E-commerce and YouTube campaigns discussed


The SMX Advanced 2019 event took place in Seattle and it offered great insights on SEO and SEM. The SEM track was titled “Selling Smarter With Search, Social, Marketplace Ads” and it featured experts talking about their experience and on how e-commerce stores can maximise their performance.

The first speech was by Joe Martinez from Clix Marketing. He looked at Shopping Ads and YouTube. While most e-shopping marketers focus on direct return, he emphasised thinking about these ad units from customers’ viewpoints. They are on YouTube to watch videos, not browse for products. To even run shopping cards on video ads, you have to select the ‘Product and Brand Consideration’ campaign goal. This sets the proper expectations that the clips are video campaigns first and shopping ones second. The benefit of this infrastructure is to plant a seed in the mind of viewers in the hope that users are aware that your products even exist.

Explaining how this works, Joe advanced that you are able to choose to advertise all or a selection of your products for a campaign. You can also display them with special filter using the custom labels from your Merchant Center feeds. Your creativity is going to decide the item selection that would best for you.


YouTube can be used to advertise products

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