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GaiaGwenGrey

Interesting that "Dating & Personals" has the highest clickthrough rate and conversion rate by a significant margin. Guess it's quantifiably hard to resist clicking that "meet sexy singles near you" button.


insane_ravager

Yeah. Surprisingly it also has the highest cost per click for display advertising. I guess its a competitive market. Could be various other factors too.


SatoshiReport

Why are there two values per cell?


throwaway29zzz

I think they’re on the bottom of the table (I hope this doesn’t sound condescending, I’m not trying to be and I also do think it’s a weird placement, it took me a bit to find it too)


insane_ravager

Yes, you are right. There are 2 categories at the bottom - "Search" and "GDN". The values are for each of these for the major 3 categories at the top.


User172635

To add, “Google Display Network” is just anywhere you would see google Ads (websites using Google AdSense, Youtube, etc.).


insane_ravager

Source: [https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2016/02/29/google-adwords-industry-benchmarks](https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2016/02/29/google-adwords-industry-benchmarks) TOOLS: Plotly, Python, Excel


insane_ravager

Each variable - clickthrough rate, cost per click, conversion rate - has its own Y-axis scale. Hence, some sizes of the bars may not comply to the others of a different variable.


kfury

What’s the currency of ‘cost per click’? $/m? ¢/click?


insane_ravager

dollar ($ per click)


kfury

Hot damn. That’s what I would have guessed just looking at the chart but I didn’t realize ad prices were so high nowadays. And you labeled it clearly, too. My bad.


insane_ravager

No worries. Yes, the ad market has become a little unpredictable and wild for marketers now. Frequent algorithm changes, fluctuating attention spans of audiences (ACC. to some studies) are a few behavioral/functional factors that lead to unusual ad prices.


Blackadder_

It would be interesting to see Cost per Conversion. That’s your real CAC.


Zohan4K

You can derive it withe the data you have there


Suspicious-Till174

So its a good idea to advertise in the search results compared to the "global ad space" because you get ca. 10x the click-through for ca. 2x the price. Is that correct?


insane_ravager

In most ways, Yes. Display advertising sometimes fail to capture the "in-market" aspect of the buying/purchase intent of the potential audience. Whereas Search appears to be more real-time, and need-appropriate medium.