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mardi 22 septembre 2009

Monitoring Your Facts - Ad Tracking

By Anne Torres

We've all heard some catchy branding taglines that almost made us feel incomplete if we didn't utilize a certain product. Usually, the mere choice of words in these media campaigns is so powerful we think it's enough to make certain that the ad is actually working. But really, is it?

Ad tracking is a way of watching the efficiency of a certain brand's performance in the market by measuring people's level of awareness, the use and trials made of this product and the way people see the brand contrasted to its competition.

There could be one too many uses of ad tracking but normally, it supplies a knowledge base that manifests how factors vital to advertising victory come into action. These factors fundamentally embrace media weight or spending level, the way likely consumers are aimed and the creative quality of the advertisement itself. Aside from this, companies also benefit from ad tracking by using such information to determine advertising ROI or return of investments and also by implementing restructuring that work to boost the impact of their advertisements. Another purpose of ad tracking is to offer baseline information to marketing mix models which are used by marketing sages to distinguish and quantify the role of advertising in the market success of a product compared to other factors such as pricing and distribution.

There are many ways to perform ad tracking, but it all depends on the time element involved in a product purchase. Tracking may be done continuously through a whole week if the product is considered a daily commodity or it could be done after definite lengths of time, say, every three months, for products that typically take this long for people to buy the product again. The main mode of research used is interviewing consumers whose answers may be taken cared of as divided samples or as a group of people interviewed at two dissimilar points in time. Tracking works to illustrate the effects of advertising since the researcher has information on the details surrounding a particular ad, together with when the ad started to come out, how long each ad ran, how much was spent and when the interviews happened.

Basically, ad tracking helps your business by offering you a means to monitor everything that's going on with it and ensuring that all the hard work you've put in are justly rewarded. In other words, tracking your ads tells you exactly which products are working and making you the most profit.

The Internet has lent itself to almost, if not all, ad tracking researches being done through the internet by relying usually on a website's statistics. Some are done continually while some are specific to a period of time, usually before an advertisement is launched and for a while from the time it first started to run. These two techniques offer different ways of looking into an advertisement's success, although they both begin with measuring people's responsiveness of the ad.

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