How many can name the product from last banner ad they saw? Chances are, none of you.
But according to what I found through ars technica, that’s okay.
The Journal of Consumer Research published findings that repeated exposure to banner ads results in positive feelings for that which is advertised. They asked students to read an essay with the pretense of answering questions about the essay when, in fact, the survey focused on the content of banner ads displayed alongside the content. Those asked about their positive feelings towards the brand advertised saw positive reactions consistently increase in conjunction with number of exposures to the ad.
Consider now, as you already should, that banner advertising can not be measured in click rates or CPCs but that the ads indirectly influence behavior. With this continued support of that influence, take a broader look at your site metrics, search behavior, or action rates (conversion, registration) when running display campaigns to evaluate that indirect influence.
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Just did a banner campaign, with sole targeted audience of 1million eyeballs. The conversion ratio – almost tearfully less than 0.001% buy conversion, banners are simply a big waste of time, a by-gone internet area by-product. Warning, for your own good, DO NOT BUY BANNER ADs, period!!!! People are having enough banners waving at them hundreds a day, does anyone care?…………..
Excellent feedback Zie and with your expectations I’d completely agree. What are banners ads but display ads akin to TV commercials? Capable of creating awareness? I’d argue most definitely. Drives indirect or latent sales that come in through search engines or direct when someone types in yourwebsite.com? Absolute, in fact, I know they do, I’ve tested it with millions of ad dollars. You have to track the benefit of banners comprehensively.
Are they worth it for immediate sales? Nope.
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The problem I have and why I don’t recommend banner ads to my smaller clients is, like television, they get lost on the internet. Unless you target the audience and repeat and repeat with 6+ ads you are not getting seen or heard from as much as you would a local radio spot.
Social media overwhelms many of my clients, and they are ‘sold’ by web people everyday saying without a solid web presence, they won’t succeed. History says that is a lie. The internet has over 1 billion websites and blogs online. If the best you can do is target your area, and zipcode, with a banner ad, you are better off focusing your presence into two maaaaybe three social media sites, and drive your customers there rather than spending valuable advertising dollars, that doesn’t get you an ROI. You can spend 100-1 million on the web, but if you’re not getting the sales for it, I don’t find that ‘presence’ is anything you cannot build on your own as a startup or small business. (Your thoughts)