YouTube Ads – TV Commercials For Small Business Marketing

YouTube Ads – TV Commercials For Small Business Marketing. The very marketing that was sought after by millions of business owners for years has now been made possible with YouTube. It’s not your traditional commercial ads, it’s better. Think targeted markets, and budgets, with a modern twist. Today we are going to discuss YouTube Ads, the TV commercial of the future.

When you think about appetising your business, did you ever think that TV commercials would be accessible for you as a small business? Well, they are, but not in a traditional sense and how it works today is much, much better for you. So today we’re going to talk about YouTube ads, the modern, highly targeted cost-effective TV, commercial of the future.

 So before we start talking about YouTube ads, a couple of housekeeping things as usual, the show notes are packed with info for you. Go to the website in coma.com, go into the show notes and we have Previous podcast, episodes articles. If they’re applicable in the show notes, if I mentioned products or services or anything like that, I try to put those in the show notes as well.

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And plus you get to use the same tools that we use, because we don’t recommend anything unless we’ve tested it, used it. And like it RC. Okay. So now let’s talk about YouTube ads, but why, why are we having this conversation? that is an excellent question. And I want to start out with getting you really excited about the why.

and I’m going to do that through stats today. so according to statistics They do lots and lots of stats,YouTube ads, revenue, right? So it’s a specific revenue stream for you. is almost matching Netflix entire revenue stream of 2021. And that is in the billions of dollars, because people are using YouTube for general TV watching and entertainment more now than ever before.

We’re recording this in 2022. So, you know, these 21 stats, 19 stats, and I’m going to kind of rattle off here are very applicable, still. All major content, producers, entertainment, producers have YouTube channels. Now the major networks, the minor neck works. think about the history channel, peacock TV, which is a derivative of NBC, your sports teams like NFL baseball, even the.

All have their own YouTube channels. And they’ve all realized that it is a, another means for them to disseminate their programming content. I have seen the history channel put out full episodes. Of their TV shows onto YouTube to get more viewership. and then the government really utilized it. I thought pretty well, during the pandemic.

So they would have their, white house press briefings. And they would stream them on YouTube so that you didn’t have to go and watch them on the local network channel or anything. You could just go directly there, tune in when you want. And even in streaming, you can actually back up to the beginning if you’re five, 10 minutes, 20 minutes late.

So it’s really cool. And the state of lived in at the time the local government was doing it too. everybody was utilizing everything they could. And so that’s why I think we saw this nice bump for YouTube.

And so that’s why, in advertising we say advertise where your audience is. your audience they’re on YouTube. I don’t care what your audience is. I’m pretty sure they’re on YouTube. And here’s why. So in 2021, YouTube had 1.8, 6 billion users, right? Not opened accounts, registered users, actual users of the platform.

Creators they’re uploading 500 minutes of video every single minute across the world. That’s 500 minutes. That’s a lot. And then in 2019, 1 billion hours of video was watched per day on YouTube, 1 billion hours. so people are using it. They’re logging in, they’re doing their thing. And then for here in the United States, 85% of us internet users watch YouTube videos at least once per day.

So talk about frequency. So you have. Total number of people you have hours watched, and then you have frequency. They’re not going in once a month and bingeing they’re in there every single day. And that’s why I say it doesn’t matter who your target audience is. They’re probably using you. And the majority of the videos on YouTube are monetized.

And what this means is that the creators are allowing you tube to put videos in the beginning, in the middle and at the end, or sometimes even all three, depending on how long the broadcast is. On the videos. And so when I say YouTube ads and TV commercials, this is what I’m talking about. That video that plays before in the middle or after can be your video ad for your company.

And what I love about this model is that not just YouTube makes money, the content creators get to make money, too. If they set their channels up the right way, it’s called monetizing the channel. And if they get enough followers and that sort of thing is they get a little bit of that ad revenue that you’re spending to put your video up. So it helps the content creator community too. and some of the. Better creators have made a whole entire living on this. whereas if you,did a TV commercial for the super bowl, the networks getting all that money, not, the little guys.

