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Speaker:Well, hello and welcome to another edition
of the E-Commerce Evolution podcast.
Speaker:I'm your host, Brett Curry, CEO of OMG
Commerce. So we've had the privilege,
Speaker:my agency, we've had a pro. You're
working with some really cool brands.
Speaker:So Native Arctic. I'm going to break
down an Arctic case study here in a bit.
Speaker:Dude wipes, just doing a really cool
campaign right now for little dudes.
Speaker:They're kind of their
answer to baby wipes,
Speaker:but cooler called Little Dudes.
Speaker:And so we have a full
service Amazon agencies.
Speaker:We'd manage Amazon, we do meta, we
do email, we do retention. But man,
Speaker:YouTube,
Speaker:YouTube is this piece that people are
missing and the people don't understand
Speaker:and the people don't exactly
know how to leverage.
Speaker:And so we've had the privilege,
Speaker:we manage about a hundred million dollars
a year and ad spend want some awards,
Speaker:and I share that to say all the strategies
that I'm going to walk through here
Speaker:are based on data, real appliance,
Speaker:real experiences that are going to
break this down for you. But here's the
Speaker:real issue,
Speaker:why more people are using YouTube.
Speaker:It's different. Not the same as
Meta, not the same as TikTok.
Speaker:It's very, very different
from Amazon advertising.
Speaker:It's just a different beast.
Speaker:And so if we want to understand
how can we use YouTube to influence
Speaker:shopping behavior,
Speaker:how can we use YouTube to get people to
be aware of our brand, to buy our brand?
Speaker:They don't understand how people are
using. How are people using YouTube?
Speaker:And it really comes down to four key
activities or modes that people are
Speaker:in when they're running YouTube
ads. So there's searching,
Speaker:there's streaming, there's
scrolling, and there's shopping.
Speaker:So kind of break this down a little bit.
Speaker:YouTube is the number two
search engine behind Google.
Speaker:So more people do searches every day
on YouTube and on any search engine
Speaker:including AI search other than
YouTube people trying to learn stuff,
Speaker:find stuff,
Speaker:that sort of thing.
Scrolling right on the YouTube mobile app
Speaker:or if we're on YouTube
shorts, we're scrolling.
Speaker:That's the mode that's most like other
social platforms. Then there's streaming.
Speaker:How many of you guys watch YouTube on
connected TV is on your TV screen or your
Speaker:kids do? I know for my kids,
we let them have TV time.
Speaker:Several of them just want to watch
their favorite YouTube creators.
Speaker:They're not watching cable, they're
not watching any of that stuff.
Speaker:They want to watch YouTube on
tv and then they're shopping.
Speaker:We're researching products. We can
actually discover products on YouTube.
Speaker:We could click it, buy
product directly from YouTube.
Speaker:So it's really these four modes,
but they're all different.
Speaker:And so we again understand
how we interrupt people.
Now, this is kind of crazy.
Speaker:I've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker:This number has been changing over the
last couple of years. So this is market
Speaker:share of streaming platforms
specifically on connected
Speaker:TVs.
Speaker:YouTube has been the leader for two
years and the lead is extending.
Speaker:So even last year was 10%. Now
it's 12.4% therapeutic Disney,
Speaker:they'll be paramount. They're bid
NBC, they're crushing Netflix.
Speaker:Take all the smaller ones
combined. YouTube is bigger.
Speaker:This is based on time spent on TV screen.
Speaker:So if you want to influence
people through tv,
Speaker:you use YouTube. And so this element
though, this element of YouTube,
Speaker:it's way more like TV because it's on tv.
Speaker:So you can't just take your meta
ad and translate it directly here.
Speaker:You can't just take your TikTok, add it,
translate it directly to a TV street.
Speaker:It needs to be a little
bit different. Also,
Speaker:YouTube is the number
one podcast platform.
Speaker:My guess is if you've
got a podcast you love,
Speaker:they're on YouTube and that's maybe
where you watch. I have a podcaster.
