Cybereps Tests Banners to Attract Online Media Buyers

CHALLANGE

TotalWoman.com, a new women's site represented by Cybereps, wanted to line up potential sponsors and advertisers prior to launching.

CAMPAIGN

Cybereps decided to run a banner campaign to market the site to media buyers. After evaluating every marketing site out there, "There are a million of them," noted campaign media buyer Hank Deardon, they chose to run on four of them: ChannelSeven, AdWeek, MediaWeek and AdAge.com. "I chose them because they were highly targeted to online media buyers and I got good deals -- I got good cpm, good reports and people got back to me quickly."

Cybereps tested two different banners, both with a sweepstakes "Win a Weekend at Canyon Ranch" offer calculated to appeal to media buyers, the majority of whom are female. The first banner was a yellow background with red lettering, the second switched colors (red background with yellow lettering.)


RESULTS

Response to both banners was virtually identical, "except for MediaWeek where our yield went up 35% on the second one, so if you're gonna run on MediaWeek, run in red!" Deardon also noted, "The best deal was AdAge.com. It cost twice as much as the others but it yielded five times as much."

COST

The media buy netted out to an average $60/m.