Campaign Management Strategy Improves CTR with Brand Safety & IVT
Case Type
Campaign Management, Managed Services
Partner Type
Retail Solutions
Challenge
Sparkling Ice is a campaign that runs throughout the year with multiple KPIs to achieve, which makes it challenging to achieve as the targeting is restrictive. Using Sparkling Ice audience segments, the campaign was designed to deliver 8MM impressions and achieve the below listed KPIs.
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CTR - 0.18%
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Viewability - 70%
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Brand Safety >95%
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BS Risk% - <1.2%
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Invalid Traffic rate - <0.77%

Solution
The Optiwave Media Managed Services included highly trained campaign managers who used the Inventory Lists feature to create blocklists and allowlists.

Approach
Optiwave Media provided the partner with the following:
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Our goal was to increase sales of Sparkling Ice water, so we created multiple placements based on audience targeting. Some impressions were targeted at Sparkling Ice buyers and some at non-Sparkling Ice buyers
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Media plan and schedule were followed, and the campaign ran for about 10 days. We adjusted the pacing only during the first few days, as we wanted to have enough data to optimize for other KPIs
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Two weeks later, we noticed that we were winning impressions at a lesser CPM, so we decided to further increase the CTR by utilizing the room available with blended CPM. Therefore, the CTR goal was raised in the campaign, followed by an increase in bids to cover the delivery
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Although the CTR was increasing day by day, the challenge was keeping the campaign delivering evenly every day. Nevertheless, we were able to manage that by regularly adjusting the bid and daily allocation
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The main challenge was to increase the overall Brand Safety to more than 95% while keeping the Invalid Traffic Rate below 0.77%
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IAS was used to measure brand safety, IVT, and viewability metrics. Brand Safety and IVT were maintained by targeting segments with IAS pre-bids
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Yet, we were still not meeting Brand Safety requirements, so we started blocking all domains that were negatively affecting Brand Safety. A second blocklist was also created to reduce IVT. Our Brand Safety was around 92%, and we wanted it to reach 95%
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We were not seeing many improvements with Brand Safety blocklist, so we created an allow list for domains with a high Brand Safety pass rate of 98%
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Delivery dropped after applying the allow list since it only contained around 200 domains, but CTR & Viewability exceeded the KPI, so we relaxed them along with increasing bid price to increase delivery
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By maintaining the same settings, we were eventually able to achieve the 95% Brand Safety goal by seeing drastic improvements in the Brand Safety % daily
We achieved the following outcome by the end of the campaign with the above approach
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Driving Sales effectively
Results
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Achieving a higher CTR and Viewability
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Meeting the 95% Brand safety goal
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Keeping IVT less than 0.77%
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Unique Reach at 35%
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Frequency stands at Average 3 per user