Adwords For Video Gets Reporting Enhancements

Google has added three new measurement features to the AdWords for video reporting interface. The enhancements are designed to make reporting more goal-oriented and to make it easier to compare campaign performance across platforms and other forms of media. Reach & Frequency Reach and frequency metrics, including Average Impression Frequency and Average View Frequency, have been added […]

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Google has added three new measurement features to the AdWords for video reporting interface. The enhancements are designed to adwords-for-videomake reporting more goal-oriented and to make it easier to compare campaign performance across platforms and other forms of media.

Reach & Frequency

Reach and frequency metrics, including Average Impression Frequency and Average View Frequency, have been added to the interface to give you more insight into how many unique viewers have seen your ad and the average number of times they’ve seen it. It’s now easier to tell if your ads are getting enough impressions to get noticed but not so many that they are bombarding users.

To view these metrics on a campaign, ad or targeting group level, click on Columns >> Customize Columns and look under the Performance section.

Below is the complete list of metrics now available in the reporting interface.

Video Ad Performance Metrics

 

Column Sets Tailored to Marketing Goals

New column sets feature relevant metrics grouped by marketing objective:

  • Views: Understand whether viewers watch more of your videos after viewing your paid video ad. Metrics include follow-on views and unique viewers.
  • Audience Development: Understand how your video ads drove people to watch and engage with more of your content. Metrics include subscribers and follow-on views.
  • Brand Awareness: See how broadly your video ad was viewed. Metrics include unique viewers, average view frequency and average impression frequency.
  • Traffic & Conversions: See how your video ads drove viewers to action. Metrics include website traffic, number of conversions, cost-per-conversion, and your conversion rate from people who viewed your ad.
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Geographic Visualization
In the new map view to see you can see campaign stats by location including,  Views, Costs, Avg Cost Per View, View Rate, Conversions or Impressions. To find this, click on the Map View button from the Campaigns tab.
Google Video Ads Map Visualization

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