07 E-commerce Advertising

e-commerce
Kenneth C. Laudon
Carol Guercio Traver
business. technology. society.
eighth edition
Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc.

Chapter 7
E-commerce Advertising

Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education
 advertise and brand products
 Figure out how to package advertising messages more directly with the videos,
 Figure out how to piggyback advertising onto user-generated videos and try to
measure the impact on sales
 Figure out how to show ad while video plays without destroying viewing experience
Video Ads: Shoot, Click, Buy
Class Discussion
 What advantages do video ads have over traditional
banner ads?
 Where do sites such as YouTube fit in to a
marketing strategy featuring video ads?
 What are some of the challenges and risks of
placing video ads on the Web?
 Do you think Internet users will ever develop
“blindness” towards video ads as well?

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Learning Objectives
 Identify the major forms of online
marketing communications
 Understand the costs and benefits of
online marketing communications
 Discuss the ways in which a Web site
can be used as a marketing
communications tool

Marketing Communications
 Two main purposes:
Sales—promotional sales communications
Branding—branding communications
 Online marketing communications
Takes many forms
Online ads, e-mail, public relations, Web sites
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Online Advertising
 Paid message on Web site, online service or
other interactive medium, such as
interactive messaging
 $31.3 billion in 2011 (see next Fig.)
 Advantages:
 Internet is where audience is moving
 Ad targeting : Ability to target ads to narrow
segments and track performance in almost real time
 Greater opportunities for interactivity
 Disadvantages:
 Cost vs. benefit
 How to adequately measure results
 Supply of good venues to display ads
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Online Advertising from 2003–2015
Figure 7.1, Page 472
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SOURCES: Based on data from eMarketer, Inc., 2011a

Forms of Online Advertisements
 Display ads (banners and pop-ups)
 Rich media ads
 Video ads
 Search engine advertising
 Mobile and local advertising
 Referrals (affiliate relationship marketing)
 E-mail marketing
 Online catalogs
 Social network, blog, app, and game advertising
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Display Ads
 Banner ads
 Rectangular box linking to advertiser’s Web site
 Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) guidelines
 e.g., full banner is 468 x 60 pixels, 13K
 Pop-up ads
 Appear without user calling for them
 Provoke negative consumer sentiment
 Twice as effective as normal banner ads, since
users unintentionally click on the ads while trying
to close them
 Pop-under ads: Open beneath browser window
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Rich Media Ads
 Use Flash, DHTML, Java, JavaScript
 About 5% of all online advertising
expenditures
 Tend to be more about branding
 Boost brand awareness by 10%
 Interstitials
 Superstitials
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Video Ads
 Fastest growing form of online advertising
 IAB standards
 Linear video ad
 Non-linear video ad
 In-banner video ad
 In-text video ad
 Ad placement
 Advertising networks, e.g. DoubleClick
 Advertising exchanges
 Banner swapping
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Summarized in next
Table

Search Engine Advertising
 One of fastest growing (see next Fig.) and most
effective forms of online marketing communications
 46% of online ad spending in 2011
 Types:
 Paid inclusion or rank (see next 2nd
Fig.)
 Inclusion in search results
 Sponsored link areas
 Keyword advertising (see next 3rd
Fig.)
 Merchants buy keywords through bidding for ranking and visibility of
their ads on search result page
 Ads are ranked in terms of money paid by advertiser and site’s popularity
 e.g., Google AdWords, Yahoo PrecisionMatch, Microsoft adCenter
 Network keyword advertising (context advertising)
 e.g., Google AdSense, Yahoo ContentMatch
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Search Engine Advertising (cont.)
 Nearly ideal targeted marketing
 Social search
 Google’s +1, Facebook’s Like
 Issues:
 Disclosure of paid inclusion and placement practices: 62% users
unaware of difference between paid and unpaid search engine
results
 Link farms: group of Web sites that link to one another, thus
boosting their ranking in search engines
 Content farms: companies that generate large volumes of textual
content for multiple Web sites designed to attract viewers and
search engines
 Click fraud:
 Competitor hires third parties to fraudulently click on competitor ads to
drive up costs
 Site publisher fraudulently clicks on ads posted on their sites to increase
ad revenue
 Fraudsters call up a search results page where their competitor’ ads
appear, and do not click on the ads, resulting in low ad popularity rank,
which can result in their being pushed down the rank order of ads
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Mobile and Local Advertising
 91 million users access Internet from
smartphones, tablets
 Messaging
 Especially effective for local advertising
 Display ads
 Search
 Video
 Local advertising
 Enabled by mobile platform with location services
 60% of mobile advertising and to increase to 70% by
2015
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Sponsorships and Referrals
 Sponsorships
 Paid effort to tie advertiser’s name to particular
information, event, and venue in a way that
reinforces brand in positive yet not overtly
commercial manner
 E.g., WebMd.com offers Philips to describe their
home defibrillators on WebMd site
 Referrals
 Affiliate relationship marketing
 Permits firm to put logo or banner ad on another
firm’s Web site from which users of that site can
click through to affiliate’s site
 E.g., Amazon’s logo posted onto personal Web sites
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E-mail Marketing and the
Spam Explosion
 Direct e-mail marketing
 Low cost, primary cost is purchasing addresses, 5-20
cents/address, depending on how targeted the list is
 Much cheaper compared to traditional direct mail: $5-
$10 per 1,000 VS $500-$700 per 1,000
 Spam: Unsolicited commercial e-mail
 Approximately 75% of all e-mail
 Efforts to control spam:
 Technology (filtering software): only partly effective
 Government regulation (CAN-SPAM and state laws): largely
unsuccessful
 Voluntary self-regulation by industries (DMA): on-going)
 Volunteer efforts
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Percentage of E-mail That Is Spam
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SOURCE: Symantec MessageLabs, 2010.

