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Well, hello and welcome to another edition

of the E-Commerce Evolution podcast.

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I'm your host, Brett Curry, CEO of OMG

Commerce. So we've had the privilege,

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my agency, we've had a pro. You're

working with some really cool brands.

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So Native Arctic. I'm going to break

down an Arctic case study here in a bit.

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Dude wipes, just doing a really cool

campaign right now for little dudes.

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They're kind of their

answer to baby wipes,

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but cooler called Little Dudes.

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And so we have a full

service Amazon agencies.

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We'd manage Amazon, we do meta, we

do email, we do retention. But man,

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YouTube,

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YouTube is this piece that people are

missing and the people don't understand

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and the people don't exactly

know how to leverage.

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And so we've had the privilege,

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we manage about a hundred million dollars

a year and ad spend want some awards,

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and I share that to say all the strategies

that I'm going to walk through here

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are based on data, real appliance,

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real experiences that are going to

break this down for you. But here's the

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real issue,

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why more people are using YouTube.

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It's different. Not the same as

Meta, not the same as TikTok.

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It's very, very different

from Amazon advertising.

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It's just a different beast.

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And so if we want to understand

how can we use YouTube to influence

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shopping behavior,

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how can we use YouTube to get people to

be aware of our brand, to buy our brand?

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They don't understand how people are

using. How are people using YouTube?

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And it really comes down to four key

activities or modes that people are

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in when they're running YouTube

ads. So there's searching,

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there's streaming, there's

scrolling, and there's shopping.

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So kind of break this down a little bit.

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YouTube is the number two

search engine behind Google.

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So more people do searches every day

on YouTube and on any search engine

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including AI search other than

YouTube people trying to learn stuff,

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find stuff,

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that sort of thing.

Scrolling right on the YouTube mobile app

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or if we're on YouTube

shorts, we're scrolling.

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That's the mode that's most like other

social platforms. Then there's streaming.

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How many of you guys watch YouTube on

connected TV is on your TV screen or your

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kids do? I know for my kids,

we let them have TV time.

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Several of them just want to watch

their favorite YouTube creators.

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They're not watching cable, they're

not watching any of that stuff.

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They want to watch YouTube on

tv and then they're shopping.

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We're researching products. We can

actually discover products on YouTube.

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We could click it, buy

product directly from YouTube.

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So it's really these four modes,

but they're all different.

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And so we again understand

how we interrupt people.

Now, this is kind of crazy.

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I've been doing this for a long time.

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This number has been changing over the

last couple of years. So this is market

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share of streaming platforms

specifically on connected

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TVs.

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YouTube has been the leader for two

years and the lead is extending.

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So even last year was 10%. Now

it's 12.4% therapeutic Disney,

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they'll be paramount. They're bid

NBC, they're crushing Netflix.

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Take all the smaller ones

combined. YouTube is bigger.

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This is based on time spent on TV screen.

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So if you want to influence

people through tv,

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you use YouTube. And so this element

though, this element of YouTube,

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it's way more like TV because it's on tv.

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So you can't just take your meta

ad and translate it directly here.

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You can't just take your TikTok, add it,

translate it directly to a TV street.

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It needs to be a little

bit different. Also,

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YouTube is the number

one podcast platform.

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My guess is if you've

got a podcast you love,

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they're on YouTube and that's maybe

where you watch. I have a podcaster.

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I run the E-Commerce Evolution

podcast talk to a lot of podcasters.

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And most of the people that I talk to

say that their YouTube viewership for

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their podcast is growing and audio in

some cases is staying kind of flat.

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So YouTube is a podcast platform and

we're in a different frame of mind.

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We're watching a podcast. It's long

form. We're in it for the whole episode,

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most likely great place to advertise

someone, show them new product.

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This is also a little bit different,

right? I'm a huge TikTok fan.

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My buddy Josh ha is going to

be talking about TikTok shops.

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There's a difference though, between

YouTube creators and TikTok creators.

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You may be served an ad on TikTok or

see a video just because of its viral

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nature. You've never followed that creator

before. You may never see them again,

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but you see that ad or

that video with YouTube,

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it's usually creators that

we've got a relationship,

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this is a creator that we've watched

5, 10, 15 videos. We're subscribing,

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we really get to know them. So

it's a different trust factor.

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So 98% of people say they trust

YouTube influencers more than

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any other influencer

on any other platform.

