Twitter is the third most preferred social media platform in the world and one of the most preferred channels by marketers. Especially introducing the concept of the hashtag to the world, the advertising channel of this special platform also offers very interesting features.
Twitter enables advertising to anyone who has an account. So let’s see how you can create and manage ads on Twitter with screenshots and valuable tips.
After opening your ad account at https://ads.twitter.com/, you will see the campaign creation screen.
After opening your ad account at https://ads.twitter.com/, you will see the campaign creation screen.
On this screen, you can create different campaign types according to your goal.
Tweet engagement: You can choose this target to maximize interaction (retweets, replies, etc.) with your promoted tweets.
Promoted video views: You can choose this option if you want Twitter users to watch your videos or GIFs. You are charged for each video view.
Awareness: As an appropriate target, you want the maximum number of people to see your promoted tweet. In this campaign model, you are charged based on the cost per 1000 impressions (CPM).
Website clicks or conversions: It is a suitable campaign model if you want users to visit and interact with your website. In this model, you will be billed per click (CPC).
In-stream video views: In-stream refers to the ads displayed before the video. It is a type of campaign that you can use on Twitter’s premium content partners to run a short video ad at the beginning of the videos. You are billed for every video view.
Followers: It is a campaign model that you will use for your Twitter account to expand your number of followers. You are billed for each new follower, but you are not charged for other interactions such as retweets and likes.
App installs: This is the campaign model you should choose if you want Twitter users to install your mobile application. In this model, you will be billed for each app install.
App re-engagements: If you want to prepare campaigns to trigger people who already have your mobile app to open and use the app, you should use this model. You are billed for each app click.
After choosing the most suitable one of these campaign models (we chose the most preferred Website click or conversion target in this example), the Campaign Setup screen will appear.
On this screen, you can enter details such as campaign name, budget (daily or total budget) and the time of publishing of the campaign, and go to the next screen. On the next screen, you will see the details of the ad group.
The ad group is a subcategory of your Twitter campaign. For your first Twitter ad campaign, you probably want to adhere to an ad group. You can divide your campaign into ad groups to target different audiences in Twitter ads, use different creatives, or test different budgets and timings.
For this reason, if you want to give your ad group a special budget, you can do so - this is completely optional. If you do not budget your ad group, it will be distributed equally to all the groups you create from your campaign's budget.
You can also select the bid type on this page. Automatic bid, Target Cost and Maximum bid options are available. If you choose Automatic bidding from the Bid type section, it will automatically adjust your bid to get the best results at the lowest price based on your Twitter budget. This is a good way for new Twitter advertisers to start and learn how the Twitter offer works.
In the Optimization preferences section, you can determine whether your campaign will be optimized by click or conversion. You can choose whichever is the priority for you in this area.
After making the necessary selections on the Ad Group screen, you will see the targeting screen.
For targeting, primarily targeting criteria such as age, gender, location, and language are selected from the Demographics area.
Here you can also make more technology-based targeting such as device, operating system, operator.
Then you can start making detailed targeting from the “Audience features” section.
The main targeting breakdowns are:
Events: Suitable for event targeting. Sub-breaks such as cinema, politics, sports, and conferences can be selected by browsing. Or you can find the desired activity type by searching.
Interest: You can choose the general interests of Twitter users you will target from the options. There is a wide range of interests, from sports to health, science to games.
Conversation topics: In this option, you can target people who tweet or interact with specific conversation topics.
Follower look-alikes: You can target people with similar interests to the followers of an account. For example, @Eurosport will target people likely to be interested in the TV channel Eurosport.
Keywords: As the name suggests, here you can enter custom keywords that define or target your audience, and show ads to that audience.
Movies and TV shows: In this option, you target people who tweet or interact with movies and TV shows in a particular market.
In the meantime, you can easily create your target audience by typing your keywords in the search field.
You can create your target audience in the best way by choosing one or more of these targeting options together.
After opening an account, creating a campaign, choosing an ad group and audience, you will create the Tweet that you will promote in the last stage.
You can choose the tweet you will promote from the Creatives area from your previous tweets. This is a very quick and easy way, but in this example, we will use a tweet specific to your advertising campaign. For this reason, we continue with the Create Tweet button.
A new screen opens under the ads.twitter domain, and after that, it is almost the same as the classic tweet logic.
You can enter the text, link, image or video of the tweet you will create on this screen and add hashtags.
You can also add a tweet card you created using the card library or add a poll.
What you can do on the Tweet screen is quite diverse and it is up to your imagination.
You can set your tweet to be shared at a specific time if you wish.
After sharing your tweet, your campaign and ads go through a review process and run if they comply with the policies.
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