Research Library
Welcome to our multi-media library of custom research from Google and select partners, case studies, interviews with thought leaders, soundbites from our many industry events, and more. It's designed to arm marketers and agencies with knowledge and proof points to move their businesses forward. Everything's free and on-demand — pick a topic and browse away!
Studies
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Cross Media AnalysisMeasuring Google Display Network (GDN) in the media mix (AllSecur)
An efficient ROI model consists of three components: Cost per contact, percent of waste generated, and impact caused by the marketing format. Each individual media type has a different impact. TV reaches the majority of the population, but the Google ...
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MSC Industrial Supply and Rosetta Boost Sales with Dynamic Search Ads
MSC Industrial Supply, a leading American direct marketer and distributor of products for metalworking and maintenance, distributes more than 600,000 items. MSC worked with Rosetta, an interactive agency, to find ways to drive incremental sales and expand their ad ...
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Zoro Tools Increases Reach and Lowers Cost-per-Acquisition with Product Listing Ads
Zoro Tools, an online supplier of over 250,000 industrial products, had limited resources and a massive product assortment. They had been using Adwords all along, but was intrigued with Google Product Listing Ads (PLA) because it allowed them to ...
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The New Multi-Screen World
Today 90% of our media consumption occurs in front of a screen. As consumers balance their time between smartphones, tablets, PCs and televisions, they are learning to use these devices together to achieve their goals. This multi-screen behavior is quickly ...
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Mobile Sites Drive Growth For Small Businesses
Learn three ways mobile-friendly websites are moving businesses forward and 10 best practices for building a mobile site in this quick sheet created by Google and DudaMobile, including:
- Mobile-friendly websites benefit your customer, and in turn your business. These sites ...
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Increase ROI with Mobile Search Ad Extensions
Mobile paid search ROI increased by 20x and mobile site traffic grew by 200% for Starwood.Preview the Study Download: PDF
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TV and In-Stream Video Ad Effectiveness
Pre-roll video ads are playing an increasingly important role in online media plans, and many advertisers wonder how these newer formats compare with traditional TV ads. YouTube partnered with Ipsos on a study to understand how they complement or compete ...
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Volvo Across Screens
Groundbreaking cross screen research helps reveal the full branding benefits of advertising beyond just TV. This case study with Volvo reveals:
- 74% of those exposed to Volvo's ads across multiple screens - TV, mobile and video - recalled the brand successfully ...
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Optimal Media Mix to Drive Scripts (Rx)
A global pharmaceutical sought to quantify the impact of digital channels on Rx scripts. MSP helped them find that:
- a 73% increase in online allocation and 54% decrease in TV allocation resulted in a 50% increase in prescriptions
- Indirect effects ...
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Optimal Media Mix to Drive New Accounts for Scottrade
This Google/MarketShare media mix study investigates the optimal media for financial services firm, Scottrade's customer acquisition.
- Search activity drove 39% of new account openings
- Online display and TV - including the search traffic they drove - were the most effective ...
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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Digital Advertising
Digital advertising delivers powerful results for advertisers - but running digital campaigns has become too complex. Google commissioned The Boston Consulting Group to better understand the potential to improve efficiency and create more value in digital campaigns. Using "lean" methodology to ...
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Understanding Incremental Reach: Banco Popular
This research shows how GDN can optimize TV campaigns not only in terms of reach generation but also by creating a better balanced OTS distribution and increasing media planning efficiency.
Key Findings:
- GDN campaign reached 52,1% of target and ...
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Videos
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YouTube and TV Are Better Together Video
Research
YouTube and TV Are Better Together Video
Six advertisers participated in a study to see if viewers engage with online pre-roll ads the same way they do with TV ads. Find out why YouTube and TV ads work better together.
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Relevant vs. Possible
Interview
Relevant vs. Possible
Russ Klein, Former President of Global Marketing of Burger King, believes that advertisers should distinguish between what is relevant and what is possible for a particular platform. Rather than try to make everything possible on a single device, find out ...
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Online & Offline
Interview
Online & Offline
Kevin Lilly,, Senior Vice President and Digital Director fir Starcom, discusses vertical and horizontal integration of online into marketing campaigns. Key players communicate horizontally across platforms but are able to dig deep into their own specialty. Being consumer-centric means understanding ...
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Digital Facets
Case Study
Digital Facets
Kim Feil, CMO of Walgreens, explains that digital is not a program in itself but a part of all programs. As Walgreens becomes more proficient at incorporating digital into larger campaigns, there will be more focus on digital-only campaigns.
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Television
Interview
Television
Dennis Cary, CMO/SVP of Bally Total Fitness, describes television and direct-response television as an important, high-impact element for the Hispanic market. However, as with all markets, television drives a variety of online activities, and the whole marketing mix comes to ...
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Interest & Consideration
Interview
Interest & Consideration
Nick Bell, Director of Campaign Marketing at Adobe Systems, talks about spending most of his budget in the interest/consideration category. Loyal customers become evangelists for the brand, so the brand is known by the company it keeps.
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Multi-Channel Campaigns
Interview
Multi-Channel Campaigns
Adam Schlachter, Director of Digital Investment at MEC, talks about working on multi-channel, multi-silo campaigns. It is not about having a print strategy or tv strategy, but about reaching the consumer with the right message at the right time. When ...
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Display Advertising
Interview
Display Advertising
Terence Kawaja, Managing Director of GCA Savvian Advisors, observes that in coming years, display will continue to be smaller than search and a fraction of television. What is learned about attribution in digital display will impact understanding of offline media.
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Offline Still Relevant
Case Study
Offline Still Relevant
Teresa O'Sullivan, VP of Marketing for Corinthian Colleges, Inc, talks about how her school uses traditional media to complement and push the online content. O'Sullivan gives an example of how her company used testimonials to tie their television ads to ...
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Online Political Campaigning
Interview
Online Political Campaigning
Matthew Gagnon, a Republican political strategist, talks about the importance of having an online element to a marketing campaign, but emphasizes that it needs to work in an integrated way with the rest of the campaign.
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Tips on Integrating Online and Offline to Target Moms
Interview
Tips on Integrating Online and Offline to Target Moms
Patrick Kraus, Director of Pampers, N.A. shares how to best integrate online and offline efforts for moms.
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Understanding the Total Marketing ROI
Case Study
Understanding the Total Marketing ROI
See how Pc City (part of the DSGi group), used Google search query volume to understand their total media and marketing effectiveness.
Infographics
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The Growing Face of Advertising on YouTube 2012
The Growing Face of Advertising on YouTube 2012
As YouTube's global audience hit 800 million users in 2012, YouTube's content inventory has kept pace and has grown to 160 channels of original programming. Google looked at audience reach and brand metrics across 448 campaigns in 6 countries (U.K., ...
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The New Multi-Screen World Infographic
The New Multi-Screen World Infographic
A visual summary of how consumers use different devices together. Multi-screening has quickly become the norm and people have developed specific preferences related to using devices at the same time or in sequence.
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YouTube and TV are Better Together Infographic
YouTube and TV are Better Together Infographic
A quick visual summary around the results of a YouTube/Ipsos study that demonstrates how recall rate for both YouTube ads alone and YouTube/TV ads combined is the same or better than TV ads alone.
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2012 Search Ads Pause Experiments
2012 Search Ads Pause Experiments
In 2011, Google released a study called “Search Ads Pause” that showed the amount of search ad traffic that is incremental to traffic from an advertiser’s organic search results. On average, we found that 89% of paid traffic to an ...