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CTR by itself is a poor indicator of ad performance and may be “completely unrelated, or even negatively correlated, to the other measures capturing metrics such as calls, directions and store visits” As mobile display campaigns are optimized for CTR, it negatively impacts secondary actions such as calls and directions Lower CTRs were often associated with the highest offline in-store visitation rates

if marketers and brands are relying exclusively on CTR they’re not getting an accurate picture of which ads actually deliver true engagement and are “working.” In addition the risk of inadvertent clicks (the “fat finger” problem) is relatively high, casting further doubt on CTR.

s more and more studies find, the News Feed is the most effective place for advertising on Facebook. While an ad can get noticed on the sidebar, Facebook users are much more likely to engage on News Feed.

News Feed ads, compared to the sidebar, have 44x higher clickthrough rates (CTR), 67 percent lower cost per click (CPC) and a 5x higher conversion rate.

Marin saw a 45 percent increase in mobile-only Facebook advertising spending from Q2 to Q3. Marin’s data also indicate that CTR is 187 percent higher on mobile, while CPCs for ads served on mobile News Feed are 22 percent lower.

cost-per-click (CPC) is down 2 percent year-over-year and 11 percent quarter-over-quarter, while clickthrough rate (CTR) rose 160 percent YoY and 20 percent QoQ. Facebook ad clicks overall were increased by 70 percent YoY and 48 percent QoQ. Impressions are up 40 percent YoY and 41 percent QoQ.

Comments on ad posts are up 16 percent YoY and 40 percent QoQ; likes are down 4 percent YoY and shares are up 2 percent. Engagement on video is up 25 percent YoY and 58 percent QoQ, showing that auto-play videos haven’t been as toxic as feared. Video plays are up 785 percent YoY and 134 percent QoQ after auto-play videos were implemented in Q4. Nearly 1/4 of all video plays on Facebook happen on Fridays. Posts with images still gain the most engagement, though the percentage of engagement for photo, link and text posts are all down YoY. Posts with links are up 77 percent YoY and 167 percent QoQ, as Facebook has made great strides in making link posts more visual. Most impressions in Q1 came on a Friday, with 15.7 percent of all impressions. Sunday is the least likely day to receive a comment on a post. Facebook referred revenue per visit is up 11 percent year-over-year and 2 percent quarter-over-quarter. Facebook produces 75 percent of traffic to retail sites, up 2 percent year-over-year and 13 percent quarter-over-quarter. Facebook refers 52 percent of social traffic to B2B high tech sites, up 34 percent year-over-year.

Part of the reason why advertisers spent more on Facebook, suggests Resolution Media, is that Facebook ads are cheaper: both impressions and clicks cost less on Facebook than on Twitter, so marketers are enticed to spend more. Plus, Facebook offered more extensive alpha and beta opportunities than Twitter.

Only 18% of clicks on Google search results go to paid results Less than 1% of clicks on Twitter.com go to paid results The best Facebook ads get less than 10% CTR (in fact the average is .05%) Etc, etc, etc.

Organic digital traffic (search, blog, links, etc) counts for 90% or more, with $5 billion of investment. While paid (affiliate, ppc, display, etc) sends the remaining 10% of traffic but gets 800% more budget at $45 billion.

1. Create A Content Strategy Not A Blog To develop a content strategy, make sure you have great answers to these questions: Are you going to be able to attract the right people? Why will they care about you? What are you doing to earn their interest? Why are thy going to share? Will they like and trust you more?

we looked at four post types: link posts, video posts, photo posts and status updates. When paid media is applied to an organic post, it can significantly increase Facebook metrics – from impressions (obviously), to conversions – so we removed all posts with paid impressions from the analysis. For both time periods, we took the total reach for each post type and divided it by the total post count for that post type to get the average reach per post type for the given time frame.

As expected, the average reach per post on status updates decreased after the algorithm change. Significantly.

Photo and video posts had no discernible change in reach after the algorithm change as we would expect. This is good news for marketers who already regularly integrate rich media into their post strategies as it is well documented that images and video generate greater fan engagement – and from this research, it looks clear that they will continue to do so.

many marketers and Facebook page admins are reporting that they’re seeing an extreme drop in organic reach — as much as 44 percent in some cases — and it has been going on for months.

Komfo, a social marketing firm, studied fan penetration among 5,000 Facebook pages of various sizes from August through November with the following findings: 42% decrease in fan penetration 31% increase in viral amplification 28% increase in clickthrough rate (CTR)

In a study of 689 posts of 21 large brand pages found that in the week of Facebook’s announcement, organic reach dipped an average of 44 percent. Tobin pointed out that the previously accepted reach percentage of 16 percent can now be as low as 3 percent.

Fewer marketers are using Instagram than other networks. 58% of marketers are on Instagram, compared to 94% on Twitter and 82% on Facebook. Naturally, less competition is going to translate to more opportunity. (Of course, as more marketers catch on, this will change.)

Instagram has a younger median age (27 years old), which may account for why users are more likely to interact with brands.

slick pics actually don’t produce nearly the same engagement rates as original “non-glossy pictures shot outside of a studio” – the agency’s description of what an “Instagram photo” should look like.

Make the most of these remarkable CTRs by decking out your App Store listing. Optimize for the App Store by writing a winning description, listing key features, including app screen shots, etc.

Instagram user demographics show them to be young millennials, with over half of users between the ages of 18-29.

In a study using over 400 global campaigns, ad recall was 2.8x higher on Instagram sponsored posts than other online advertising mediums. Snail Games saw a 339% lift in app installs using Instagram ad videos (as well as 5x higher in-app purchase rates).