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But ultimately the reason YouTube is

different and the way we have to approach

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is there are different creatives.

So the way we structure our ads,

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it's different because there's

different modes and different screens,

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different campaign structure,

different algorithm, different bidding.

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All of that does not sponsor product

ads, not even sponsor brand video.

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This is something different. And then

this is where a lot of people lose heart,

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give up, abandon ship, say YouTube is

not for me. It's because of measurement.

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It's a different beast to measure.

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You got to kind of be ready for that and

up for the task or else it's not time

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to look at YouTube,

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but I believe it's the most powerful

growth engine your likely missing right

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now. Can you give a couple

examples here, Dr. Squa,

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anybody blown away by their valuation,

we saw that Unilever 1.5 billion,

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freaking crazy. So we did

not work directly with them,

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but Raindrop agency close partner of ours,

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they did all the original Dr. Squat

ads and one of the original ones won

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YouTube out of the year in 2020.

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Just found out recently that

during that hypergrowth stage

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when Dr. Squash was

crushing it on YouTube,

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their media buyers were

following my YouTube course.

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So I put out a YouTube course with Ezra

Firestone, he's speaking later today.

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And the guy told me just a few

months ago, I was like, oh yeah,

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we were consuming your course and just

doing what you said. And so I was like,

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oh, sweet. Would love to get

some equity, maybe some shares.

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But that didn't not work out native.

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We didn't work directly with them.

So they were a client for about six years.

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When we started with them, they were

about a hundred billion dollars in sales.

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Modi a founder, awesome

guy. He tweeted recently,

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beginning of this year they

did a billion dollars in sales.

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Last year ne did on

about 20% EBITDA margin.

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So 200 million in profits,

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they bought native for like one

23 million that paid off for them.

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That was a good investment

then just pretty crazy.

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But we mapped out their YouTube

strategies for retail and for D two

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C and then boom, my city

Joseph, like I said,

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you'll hear from Measure Firestone

later today is one of the keynotes.

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We ran all their Google their YouTube

but still do for maybe 10 plus years.

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We launched them on Amazon,

so they were not on Amazon.

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We built out storefront listings,

Amazon ads strategy did all of that.

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They did 6 million in sales the

first year on Amazon and it did not

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cannibalize their D two C

business very much. But the

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reason that all happened is because

they're spending a lot of meta spending a

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lot on YouTube.

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They had this demand

creation engine flowing.

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There's a lot of people that wanted boom

and a lot of people that wanted boom,

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went to Amazon, didn't see it

there and bought something else.

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So we were able to capture that.

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But really this speaks to just the

power of building a brand off of Amazon.

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Now, can you win in this scenario?

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So you want to win on

best wheeled coolers.

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I'm a big fan of the

coolers with wheels, right?

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You got to lug in something around

that's just full of ice and drinks.

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You got to use wheels. Can

you win in this scenario?

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Can you win on a purely search basis?

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I think you can and I think you should,

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but I also think slugging it

out in the SERP can feel like a

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knife fight sometimes versus is really

brutal. It's just brutal and it's harm,

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right? So you got to do that, but I

think it's even better to do this.

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I'm going to break down

Arctic in a minute,

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but what if you showed people how

awesome your coolers are and they end up

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looking for you on Amazon

now they largely skip your

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competitors. You dominate this

resolve and now you win the sale.

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So ideally you want to do both,

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but I think you gained real advantage

when people are coming to Amazon looking

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for you. Totally changes again.

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So you have three keys to

make YouTube work for you.

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You're going to break those down

right now. We're really some examples.

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Watch some ads and have some fun.

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But the first part is you got

to nail your creative strategy.

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This is really where the

battle is won or lost.

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It's with your creatives and there's

a few things to consider here. So I'll

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go a little bit technical,

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I'm going to give you a formula and

then I'm want to watch some as I think

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that's the best way to

learn. So what's interesting,

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I know the trend on meta

has been shorter ads,

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although I hear that's kind of maybe

reversing with the Andromeda release,

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but YouTube, 45 seconds

up to three minutes,

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that's the sweet spot.

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We've never seen 15 second

ads really crush it.

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The shorter ads though, they

usually don't drive conversions.

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People need to stick with the

video, see your product in action,

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get all the features and benefits and

then they're more likely to purchase.

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So a little bit longer.

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There are elements of your ads that can

feel like a meta ad and elements that

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feel like tv, I'll show

you, you'll see that.