So now let’s talk about what makes this accessible for you, the small business owner in your town, in your area. So YouTube ads are really just like any other digital advertising. You’re doing Facebook ads, you’re doing search ads, display ads, LinkedIn ads, tick-tock Instagram. This is no different than that.

You can select how much ad budget you want to spend per day. So while if,traditional networks with TV commercials you were spending right now in today’s money, about a hundred thousand dollars per 32nd ad spot. YouTube ads you can run for as little as $5 a day, which is $150 a month.

you probably don’t want to do a little more than that, but, cost of entry, test things out. You can certainly. Because it’s just like the other digital ad platforms where you’re paying per impression and, impressions are sense, right? 50 cents, 20 cents, in those ranges. And so there’s no cost barrier.

if you’re deciding to do, digital advertising, It makes us highly accessible for you. If you’ve got that budget. The other thing is that is highly targeted, right? So you can target a geographic location down to a single zip code. You can pick personal demographics, male females, families, age ranges, and then you can also select on keywords and buying interests.

Google has this huge network of buying interests that is all based off of search results. They don’t know that Jane’s searched for, a dog collar. They know that. This, individual single session did these things and they attribute it back to a user. So it’s all blind. They don’t know who you are specifically.

and Google is very committed to data privacy. so because of this, your ads are only showed to your target audience, and based off of what they do and who they are, not what they’re white. So let’s talk about this as an example, let’s say we have a pet supply company in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

so our target area for something like this would be El Paso county, Colorado, which is the county that Colorado Springs is in. Or we could just picks Colorado Springs or maybe one zip code within a mile around my location. I’m going to do it based off of keywords, pet supplies and buyer intent. I can narrow that down.

Maybe I want to do a specific campaign for dog collars, right? I’m running a special on dog colors right now. And so the person that meets this criteria, location, keyword, buyer intent, they may be. Searching the internet did a little bit of shopping they were looking at dog collars and then they go over to YouTube and maybe they’re watching a football video or a barbecue grill video.

Like what’s the best barbecue grill to buy, or how to smoke meat. Your ad for the, dog colors will show up before that video as the commercial, as that five second ad spot. so that’s what I mean by it’s based off of their search content and search habits, not the specific video that your ad is going to play in front of, which is really powerful.

And this all goes to the most wonderful thing brand recall. infinitely better with video than it is with any other type of visual media, including taxed, including images, including just sticking the logo out there when there’s motion involved. our brains just second. So I am going to talk to you about some, video, best practices.

But before I do this, I want to stress the importance of this is not a one trick pony, right? You don’t just run YouTube ad videos and people come flying into your store, buying your services. it still has to be part of a marketing mix for digital advertising because the journey that someone takes from.

not being a customer to being a customer isn’t done through a single ad view and then a click through, and then a phone call, There are other factors that have to happen in there. And so while you get great brand recall and awareness attention with the video, the actual click-through rates from the video are significantly less than if you were doing a display ad or search ad.

So you may want to combine a YouTube. With a display ad, because they get higher click-through rates. the buy buttons are right there. It’s just more conducive to that. so don’t just think of this as I’m just going to run these and then I’m done now you got to have the mix and it has to feel like it’s across multiple platforms, not just on you.

I actually talk about, this marketing mix and those sorts of things in,episode 43 about digital ad platforms and budgets and the episode 20, which is how to do digital advertising the right way. so go check those out. There are links in the show notes. For you. Okay. So now let’s go through some YouTube ad video best practices, because ironically, what I’ve seen is in the bigger brands, what they do is they take their TV commercial and they slap it on YouTube and actually it doesn’t work.

and here’s why when you’re watching a show on television or any place where you’re forced to watch the entire. These work. Okay. These work like they’re supposed to work, but the world of YouTube is a little different because the ad comes up and in five seconds you get a little button where you can click away.

