In the bad old days (yesterday) the client would receive a weekly report regarding their mobile campaign. It was four lines showing the number of impressions along with clicks. That was it. If you wanted to dig deeper into the numbers you would have to beg your sales rep to go to some special backroom where the engineers compiled such information and eventually be told no because they just didn’t give out this information. #sad.
Now life is better. Granular data reporting shows the client a wide range of trackable parameters. Why is granular reporting so important?
Optimization – granular data will the show the DSP the areas where the bid amount or even blacklisting can dramatically increase click rate. As of late Copley Advertising has seen Android outperforming iOS click rate. If there’s a 20% differential between the Android and iOS click rate (after a significant amount of traffic) Copley Advertising will clone the original campaign and start an Android only campaign. If the Android only campaign is outperforming the original campaign we would start lowering the impressions per day restriction on the original campaign. You can do this with creative, network (Smaato, Mopub, Rubicon, and others), placement and other trackable breakouts. Not only can the campaign be optimized (higher click rate with lower cost) but you are now sitting on a ton of valuable data. Besides optimizing the campaign, tweaking the art and setting up clone campaigns what are you going to do with all that data?
Offline Marketing – You share it with the client! First clients love the data. I have not had a client yet not love to listen to me talk about interpreting the data from their campaign. Granular data is a great value add to the campaign. Second, it’s information that you can help the client decide on where to spend their offline marketing. Help them spend advertising money somewhere else? Yes. If you are running campaigns in Tampa, Miami and Orlando and Tampa is getting twice the click rate it’s a good bet that your client should be spending more of their offline budget in Tampa. This type of information makes the mobile geofencing campaign a great tool for targeting key demographics in a set time and place but also works as a guide to help the client decide where to spend their marketing dollars.
A campaign with a client needs to be a partnership. It’s your job to have your client’s back. Do whatever you can to make them look good. Once the client knows that you are a partner and not just a vendor your relationship will deepen and it will beneficial for both of you.
But….back to the point. In summary, it’s the data stupid…..collect it, interpret it and share it. It will separate you from the pack.
