2023 has been a time of significant change in the online space, driven by the increased adoption of AI and other technologies.

Are you doing enough to win over your audience and stay ahead despite these changes?

Looking to employ the right strategies to reach (and convert) your ideal customers with modern digital marketing tools?

On August 2, I moderated a webinar with iQuanti’s Senior Vice President of Digital Solutions, ​​Sreekant Lanka.

Lanka demonstrated the five key performance marketing trends you must master to captivate your audience in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Key Takeaways

• Planning: Use data and analytics to assess media channels over time, account for external fluctuations for an optimal media mix, and align campaigns with Smart bidding best practices as AI/ML increases in marketing prominence.
• Audience: Platforms enhance AI/ML capabilities to target relevant audiences, while marketers can boost outcomes through a robust first-party data (1PD) strategy, optimizing setup, and offering tailored assets for conversion.
• Creative & Experience: Enhance the user experience by combining fresh visual styles and messaging with AI and human analysis to understand what makes content resonate.
• Measurement & Optimization: Use Incrementality tests to gauge channel value beyond last-click attribution and focus on business goals for inter-channel optimization.

Key Considerations In Planning Media Channels

When planning media channels, it’s essential to know how the different parts of a campaign usually work together.

What A Typical Campaign Flow Looks Like Today

• Planning.
• Audience.
• Creative experience.
• Measurement & Optimization.

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But how do you drive more performance? Consider strategies to gain a competitive advantage.

Aspects Of The Campaign Flow That Give You An Edge

Gaining an edge hinges on the core considerations of campaign execution.

Planning Media Channels: Key Considerations

When strategizing for media channels, embracing a holistic and data-backed approach is vital.

Leverage these, together:

• Media Mix Modelling: Media Mix Modelling optimizes media channels through historical data analysis, reactivation of inactive channels, and advanced modeling techniques.
• Cross-channel Performance Benchmarking: When MMM is unfeasible, planning is aided by benchmarking channels against a baseline and anchoring performance for market adjustments.
• Piloting New Channels: Allocating funds for ongoing experimentation and setting clear objectives and criteria is essential for piloting new channels when not previously invested in multiple.

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Maximizing Ad ROI: Understand The Role Of Audience

Channels are actively enhancing targeting with advanced features. They are also evolving to leverage first-party data, optimizing AI and machine learning for improved audience conversions.

• AI can provide insights like “high-indexing attributes” to convert audiences.

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• From a meta-perspective, machine learning algorithms simplify campaign structures and ensure privacy compliance, resulting in a 25% reduction in CPA by shifting from specific to broader targeting.

• Leverage first-party data in the cookie-less ecosystem to drive acquisitions.

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Creative & Experience Optimization

The key to success is enriching the end-to-end user experience with relevant ad copies and landing pages while leveraging AI for creative analysis and improvement.

While creatives are found to impact business results significantly, they are relatively underpenetrated in terms of leveraging data & analytics.

Experience optimization has significantly improved conversion rates, resolved friction points, and minimized inefficiencies and costs through the seamless alignment of keywords to landing pages.

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Creatives should also be diversified in both messaging and visual style. Here’s an ML-led objective approach to creative analysis combined with behavioral nuances that can get data-driven & actionable insights

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Performance Monitoring & Campaign Optimization

Understand the true value of a channel or tactic with Incrementality tests, and perform inter-channel budget optimizations based on business goals.

While getting Incrementality Testing right is vital for brand-building investments, it’s equally important not to limit the assessment to just last-click attribution

Here’s how you can approach it:

• Geographical Split Testing.
• Customer List Segmentation.
• PSA Ads – Holdout.

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[Slides] Unleash Your Campaign’s Potential: Elevate Your Performance Marketing Game

Here’s the presentation:

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Featured Image: Paulo Bobita/Search Engine Journal