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And then you want both the vertical as

on by 16 for shorts and mobile and then

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16 by nine for tv,

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desktop and also part of mobile.

And I will say the core of YouTube,

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the foundation of YouTube

is that 16 by nine video

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because 50 to 6% of views are on tv.

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Sometimes we're watching a longer

form piece of content on our phone,

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we're still pooling it in landscape mode.

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And so that 69 is core

for YouTube. Alright,

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here's create a formula.

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I don't like to get super formulaic

because I think sometimes you got to

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do something that fits for the product

and you don't want all your work to be

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just a copycat of somebody else, but

these are elements that have to be there.

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So first of all, the hook.

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This is where we spend the most

time word with a creative partner.

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We're reviewing the performance of

a campaign. How strong is that hook?

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You got five seconds, right?

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Five seconds and then that magic skip

ad button pops up. Some people are

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hovering over the button to

press that they hate you for

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interrupting them, but you have

five seconds to win 'em over.

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You have five seconds to make

them say, well, a little bit,

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maybe just maybe this ad is worth

watching. We've all done that, right?

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We're all like we're ready to skip.

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Maybe I'll give this another 10 seconds

and see what's here. And by the way,

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that is actually the point of the hook.

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The point of the hook is not to close

the deal. The hook can close the deal.

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The point of the hook is to get them

to keep watching and to stay to get the

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right person to keep washing. So

logos, important product demo.

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We want to see the product in action,

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either an actual demonstration

of the product. So I'm using it,

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I'm using the cookware,

I'm putting on the makeup,

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or you're showing the end state of

what your product will do. Taking a

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supplement out. I feel better now I'm

running, now I'm lifting my kids up,

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whatever. So show me the product of

action. Some kind of social proof.

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It could be reviews, could be actual UGC,

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but I need some kind of social

proof that other people like me,

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I've used this product and it's

worked for them. Got bust objections.

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I'm from Missouri. Anybody else here

from the state of Missouri, right? St.

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Louis from Springfield. Yeah.

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So Missouri for those know the

show me state and it's very

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charming. Our state animal is the mule.

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So we are all a bunch of

donkeys out there in Missouri.

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But the key there is like

you've got to show us.

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So we're not going to believe you

right there. We all have objections.

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And I think when you're picturing

your customer in your mind,

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think about people from Missouri, right?

They're stubborn,

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you got to show them or else

am not going to believe you.

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And so we got to overcome

those objections.

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Objections left unaddressed

will prevent someone from

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clicking and taking action.

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They just won't do it if there's

still objections that are there.

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And then finally some kind of call to

action, some kind of offer, some kind of,

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hey, do this next thing.

And if you don't have that,

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people will not take action. So

here is something to keep in mind.

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How many you guys are

advertising on meta right now?

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How many guys advertising on

TikTok? Alright, yeah, great.

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So your best social ads on meta

on TikTok, you take those videos,

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those may become your

best books for YouTube.

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So that's one way to leverage those ads.

Now I'm going to show you a few ads.

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I'm going to show you three

ads. This first was for Arctic.

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I'm going to break down a case study.

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We helped Arctic grow

in Walmart with YouTube,

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but it also lifted Amazon D, you see?

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But this is one style of video.

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This is a creator that I'm going

to play the whole video since this

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works.

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This is the 65 chord ultra.

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Its off our dick goer and I actually put

it to the test and in quite a few fun

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different ways. And

this thing is ultra top.

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I am April Wilkerson and I'm a builder.

I am always running and gunning,

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whether it be in my work or in my hobby.

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And I put a high value on function,

durability, and high quality.

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And that's why I resonate with ATech

here because they are overbuilt

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but not overpriced.

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So that video crush, this

was a shorter version,

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straight to the shorter version

because that's easier for presentation.

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Longer versions actually worked better.

What did you like about that ad?

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So this would be audience participation

bar. What did you like about that ad?

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What's that concise tagline? I like

that overbuilt not over press. Yeah,

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Brandon, immediate action.

Like how this right in,

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right in the action. And that's an

excellent point. Learn this from Google.

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Years ago they say, Hey, if

you're building a YouTube ad,

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think like a movie trailer, right?

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This is not a normal story arc where

there's like a slow buildup and then it

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builds to a climax. No, no, no.

Think about a movie trailer.