Speaker:I run the E-Commerce Evolution
podcast talk to a lot of podcasters.
Speaker:And most of the people that I talk to
say that their YouTube viewership for
Speaker:their podcast is growing and audio in
some cases is staying kind of flat.
Speaker:So YouTube is a podcast platform and
we're in a different frame of mind.
Speaker:We're watching a podcast. It's long
form. We're in it for the whole episode,
Speaker:most likely great place to advertise
someone, show them new product.
Speaker:This is also a little bit different,
right? I'm a huge TikTok fan.
Speaker:My buddy Josh ha is going to
be talking about TikTok shops.
Speaker:There's a difference though, between
YouTube creators and TikTok creators.
Speaker:You may be served an ad on TikTok or
see a video just because of its viral
Speaker:nature. You've never followed that creator
before. You may never see them again,
Speaker:but you see that ad or
that video with YouTube,
Speaker:it's usually creators that
we've got a relationship,
Speaker:this is a creator that we've watched
5, 10, 15 videos. We're subscribing,
Speaker:we really get to know them. So
it's a different trust factor.
Speaker:So 98% of people say they trust
YouTube influencers more than
Speaker:any other influencer
on any other platform.
Speaker:But ultimately the reason YouTube is
different and the way we have to approach
Speaker:is there are different creatives.
So the way we structure our ads,
Speaker:it's different because there's
different modes and different screens,
Speaker:different campaign structure,
different algorithm, different bidding.
Speaker:All of that does not sponsor product
ads, not even sponsor brand video.
Speaker:This is something different. And then
this is where a lot of people lose heart,
Speaker:give up, abandon ship, say YouTube is
not for me. It's because of measurement.
Speaker:It's a different beast to measure.
Speaker:You got to kind of be ready for that and
up for the task or else it's not time
Speaker:to look at YouTube,
Speaker:but I believe it's the most powerful
growth engine your likely missing right
Speaker:now. Can you give a couple
examples here, Dr. Squa,
Speaker:anybody blown away by their valuation,
we saw that Unilever 1.5 billion,
Speaker:freaking crazy. So we did
not work directly with them,
Speaker:but Raindrop agency close partner of ours,
Speaker:they did all the original Dr. Squat
ads and one of the original ones won
Speaker:YouTube out of the year in 2020.
Speaker:Just found out recently that
during that hypergrowth stage
Speaker:when Dr. Squash was
crushing it on YouTube,
Speaker:their media buyers were
following my YouTube course.
Speaker:So I put out a YouTube course with Ezra
Firestone, he's speaking later today.
Speaker:And the guy told me just a few
months ago, I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker:we were consuming your course and just
doing what you said. And so I was like,
Speaker:oh, sweet. Would love to get
some equity, maybe some shares.
Speaker:But that didn't not work out native.
Speaker:We didn't work directly with them.
So they were a client for about six years.
Speaker:When we started with them, they were
about a hundred billion dollars in sales.
Speaker:Modi a founder, awesome
guy. He tweeted recently,
Speaker:beginning of this year they
did a billion dollars in sales.
Speaker:Last year ne did on
about 20% EBITDA margin.
Speaker:So 200 million in profits,
Speaker:they bought native for like one
23 million that paid off for them.
Speaker:That was a good investment
then just pretty crazy.
Speaker:But we mapped out their YouTube
strategies for retail and for D two
Speaker:C and then boom, my city
Joseph, like I said,
Speaker:you'll hear from Measure Firestone
later today is one of the keynotes.
Speaker:We ran all their Google their YouTube
but still do for maybe 10 plus years.
Speaker:We launched them on Amazon,
so they were not on Amazon.
Speaker:We built out storefront listings,
Amazon ads strategy did all of that.
Speaker:They did 6 million in sales the
first year on Amazon and it did not
Speaker:cannibalize their D two C
business very much. But the
Speaker:reason that all happened is because
they're spending a lot of meta spending a
Speaker:lot on YouTube.
