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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Facebook Introduces Lookalike Audiences: New Way to Target Customers

Facebook Lookalike Audiences: A New Way to Reach Potential Customers

For marketers, getting the right messages in front of the right people is key. Today we're announcing the global rollout of lookalike audiences, a targeting feature that helps advertisers reach new customers and grow their businesses.

Lookalike audiences helps advertisers to reach potential customers who share similar characteristics with their current ones. Both online and offline, lookalike targeting has worked well for businesses so we are excited to launch it as a targeting option on Facebook.  This feature will be available in power editor starting this week.
 
Lookalike audiences builds off of a targeting feature we launched last fall called custom audiences. Custom audiences lets marketers take their current customer lists and show ads to those people on Facebook. Now with lookalike audiences, Facebook can use attributes like interests or demographics and show ads to people who share common attributes as their existing customers.  Advertisers can serve any type of Facebook ad to these new groups of people potential customers. 
 
We've seen this new type of targeting drive a wide range of success metrics for direct response companies like Fab, including lower cost per checkout, lower cost per acquisition, larger purchase size, and faster and increased return on investment.
 

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

More Email Opens and Clicks Are Now Occurring in the First Day Post-Delivery

Experian-Email-Speed-of-Response-Mar2013An analysis of email speed of response by Experian Marketing Services reveals that between 2010 and 2012, the proportion of opens and clicks received in the first day increased by an average of 5-6%. The findings, contained in Experian's Q4 2012 Email Marketing Benchmark Study [download page], are attributed to the "immediacy of mobile," as the share of opens occurring on a mobile device continues to grow.

Looking at some selected findings from the Experian report, the data shows that in December 2012, 78% of total opens were received on the first day post-delivery, up from 76% in December 2011 and 74% in December 2010. The same pattern applied to the percentage of total clicks, up from 76% in December 2010 to 80% in December 2012.

Immediacy is not limited to a single day, either, according to previous research from GetResponse. That study found that during the first half of 2012, opt-in emails got most opens within the first hour of delivery, at 23.6% share, dropping to 9.5% in the second hour.

For marketers looking to time their deployments for mobile opens, a study released in October 2012 by TailoredMail indicated that mobile email opens and clicks tend to peak around mealtimes, suggesting that consumers are actively checking email when they are away from their desktops.


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