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John:something we haven't really done too much of, but is an area that I think
John:that when we start to run more YouTube campaigns to pre-build these lists
John:this is kind of an advanced, strategy.
John:The specific campaigns, the Testi performance Max kind of boil down to.
John:GSP and display was not a really good idea.
John:You can use them.
John:Let your client know.
John:A lot of times they're like, Holy crap.
John:I didn't know you could do that.
John:Yeah, could we use their every video?
John:That's great.
John:I'll contact them and ask them if I can use it.
John:That's a really, really easy way to get buy in from a client that
John:may not want to run YouTube.
John:We could do this tomorrow.
John:So, yeah, the audience segmentation in market, infinity, YouTube marketing.
John:Ah, so YouTube and marketing with feeds to channel engaged users.
John:Here's something that I think that we should focus on a bit and something we
John:haven't really done too much of, but is an area that I think that when we
John:start to run more YouTube campaigns to.
John:Pre-build these lists.
John:This is kind of a, an advanced, I guess, strategy.
John:You go into tools and settings and you go into the audience manager.
John:You have to have a YouTube account linked up already.
John:But when you have linked your YouTube account, it give, it gives you the
John:ability to start to create really specific type of audience specific on YouTube.
John:So when you go into your data segments, click on the plus symbol and
John:type in and click on YouTube users.
John:Now what this will do is you get to select your channel, and this is
John:just my channel here cuz it's just linked up to my, my MCC account here.
John:But we'll have to link it.
John:Let me actually just pull into an actual channel here.
John:Hold.
John:Let me go into this one.
John:I don't know if I could do this one cuz we're banned from using
John:anybody, so let's just see.
John:All right, cool.
John:This works.
John:So this is the channel here.
John:And you know, we're gonna have the, the client subscribers and videos and you
John:can actually segment the users this way.
John:So, viewed any channel or is there, sorry, viewed any video from a channel.
John:Now this isn't someone else's, this is your channel.
John:So it says, viewed any video from a channel.
John:It's like, okay, well what's the channel?
John:My channel.
John:So you have to be able to link it up.
John:But if you say view any videos a view, a certain video, you can say, Okay, in
John:this channel that is yours, which video?
John:So you can actually start to, if you're running ads, And you're gonna have
John:organic traffic to that video as well.
John:I can actually segment to a person that's actually seen of very specific video.
John:The nice part about this is you can actually say, viewed any
John:video as an ad from a channel.
John:So not if they organically ran across the video, but they had
John:to have been impressed by the ad.
John:First.
John:They had to have seen it.
John:When they say seen it, that means viewed, which means watch longer than 10 seconds.
John:Now five seconds, 10 seconds.
John:So if they watch more than 10 seconds, then that's a view, an engaged view, or
John:whatever it is on that video as an ad.
John:Well, this is really, really great if I wanna build my own sequence to say, Hey,
John:you're, I'm gonna take, you know, Glen, now I'm gonna show Glen this ad first.
John:And now once he watches that, I'm gonna then put another video.
John:With an incentive, You know, we can start to build a own little mini funnel
John:inside of YouTube with our own videos, or even just the people that have
John:watched it on our channel organically.
John:We have a lot of organic channel views for us.
John:This is a great tool that we could use as well for solutions.
John:Eight.
John:There's viewed certain videos as an ad, so viewed any video as an
John:ad, used certain videos as an ad, subscribed to the channel, visited
John:our channel page, liked added any video from a channel to a playlist.
John:Or shared any video from a channel.
John:These are awesome, awesome insights.
John:If I'm like, Hey, I, that's a really cool product and I also think that
John:US is gonna love this product, then they say, Hey, check out this video.
John:I shared that video.
John:So you can actually start to segment these out.
John:What's nice about this is I can say, Okay, viewed any video from a channel,
John:let's just call that one, and we select our YouTube channel, and then
John:the Prefill options, I could prefill with people for the last 30 days.
John:So now, boom, instantaneous.
John:I got 30 days worth of all video viewers on my channel, or I can start empty.
John:Either way it, you make it very specific, but then the membership duration, I
John:can keep a person in this audience for 540 days, so I can backfill 30 days.
John:So from essentially starting day one.
John:To 570 days this audience will be, will be live.
John:And then as soon as day 571 comes about the first day, those people
John:exit my subscription of this audience, the membership of it.
