N1 Finds Too Many Campaigns Have Unnecessarily Low Reach

There are two main reasons why I am harping on reach these daysAd dollars have virtually zero effect on the people not reachedAd dollars and GRP are highly correlated and it hurts me to see high GRP and low reach but that is what I am seeing in too many casesHere is a taste of my latest findings covering 402 recent campaigns from a dozen of the worldamp8217s largest advertisers across nine major verticals I have grouped the 402 campaigns into quintiles by GRP And Iamp8217ve compared these campaigns to norms from 7648 campaigns As you will see there is a lot to be concerned about in terms of high spending on GRPs resulting in high frequency but low reach especially when compared to amp8220role modelamp8221 campaignsNote the Quintile1 line grouping 81 campaigns whose average GRP was 4879 I will be rounding The average reach attained by these 81 campaigns was 56 The norm across 7648 campaigns for that GRP level is 69 reach And the highest reach attained across 7648 campaigns at that GRP level or below was 90 and that was achieved by a campaign which spent only for 1480 GRPs amp8211 70 fewer GRPs and dollars to achieve 61 more reachWhat was it about this campaign that achieved reach so efficiently This champion campaign utilized what I call 30303010 allocation to linear CTV mobile and computer amp8211 which is my way of oversimplifying the pattern of approximately even allocation across the three device types that lend themselves to high reach and a smaller but significant allocation to computersThe campaign utilized dispersion across many publishers and platforms within each of the four device typesIn the new crossplatform reality these are the two sacred keys to efficient reachThere is still a lot of gold left in them thar hills amp8211 a lot more to learn about how to attain efficient reach For example note also in Quintile4 that there was a campaign with only 235 GRP which achieved a 61 reach amp8211 higher than the average reach of all the campaigns in the three Quintiles above it 5 of the GRPs and probably around 5 of the dollar investment and 8 higher reach than the average of the 81 campaigns in Quintile1This campaign followed the dispersion rule but broke the 30303010 rule amp8211 it was mostly mobile with a smattering of the others amp8211 yet it achieved exceptional reach at very low investment How I suspect it was with a sophisticated optimizer that was able to find audiences that had not yet been reached as it built the campaign in the optimizer itself TRA used this incremental optimization technique and Howard Shimmel at DataFuelX is using that approachHere is a collection of prior articles with more details on the vast array of data Nielsen ONE brings together and the sophisticated ways they combine all that data and more granular documentation on how to achieve maximum reach with fewest dollars across all forms of video and digital although it all boils down to those two easily remembered keys to the kingdomThere is more to be learned however Letamp8217s take another look at the same data brick as we looked at above but this time letamp8217s look at frequencyWhat the table above shows is the normal pattern of very high frequency escalating in relationship with the size of the campaign and very low frequency decreasing as the size of the campaign grows For example in the bottom Quintile in which the average GRP is 75 the average reach is 18 and the average frequency is 41 68 of people reached received only 13 opportunities to see which most marketers might consider to be insufficient frequencyYet in Quintile1 where the averages are 4879 GRP 56 reach and 873 average frequency only 22 of people reached received 13 frequency If those people reached only 13 times are left out the reach goes down from 56 to 44As we build out our AI agentic tech stacks wouldnamp8217t it make sense to use addressable media to fill in those targets reached with insufficient frequencyLooking at the problem of excessive frequency this is scarcely a problem to be overly concerned about in Quintiles 4 and 5 But as campaigns get larger than that the problem rapidly increases In the top quintile more than half of those reached are receiving more than 50 frequency Of course the degree to which this high level of frequency can be regarded as a problem depends on the length of the campaign number of weeks and also on the specifics of how closely together people tended to see the same adIt is time for all of us to get back to basics We spend a vast percentage of our time passionately talking about new things but as Erwin Ephron warned us we are losing sight of the fundamentalsThe problem of excessive frequency can be solved by a combination of three methodsUse of an incremental optimizerUse of addressable media to reach only unreached targets and targets reached with insufficient frequency in the course of optimization and reoptimization inflightPooling media inventory together within a single ad insertion system so as to be able to actually implement frequency capping effectively My colleagues and I have created the UltiMedia platform with tvbeat to make this an easy button to press Currently available within the USamp160Spectrum and through tvbeat in eight other countriesBuilding HighPerforming TeamsOur podcast explores the topic of Being in the Inbetween Phase a liminal stage of growth when we can feel disoriented lonelyamp160or frustrated and why itamp8217s also a powerful indicator that real growth is happeningamp160Rather than rushing to amp8220fixamp8221 the discomfort this episode invites listeners to slow down listen more deeply to themselves and learn how to navigate uncertainty with trust patience and selfawarenessThis monthamp8217s podcast length is amp877646 minutes Watch the VideoPosted at MediaVillage through the Thought Leadership selfpublishing platformClick the social buttons to share this story with colleagues and friendsThe opinions expressed here are the author39s views and do not 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