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Creative Advertising Insights from comScore Ad Metrix

John Triggs, Senior Product Manager, Advertising Solutions

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Recent Research Study Conducted by OPA and comScore

Analyzed:
 Assessed 80 big branding
campaigns across 200 of
highest trafficked sites
Measured:
 Searches conducted
related to advertisers’ brands

 Site visitation
traffic driven to advertisers’ site
“Marketers recognize that consumers are spending
nearly 40% of their media time online, making it an  Consumer spending
ideal place to deliver their brand messages." e-commerce transactions related
to advertisers’ brands
- Pam Horan, President of Online Publishers Association

For more information: http://www.online-publishers.org/media/1059_W_TheSilentClick_OPA.pdf

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“The Silent Click” Study Results:
Consumers exposed to display ads … more engaged, spend more

Study Results:
 1 of 5 conduct related searches and 1 of 3 visit the brands’ sites
 Spent > 50% more time than average visitor on sites & consumed more pages
 Spent 10% more money online overall, and …
significantly more on product categories related to the advertised brands
 Higher income audiences visited the advertisers sites

What This Means:

“Remember why you’re advertising…You are not advertising for clicks…What you’re
advertising for is to sell me stuff or change perception, and that’s what we need to be
measuring against.”

– Carrie Frolich, Managing Director Digital, Mediaedge: cia

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Ingredients to Building Brands Online Through Display Advertising

 Research, Research, Research

– Know where to sell your ads
– Understand core audience of various sites
 Creative Design
– Create ads that fit into the web pages on which they’re placed
– Monitor and optimize your designs by site
 Effective Copy
– Catch the viewer's attention with a creative ideas and well-written words
– Offer strong call-to-action
 Solid Landing Page
– Have a great website to complement your great product
– Make sure you convert customers who land on your site after clicking the ad

Access to great research & competitive insights can help you accomplish your goals.

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Today’s Agenda

 “The Silent Click” – Building Brands Online Study

 Ingredients to Building Brands Online Through Display Advertising

 Display Advertising Case Studies (May 2009)

– Summer Blockbuster Movies
– Allergy Medications
– Retail Home & Garden

 Creative Advertising Insights from comScore Ad Metrix

 Ad Metrix Features & Highlights

 Questions?

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Case Study #1 – Summer Blockbuster Movies

Movie advertisers advertise online to raise brand

awareness and build loyal communities….

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Summer Movies – May Display Advertising Results

Top 5 Movies

Next 5 Movies

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Summer Movies – Does Online Advertising Yield Box Office Success?

Top 5 Movies YTD $

Angels & Demons $132 M
Drag Me To Hell $42 M
Star Trek $253 M How much of a factor was
Night At The Museum 2 $172 M online display advertising in this
$566 M box office difference?
The Hangover $236 M
Total $835 M
Next 5 Movies YTD $
Terminator Salvation $124 M
Land of the Lost $49 M
Conclusion: Imagine That $15M
Movie studios are clearly using
display advertising to build their Ghosts of Girlfriends Past $55 M
brands within the online community. Dance Flick $26 M
Total $269 M
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Summer Movies – Star Trek Advertising Summary

May Advertising Summary:

 208 different advertising creative
(i.e. different sizes, formats, calls to action, etc.)
Release Month
 Almost entirely Flash-based
(showing clips from movie & quotes from
Super Bowl
critics)

 Ran across 78 top publishers

(MySpace, Yahoo! Movies, MovieTickets.com,
Fandango, Cartoon Network, ESPN, YouTube)

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Summer Movies – May Advertising Summary

 Over 50 films and DVDs advertised display ads online in May

 Advertised over 300 major publishers (across over 1,300 segments or channels)
 Top 5 publishers where movies advertised on:

Top 5 Publishers % Impressions

YouTube.com 22.5%
MySpace 15.5%
Fox Sports 6.7%
Fandango 2.0%
Yahoo! Movies 1.7%
Total # Movie Ad Impressions 608 M

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Case Study #2 – Allergy Medications

Perfect time to
promote brands
and sell products.

April showers bring May flowers…

… and seasonal allergies.

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 Allergy Medications - Advertising Trends

Display advertising trend among five allergy drug products in last 6 months:

Monthly Display Advertising Volume (US)

 Allergy manufacturers
70,000
Zyrtec increased advertising in

60,000 Claritin Spring (allergy season)

Total Display Ad Impressions (in 000s)

Benadryl
50,000 Nasonex

Xyzal  Over 25% of US Internet users

40,000
exposed to online allergy drug
30,000
display ads in May

20,000

10,000

0
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

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 Allergy Medications – Where Are They Advertising Online?