Speaker:They had this demand
creation engine flowing.
Speaker:There's a lot of people that wanted boom
and a lot of people that wanted boom,
Speaker:went to Amazon, didn't see it
there and bought something else.
Speaker:So we were able to capture that.
Speaker:But really this speaks to just the
power of building a brand off of Amazon.
Speaker:Now, can you win in this scenario?
Speaker:So you want to win on
best wheeled coolers.
Speaker:I'm a big fan of the
coolers with wheels, right?
Speaker:You got to lug in something around
that's just full of ice and drinks.
Speaker:You got to use wheels. Can
you win in this scenario?
Speaker:Can you win on a purely search basis?
Speaker:I think you can and I think you should,
Speaker:but I also think slugging it
out in the SERP can feel like a
Speaker:knife fight sometimes versus is really
brutal. It's just brutal and it's harm,
Speaker:right? So you got to do that, but I
think it's even better to do this.
Speaker:I'm going to break down
Arctic in a minute,
Speaker:but what if you showed people how
awesome your coolers are and they end up
Speaker:looking for you on Amazon
now they largely skip your
Speaker:competitors. You dominate this
resolve and now you win the sale.
Speaker:So ideally you want to do both,
Speaker:but I think you gained real advantage
when people are coming to Amazon looking
Speaker:for you. Totally changes again.
Speaker:So you have three keys to
make YouTube work for you.
Speaker:You're going to break those down
right now. We're really some examples.
Speaker:Watch some ads and have some fun.
Speaker:But the first part is you got
to nail your creative strategy.
Speaker:This is really where the
battle is won or lost.
Speaker:It's with your creatives and there's
a few things to consider here. So I'll
Speaker:go a little bit technical,
Speaker:I'm going to give you a formula and
then I'm want to watch some as I think
Speaker:that's the best way to
learn. So what's interesting,
Speaker:I know the trend on meta
has been shorter ads,
Speaker:although I hear that's kind of maybe
reversing with the Andromeda release,
Speaker:but YouTube, 45 seconds
up to three minutes,
Speaker:that's the sweet spot.
Speaker:We've never seen 15 second
ads really crush it.
Speaker:The shorter ads though, they
usually don't drive conversions.
Speaker:People need to stick with the
video, see your product in action,
Speaker:get all the features and benefits and
then they're more likely to purchase.
Speaker:So a little bit longer.
Speaker:There are elements of your ads that can
feel like a meta ad and elements that
Speaker:feel like tv, I'll show
you, you'll see that.
Speaker:And then you want both the vertical as
on by 16 for shorts and mobile and then
Speaker:16 by nine for tv,
Speaker:desktop and also part of mobile.
And I will say the core of YouTube,
Speaker:the foundation of YouTube
is that 16 by nine video
Speaker:because 50 to 6% of views are on tv.
Speaker:Sometimes we're watching a longer
form piece of content on our phone,
Speaker:we're still pooling it in landscape mode.
Speaker:And so that 69 is core
for YouTube. Alright,
Speaker:here's create a formula.
Speaker:I don't like to get super formulaic
because I think sometimes you got to
Speaker:do something that fits for the product
and you don't want all your work to be
Speaker:just a copycat of somebody else, but
these are elements that have to be there.
Speaker:So first of all, the hook.
Speaker:This is where we spend the most
time word with a creative partner.
Speaker:We're reviewing the performance of
a campaign. How strong is that hook?
Speaker:You got five seconds, right?
Speaker:Five seconds and then that magic skip
ad button pops up. Some people are
Speaker:hovering over the button to
press that they hate you for
Speaker:interrupting them, but you have
five seconds to win 'em over.
Speaker:You have five seconds to make
them say, well, a little bit,
Speaker:maybe just maybe this ad is worth
watching. We've all done that, right?
Speaker:We're all like we're ready to skip.
Speaker:Maybe I'll give this another 10 seconds
and see what's here. And by the way,
Speaker:that is actually the point of the hook.
Speaker:The point of the hook is not to close
the deal. The hook can close the deal.
Speaker:The point of the hook is to get them
to keep watching and to stay to get the
Speaker:right person to keep washing. So
logos, important product demo.
Speaker:We want to see the product in action,
Speaker:either an actual demonstration
of the product. So I'm using it,
Speaker:I'm using the cookware,
I'm putting on the makeup,
Speaker:or you're showing the end state of
what your product will do. Taking a
Speaker:supplement out. I feel better now I'm
running, now I'm lifting my kids up,
Speaker:whatever. So show me the product of
action. Some kind of social proof.
Speaker:It could be reviews, could be actual UGC,
Speaker:but I need some kind of social
proof that other people like me,
Speaker:I've used this product and it's
worked for them. Got bust objections.
Speaker:I'm from Missouri. Anybody else here
from the state of Missouri, right? St.
Speaker:Louis from Springfield. Yeah.
Speaker:So Missouri for those know the
show me state and it's very
Speaker:charming. Our state animal is the mule.
Speaker:So we are all a bunch of
donkeys out there in Missouri.
Speaker:But the key there is like
you've got to show us.
Speaker:So we're not going to believe you
right there. We all have objections.
Speaker:And I think when you're picturing
your customer in your mind,
Speaker:think about people from Missouri, right?
They're stubborn,
Speaker:you got to show them or else
am not going to believe you.
Speaker:And so we got to overcome
those objections.
Speaker:Objections left unaddressed
will prevent someone from
Speaker:clicking and taking action.
Speaker:They just won't do it if there's
still objections that are there.
Speaker:And then finally some kind of call to
action, some kind of offer, some kind of,
Speaker:hey, do this next thing.
And if you don't have that,
Speaker:people will not take action. So
here is something to keep in mind.
Speaker:How many you guys are
advertising on meta right now?
Speaker:How many guys advertising on
TikTok? Alright, yeah, great.
Speaker:So your best social ads on meta
on TikTok, you take those videos,
Speaker:those may become your
best books for YouTube.
Speaker:So that's one way to leverage those ads.
Now I'm going to show you a few ads.
Speaker:I'm going to show you three
ads. This first was for Arctic.
Speaker:I'm going to break down a case study.
Speaker:We helped Arctic grow
in Walmart with YouTube,
Speaker:but it also lifted Amazon D, you see?
Speaker:But this is one style of video.
Speaker:This is a creator that I'm going
to play the whole video since this
Speaker:works.
Speaker:This is the 65 chord ultra.
Speaker:Its off our dick goer and I actually put
it to the test and in quite a few fun
Speaker:different ways. And
this thing is ultra top.
Speaker:I am April Wilkerson and I'm a builder.
I am always running and gunning,
Speaker:whether it be in my work or in my hobby.
Speaker:And I put a high value on function,
durability, and high quality.
Speaker:And that's why I resonate with ATech
here because they are overbuilt
Speaker:but not overpriced.
Speaker:So that video crush, this
was a shorter version,
Speaker:straight to the shorter version
because that's easier for presentation.
Speaker:Longer versions actually worked better.
What did you like about that ad?
Speaker:So this would be audience participation
bar. What did you like about that ad?
Speaker:What's that concise tagline? I like
that overbuilt not over press. Yeah,
Speaker:Brandon, immediate action.
Like how this right in,
Speaker:right in the action. And that's an
excellent point. Learn this from Google.
Speaker:Years ago they say, Hey, if
you're building a YouTube ad,
Speaker:think like a movie trailer, right?
Speaker:This is not a normal story arc where
there's like a slow buildup and then it
Speaker:builds to a climax. No, no, no.
Think about a movie trailer.
Speaker:What happens at the beginning of a
James Bond movie trailer explosion.