Online Catalogs
 Equivalent of paper-based catalogs
 Was popular in early years, but quickly
went out because pages took so long to
load
 Graphics-intense; use increasing with
increase in broadband use
 Two types:
 Full-page spreads, e.g., Landsend.com
 Grid displays (more popular), e.g., Amazon.com
 In general, online and offline catalogs
complement each other
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Social Advertising
 Social advertising
 Uses social graph to communicate brand images
and promote sales
 Adopts Many-to-many model
 Social network advertising
 Social network sites are advertising platforms
 Corporate Facebook pages
 Twitter ads
 Promoted tweets: advertiser pay to show their tweets in users’
search results as “promoted”
 Promoted trends: advertisers pay to move their hashtags to
the top of Twitter’s Trends List
 Promoted accounts: advertiser pay to have their branded
account moved to the top of their “Who to Follow”
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Social Advertising
 Blog advertising
 Blogs difficult to monetize
 Audience size: Few blogs attract large audiences
 Subject matter: Most blogs are highly personal and idiosyncratic
 Search engines have difficulty indexing
 Game advertising
 In-game billboard display ads: e.g., Honda’s CR-Z billboard ad
in Car Town
 Branded virtual goods: Placing brand-name products within
games, e.g., 7-11’s FarmVille virtual drink
 Sponsored banners, e.g., Nat Geo logo on Bola
 Branded grames (advergames): Sponsored games created by
companies to promote brands, e.g., Coca-Cola, Burger King
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Behavioral Targeting
 Interest-based advertising (behavioral targeting):
Using search queries and clicks on results to
target consumers
 Social marketing: Using personal profiles, posts,
Likes, and photos to target consumers
 Personal information sold to third party
advertisers, who deliver ads based on profile
 Search engine queries, browsing history, offline data
 Ad exchanges
 Online, real-time auction where data aggregators sell personal
tracking info to advertisers
 Enable advertisers to retarget ads at users as they browse
 16% online ads are targeted
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Mixing Offline and Online
Marketing Communications
 Most successful marketing campaigns
incorporate both online and offline tactics
 Offline marketing
 Drive traffic to Web sites
 Increase awareness and build brand equity
 Consumer behavior increasingly multi-
channel
 60% consumers research online before buying offline
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Online Marketing Metrics: Lexicon
 Measuring audience size or market share
 Impressions– no. of times an ad is served
 Click-through rate (CTR) – % times an ad is clicked
 View-through rate (VTR) – % times an ad is not clicked
immediately but Web site is visited within 30 days
 Hits – no. of http requests
 Page views – no. of pages viewed
 Stickiness (duration) – average length of stay at a Web site
 Unique visitors – no. of unique visitors in a period
 Loyalty – no. of pages viewed, frequency of single user visits
to the site, % customers who return to site in a year
 Reach – % site visitors who are potential buyers or % total
market buyers who buy at a site
 Recency – time elapsed since last action, e.g., site visit or
purchase, taken by a buyer
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Online Marketing Metrics (cont.)
 Conversion of visitor
to customer
 Acquisition rate
 Conversion rate
 Browse-to-buy-ratio
 View-to-cart ratio
 Cart conversion rate
 Checkout conversion rate
 Abandonment rate
 Retention rate
 Attrition rate
 Social networking
 User insights
 Interaction insights
 E-mail metrics
 Open rate
 Delivery rate
 Click-through rate
(e-mail)
 Bounce-back rate
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An Online Consumer Purchasing Model
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How Well Does Online
Advertising Work?
 Ultimately measured by ROI on ad campaign
 Highest click-through rates: Search engine ads,
permission e-mail campaigns
 Rich media, video interaction rates high
 Online channels compare favorably with traditional
 Most powerful marketing campaigns use multiple
channels, including online, catalog, TV, radio,
newspapers, stores
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Comparative Returns on Investment
SOURCES: Based on data from
eMarketer, Inc. 2010c, Direct
Marketing Association (DMA),
2009, authors’ estimates.
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The Costs of Online Advertising
 Pricing models
 Barter : exchange of ad space for something of equal value
 Cost per thousand (CPM)
 Cost per click (CPC)
 Cost per action (CPA) : pays only when user performs a specific
action, e.g., registration or purchase
 Online revenues only
 Sales can be directly correlated with online marketing efforts
 Both online/offline revenues
 Offline purchases cannot always be directly related to online
campaign
 In general, online marketing more expensive on
CPM basis, but more effective in producing sales
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Web Site Activity Analysis
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The Web Site as a Marketing
Communications Tool
 Web site as extended online advertisement
 Domain name: An important role
 Search engine optimization (SEO):
 Search engines registration: Register with as many
search engines as possible
 Keywords in Web site description
 Metatag and page title keywords
 Links to other sites by placing advertising to your
site, create Web sites with links to your main site,
and entering into affiliate relationships with other
sites
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Web Site Functionality
 Main factors in effectiveness of interface
 Utility
 Ease of use
 Credibility and trust
 Top factors in credibility of Web sites (see
next Fig.)
 Design look
 Information design/structure
 Information focus
 Organization is important for first-time users,
but declines in importance
 Information content becomes major factor attracting
further visits
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Factors in the
Credibility of
Web Sites
SOURCE: Based on data from Fogg,
et al., 2003.
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Table 7.9, Page 522
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