8-Step Process
1. Come up with the messaging for your remarketing video.
If you know this advertisement will only be served to people who visit your website, the messaging should be catered specifically to lure them back to your website.
2. After you create your script, the next step is to actually film the video.
You want to make sure the video is high-quality so it properly reflects your brand image. Including a strong call to action at the end is crucial.
3. Make sure you upload your video to YouTube after the editing process is completed.
This will allow for you to easily integrate your video advertisement with Adwords.
4. Within your Google Adwords account, you will click on the “shared library” tab and create a remarketing list from audience section.
This will provide you with an Adwords tag. You will want to add this tag to all of your web pages, right before the tag. If you are not familiar with coding, just shoot this over to your developer. It will not take them more than 10 minutes to implement and can be customized based on your goals.
5. After you have successfully placed the pixel on your website and start to see your audience size growing, you will want to create a new campaign within Adwords and then select “video.”
You can name this “video remarketing.”
6. Set your desired budget, select your networks and choose your location.
Since this is a remarketing advertisement, we want to just select the YouTube network video, so this can be served as a pre-roll ad. Serve this to all countries and territories because someone from France can be visiting Sam’s Surf Shop site and eventually convert into a customer.
7. Paste your YouTube video link, insert your display URL along with your final URL and select your bid.
Now the important part to remember is in the targeting option at the bottom. You will want to narrow your audience by selecting “remarketing” which will allow for your advertisement to only be served to people who have visited your website. Remember, this connects the pixel that we placed on the site with the remarketing advertisement.
8. Don’t forget to create a video overlay, which can include an image and call to action within your video, which is often overlooked.
This can increase your conversion rate and clicks directly to your site from this remarketing campaign.
And, literally, that is it. The next time someone drops off of Sam’s Surf Shop website, they will see his video advertisement, which will raise awareness and should result in the viewer taking action.
If you had trouble following the step-by-step process, I have included a video below that shows an example of Sam’s Surf Shop display remarketing ads along with more detailed instructions on setting up a YouTube remarketing campaign.