John:So when you're talking about the YouTube remarketing this way here is
John:an excellent way to build an audience.
John:Now it's outside of you two though as well.
John:Think about this.
John:What if I said that if anybody did this, Viewed any video as an ad for my channel,
John:and I use this audience now on a, not an observation, but maybe a targeted audience
John:to my brand name in a search campaign.
John:So what am I doing?
John:I'm saying I'm pumping out a whole bunch of YouTube ads, and if anybody watched
John:that ad and then Googled my brand name, that person will be in that audience.
John:So I can see that this person saw my ad, then Google my brand name.
John:We're developing an attribution here.
John:So we can actually see those people that are, that are actually, and it's a
John:way for us to say like, Okay, well, is YouTube working while we're using YouTube?
John:And yes, it's working, but we can also see if they have brand engagement
John:by Google and the brand name.
John:You can simply attach this as an observation audience to
John:the existing brand campaign.
John:Now there's no more additional Aspen.
John:No new campaign, no new work.
John:Now, what's nice about this is we can say, yes, I'm already running a brand campaign
John:and I'm running YouTube, and did you know that of the last 237 brand conversions,
John:117 of them saw our YouTube add?
John:That is so powerful, John, because we don't have any insight into
John:outbound video except for that really, whether it's working or not.
John:So we would have to set up outbound video, then go into our existing brand campaign
John:and add an audience of people that.
John:People that viewed it a video ad.
John:Mm-hmm.
John:, which is this.
John:Mm-hmm.
John:, I guess.
John:And then we can show the clients, hey, our Upbound video is working
John:because here in branded audience here in Brand under Audiences, we
John:can see how many of the branded converters viewed a video ad first.
John:Mm-hmm.
John:. Cool.
John:That's really cool.
John:We can, even, if we wanted it could be a little bit more Little bit more
John:probably accurate, rather than viewed any video as an ad from a channel.
John:Because sometimes these people, for whatever reason, those don't populate.
John:I don't know why I've had this glitch out a few times, but what actually works
John:better is viewed any video from a channel which they could seen an ad, and then
John:they might have just went to our YouTube channel on their own for solutions.
John:Hey, yeah, that's gonna happen because we spend three grand a day on YouTube.
John:People are gonna keep seeing our at or at, or.
John:Oh, you know, they have a lot of videos that they go to YouTube.
John:If they type in youtube.com and go to our channel.
John:Now I have two points of conversions.
John:I can capture them on, viewed any video from a channel or viewed
John:any video as an add channel.
John:I can, I can count those as two different audiences.
John:But I would include this one.
John:Yes, it could capture a person that already knew about them and
John:had already been to their channel.
John:Then Google the brand name.
John:That's okay, but we need to have a backup cuz for whatever reason,
John:this one, I don't know why glitches.
John:I've tried this once where I'm like, okay, in a week we should have an audience and
John:it just never made it over like five.
John:I don't know why, but it would not count them.
John:So this is a little bit buggy, but when it works, it works well.
John:So this is just something that I would say is, is a good,
John:I good way to identify this.
John:Onca, are you here?
John:Yes, I'm here.
John:Could we add this to mm-hmm.
John:. Cool.
John:And.
John:Yeah, cause we're only running one.
John:We're only running one YouTube campaign and we only one brand, which is perfect.
John:Now there's not gonna be overlap cuz here's the bad part is anybody that clicks
John:on that YouTube ad may not Google the brand name and they may kind of skirt
John:past the brand campaign and just go brand themselves right into Performance Max.
John:So it kind of muddies it a little bit.
John:But it's a good lead indicator performance Max through a wrench
John:in all these old strategies here.
John:But if I'm running a brand campaign, Performance Max campaign, YouTube
John:campaign, YouTube engagement to Performance Max conversion, and
John:brands over here wondering what's going on, , it's not gonna, no one's
John:gonna show up in that audience.
John:So just know that there's gonna be a little bit of a.
John:Oddity.
John:But what is true though is I can build these audience and
John:then target them proactively.
John:Maybe I have a Performance Max campaign that is just using my data of all my
John:YouTube users and I wanna engage and offer to them wherever they may be.
John:Perfect Performance Max Campaign to the audience Signal, which is the people
John:that I built of my audience and go.
