Adam T. Sutton

Cut Down on Your Ad Networks: You Might Be Stretched Too Thin

April 24th, 2008

Marketers buying on multiple ad networks might be stretched a little too thin. Focusing on fewer networks can help your response rates.

Jocelyn Griffing, Senior Vice President, Director of Online Media, ICON, cut down on the number of networks she used regularly from eight to four over the last year. Now she says campaigns that used to attract a 2% response rate are getting 9%.

“We’re paring back on the number of networks to be more strategic and closely knit with the ones we work with,” she says. “We probably work with four, maybe five pretty heavily. I’d like it to be three.”

Although not all of that boost is due to increased focus.

“To some degree we got smarter. We optimized in a different way. We started putting in some different processes. We played around with frequency capping,” she says.

Depending on your strategy, reach might be more important than response. But if you’re hunting for more clicks and you’re casting a wide net over six or seven networks, you may want to cull the herd and focus optimization efforts on the remainder.

Adam T. Sutton

About Adam T. Sutton

Adam T. Sutton, Senior Reporter, MarketingSherpa
Adam generates content for MarketingSherpa's Email and Inbound Marketing newsletters. His years of experience in interviewing marketers and conveying their insights has spanned topics such as search marketing, social media marketing, ecommerce, email and more. Adam previously powered the content behind MarketingSherpa's Search and Consumer-marketing newsletters and carries that experience into his new role. Today, in addition to writing articles, he contributes content to the MarketingExperiments and MarketingSherpa blogs, as well as MECLABS webinars, workshops and summits.

Prior to joining MarketingSherpa, Adam was the Managing Editor at the Mequoda group. There he created content and promotions for the company's daily email newsletter and managed its schedule.

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