Modern Advertising Buyers Guide
Modern Advertising Buyers Guide
Modern Advertising Buyers Guide
Table of Contents
Coverage ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Partnerships ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Integrations ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Actionability ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
Collaborate .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Target.................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Budget .................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Create ................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Publish ...................................................................................................................................................................................7
Manage..................................................................................................................................................................................7
Insights .................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Optimization ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Reporting ............................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Governance .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Control ................................................................................................................................................................................. 10
Coverage
Partnerships and integrations
Partnerships
Your Advertising Platform should have comprehensive, up-to-date social network coverage. Relationships with
channel partners improve collaboration, address business requirements or concerns, and provide early access to
new offerings. Ask your vendor about its relationship management program with the networks most important to
you—and ask your social network account teams about it too.
Snapchat
LINE
Integrations
Your Advertising Platform should work seamlessly with the tools that your business uses, ensuring that teams and
departments are able to share information and collaborate without siloes. Ensure you have the right connectivity to
optimize your advertising processes.
Snapchat
LINE
Does your platform have measurement integrations with…? *reporting only Sprinklr Other
DoubleClick
Adobe Omniture
Google Analytics
Adjust*
MOAT*
Kochava*
Salesforce*
AppsFlyer*
Dataflow*
Actionability
Collaborate, target, budget, create, publish, and manage
Collaborate
Your internal teams need to work closely with one another as well as any external agency partners. Your
Advertising Platform should have collaboration tools to seamlessly work across teams with minimal back and forth
over email.
Multiple users can collaborate internally (within a single brand or within an agency)
Target
Your Advertising Platform should allow you to deliver the most relevant advertising to your potential customers.
Data shows that people are resistant to ads that don’t resonate, so make sure to choose a vendor that lets you
create target segments for the most effective advertising.
Twitter social audiences based on user’s intent derived by nested and/or logic
Persona-based segments in Twitter from their User Bio and AI enriched attributes of
professions, organizations, and interests
Budget
Your advertising budgets should not be wasted on ineffective ads or audience segments. Your Advertising Platform
should provide full control of your budgets across social channels and maximize the efficiency of your advertising
dollars.
Adjust ad strategy based on dark post comments (avoid low relevance scores)
Create
Creating ads should be a seamless experience without the repetition of manual tasks. Choose a solution that
allows you to store ad creatives, create multiple ads in one workflow, and automate the naming of your campaigns.
Allow users to create multiple different ad units per campaign in one workflow
Support the ability to dynamically create variants from multiple creative elements
Publish
Your brand needs publishing tools that help you ensure content is reaching the right audience and driving results.
Publishing tools should give you the flexibility to publish ads as dark posts or automate the process of boosting
organic content based on performance.
Manage
Campaign management requires detailed control of your ads, which can be a manual process. Your Advertising
Platform should reduce the time spent managing campaigns by automating time-intensive tasks such as changing
bids or pausing ads.
Insights
Optimization and reporting
Optimization
Advertising campaign success depends on setting the right business objectives and then optimizing your ads
based on performance. Your solution should have the ability to optimize your advertising budgets using advanced
AI to make optimization decisions.
Have the ability to show anticipated performance increases from using automated
optimizations
Optimize on 3rd party metrics (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, DCM, etc.)
Dynamically allocate budgets for the most efficient and effective performance
Automatically refresh creative to drive the best performance for a selected KPI
Give advertisers the ability to take optimization actions directly in a performance report
Give advertisers the ability to create KPI specific management views to perform
reporting and optimizations within a singular, unified view
Reporting
With the right tools for measuring the performance of your advertising campaigns, your brand can make data-
driven decisions and optimize in real time. Your Advertising Platform should have the right data to easily keep
teams informed.
Customizable dashboards
Columns
Bar chart
Pie chart
Stacked columns
Stacked bars
Line graph
Spline graph
Area graph
Bubble graph
Table
Counter
Funnel
Summary table
Post card
Text
Title
Governance
Control and storage
Control
Teams big and small need the ability to maintain governance and permissions across a platform that represents a
brand’s image through social channels. You need to ensure proper control of your brand and advertising accounts,
while giving teams access to the accounts, features, and content that they need to be effective.