Notes on Paid Media

Field notes from 20+ years of running ad accounts.

Google Ads

The Power of AdWords Attribution Models

The Google Analytics attribution modeling tool has been around for a long time. Around 2014 a similar tool was introduced to Google AdWords as well. However, up until this point you could only analyse the…

June 3, 2019
Advertising

The Art of High-Performing Banner Design

There are two broad categories of banner ad designs: 1. Banners designed for “branding” purposes 2. Banners designed to generate leads and sales Unless you sit in Coca Cola’s marketing department with…

June 3, 2019
Advertising

7 Most Common AdWords Mistakes Even Pros Make

Over the last 10 years I’ve seen advertisers pay cost per clicks of up to $90 for zero value clicks and businesses spending $100,000 per month without any conversion tracking in place. Fortunately, these worst-case scenarios…

May 27, 2019