Speaker:He's jumping out of a plane,
Speaker:something crazy's happening and then
maybe it'll back up and tell the story and
Speaker:then something intense again, right?
You don't to have special effects,
Speaker:you don't have to be change bond,
but start high immediate action.
Speaker:Somebody else. What else did you like?
Maria, sir, it's a single problem.
Speaker:Durability. Yeah. Really
focused on one problem, right?
Speaker:She's chucking this thing
down the bank of a levee.
Speaker:She's kicking it off her deck. She's
parking her F three 50 on it, right?
Speaker:This thing is durable, right? If
you're going to invest in a cooler,
Speaker:this thing is going to hold up
and it just absolutely crushed.
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Speaker:I know it's been, she is like a Tim Theto
man Taylor, but way more trustworthy.
Speaker:I kept telling the Arctic, we still work
with Arctic, they're great. We're like,
Speaker:get me more April Wilkerson videos.
I'm like the super fan. So great video.
Speaker:This is one from Native. This
is not their top product,
Speaker:but this ad,
Speaker:and you'll kind of see this is
a mashup of a whole bunch of
Speaker:creators and Instagram creators,
Speaker:but woven together in an ad.
Speaker:And I think this format
will work for a lot in for.
Speaker:Brands. Maybe Moisturizing Nation helps
my skin to feel so hydrated and stewed.
Speaker:I just love the fact that I keep
your skin moisturized all day.
Speaker:What they new and improved formula.
Speaker:And I just love how rich
and creamy the formula is.
Speaker:They provide a dehydration with a
lightweight field. It is super irony,
Speaker:but also lightweight and secret
to your skin is super fast.
Speaker:You're going to love it.
Speaker:The formula absorbs in the skin so
easily without leaving a residue.
Speaker:And don't even get me started on how
good they smell. Just smells so yummy.
Speaker:And also actually haveland seven of
their best stuffs. You smell good.
Speaker:It's quite literally the best compliment.
Speaker:Awesome. So what you like about that one
Speaker:constant movement? Not to the
point of being overwhelming,
Speaker:but you almost can't look away. It's
movement. It's moving a lot, right?
Speaker:There's always two panels, you bet
that has kind of at three panels,
Speaker:two panels are almost always moving.
One is static, one is kind of branding,
Speaker:showing the product, showing some design
elements. The other two always moving.
Speaker:What else sir?
Speaker:The count.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah, the count.
Speaker:The number of UGC elements.
Speaker:I remember sitting in a room showing
this ad for hair products to a group of
Speaker:women and one of them said,
my hair's not like that.
Speaker:I don't think it'll work for me. And so
that's something we got to keep in mind.
Speaker:If we're showing UGC,
Speaker:you need to show a variety because
the person you want to buy,
Speaker:they've got to see themselves in that
ad. So if you're watching this ad,
Speaker:you're probably seeing someone with
your hair type, your skin type,
Speaker:maybe your personality. I
resonate with that person.
Speaker:So this will likely work for
me. Here's another similar one.
Speaker:This is for oppo pop. This is one we
just launched some on YouTube. Listen,
Speaker:a month ago, this video is
absolutely ripping right now.
Speaker:I'm going to go and play it.
Speaker:I had no idea popcorn could get that
good. I have a thing for you to eat.
Speaker:It's called opo Pop. Beautiful.
Speaker:Step right on sea go.
Speaker:It's just so cool.
Speaker:Alpa Pop where every kernel is
individually wrapped in flavor.
Speaker:No more half flavored popcorn.
Speaker:How glue can it really
be? It's just popcorn.
Speaker:I had weird flavors like
C Delicious, fancy Butter,
Speaker:KLE mustard, that ones sounds good.
Speaker:Wow, you need to try this.
Popcorn oppa pop.com, you min.
Speaker:So it really is Ray Popcorn. I recommend
you try it. You kind of see, again,
Speaker:that's a variety of influencers.
There's some quick pitting clips.
Speaker:Then there's the one clip of the
girl trying the pickle monster.