John:Could you using that strategy, John, from a brand perspective, if you wanted to
John:show a client that YouTube is actually getting brand conversions, create an
John:r ls a campaign, create ag groups with all those different YouTube audiences
John:and, and try that as an experiment.
John:Yeah.
John:Any conversions in that r l LSA campaign that's got all those YouTube audiences?
John:Boom.
John:There you go.
John:Yep.
John:Absolutely.
John:Did.
John:Any precise, When we start to dive into more YouTube YouTube driven
John:campaigns, this is not a glitch.
John:I'm interrupting the video you're watching because I need to remind
John:you that I'm always looking for people to join our team.
John:So if you're passionate about Google Ads and you wanna work with the best
John:Google Ads agency on the planet, please go to so late.com/apply.
John:Speaking of working with the best Google Ads agency on the planet, if you're having
John:trouble with Google Ads and you want professional help, That's what we do.
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John:free, no obligation action plan.
John:And if I've given you any level of value at all, maybe think about giving me a
John:thumbs up and to try to do our channel.
John:That's how we choose the YouTube algorithm, so they actually know
John:that I know what I'm talking about.
John:If you have questions, comments, concerns, or confessions,
John:hit me below in the comments.
John:And now back to your regularly scheduled program.
John:Those YouTube Those YouTube bodies is, we, we should set them up first
John:as if we could set 'em up first.
John:We can use them anywhere later on.
John:We can see how the audience grows.
John:I mean, it's, it's just a, it's it's free data development essentially.
John:And then Glen, we can attach a feed if we wanted to be like anybody that's
John:spending my channel view in a video as an ad, I can remark to them and
John:then put a product in front of them.
John:We can, we can start to attach those feeds to a really engaged user.
John:If I know that you've watched three of my videos as an ad, perfect.
John:I can probably start to engage you now with, with products, if I made commerce.
John:So we're talking about creative ways to scale commerce.
John:There's, this is a really good way to prove concept, but also remark to those
John:people that we know we're engaging right now, the specific campaigns, the test
John:side performance max kind of boil down to.
John:GSP and, and display was not a really good idea.
John:So that one kind of covers that topic.
John:That's the different types of type of funnel creation types, so that that
John:covers those two, which is basically at the end of the day YouTube.
John:But here's what's cool.
John:So if I'm gonna be in my YouTube top of funnel campaign, here's what I mean.
John:Use this with a high degree of speculation and only upon client's approval.
John:But if I have a YouTube ad right here, I can develop a new YouTube ad.
John:I'm just grabbing.
John:And if I go into YouTube and I go into as an example, I
John:can see if there's, All right.
John:Perfect.
John:And I'm not sure who this is, Heatless overnight curls, Let's say
John:this is someone that was like, Hey, this is an amazing product and I
John:love it and everyone should buy it.
John:And oh my gosh, this is great because she's a content creator.
John:She's also probably an affiliate marketer who is trying to earn a
John:following of money for herself.
John:Well, I could take that video actually, and then run that
John:as an ad to my own website.
John:So because I can use any YouTube video online that is public.
John:To YouTube.
John:This is completely fine.
John:Now what I cause an upset between, Yeah, probably.
John:There's probably something behind the scenes there that I can simply just grab.
John:We can also put, you know, our call to actions and our products
John:there so we can have a feed.
John:We put products in there, everything can be great.
John:We can say, Hey, this video is a, as a person that is reviewing our Heatless
John:hair curls, and I'm gonna put my Heatless hair curls products down here.
John:Awesome.
John:But.
John:Make sure that your client knows it's not their video and it's
John:driving traffic to themselves.
John:So that's the bad part.
John:Don't just do this, get it cleared by the get it cleared by the, what is it called?
John:The, the client first.
John:If it, what the hell was that?
John:I don't know.
John:I skipped it too fast.
John:I didn't even hear it.
John:I tried to mute it cuz it blasted my ear while I was talking, so
John:it wasn't even paying attention.
John:But that is how you use essentially curated content.
John:With other people's YouTube ads.
John:You can use them.
John:Let your client know a lot of times for like, Holy crap, I
John:didn't know you could do that.
John:Yeah, could we use the every video?
John:That's great.
John:I'll contact them and ask him if I can use it.
John:And that's a really, really easy way to get buy in from a client
John:that may not want to run YouTube.