Cross-Device Remarketing, Finally!
Advertising has come a long way since the days of Madison Avenue executives, in their glass towers coming up with the next great marketing campaign.
We are able to target people based on age, gender, location, interest, if they are in the market to buy your product, and so much more. Remarketing (showing ads to someone that has previously visited your site but has not converted) is one of the coolest targeting methods, but for a long time there has been something us advertisers have been waiting for… cross-device retargeting.
Cross-device remarketing has been on our wish-list since 2013, and it’s crazy to think it has taken this long for Google to enable it.
Why is cross-device remarketing important?
To try and put this in perspective, let me ask you a question. How many devices do you use a day? 2… 3…? I personally use 5:
• Work Laptop
• Home Laptop
• Mobile Phone
• Tablet
• Apple TV
And according to Google, this is standard for the average person.
Up until now, if you wanted to remarket to someone like me, you had to do it separately for mobile and for desktop, which makes it tougher to keep your story consistent; and because most online conversions start on one device and end on another (60%), telling a single story, with consistent and linear branding to your audience, is essential. This is now possible with cross-device remarketing, where – in an advertising sense – you are able to view someone as a single person, instead of Person A on mobile an Person A on desktop.
This also give us greater control with how often those potential customers see your message, as we can cap the frequency your ads are shown overall to that person, instead of separately on mobile and desktop, which had the possibility to show your ads too often.
A user has to be signed into their Google account for this to work, but considering Google now has over 1 billion monthly active users, that is a big pool for you to pull from.
Want to start cross-device remarketing or have questions? Feel free to reach out to info@strathcom.com.
