NTV-Plus has an online TV service, for which the demand of the target audience is still being formed. The main advantage of this service is watching movies and broadcasts in high quality on any device. The service is available both from the screen of a smartphone or tablet, and on a TV via an Android set-top box, Apple TV or smart TV.
Mechanics of an advertising campaign
The first flight. May 2019
The first steps to interacting with the audience at the top level of the marketing funnel are 10— and 20-second videos in TrueView in Stream. The main goal of the stage is the maximum audience coverage by targeting.
Social dem was used as targeting for an audience aged 35-44 and topics: "TV equipment", "cable and satellite providers", "going to move" and Heavy TV Viewers.
The second flight. June 2019
The second level of the funnel is working with a more engaged audience
Narrow target targeting was used there: custom audiences based on intentions and competitors, the intersection of broader audience targeting with narrow ones. At the same time, the coverage was narrowed, but targeting a potential audience was more accurate.
Also, experts have replaced the creative so that the effectiveness of the campaign does not decrease due to "burnout".
At the last stage of the funnel, we added the format of 6-second Bumper Ads videos. It was broadcast to those users who had previously seen videos in TrueView campaigns. This strategy greatly influenced the consolidation of knowledge about the service among potential users.
The effectiveness of advertising was evaluated not only in Display&Video 360, but also in the Campaign Manager tracking system from Google Marketing Platform.
With the help of the system, experts verified the traffic (brand safety): they excluded sites associated with unfavorable content and YouTube channels with children's videos.