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The digital campaign dilemma: costs, quality and solutions

Créo's Anisha Sagar explains why digital advertising isn’t going away, but may be reaching the end of its golden age.

digital advertising"Marketers thriving today are those treating performance marketing not as a shortcut, but as one piece of a broader strategy that includes education, emotional connection and building trust over time."

Today’s digital campaigns offer marketers unprecedented control, a significant leap from the limitations of the pre-digital era. We now take it for granted that we can target the right person, at the right time, on the right platform. We can then iterate and optimise based on data. Smarter decisions can be made, because every click and every conversion is tracked. We have real control, and we can scale with ease.

But there’s a problem. In crowded industries, running digital ads can be a case of diminishing returns as costs per lead (CPL) climb, and even when leads do come in, they’re lukewarm at best. We have at our disposal a remarkable marketing ecosystem but the fact remains that


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.