Extend Your Reach with Google Image and Video Ads

Most businesses know about Search Advertising with Google AdWords, and use the service fairly effectively to advertise to potential customers searching for products and services like theirs. Fewer take advantage of Google’s complementary Display Network, which promotes ads on websites whose readers match the demographics of your customers.

To see if your business is already advertising on the Display Network and to edit your target demographic settings, visit the Settings page for each campaign. You can see that Zoo in a Jungle Marketing’s campaign type is set to Search and Display Networks.

Google Display Network

Any text ads you’ve created will automatically be placed on the Display Network. To fully take advantage of advertising on the Display Network, businesses should create image and video ads as well.

Google Image Ads

To create Google image ads, use the display ad builder, which is accessed from your list of ads:

Creating a Google Image Ad

The ad builder allows you to create the text for your ads, upload images and choose colors.

Writing your Google Image Ad

It’s very important that your ad design is tweaked to fit all the different ad sizes offered by Google. Your average cost per click will be lower if your ads can display on any website in the Display Network. Most websites will only allow one or two of the ad sizes ti display on their pages.

Google Image Ads in all sizes

Google Video Ads

Google video ads can be displayed on Google’s partner websites or YouTube sponsored videos. Businesses can use any video you have already uploaded to YouTube (make sure you own the copyright to the videos). To create a Google video ad, choose the display ad builder:

Creating a Google Video Ad

Select Video in Media and Channels, then choose either TrueView In-display or TrueView in-search:

Choosing your video format

Next, you’ll have the opportunity to select a video from your YouTube Channel, write a description of the video, and your ad is complete:

Choose a video ad from your YouTube channel

I encourage businesses to experiment with the Display Network using image and video ads. You’ll extend your advertising reach, and clicks through the Display Network typically are less expensive than clicks from Search Advertising. Questions? Email me – amanda@zooinajungle.com

 

 

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