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What happens at the beginning of a

James Bond movie trailer explosion.

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He's jumping out of a plane,

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something crazy's happening and then

maybe it'll back up and tell the story and

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then something intense again, right?

You don't to have special effects,

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you don't have to be change bond,

but start high immediate action.

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Somebody else. What else did you like?

Maria, sir, it's a single problem.

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Durability. Yeah. Really

focused on one problem, right?

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She's chucking this thing

down the bank of a levee.

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She's kicking it off her deck. She's

parking her F three 50 on it, right?

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This thing is durable, right? If

you're going to invest in a cooler,

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this thing is going to hold up

and it just absolutely crushed.

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I know it's been, she is like a Tim Theto

man Taylor, but way more trustworthy.

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I kept telling the Arctic, we still work

with Arctic, they're great. We're like,

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get me more April Wilkerson videos.

I'm like the super fan. So great video.

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This is one from Native. This

is not their top product,

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but this ad,

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and you'll kind of see this is

a mashup of a whole bunch of

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creators and Instagram creators,

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but woven together in an ad.

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And I think this format

will work for a lot in for.

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Brands. Maybe Moisturizing Nation helps

my skin to feel so hydrated and stewed.

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I just love the fact that I keep

your skin moisturized all day.

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What they new and improved formula.

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And I just love how rich

and creamy the formula is.

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They provide a dehydration with a

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You're going to love it.

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And don't even get me started on how

good they smell. Just smells so yummy.

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And also actually haveland seven of

their best stuffs. You smell good.

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It's quite literally the best compliment.

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Awesome. So what you like about that one

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constant movement? Not to the

point of being overwhelming,

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but you almost can't look away. It's

movement. It's moving a lot, right?

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There's always two panels, you bet

that has kind of at three panels,

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two panels are almost always moving.

One is static, one is kind of branding,

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showing the product, showing some design

elements. The other two always moving.

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What else sir?

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The count.

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Yeah. Yeah, the count.

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The number of UGC elements.

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I remember sitting in a room showing

this ad for hair products to a group of

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women and one of them said,

my hair's not like that.

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I don't think it'll work for me. And so

that's something we got to keep in mind.

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If we're showing UGC,

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you need to show a variety because

the person you want to buy,

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they've got to see themselves in that

ad. So if you're watching this ad,

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you're probably seeing someone with

your hair type, your skin type,

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maybe your personality. I

resonate with that person.

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So this will likely work for

me. Here's another similar one.

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This is for oppo pop. This is one we

just launched some on YouTube. Listen,

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a month ago, this video is

absolutely ripping right now.

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I'm going to go and play it.

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I had no idea popcorn could get that

good. I have a thing for you to eat.

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It's called opo Pop. Beautiful.

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Step right on sea go.

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It's just so cool.

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Alpa Pop where every kernel is

individually wrapped in flavor.

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No more half flavored popcorn.

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How glue can it really

be? It's just popcorn.

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I had weird flavors like

C Delicious, fancy Butter,

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KLE mustard, that ones sounds good.

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Wow, you need to try this.

Popcorn oppa pop.com, you min.

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So it really is Ray Popcorn. I recommend

you try it. You kind of see, again,

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that's a variety of influencers.

There's some quick pitting clips.

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Then there's the one clip of the

girl trying the pickle monster.

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And she's like pauses. Usually it goes

quiet. She's munching. You're like,

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what's she going to? A little bit of

suspense built up there. But yeah,

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you see that. And if you're a popcorn

fan like I am as my favorite snack,

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you're like, I should

probably check this out.

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Should probably give this a second. Look,

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the Drew Barrymore piece helps as

well. Getting some celebrity in there,

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but not necessary. Just

a bonus if you have it.

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And so this is what we

build for our clients.

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This is what you need to do with

your team, with your agency,

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or we're using for YouTube

creative feedback loops.

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So the good news is with YouTube,

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it is dependent on creative.

You'll live or die by the creative,

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but you don't need dozens or hundreds of

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ads running to make YouTube work.

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And that's what I know from

my meta team is that, hey,

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some accounts you need hundreds,

thousands of creatives to make meta work.

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Not the case with YouTube,

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you need a handful to get started and

then maybe a handful a month testing

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from there on out.

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But what we're really looking at is

these three things we're watching what's

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called the view rate.

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So the percentage of people that see

the ad that actually watch the ad,

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so they choose to watch

the ad, they don't skip.

