This morning at breakfast, my buddy John Fox who writes a marketing blog on the Huffington Post handed me an interesting article. The Wall Street Journal explains how Viacom has been piling more ads onto its TV channels like Nickelodeon.
They’re doing this because…
Anybody who’s developed a modicum of chops with Google ads knows how utterly Darwinian Google is. Most of your ads vanish forever after being seen by (maybe) a few thousand eyeballs. 3% of the advertisers get 50% of the traffic and everyone else fights over the scraps.
As an advertiser, you know that a major key to success is proliferating dozens of ads in as many creative directions as you can until you hit your customer’s “Sweet Spot.”
What you might not realize is how much AdWords can teach you about real evolution – the kind they debate in science class.
