Total Addressable Audience on Facebook. This is why it is important for advertisers to test and leverage the various targeting options available to them to meet their business objectives.
Essentially, advertisers must balance intent with reach.
AOV – audiences that have been touched by FB have higher order value
Group M released a report that showed the benefits of the search and social intersection
The survey revealed several interesting findings. For example, on average, marketers are using 13 channels to drive marketing and media objectives with 8 of the top 10 being digital. Yet only 1 in 9 marketers are using advanced attribution to connect dots between the channels.
Models don’t represent the jouireny
ITS ANALYZING AND PREDICTING – IT’S REAL TIME
HOW MUCH IS EACH INTERACTION WORTH FOR Y O U R MODEL
Coach vs. commentator
In order to generate a custom, adaptive model for a client, SmartPath analyzes historical data and begins to form a model from it. SmartPath develops the model by continuously adapting and achieving better levels of accuracy.
The result of this model is the ability to predict, for any customer interaction, the incremental impact of that interaction on the chance of conversion. This incremental impact when compared to other interactions in a given path determines how much credit each interaction will receive.
Using this model, SmartPath begins populating attribution values into the production database. At that point, Kenshoo bidding systems are able to access the true value of each interaction and bid accordingly, boosting KPI’s.
Forty-nine percent are adjusting their long-term
media plans, 38% are changing media spend, and 34%
are comparing the performance of different campaign
measures. Almost one-quarter (23%) are taking some of
their actions in real time.
Make decisions on where to spend your budget based on the complete set of customer activities. Kenshoo provides reports that let you take action to improve results and attribute the true value of every customer interaction. Kenshoo also pulls together all the data you need, from our system or others, so you can prove value and really know your customer.
The key is not just giving you insight, but actually putting that insight into action inside your marketing activities. For example, changing how we are bidding on your behalf..not just giving you a report you need to decipher yourself.
We are continually publishing a number of guide series to help marketers learn more about how to create opportunities at the intersection of search and social. Check out our site to learn more and stay up to date!