Ad Testing

Test ads iteratively to launch powerful creative that resonates

What Is It?

Ad testing with video puts your ads in front of the audience you care about. The context consumers share in video reactions helps you make memorable, effective ads.

What do you like about this ad?
A woman is taking a selfie in a living room for ad testing.

Why Use It?

Traditional ad tests provide performance indicators that are hard to action
Video ad testing highlights clear opportunities to improve ads
Enables you to iterate quickly and launch high-impact ads with confidence

How to Leverage It

01

Objective Setting

Outlining objectives helps test ads successfully. Running a pre-test during the creative process? Then your objective should be to find opportunities to improve pre-launch. Running a post-launch test? You’ll want to evaluate performance so you can optimize performance.

A hilarious and unforgettable ad testing scenario unfolds between a man and a woman.
A group of people conducting ad testing, featuring individuals with glasses and one with dreadlocks.
02

Creating Stimulus

Now you can choose what you want your test audience to see. Share the full creative for complete reactions, part of it to look for niche opportunities to improve, or unbranded ads to understand perceptions without brand bias. You can show your creative in the same format it will be viewed, whether that’s static, audio or video-based.

03

Determine Audience

When recruiting for ad tests, share your creative with people that match its eventual target audience. You can easily screen the people you want to reach with demographic and screening tools.

Two individuals, a man and a woman, with speech bubbles symbolizing ad testing on their faces.
What is your initial reaction to this ad?
What’s most memorable about this ad?
How could this ad be improved?
04

Curate Questions

Your video survey questions will help you discover the characteristics that create winning ads. Keep them open and ask how your imagery, messaging, and audio made people feel and why. Use multiple questions to explore appeal, believability, purchase intent, relevance, uniqueness, and recall.

The ad game is expensive! So if you’re spending dollars on creating and launching ads, it makes sense to test them.
What’s a question you’d like to ask consumers?