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What is that view rate that

view rate's going to tell us?

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And it's more relative to your brand

than it is based on a benchmark.

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But how good is that view

rate? That's going to tell us,

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does this book resonate? Does this

book resonate with this audience?

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We all get the view rate,

the product demo piece.

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We're really going to see if that's

working by the duration of the video that

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they watch. How long do they watch

the video? And then do they click?

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Because if they're bailing

early, the demo's not good.

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Or if they're not clicking, could be

it's on tv. TV doesn't get clickthroughs,

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but it could be that the demo wasn't

developed and I didn't see enough there to

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make you click. And then of course,

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conversion rate really kind

of wraps into all of it.

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We are trying new calls to action,

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new offers all the time

to see what wins. Alright,

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so number one is creative. Number two,

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we got to look at campaigns and the right

campaign structure to win on YouTube.

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I break down this Arctic case study

for you. We were approached by Arctic I

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guess almost two years

ago. They said, Hey,

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can you use YouTube to grow Walmart sales?

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We've been succeeding on Amazon to

grow online. We're in Walmart town,

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coast to coast. Can you help

us grow there? We said, yes,

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that's what we built for

Native back in the day.

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And so these were kind of the five

ways we measured success on YouTube.

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But this is really how almost everybody

needs to look at measuring success on

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YouTube minus the Walmart

piece if you're not in there.

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But we number one objective

was Walmart sales.

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Can we lift in a meaningful measurable

way, Walmart sales using YouTube ads?

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So we create a search lift.

And what that means is,

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and Google will measure this for

you, people that see your YouTube ad,

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are they more likely to

search for your brain?

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So they'll actually measure the lift

from YouTube that drove increased

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searches for your brands.

Can people visit the store?

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And so something you do

if you're in Walmart,

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it's harder or Lowe's

or some big operation,

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Google can measure someone saw

the ad and then visited the store.

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So in store visits,

online sales of course.

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And then post-purchase surveys

for those are selling D two C.

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How many of you guys are

running post-purchase

surveys? It's huge data point,

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especially as some tracking

goes away in some areas,

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like you got to be doing post-purchase

surveys. If you are D two C,

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this is something that I'm happy to

run. If you're a bigger brand, eight,

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nine figures, I can run this for

you for free. Google will do this.

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Basically they'll look at where across

the country your category has high and

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low demand. So sell wheeled coolers.

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Where are wheeled cooler searches

popular? Where are they not popular?

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Where is it kind of the middle?

And where is your brand popular?

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Where are people searching for your brand?

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Where are they not search of your brand?

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You start to look at where that overlaps.

And this gives you opportunities of,

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Hey, I need to lean more into

these areas to sell more.

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So if there's high category

demand, a low brand demand,

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I need to go for it there.

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And sometimes if there's high

category and high brand demand,

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I can get even more from those markets.

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And so we use this for Arctic

to kind of map out the strategy.

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Here's what we saw after running

YouTube for about six weeks,

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we saw 230% lift on mobile

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searches. So people

that saw the YouTube ad,

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two 30% lift in Arctic brand terms,

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and then two 31% lift on YouTube

where people were searching,

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and this was just one of

the test sales we ran in,

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but they saw a two 45% sales lift in

Walmart. So we kind of a geo holdout.

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So they got statisticians on our data

team, data science team at Arctic.

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They measured this, but they said, Hey,

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comparing these markets to

other comparison markets,

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25% Lyft driven by YouTube. It was

the only variable in those markets.

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A couple of callouts, little rock,

44%. And I just threw up Stringfield,

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Missouri where I live, and I think

that was all my wife, she was like,

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let's get art to COAs for

everyone in our family Drake wear.

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And I think that was all me. But

anyway, this was how we measured.

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Did YouTube actually work and drive sales?

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We won an agency excellence award

from Google, which is really cool.

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And now we're doing this for

a bunch of different brands,

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omnichannel growth with YouTube.

And then the third thing,

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last thing is how do we

measure for success? I kind

of showed that a little bit,

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but I want to break this down a little

bit more here in the last few minutes.

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Anybody heard of House Analytics or

has anybody seen this podcast with

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Olivia Corey? My buddy Andrew Ferris said,

yeah, there's a yes back there. Yeah,

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this was awesome. So I'm a

huge house analytics fan.

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They do incrementality tests

based on geo holdouts, right?

