Drive stronger collaboration with Display & Video 360
Two weeks ago, we announced that we’re unifying our DoubleClick advertiser products and the Google Analytics 360 Suite under one brand: Google Marketing Platform. We also introduced Display & Video 360 as a key part of Google Marketing Platform. Display & Video 360 is a single, integrated product that helps creative, data and media teams work together to execute end-to-end ad campaigns.
Today, we’re sharing more about Display & Video 360, including how it helps marketers collaborate across teams, gain transparency and control over their investments, and use the latest advances in machine learning and automation to get better results. Read on to learn more, or watch the live stream from our Google Marketing Live event happening later today in San Jose, CA.
About Display & Video 360
Display & Video 360 brings together features from DoubleClick Bid Manager, Campaign Manager, Studio, and Audience Center in a single product.
So what does that mean?
First, Bid Manager will soon become Display & Video 360. This will happen automatically—customers won’t have to take any action and campaigns will continue to run uninterrupted. Second, Display & Video 360 is organized around five integrated modules that work together to simplify the end-to-end campaign process: Campaigns, Audiences, Creatives, Inventory and Insights.
These new modules reflect the fact that Display & Video 360 offers more than just Bid Manager’s programmatic capabilities. It also includes the campaign management, cross-platform measurement, creative and audience capabilities that are currently part of DoubleClick Campaign Manager, Studio and Audience Center. (Don’t worry, these products aren’t going anywhere right away—we’ll gradually transition customers of these products to Display & Video 360 in the future as additional features become available.)
By bringing these solutions together, Display & Video 360 enables marketers to fully manage their reservation, programmatic and programmatic guaranteed campaigns across display, video, TV, audio and other channels, all in one place. And using a single product to manage advertising campaigns and workflows end-to-end offers significant advantages compared to a more piecemeal approach.
Collaboration across teams
We know that getting a successful ad campaign up and running requires media, creative, data and analytics teams to work closely together along the whole journey. In fact, recent data from Google’s Media Lab—the team that manages all of Google's advertising campaigns—shows a 1.5X improvement in campaign performance when creative strategies and design are aligned to media, compared to when creative is built in a silo.1 But today, the typical digital campaign workflow is complex and manual, involving handoffs across multiple people, organizations and products—which makes it really hard to collaborate.
Display & Video 360 changes that. It helps teams share campaign data and insights at each step of the process, so they can work together to plan campaigns, design and manage creative, organize and create audience segments, find and transact inventory, then measure and optimize results.
"Running digital marketing for Major League Baseball is a unique opportunity because we cover all 30 MLB teams and a total of 2500 games each year. Display & Video 360 helps us to achieve the scale we need to meet this demand because it allows our creative, campaign management and analytics teams to collaborate really well. For example, our analytics team can share feedback on creative performance much faster than before, and then this feedback can easily be applied to many campaigns at once."
Barbara McHugh
SVP, Marketing, Major League Baseball
Transparency and control
With Display & Video 360 you can see precisely how your money is being spent and know exactly where your ads are running—across all of your campaigns. Understanding how your marketing is performing in real time gives you more control. You can quickly see what’s working and what’s not, and then make informed decisions to adjust your tactics and improve campaign performance.
Buying media through a single platform like Display & Video 360 also leads to better results—as measured in terms of both reach and efficiency. For example, Nielsen found that marketers who consolidated their traditional reservation deals with their programmatic guaranteed deals in a single buying platform increased their reach of unique consumers by an average of 11 percent—for the same investment in impressions.2 In another recent study, BCG found that programmatic guaranteed deals are 29 percent more efficient for agencies than traditional reservation deals measured in hours spent on deal set-up and management.3
“By consolidating all of our campaigns in Display & Video 360, we can easily control how many consumers we reach and how often we reach them. This means we don’t have to worry about wasted impressions or a bad consumer experience from people seeing our ads too many times. Instead, we can direct that investment to reach more of the people who are likely to fly with us.”
Justyna Valente
Digital Marketing Manager, TAP Portugal
Faster, smarter marketing
According to a recent study of global marketing organizations by Bain & Company, speed in decision making separated the leaders—the top 20 percent of respondents based on revenue and market share growth—from the laggards, who represent the bottom 20 percent. Marketing laggards are 1.7X more likely to be held back by slow decision making4, while marketing leaders are using technology to surface trends and patterns in near-real time so they can deliver more relevant marketing with speed to assist consumers at the right moment.
Display & Video 360 takes advantage of Google’s unique capabilities in machine learning to automate tasks like bidding and optimization, so you can respond to users’ needs faster. Built-in intelligence across the product automatically surfaces insights and recommendations—such as where to shift budget to improve campaign performance—so you can act quickly to achieve your goals.
Tune in to learn more
Display & Video 360 will begin rolling out to all Bid Manager customers in late July. We’re excited to introduce this end-to-end advertising solution as part of Google Marketing Platform, and we’re eager to hear your feedback.
1. Based on Q4'17-Q1'18 internal Google data.
2. Based on a Google-commissioned Nielsen study, May-Dec. 2017.
3. Based on a Google-commissioned BCG report, “A Guaranteed Opportunity in Programmatic Advertising,” July-Sept. 2017.
4. Bain/Google Marketing Leaders Study, Nov. 2017.
