Things I have learned from doing Reddit ads for techy
Client - tech related but skewed towards laptop gamers and tech enthusiasts. Have been working with this client for 2 years, so i have pretty much nailed targeting. Of course, I could optimize further, but right now it sounds like I need to optimize creatives rather than regular - Not all gamers are equal This might be specifically to this client, but because this product is aimed towards laptop gamers, it means that console, phone or even desktop gamers (PCMasterRace FTW) are not equal. That means the targeting needs to be aimed specifically at subreddits which are laptop related. Some of the target subreddits are directly related to laptops, some are brand communities but they are overtaken by laptop users. This means that subreddits like r/pcmasterrace might be fun to target, but they would not be interested in laptop related product. I also chosed only community targeting because 55% (this months data) of the reddit total traffic is from un-registered users, so we know that our target audience will definetely use our target communities for specific laptop related questions. ;) - Each country has different conversion rate This was actually a big game changer. Of course, we'd like to think that product could be sold with the same conversion rate throughout different countries. Sadly this is not the case. I mixed Reddit ads country data with Shopify to cross check the countries with lowest CPA and highest Conversion rate to target people with highest chance of the purchase. I also went with this route, because CPM is different from each country and while the conversion rate might be the same, having ads in US is WAY more expensive than somewhere in Europe (US has about $20 CPM while Europe has like $4). - Memes- great way to start the conversion I have found out that for awareness campaigns memes are awesome to create interest (works for almost any brand). The key is to find out which type of ads perform the best. I'll be honest, I have made dozens of meme ads and only 3-4 have really worked very well.