And we all use that button, especially if the ad does not catch our attention. So the first five seconds of your ad have to grab that attention and stop the user from clicking that button. That button is the big difference between. then hearing the rest of your ad or going to the video that they were queuing up to watch, and that five seconds goes fast.

So if you start a video with, hi, my name is Audrey and I am the owner of incomer. And then. You’re gone. Don’t even know what income is, don’t even know or care who I am. So those first five seconds can’t be started, with something pithy, it really has to get down to, what it is that wants them to buy.

So in the example of our pet supply company, something like that could be get 25% off leather dog collars for your dog. new sprinklers. is in right now. And then the rest of it can go off. You want to get that offer out there because if they’re seeing the video, they’re intent on buying a dog collar, and what you’re doing is you’re offering them a discount on premium dog collars.

So keep that in mind. That’s probably the most important thing when creating videos for this. The second thing is, is just like traditional commercials. He got to keep it short all around 60, 90 seconds. Max. Your logo should be on every single frame of the video for that brand recall awareness and recognition, because if they watch the video, even if they saw one of your other ads first and they still saw your logo again, video has more of a sticky quality to it.

And yeah, they’re going to say, oh yeah, maybe I remember that, but. They watched the ad. Maybe they watch the entire ad, even if they only watch five seconds of it. I guarantee you, if they see it someplace else, that recalls going to be better. And that just reinforces everything targeting. So we talked about audience targeting and why this is so awesome, but I’m talking about making specific videos for those targets.

So you can create different videos for your different audiences. I’ve actually seen Geico doing this, and I think it’s cool is that you can set up a YouTube ad for a specific geographic location, and then the video can reference that location. So let’s say our pet supply company not only is in Colorado Springs, but they also have another, Store location in Denver, they can run two ads, one for the Springs, one for Denver, and then they can actually call out those areas in the ad.

Hey, Colorado Springs get 25% off leather, their dog collars, the spring lines in, Hey Denver get 25% off leather dog collars, right? that, awareness that personalization. Catches the attention. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I’m in Denver. They’re talking to me. So don’t discount that, and it’s a little more work, but if you’re already running YouTube ads, I strongly suggest you target that down.

And then you can even go crazy and do different types of testings where you’re testing different videos against each other, to see which one is actually producing more video watches, or, more click search, Cause you do get clicks through. So the question is how. So the next best practices, figuring out what should be in the video, right?

You get five seconds to start. Maybe you get 60 seconds. What should it be? It depends on your campaign. So in the example I’ve been using, it’s a special offer that 25% off. But if it’s the Christmas holiday season, maybe a holiday promotion, Different ad, different promotion. And then if there’s nothing going on, maybe if you’re a brand new company, you might want to do general awareness of your overall, services.

like if you’re a general contractor, you’ll want to put that in the ad, but again, make sure that your primary messages in that first five seconds. Go back to the,how tos of marketing and start with your strategy, your audience, and then your goals. What are you trying to do? And then derive the campaign from that.

It’ll be so much. At the end of your video, give a little extra time within your timeframe like that. 62nd timeframe, give it three or four seconds, like for a nice end screen that has your name, your logo, your location, contact information website address, because they can’t click on it. You might want to put a QR code in there because if they’re watching it on a tablet, they may grab their phone and use the QR code.

And then the reason to keep it up a little longer is to allow them to screen. if they’re watching it on a tablet and they see it come up and they’re like, oh, I’m interested in that, but I want to watch my video. They’ll screen grab it and they can look at it later. so those are your best practices.

For, the actual video content itself. So hopefully I’ve gotten you intrigued and excited about creating YouTube ads. So now we’re going to have a little bit longer of a take action section for you. Cause there’s actually quite a few things I want you to do now. if you’re ready to start creating these YouTube ads.