Speaker:And she's like pauses. Usually it goes
quiet. She's munching. You're like,
Speaker:what's she going to? A little bit of
suspense built up there. But yeah,
Speaker:you see that. And if you're a popcorn
fan like I am as my favorite snack,
Speaker:you're like, I should
probably check this out.
Speaker:Should probably give this a second. Look,
Speaker:the Drew Barrymore piece helps as
well. Getting some celebrity in there,
Speaker:but not necessary. Just
a bonus if you have it.
Speaker:And so this is what we
build for our clients.
Speaker:This is what you need to do with
your team, with your agency,
Speaker:or we're using for YouTube
creative feedback loops.
Speaker:So the good news is with YouTube,
Speaker:it is dependent on creative.
You'll live or die by the creative,
Speaker:but you don't need dozens or hundreds of
Speaker:ads running to make YouTube work.
Speaker:And that's what I know from
my meta team is that, hey,
Speaker:some accounts you need hundreds,
thousands of creatives to make meta work.
Speaker:Not the case with YouTube,
Speaker:you need a handful to get started and
then maybe a handful a month testing
Speaker:from there on out.
Speaker:But what we're really looking at is
these three things we're watching what's
Speaker:called the view rate.
Speaker:So the percentage of people that see
the ad that actually watch the ad,
Speaker:so they choose to watch
the ad, they don't skip.
Speaker:What is that view rate that
view rate's going to tell us?
Speaker:And it's more relative to your brand
than it is based on a benchmark.
Speaker:But how good is that view
rate? That's going to tell us,
Speaker:does this book resonate? Does this
book resonate with this audience?
Speaker:We all get the view rate,
the product demo piece.
Speaker:We're really going to see if that's
working by the duration of the video that
Speaker:they watch. How long do they watch
the video? And then do they click?
Speaker:Because if they're bailing
early, the demo's not good.
Speaker:Or if they're not clicking, could be
it's on tv. TV doesn't get clickthroughs,
Speaker:but it could be that the demo wasn't
developed and I didn't see enough there to
Speaker:make you click. And then of course,
Speaker:conversion rate really kind
of wraps into all of it.
Speaker:We are trying new calls to action,
Speaker:new offers all the time
to see what wins. Alright,
Speaker:so number one is creative. Number two,
Speaker:we got to look at campaigns and the right
campaign structure to win on YouTube.
Speaker:I break down this Arctic case study
for you. We were approached by Arctic I
Speaker:guess almost two years
ago. They said, Hey,
Speaker:can you use YouTube to grow Walmart sales?
Speaker:We've been succeeding on Amazon to
grow online. We're in Walmart town,
Speaker:coast to coast. Can you help
us grow there? We said, yes,
Speaker:that's what we built for
Native back in the day.
Speaker:And so these were kind of the five
ways we measured success on YouTube.
Speaker:But this is really how almost everybody
needs to look at measuring success on
Speaker:YouTube minus the Walmart
piece if you're not in there.
Speaker:But we number one objective
was Walmart sales.
Speaker:Can we lift in a meaningful measurable
way, Walmart sales using YouTube ads?
Speaker:So we create a search lift.
And what that means is,
Speaker:and Google will measure this for
you, people that see your YouTube ad,
Speaker:are they more likely to
search for your brain?
Speaker:So they'll actually measure the lift
from YouTube that drove increased
Speaker:searches for your brands.
Can people visit the store?
Speaker:And so something you do
if you're in Walmart,
Speaker:it's harder or Lowe's
or some big operation,
Speaker:Google can measure someone saw
the ad and then visited the store.
Speaker:So in store visits,
online sales of course.
Speaker:And then post-purchase surveys
for those are selling D two C.
Speaker:How many of you guys are
running post-purchase
surveys? It's huge data point,
Speaker:especially as some tracking
goes away in some areas,
Speaker:like you got to be doing post-purchase
surveys. If you are D two C,
Speaker:this is something that I'm happy to
run. If you're a bigger brand, eight,
Speaker:nine figures, I can run this for
you for free. Google will do this.
