Digital Advertising Mistakes To Avoid In The Post Pandemic

Along with a massive change in audience behavior after the pandemic with higher reliance on online buying, marketers are also witnessing a shift in the attitude of the targeted audience.

Before the pandemic, customers were quite forgiving. They would hope you have wanted. Even if you could not cater to their requirement, they would not mind giving you some more chances later. However, the pandemic has turned customers more stringent, and now they expect you have what they want. If not, they would abandon you and go elsewhere. With customers setting their expectations high, businesses have little or no room for committing mistakes in digital advertising.

Here are some mistakes to avoid while driving digital advertising campaigns in the right direction and getting the right results.

Lack of audience research:

The success of digital ads depends extensively on serving appropriate ads that arouse the interest of the audience. Not all ads hold the same appeal to the audience that want to see ads that are relevant and useful to them. To determine which ads they would like, you must research the audience continuously to identify their requirements and expectations precisely.

The information gathered from audience research should help to create realistic customer profiles based on which you can create ads that tick the right boxes. Never make the mistake of taking the audience for granted based on some earlier data because the mind of the audience can change at any moment.

Keep researching the audience regularly to have a finger on their pulse. Creating ad campaigns for an undefined audience is a wasteful exercise. eg

Ignoring personalization:

Personalization is critical to succeeding in digital advertising and overall marketing. Unless you create ads that have a personal touch it is impossible to connect with the audience. The ads viewed by the audience should give them a sense of personalization that encourages them to engage with the brand.

The biggest mistake would be to create a generalized ad campaign that does not address any specific customer segment. Follow the principle of ‘horses for courses in creating digital ads campaigns so that it appeals to the psyche of the targeted audience.

Not giving importance to videos:

Since digital ads appear on digital channels across social media, the type of ad, static or dynamic, matters most. Since videos appeal to viewers, you must emphasize creating more video ads over static ads. Moreover, the social media channels like Instagram and Facebook promote videos much more on their platforms.

As of now, videos constitute almost 82% of consumer internet traffic which is enough reason to focus on creating video content for digital ads. Videos leave a long-lasting impression in the mind and have high brand recall value over static digital ads. Viewers can relate to brands faster when viewing video ads.

Quality rules supreme, and all digital ads must be of high quality to generate the desired level of engagement. Posting a few high-quality ads has a greater impact than several static ads posted repeatedly.

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