So the first thing you need to do is to have a YouTube channel. If you don’t have one, create one, it is free. When you run YouTube ads, they want your ad to be hosted as a video, just like all the other content that’s out there on their platform. so think of this as if you do already post YouTube videos.

Great. You just throw those into the. Next thing you’re going to do is create a Google ad account, Google it. The link comes up in the very first spot. this is where you’re going to create your YouTube video ad. So under the Google ad umbrella, you can do search ads, display ads, Gmail ads, and YouTube ads are also an option.

And this is where you’re going to be doing all of that. creating inside the Google ads management account. Next thing I want you to do is create your 60 to 92nd video based off of the best practices we talked about, for video creation, product tools, I’ve got a simple version Canva you can create beautiful, add videos, motion, overlay, all that good stuff in Canva.

It’s super easy to use. If you need something a little more sophisticated, because maybe there’s video footage that you took pictures you want to inlay, you want to do a voiceover, anything like that? I recommend Adobe, premiere pro there’s tons and tons of support out there for both of the platforms we use them both.

we use the more advanced version because we do different types of stuff for clients. But canvas is a really great workhorse because you can use it for social media, post creation, and you can do video editing with it and all sorts of good stuff. So both of those are linked in the show notes for you to click on and get if you don’t already have them.

The other thing I suggest you do here for video creation is listened to episode 52, where I talk about. Best practices for creating a professional video. If you’re going to be on camera or if you’re going to be doing other things, talk about lighting equipment. I talk about sound equipment, all that good stuff.

And there’s links in there to the equipment that I actually own for when I’m doing all my own producing. Next step number four, and last step in the creation of the ad processes, create your ad walks through the process in Google ads manager to create your ad. again, based that off of your goals, selecting language, the video, all that good stuff.

There are videos out there on how to create a YouTube ad inside of Google ad manager. So I think your. And then the last step that,I want you to think about is because you have to put your ad video on your YouTube channel. You have now created organic video content that is searchable by Google.

So you want to optimize it for organic search, free search, as well as set it up as your ad. So this is where you’re going to give it a great name. You’re going to. Give it a description, a title you’re going to want to tag it. If you create it, vertically, you can actually hashtag it with shorts and shorts is YouTube version of Tik TOK, which is starting to take off by leaps and bounds.

And. I was listening to a couple of the keynote discussions that Google put out this week. And they’re actually going to be investing more in shorts, including adding ads to shorts. Like you can see a Tik TOK ad. Now you’re going to see ads on short. So, you can have a nice mix for this video of regular viewers shorts, viewers, and then advertise.

And then make sure you have links in the description as well. Links back to your website. If you have an offer code, make sure that gets put in there that way. If someone’s organically finding your video, they can also take action. Just like the paid ad guy. And so there is a tool that we like to use specifically for you to video search engine optimization, and it’s called two buddy.

You sign up for it and it actually gets embedded as part of the feature set within your YouTube account. So it can give you,ideas on how to tag the content, what to do to optimize it for search. It’s a really cool tool. I’m actually going to be doing an episode soon on a review of two buddy. And talk to you about all my favorite features and why I think it’s awesome.

so stay tuned for that. So here are my final thoughts for you on this topic. If you’re already doing digital advertising, I really encourage you to test out the YouTube ads. If you’re not doing them and add it into your marketing mix, you can either add a little bit of budget to your existing digital ad budget.

Maybe siphon off 150, 200, couple hundred dollars a month, because it is really the best way to generate awareness and brand recall because of the motion of the video. Our eyes are just naturally attracted and we pay attention to motion and video. We can’t not watch it. even when that five seconds is up, we’re still watching the video right up until we hit that button.

And general awareness and brand recall is really the foundation of the behavior flow that gets consumers to buy, whether it’s services, products, there’s a behavior flow that they naturally follow in the know like and trust process and brand awareness and brand recall are our major steps in that.

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