Speaker:Basically they'll look at where across
the country your category has high and
Speaker:low demand. So sell wheeled coolers.
Speaker:Where are wheeled cooler searches
popular? Where are they not popular?
Speaker:Where is it kind of the middle?
And where is your brand popular?
Speaker:Where are people searching for your brand?
Speaker:Where are they not search of your brand?
Speaker:You start to look at where that overlaps.
And this gives you opportunities of,
Speaker:Hey, I need to lean more into
these areas to sell more.
Speaker:So if there's high category
demand, a low brand demand,
Speaker:I need to go for it there.
Speaker:And sometimes if there's high
category and high brand demand,
Speaker:I can get even more from those markets.
Speaker:And so we use this for Arctic
to kind of map out the strategy.
Speaker:Here's what we saw after running
YouTube for about six weeks,
Speaker:we saw 230% lift on mobile
Speaker:searches. So people
that saw the YouTube ad,
Speaker:two 30% lift in Arctic brand terms,
Speaker:and then two 31% lift on YouTube
where people were searching,
Speaker:and this was just one of
the test sales we ran in,
Speaker:but they saw a two 45% sales lift in
Walmart. So we kind of a geo holdout.
Speaker:So they got statisticians on our data
team, data science team at Arctic.
Speaker:They measured this, but they said, Hey,
Speaker:comparing these markets to
other comparison markets,
Speaker:25% Lyft driven by YouTube. It was
the only variable in those markets.
Speaker:A couple of callouts, little rock,
44%. And I just threw up Stringfield,
Speaker:Missouri where I live, and I think
that was all my wife, she was like,
Speaker:let's get art to COAs for
everyone in our family Drake wear.
Speaker:And I think that was all me. But
anyway, this was how we measured.
Speaker:Did YouTube actually work and drive sales?
Speaker:We won an agency excellence award
from Google, which is really cool.
Speaker:And now we're doing this for
a bunch of different brands,
Speaker:omnichannel growth with YouTube.
And then the third thing,
Speaker:last thing is how do we
measure for success? I kind
of showed that a little bit,
Speaker:but I want to break this down a little
bit more here in the last few minutes.
Speaker:Anybody heard of House Analytics or
has anybody seen this podcast with
Speaker:Olivia Corey? My buddy Andrew Ferris said,
yeah, there's a yes back there. Yeah,
Speaker:this was awesome. So I'm a
huge house analytics fan.
Speaker:They do incrementality tests
based on geo holdouts, right?
Speaker:So you got to test set of geos,
you got a control set of geos.
Speaker:You're measuring the difference because
here's what's frustrating about ads.
Speaker:Even if you're using a tool
to measures click-based data,
Speaker:you don't really know
what made this person buy.
Speaker:Was this ad the reason they bought or
was this just the last piece of the
Speaker:process?
Speaker:So the most scientific way to
figure out did this ad cause a lift
Speaker:is an incrementality study.
They're actually kind of expensive,
Speaker:but here's what house said,
Speaker:190 incrementality tests rolled
with eight and nine figure brands.
Speaker:Israel brands spending about 30% of
their meta budget. They were investing in
Speaker:YouTube,
Speaker:so they were not just spending
a few thousand dollars
here and there on YouTube,
Speaker:they were investing in it. But then
they measured, okay, how do these geos,
Speaker:where they reign YouTube, how do
they compare to other markets?
Speaker:And here's what they saw.
Speaker:They saw that the actual
incremental performance,
Speaker:the performance in their data was
3.4 times better what they saw in
Speaker:YouTube.
Speaker:So to transl that if you saw a
one x row ass in your YouTube
Speaker:data and platform,
Speaker:this group was actually getting
a 3.4 x roas. Okay? Now,
Speaker:if they were advertising or if
they're also selling on Amazon,
Speaker:you could add a full a
hundred percent to that.
