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Creating media advertising campaigns on YouTube and Facebook makes it nearly impossible to directly measure their impact on company revenue. However, it is possible to assess how they influence brand recognition, loyalty, and purchase intent. One way to achieve this is by utilizing the Brand Lift tool.
In this article, together with Vitaliy Aleksandrov, the team lead of the Advertising Department at Promodo, we will briefly discuss brand lift meaning, brand lift insights, brand lift benchmarks and key metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of brand lift digital marketing. Additionally, we will compare brand lift on YouTube and Facebook.
Brand Lift surveys is the measurement of the effectiveness of your advertising in terms of how it changes and shapes consumer perception and behavior. It shows the results that your brand achieves after launching a media digital advertising campaign in video formats, demonstrating the interaction of consumers with your brand. To do this, a survey is conducted where the network asks users questions with multiple-choice answers during the advertisement to obtain direct feedback on metrics such as ad recall, recognition, preference over other brands, and purchase intent.
In simple terms, Brand Lift is a panel study that helps measure the impact of media advertising on YouTube on one of the main media metrics:
In Brand Lift on Facebook, the following metrics are available:
To achieve this, a survey is conducted where users are asked questions with multiple-choice answers during the YouTube or Facebook ads. By following these Brand Lift metrics, we can find out if people are aware of your brand and if they remember your ad.
This survey is launched together with the start of the advertising campaign. Brand Lift divides the respondents into two audiences:
Next, the system creates a representative sample, typically consisting of around 4,000 users divided into two roughly equal groups (those who viewed your video and those who didn't see your advertisement).
The Brand Lift research is conducted within three hours to three days after viewing the video clip. During this period, users are asked up to three questions. The survey results are then compared.
The number and type of questions depend on the budget. In campaigns with a small budget, Brand Lift may not be launched because the number of people will be insufficient to create a representative sample.
The research is available for all advertising formats on YouTube. Typically, these can be 6-second Bumper Ads or 10 or 15-second In-Stream ads with or without the ability to skip. Surveys are not conducted for banner and Discovery ads. Another advantage of this tool is that you can optimize your campaigns in real-time based on the almost real-time results and adjust them according to demographic indicators, age, interests, etc.
Vitaliy Aleksandrov,
Team Lead of Media Marketing at Promodo
How to measure Brand Lift?
All Brand Lift metrics are calculated qualitatively, not quantitatively.
Brand Lift works here and now. It shows the result for the period when you are communicating with your audience and how it impacts a particular metric.
Vitaliy Aleksandrov,
Team Lead of Media Marketing at Promodo
Brand Lift measurement on YouTube includes:
These YouTube brand lift study benchmarks provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of your advertising campaign and help you optimize your strategies based on real-time data.
Ad Recall is a research metric that reflects the number of people who remember the advertisement within 2 days after viewing it.
Important: This metric does not exceed 50-55%—which is the maximum achievable level of brand perception.
Brand Awareness is a metric that indicates how well users know about your brand or product after viewing your advertisement.
Consideration is a metric that shows to what extent users consider your brand as a potential choice when making a purchase decision.
Favorability is a metric that measures how positively users perceive your brand or product after viewing your advertisement.
Purchase Intent is a metric that indicates the extent to which users intend to purchase your product or service after viewing your advertisement.
There is a belief that Brand Lift should be launched in "sterile" conditions, without any other marketing activities from external sources. The rationale behind this is to ensure that YouTube (or Facebook) doesn't attribute the achievements of other activities to itself. However, such an approach is not entirely accurate because the impact of other activities can interact with the individuals who are exposed to or not exposed to the ads shown on YouTube (or Facebook). In other words, brand recognition growth resulting from external advertising will equally affect both the control group and the test audience. Therefore, Brand Lift will demonstrate the effectiveness of the specific channel's advertising, whether it is YouTube or Facebook, in our case.
What is the difference between brand lift Facebook and brand lift YouTube? Let's explore further.
In addition to the above, here are some other key differences between Brand Lift on YouTube and Facebook:
Ultimately, the best platform for your Brand Lift campaign, whether YouTube or Facebook, will depend on your specific goals and objectives.
Brand Lift on Facebook is rarely launched in video format. However, there was an experience with Multiplex where brand awareness increased from 55% to 63%.
Vitaliy Aleksandrov,
Team Lead of Media Marketing at Promodo.
Read more about it in our case study.
Brand Lift is a useful tool for measuring the effectiveness of your advertising campaigns. It allows you to create surveys for your target audience to track the impact of your advertising product or brand on the audience. Using the system, you can make changes to your campaigns to ensure the achievement of your goals.
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