Top 5 websites (May 2009) where allergy drug companies place most of their
display ads to reach mass audiences:

Zyrtec Claritin Benadryl Nasonex Xyzal

Univision.com Yahoo! Sites Yahoo! Sites Facebook WeatherBug

AOL LLC WeatherBug AOL LLC AOL LLC Microsoft Sites

Yahoo! Sites Viacom Digital The Weather Channel Yahoo! Sites Everyday Health

AccuWeather Sites Disney Online WebMD Health Fox Interactive Media Wunderground.com

The Weather Channel The Weather Channel Fox Interactive Media Microsoft Sites CNN

Common websites:

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Allergy Medications – Catching the Viewer’s Attention

Actual advertising creatives & key messages of five allergy drug products:

Non-drowsy
Liquid Power
(54 days: Apr 6 – May 30)

Works faster
than Claritin
(102 days: Feb 17 – May 30)

Get Pollen
Alert Widget
(90 days: Mar 01 – May 30)

Prescription
Medication
(128 days: Jan 22 – May 30)

Prescription
Medication
(52 days: Apr 08 – May 30)

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Allergy Medications – Calls-to-Action

Call to Action Ads

Claritin – 10 Free Days

Zyrtec – Free Allergy Forecast

Benadryl – Learn More

Nasonex - $10 savings

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Case Study #3 – Retail Home & Garden Category

Retailers more heavily promote ―outside-the-home‖

products in summer months

 Retailers advertise products for popular summer activities …

… grilling, painting, lawn mowing, gardening, entertaining

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Retail Home & Garden - Top Lowe’s Display Ad, Memorial Day

Creative Details: 728x90 leaderboard, generic flash, May 20-26, 2009

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Retail Home & Garden – Convert Customers with Solid Landing Page

Click above display ad to land on destination page below

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Creative Advertising Insights from comScore Ad Metrix

 The Internet is an ideal place to build brands

– ―The Silent Click‖ – display ad impact on user engagement & online spend
– Motion pictures – correlation between box office success and online presence
 Many different industries utilize the online channel & display advertising
for brand building
– Media & Entertainment  Movies
– Health  Drugs & Medications  Allergy Medications
– Retail  Home & Garden
 Know what your competitors are doing
– Drug manufacturers use variety ―call to action‖ strategies to sell products
 Identify the right times to expand or reduce display advertising
– Allergy drug manufacturers – allergy season
– Movie advertisers – Super Bowl, movie release month
– Home & garden retailers – spring & summer

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Creative Advertising Insights from comScore Ad Metrix

 Find the right places to promote your products

– Allergy medications – weather sites
– Movies – YouTube, MySpace, Fandango
 Get creative
– Benadryl – Pollen Alert Widget; Zyrtec – free allergy forecast
– Star Trek – Super Bowl, movie clips
 Don’t forget the calls to action
– Claritin - 10 free days; Nasonex - $10 savings
– Lowe's - Buy one get one free, mail-in rebate
– Star Trek - Click to get tickets & showtimes
 Convert the customers you attract with your display ads
– Lowe’s Outdoor Living landing page
Enhance Your Outdoor Space (weekend projects)
Get Inspired! (weekend play)

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Ad Metrix – A Comprehensive View of Online Advertising Landscape

For Agencies and Advertisers

 Understand where your competitors’ are advertising
 Gain insight into actual display ads and creative messages used in
competitors’ campaigns down to the product level
 Evaluate display advertising strategies using sophisticated metrics
 Optimize advertising placement strategies by understanding ad clutter
demographics and GRP metrics on specific publisher sites

For Publishers
 Identify which companies advertise with your competitors but not with you
 Understand how well you perform relative to your competition
 Learn how your website performs relative to your competition on key
advertising metrics, such as ad clutter, exposed UVs, demos and more

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Ad Metrix Highlights

 Precise.
Uses patented proprietary tracking technology to identify the specific person
within the household who sees each advertisement.

 Comprehensive.
Tracks all ads delivered to a panelist’s browser—static, dynamic, rich media, ads
in widgets and ads behind secure pages.

 Granular.
Offers visibility into category, company and brand level advertisements and
provides details on creative messages used in specific campaigns.

 Insightful.
Includes the full range of advertising metrics, such as expenditures, category
share, ad clutter, exposed unique visitors, frequency, reach, GRPs and
publisher-level demographics.

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Questions?

 Thank you!

 Feel free to email John Triggs at: jtriggs@comscore.com

 For more information on Ad Metrix, please visit:

http://comscore.com/Products_Services/Product_Index/Ad_Metrix/

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