In our video, “How Staples Can Make Back to School Last All Year”, Copley Advertising lays out our plan to make engage back to school shoppers all year long.

First, Staples needs to geofence all stores during the back to school season. They can run video ads on tagged devices showing the top-selling (profitable) items. When a tagged device user clicks on the ad, they are taken to a landing page with an additional video ad featuring a chance to win a Staples “Spring Break on Campus” event. It will include an opportunity to sign up to receive free coupons throughout the school year, important tips on what students need to kick off their new year, how to get the most out of your academic experience and a Spring Break contest in which customer can enter to win with friends and host on campus: Staples Spring Break!

So, what have we accomplished? First, we tagged all in-store devices and if the user has seen an ad (impression), we download their ID to a Google Sheet. Second, if the tagged device user clicks on the ad, Copley Advertising places their ID in a retargeting program where the user will be served new creative immediately for up to 30 days after they leave the location; this helps ensure they didn’t forget certain (highest profit margin) items. If the device user signs up for the email program, Staples can send them newsletters with study tips, information about how working out affects your grades, advice for on-campus relationships, and more. This will help to make Staples a trusted agent with their audience. Then, when the occasional ad for a sale item is pushed it would no big deal. Oh… and don’t forget the big countdown to the Staples Spring Break! The winner will be able to win a large bash featuring Staple’s products on campus. The extensive video will be used to promote products featured at the event and a new landing page will be created, introducing people to ways they could be next year’s winner. Content, engagement, value, and trust time and time again. With a few small steps, you can easily keep clients engaged with your products and programs, all year long.

And remember the list of IDs that is captured when the tagged user views the impression (ads) during the back to school rush? Copley Advertising can create a look-alike model based on the demographic characteristics from the list, and increase the total pool to 2% of the US population. Then, we can drill down to store location, age, gender, interests and other demographic qualifiers. A/B testing of market areas, creative or products is only a click away.

Copley Advertising is a mobile marketing ad agency: we only do mobile. Any questions, please email [email protected].

There are many factors to consider when trying to optimize a mobile campaign.  Drilling down to OS will show the break out between iOS and Android.  Copley Advertising has seen a three to one gap in click rate.  If this is the case then testing a cloned campaign and white listing the OS with the highest click rate may see a significant rise in CTR.

When we ran a test campaign which cloned the original campaign and then whitelisted the OS with the highest CTR. Copley Advertising found a 25% lift in the click rate across the board. By whitelisting the OS system, we increased net click rate by 20% for the entire campaign.

There is a movement to gear campaigns to iOS only.  We have seen 3 to 1 click rates in favor of iOS and some in favor of Android.  With Android impressions being cheaper finding Android skewed data may be a bonus.

If the advantage is 25% or less then looking at placement is a better way to go as you can choose which iOS and Android apps are working and which are not.

Copley Advertising uses a mobileDSP platforms to reach your mobile marketing goals.  We use programmatic buying but we believe that algorithms are good but knowing each campaign on a granular level is important.

Interested in mobile geofencing?  Email us at [email protected].