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So you got to test set of geos,

you got a control set of geos.

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You're measuring the difference because

here's what's frustrating about ads.

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Even if you're using a tool

to measures click-based data,

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you don't really know

what made this person buy.

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Was this ad the reason they bought or

was this just the last piece of the

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process?

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So the most scientific way to

figure out did this ad cause a lift

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is an incrementality study.

They're actually kind of expensive,

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but here's what house said,

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190 incrementality tests rolled

with eight and nine figure brands.

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Israel brands spending about 30% of

their meta budget. They were investing in

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YouTube,

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so they were not just spending

a few thousand dollars

here and there on YouTube,

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they were investing in it. But then

they measured, okay, how do these geos,

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where they reign YouTube, how do

they compare to other markets?

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And here's what they saw.

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They saw that the actual

incremental performance,

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the performance in their data was

3.4 times better what they saw in

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YouTube.

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So to transl that if you saw a

one x row ass in your YouTube

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data and platform,

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this group was actually getting

a 3.4 x roas. Okay? Now,

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if they were advertising or if

they're also selling on Amazon,

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you could add a full a

hundred percent to that.

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So you may be seeing a one in platform.

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It was actually a 442% lift,

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including all of DSC and all of Amazon.

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And also 76% were new customers,

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net new customers to these brands.

They maybe thinking what,

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why is YouTube so bad at measuring

their own platform and measuring their

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own performance? Really it

comes out to a few things. One,

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we're all logged into a bunch

of different Gmail accounts.

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We have Vision one meta account,

we all prep dozen Gmail accounts.

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Our kits are logged into things and it's

a bit of a mess. So that's part of it.

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But the other thing is people

don't really click on YouTube ads.

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If we're on YouTube, we're there for a

purpose. We're not that likely to click.

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And so even at its best, YouTube

has half the click-through rate,

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less than half the click-through rate of

meta. And so if you don't get a click,

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it's really hard to measure what happens

after that unless you get creative.

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50% of views, it's up to 60%.

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I've seen in some studies now are on tv.

You don't click your tv, right?

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TV has never been measured by click data.

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You got to measure that a different way.

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And so that's where you look at

search lip, brand, lip sales lift,

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things like that. You got to get

sciencey to make that all work.

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And so it's just a

different beast to measure.

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A couple quick examples that I'll

wrap up. This is for Haircare brand.

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We ran all of their Amazon or

we ran all of their YouTube.

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They had to pause their YouTube

ads for a bit to kind of,

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they were retooling a few

things. When they did,

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we were measuring because we

were running their brand search,

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we're running everything

on Amazon for them.

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Their brand is search

volume got cut in half.

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So people searching for them by name

on Amazon volume got cut in half when

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we paused Amazon. And then over time

they had a data science team as well,

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pretty big brand. They believed

that for every 1D two C subs,

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we were driving traffic action to

their D two C store with YouTube.

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But they were confident. They said, Hey,

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for every 1D two C sale

we're getting here,

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we're getting two on Amazon as

people just like to buy on Amazon.

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So they see the ad, they explore,

they learn within they buy on Amazon.

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So really to look at YouTube,

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you got to look at what we call the

trifecta of lift for the results

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here. So we're not just measuring

the click data in YouTube,

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we're not just measuring with Triple

Whale and North Baer or another multitouch

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attribution tool like that. We're

looking at all of these things.

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How can I create a baseline with my

Amazon sales and look at growth rate and

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then how can I see lift above that?

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How can I look at search lift? That's

something Google will do for you for free,

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something we can help set up.

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And then how are my overall

sales trending up as well?

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It's not the same. And you

got to just be okay with that,

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that it doesn't look the same as

sponsor product or sponsor grand ads.

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It is a different piece,

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but it's a very powerful tool

and that's why brands lean into

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it. Brands like Dr. Quach, it

was their big growth lever.

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It was the new growth lever for

Arctic and many, many others.

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And so how can we help? I'm going

to be around rest of the day,

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be around tomorrow as well. So

we can do these things for you.

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Kind of a YouTube readiness. So if

you want YouTube, read this audit.

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We can look at your creatives, look at

what you're doing now and say, okay,

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you would need to do these things to be

ready for YouTube. We can talk about the

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combo of YouTube and Amazon

and overall just help you

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get ready for this. So I think

I am officially out of time.

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Innovate with me and look Port

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