Research Reports

Video Ad Benchmarks: Average Campaign Performance Metrics

Video is the hottest new format for online advertising. DoubleClick analyzed over 300 video campaigns by 130 advertisers during a four month period of 2006. The objective of this analysis was to identify major trends in the performance metrics of video ad campaigns by industry vertical, ad format, ad size, and ad length. There were several key findings including click through rate for video on average being about five times higher than those for image ads

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Influencing the Influencers: How Online Advertising and Media Impact Word of Mouth

Word of mouth marketing is all the buzz. But how exactly can marketers make it work? As part of our DoubleClick Touchpoints IV consumer survey, we identified a segment of respondents deemed to be "influencers" and studied how they make purchase decisions differently from the rest of us. Key conclusions include they are super media savvy and pay close attention to advertising, both positively and negatively.

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Case Studies

AdLINK and DART Adapt

With DoubleClick’s DART Adapt optimisation solution AdLINK Media achieves a performance lift of over 180%.

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