Media Strategy

A solid paid media strategy is crucial for setting your campaign up for success while maximizing your paid media return.

Investing in paid media can be incredibly beneficial for achieving campaign success and connecting with the right audience. Creating a paid media strategy is key to maximizing that investment and getting the most out of your campaigns. A sound paid media strategy ensures you have a clear purpose and defined goals, while layering in all the elements such as targeting, placement, optimization and reporting that play critical roles. This approach helps ensure campaigns stay on track, deliver effective performance and regularly improve – giving each brand confidence in a strong return on paid media investment.

Our Paid Media Strategies Include

Media Channel Mix

Whether it’s a mix of digital, traditional, or both; Next Edge Media will help come up with the ideal channel mix to hit your marketing goals. Our qualitative and quantitative data driven insights will help decipher the optimal channels to garner the strongest paid media performance.

Media Funnel

Next Edge Media helps design a custom conversion funnel, with a strategy to steer a consumer from prospect through to conversion. Each segment within the media funnel include specific strategies and KPIs aligned to generate the most efficient performance.

Flighting Recommendation

Each brand’s seasonality and sales process varies. Next Edge Media works with each brand to ensure the paid media flighting directly aligns with key tentpole events, sales, or general seasonality. Our objective is to maximize each paid media dollar to generate the strongest return.

Testing Strategy

In the ever-evolving world of paid media, it is crucial to always be at the forefront of ad technology. With each plan, we look to employ a proven testing methodology to continuously learn which new placements, ad units, platforms, audiences, or targeting are driving performance.

How Do We Get Started With Paid Media?

01 Campaign Briefing

Campaign briefings are essential to ensure the success of each advertising campaign. At the briefing, clients and media planners prepare by gaining a complete understanding of campaign parameters such as goals and objectives. This level of comprehension is necessary in order for the corresponding paid media recommendation and strategic roadmap to be properly conveyed. Campaign briefings enable us to hit the ground running, ensuring that every detail necessary for a successful campaign is taken into account before implementation begins.

02 Media Planning and Strategic Roadmap Development

Strategic Roadmap

Next Edge Media is proud to offer strategic roadmaps tailored to each brand’s specific goals and objectives – whether short-term or long-term. Our expertly curated media plans will transform the way you look at paid media, proving its worth with tangible, measurable growth that directly aligns with each brand’s vision and values. With our strategic roadmap and knowledge of cutting-edge changes in the digital sphere, you can be sure to maximize every penny of your budget – transforming every dollar of spending into twofold long-term success.

Media Plan

The media plan provided serves as a practical tool to realize each brand’s objectives, goals, and KPIs that have been identified within the Strategic Roadmap. This media plan can be utilized to ensure effective media reach of the target audiences in the most cost-efficient manner. We believe the media plan is an integral part of successful execution that will support each brand in achieving their targets and objectives with maximum success.

Previous Campaign Audit

Next Edge Media will also be happy to conduct a campaign audit of any previous ad accounts to ensure best practices are implemented and utilized.

03 Media Plan Alignment

All aspects of the media plan are to received client approval prior to launch — our goal is to ensure complete transparency and alignment so each brand has a full picture of their paid media presence. We also provide a custom dynamic performance dashboard to ensure each brand has access to the latest paid media reporting and insights.

04 Paid Media Buying

Next Edge Media is driven to deliver media efficiency and return on media investment for our clients. After media plans are approved, the media buying process begins. Through ongoing media negotiations armed with intelligence, Next Edge Media is able to maximize results across any budget. We understand media buying inside-out, striving hard to pinpoint and execute the finest optimization strategies throughout the campaign period with fluid budgets to ensure greater returns.

05 Media Tracking & Analytics

Our media tracking and analytics are the cornerstone to effective campaign management. From the launch of each campaign, we ensure that both media tracking and analytics dashboards are accurately established for each brand in their media campaigns. With these, brands have full visibility in all media tracking associated with campaign performance and also any insights that emerge from the media data they generate. As such, data driven insights become more informed and can better inform how we refine our campaigns going forward. Together, media tracking and analytics represent a powerful model to help brands create successful media campaigns.

06 Campaign Management

At Next Edge Media, campaign management is an area we continue to excel. With the launch of each campaign, we review performance to guarantee that each brand’s advertising dollars are being spent in the most effective and budget-friendly way. Our dedication to close monitoring of campaign performance enables us to achieve each brand’s campaign goals as quickly and cost-effectively as possible.

07 Paid Media Reporting & Recaps

Our custom dashboard features visualizations that make monitoring paid campaigns effortless and quick, so our clients are always up to date on the challenges, successes, and opportunities from any paid media efforts. We prioritize full transparency and knowledge-sharing by breaking down key paid media performance metrics with comprehensive insights at all times – making sure our clients have full visibility into the success of their paid campaigns.

Having an extensive paid media strategy which optimizes everything from channel mix to flighting is crucial to a successful campaign.

With the ever changing paid media landscape, it is also increasingly important to implement a proper testing strategy to ensure each brand is utilizing the advancements in paid media advertising.

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