Viewability is not the only metric

When it comes to Native advertising, performance is about a lot more than simply having your eyeballs on the ad.

Without doubt, ad viewability is an important parameter of success for some campaigns, the link to performance depends on targets. There is audience delivery to consider, but also other measurable metrics exist.

In fact, here at Vertis Media, it’s been proven the percentage of ad viewability is actually rarely the best indicator of performance success for campaigns. Instead, sales are the focus of our campaigns. We have never attached KPIs to our ad viewability rates- rather we consider content engagement and the cost attached to them as being metrics that make much more sense.

When it comes down to it, it’s not only about the viewability rates, but it’s also about the cost.

Native ads, because of the pre-programmable optimisation process they rely on, make it possible to allocate less financial resources for campaigns that are still effective. For brand and performance campaigns alike, today’s programmatic native buying environment enables businesses’ budgets to be allocated to real-time to sources that deliver the lowest cost per action — sources that may not always have the highest ad viewability rates.