Your YouTube marketing strategies could be geared toward achieving certain goals, such as increasing traffic, profits, or engagements, or raising product and company recognition. But, regardless of your objective, we’ll look at a few techniques to examine the stats of your skippable in-stream advertising to understand whether they have been delivering the outcomes you want from your YouTube video promotions or not.

Examine the point at which people have been skipping your ad

With a skippable YouTube promotional advertisement, users can skip your ad after 5 seconds of seeing it. You just have to pay if they view at least 30 seconds of the advertisement, or the entire video if the ad is less than 30 seconds long. Concentrating on the 5-second mark will reveal whether or not people are engaged long enough to skip your ad.

You can see specific analytics on where viewers drop off for each video you’re utilising as an ad in Google Ads. Click on Videos in the second top left column to get this information. Then select Analytics from the drop-down menu. Take into account that if you’re utilising the same video as an ad in numerous advertisements, you’ll need to look at the statistics for each ad group separately. For the same clip in various ad groupings, the statistics might potentially vary.

Determine if users watch your ad post the initial 5-sec barrier

Undoubtedly, watch time is a crucial measure for YouTube commercials, but consider the fact that a significant portion of the people viewing your video may not be so keen on your product or service. Emphasize other statistics that have a broader objective than watch time to assist you to find more interested clients. Examining your acquired activities is one of the simplest methods to do this. Users take earned actions after they’ve completed a paid transaction from your commercial, such as viewing at least 30 seconds of your video, seeing the rest of the advertisement, or tapping on any of your video pop-up windows.

Find Out the Conversion rate

We’re not referring to the stats that show whether users are converting immediately from your YouTube Ads—those can be found easily in Google Ads’ conversion sections. What we’re looking for is to see if users are revisiting your webpage and then purchasing.

Put yourself in the shoes of the people who will be seeing your adverts. Is it to buy a thing or to watch a fun video that they went to YouTube? It’s most likely the latter. However, just because a user wasn’t willing to convert at the time doesn’t imply they weren’t intrigued. That’s why you should try to learn as much as you can about whether or not your YouTube advertising is influencing the entire customer experience.

Conclusion

Indeed, you can receive significant sales from your YouTube advertising strategies. It happens commonly in our experience. However, you must comprehend the genuine influence of YouTube ads on your advertising approach. While one constantly strives for conversions from their advertisements, they should also normally regard conversions as a cherry on the cake.

The majority of people don’t go to YouTube to purchase an item, download a PDF, or see a technology demonstration. People visit YouTube primarily to be thrilled or to learn something new. Video marketers who recognise the potential of YouTube recognise that they can still persuade viewers even though they’re not willing to buy right now.