Digital advertising is promotional material delivered to a target audience through digital platforms, including social media, email, search engines, mobile apps, affiliate programs, and websites. One of the main benefits of digital advertising is an advertiser can track in real time the success of the campaign. The goal of digital advertising is to inorganically advertise where consumers are and to customize ads to the target audience’s preferences. The first digital ad ran in 1994 as a banner ad. Since then, the advertising industry has significantly changed due to the introduction of GoogleAdWords, GoogleAdSense, and Facebook in the early 2000s. This industry will constantly evolve as the digital transformation, which is the use of technologies to create or modify business processes, continues.
Why Use Digital Advertising?
Advertisers use concrete data to design digital ads to push traffic to websites, generate leads, build awareness, establish credibility, connect with the target audience, and ultimately, generate sales. Some things to keep in mind when designing a successful digital advertising campaign are the goals of the company, a multi-strategy approach, and resources available. There are multiple different formats of digital advertising, such as:
