interpreting your paid search metrics

Interpreting Your Paid Search Metrics Without ‘Average Position’

Average position is one of Google’s original search metrics, and up to this point it’s been the clearest way to describe the order of appearance in paid search results.  While ads are generally found above organic search results, that’s not always the case; they’re sometimes served at the very bottom of page 1, below organic!  When you consider that average …

Geo-targeting vs competitive dealers

The Difference Between Geo-Targeting and Competitive Dealers

Auto dealerships are often named after the city they’re occupied in, and why not?  This is a very effective way to create some hometown appeal, and the name certainly sticks when the auto shopper is trying to remember where to visit.  That method also applies digitally: While bidding on a competitor by name could be an expensive exercise based on …

Video Everywhere

Video Everywhere: Get Ahead Of Your Competition and Reach Customers Wherever They Are!

Imagine reaching hundreds of thousands of potential car buyers for mere pennies per person. Video Everywhere from Chumney & Associates can do just that. Your TV commercials can now be delivered to an additional audience consuming TV content on non-traditional platforms via video on-demand and online streaming, thus creating an all-inclusive, multi-layered media TV saturation strategy. The name says it …

Super-Charge Your Display Ads With Lightbox Ads

It’s time to super-charge your display efforts and increase customer engagements with Lightbox Ads! These banners draw in the eyes by incorporating video into the various sizes of the display network, but they become really special when a hover or click action happens. A full-screen take-over on any device invites the shopper to engage with multiple widgets that include additional …

Video Is King: Is it part of your video advertising strategy?

Are video ads part of your digital advertising strategy?  I’ve got 150 reasons why they should be, and that’s the average number of times we check our mobile device each day.  When you combine that with the fact that YouTube is the #2 search engine next to Google itself, the answer is pretty clear – you need to be there. …