What running banner advertising involves
From campaign structure and a full set of creatives to weekly placement cleanup. The ad account and the exclusion lists stay yours.
Display Network targeting
In-market and custom segments built from search terms, topics and hand-picked placements. Each method runs in its own campaign so the report stays readable.
Banner sets and responsive display ads
The full range of sizes, including vertical and mobile formats, plus asset sets for responsive display ads that fill non-standard slots.
Banner remarketing
Lists split by depth of engagement, separate messages for cart abandoners and category browsers, and exclusion of people who already bought.
Placement exclusions
Weekly review of the placement report, exclusion lists held at account level, and filtering out apps and games.
Brand safety and frequency capping
Sensitive content categories switched off, impressions per user capped, and campaigns separated by placement type.
Programmatic buying
For inventory outside the Google network or direct deals with publishers. We bring in a DSP when the volume justifies it.
Our clients’ results
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How we work
A display campaign is not judged by clicks. We track the cost of an action after contact with the banner and report view-through separately, so nothing is credited to display that it did not earn.
Exclusions matter more than targeting
A precise segment is worthless if impressions land in apps where clicks are accidental. We clean the inventory first, then narrow the audience.
Frequency is always capped
The twentieth view of the same banner annoys rather than persuades. The cap goes in on day one and is revised against frequency data.
No borrowed conversions
View-through conversions are shown as a separate line, never merged with direct ones. Otherwise banners beat every other channel on paper.
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Why banners need hands-on work
In search a campaign is held together by keywords; in display it is held together by the exclusion list. Google automation optimises bids, but it will happily spend the budget on mobile games and aggregator domains if nothing stops it. The value here is less in the launch than in what happens to the campaign every week afterwards.
The account and the lists stay yours
Ads run from your own Google Ads account. Remarketing audiences, accumulated exclusion lists and impression history remain with you whatever happens.
Design in-house
A complete set of sizes and creative refreshes do not depend on an external studio's queue. Testing a new message takes days, not a month.
Reporting with placements, not just reach
We show which sites served the impressions, what we switched off and why. An impression count without that list explains nothing.
How we launch display campaigns
Tags and segments first, then creatives, and only then budget. A campaign launched before remarketing is configured spends its first month blind.
Tags, segments and structure
Banners and assets
Launch and placement cleanup
Frequency, remarketing and scaling
Additional services
Google Ads
Targeted advertising
Google Analytics/GTM
Call tracking
YouTube advertising
Frequently asked questions about banner advertising
The questions that come up most often before a display campaign starts.