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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity SMM

And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising. And finally, despite the emphasis on tying content marketing to sales and revenue, the top three content marketing metrics tracked are pageviews (65.8%), email engagement (opens and clicks; 55.2%) and social media engagement (54.9%).

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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. There are only two metrics here: Total Desired Actions Cost Per Desired Action The Desired Action is the primary goal of your campaign. If you cut that CPM down to $25, your Cost Per Desired Action would be $5, right?

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Reservation Buying Type Replaces Reach and Frequency

Jon Loomer

When you create a new campaign, one of the first things you’ll do is select a buying type to determine how you will pay for your ads. If you selected Reach and Frequency (previously) or Reservation (now), you can plan your campaigns in advance with predictable performance. Fixed CPM means that you know what the cost will be.

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

The report explains: “Earned Media Value is the equivalent cost of advertising that would garner the same amount of exposure as postings mentioning a brand campaign, based on followers and a US$5 CPM (cost-per-mille).”. Click To Tweet The report doesn’t give a rationale for the $5 CPM. So where’s the influence?

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Most Social Media Ads Reach Only 5% Of Their Target Audience

The Realtime Report

Understanding the target audience and knowing who your desirable user is, is key to successful marketing campaigns. As a result, these campaigns are cheaper, mind you they are much less effective. In the research, Sotrender’s analysts wanted to find out: whether higher audience saturation translates into changes in CPC or CPM costs.

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How Competition Impacts Facebook Ads Costs

Jon Loomer

Assuming you select Auction buying when creating your campaign (this is the default, and this is likely used 99.9% The primary factors for determining the winner are bid, estimated action rates (probability someone will engage with an ad), and ad quality. Competition and CPM. But in Week 1, CPM was $10; in Week 2, it was $20.

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What is Reservation Buying Type?

Jon Loomer

Check out the Reservation buying type … If you create a campaign in Ads Manager, you may see this (rolling out in October): “Introducing reservation buying type. Reservation is the alternative to Auction and has two objective options: Awareness and Engagement. This is unlike Auction, where costs are variable and unpredictable.

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