Interactive Advertising Bureau
02 March 2023

Guest Blog Post with Vidmob -Digital advertising success depends on fit for platform creative

 

 

In this week’s member guest blog post we caught up with Anthony Lamy, VP of EMEA Client Partnerships at VidMob. Anthony discusses how making sure you have the right creative fit for a platform can make a digital advertising campaign more successful. With so many platforms needing to be considered in creative, Anthony helps you to navigate this challenge. Keep reading to find out how.

Brands are facing a double creative control headache. While adhering to their own brand and creative guidelines is challenging enough, ensuring assets align with different social media platforms’ best practices is an even harder task — and one that’s getting tougher as goalposts constantly shift. 

Adding to these challenges is the prospect of economic uncertainty. Many brands are therefore under high pressure to use resources more wisely and fuel stronger ROI. Consequently, there is no room to waste precious budget on advertising creative that isn’t fit for its corresponding platform. 

To get their creative house in order, marketers need a smarter approach that allows them to consistently find the fastest path to effective creative that’s on brand and fit for the platform. To do this, brands should embrace the practice of creative scoring to ensure their creative consistently performs by aligning it with platform and brand best practices.

Time to achieve creative excellence (effectiveness, efficiency, impact) at scale

Although marketers have no control over a platform’s algorithms, one area that falls within their remit is creative quality. To date, businesses’ tendency towards internal, manual processes around brand governance has driven varied inefficiencies, with content feedback, reviews and approvals absorbing hours of time for marketers.

The biggest drawback of manual monitoring though is that labour-intensive analysis can’t function at the scale needed to run effective cross-channel advertising or stay in sync with fickle platforms and user preferences. At a time when social trust is fragile, running out of touch with target audiences poses major hazards for brands aiming to forge meaningful engagement via social media. Thanks to advances in creative analytics technology, however, there is scope to streamline quality assurance techniques. Innovative new creative scoring processes can continuously assess content across a broad spectrum of criteria including — by brand, platform, market, and objective — and track adherence to best practices across every asset automatically, with any discrepancies instantly flagged so they can be quickly adjusted. This means marketing teams can hand over the complicated work of manual tracking and analysis to sophisticated technology, without losing the insights. And that’s just the start.

A deeper window into performance

Aside from saving valuable time, smart scoring tools ultimately enable marketers to leverage best practices. Automatically flagging discrepancies, marketers can now turn benchmarks into actionable metrics and automate fast, accurate, and always-on evaluation. The majority also provide similarly useful core functions including pre- and in-flight assessment, to help minimise wasted spend on ads that fall below key standards and prevent ads from underperforming. 

More sophisticated platforms also harness subsets of artificial intelligence (AI) such as computer vision to offer comprehensive, real-time measurement. When it comes to scoring, this gives them the power to instantly analyse every creative element against unique standards: such as where brand logos are placed, objects in the foreground and background, colour use, the emotion expressed by featured talent, and the cadence of speech and edits.

In addition to determining whether assets adhere to brand standards, scoring assessment helps pinpoint the effect of specific creative elements on social ad performance; providing a clear view of which best practices to prioritise. For instance, Neutrogena has become one of many leading brands to apply intelligent scoring for slick monitoring and adjustment. Analysis of ad variations across Facebook and Instagram for their German campaign quickly identified that an emphasis on visuals was highly effective; especially imagery featuring celebrities and its Bright Boost product on a human hand. Optimising delivery to focus on creative including these elements fuelled a 30% rise in views past the first three seconds and a 188% hike in total viewability. 

The key takeaway here for marketers is that deep-diving analysis not only helps keep tabs on their creative assets but also establishes how they should be best used on social platforms. As an additional advantage, the ongoing assessment also means they can gain a persistently refreshed understanding of what is driving performance and impact in their creative across channels.

The digital space isn’t due to get any less complicated. What sparks audience attention and inspiration will always be subject to change, especially on rapidly evolving social platforms. Savvy marketers will accept the uncertainty and ensure a firmer grip on the areas they can control. By embracing smart creative assessment, they can use best practices to protect and preserve brand governance, increase creative performance and effectiveness, and find the balance between what is the ideal fit for users, platforms, and their brand.

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