Speaker:So you may be seeing a one in platform.
Speaker:It was actually a 442% lift,
Speaker:including all of DSC and all of Amazon.
Speaker:And also 76% were new customers,
Speaker:net new customers to these brands.
They maybe thinking what,
Speaker:why is YouTube so bad at measuring
their own platform and measuring their
Speaker:own performance? Really it
comes out to a few things. One,
Speaker:we're all logged into a bunch
of different Gmail accounts.
Speaker:We have Vision one meta account,
we all prep dozen Gmail accounts.
Speaker:Our kits are logged into things and it's
a bit of a mess. So that's part of it.
Speaker:But the other thing is people
don't really click on YouTube ads.
Speaker:If we're on YouTube, we're there for a
purpose. We're not that likely to click.
Speaker:And so even at its best, YouTube
has half the click-through rate,
Speaker:less than half the click-through rate of
meta. And so if you don't get a click,
Speaker:it's really hard to measure what happens
after that unless you get creative.
Speaker:50% of views, it's up to 60%.
Speaker:I've seen in some studies now are on tv.
You don't click your tv, right?
Speaker:TV has never been measured by click data.
Speaker:You got to measure that a different way.
Speaker:And so that's where you look at
search lip, brand, lip sales lift,
Speaker:things like that. You got to get
sciencey to make that all work.
Speaker:And so it's just a
different beast to measure.
Speaker:A couple quick examples that I'll
wrap up. This is for Haircare brand.
Speaker:We ran all of their Amazon or
we ran all of their YouTube.
Speaker:They had to pause their YouTube
ads for a bit to kind of,
Speaker:they were retooling a few
things. When they did,
Speaker:we were measuring because we
were running their brand search,
Speaker:we're running everything
on Amazon for them.
Speaker:Their brand is search
volume got cut in half.
Speaker:So people searching for them by name
on Amazon volume got cut in half when
Speaker:we paused Amazon. And then over time
they had a data science team as well,
Speaker:pretty big brand. They believed
that for every 1D two C subs,
Speaker:we were driving traffic action to
their D two C store with YouTube.
Speaker:But they were confident. They said, Hey,
Speaker:for every 1D two C sale
we're getting here,
Speaker:we're getting two on Amazon as
people just like to buy on Amazon.
Speaker:So they see the ad, they explore,
they learn within they buy on Amazon.
Speaker:So really to look at YouTube,
Speaker:you got to look at what we call the
trifecta of lift for the results
Speaker:here. So we're not just measuring
the click data in YouTube,
Speaker:we're not just measuring with Triple
Whale and North Baer or another multitouch
Speaker:attribution tool like that. We're
looking at all of these things.
Speaker:How can I create a baseline with my
Amazon sales and look at growth rate and
Speaker:then how can I see lift above that?
Speaker:How can I look at search lift? That's
something Google will do for you for free,
Speaker:something we can help set up.
Speaker:And then how are my overall
sales trending up as well?
Speaker:It's not the same. And you
got to just be okay with that,
Speaker:that it doesn't look the same as
sponsor product or sponsor grand ads.
Speaker:It is a different piece,
Speaker:but it's a very powerful tool
and that's why brands lean into
Speaker:it. Brands like Dr. Quach, it
was their big growth lever.
Speaker:It was the new growth lever for
Arctic and many, many others.
Speaker:And so how can we help? I'm going
to be around rest of the day,
Speaker:be around tomorrow as well. So
we can do these things for you.
Speaker:Kind of a YouTube readiness. So if
you want YouTube, read this audit.
Speaker:We can look at your creatives, look at
what you're doing now and say, okay,
Speaker:you would need to do these things to be
ready for YouTube. We can talk about the
Speaker:combo of YouTube and Amazon
and overall just help you
Speaker:get ready for this. So I think
I am officially out of time.
Speaker:Thank you for kicking off.
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