Programmable Marketing Basics Exam Answers

Programmable Marketing Assessment Answers
Programmable Marketing Exam Answers
Programmable Marketing Basics

Automated marketing will one day become the industry norm. This Learning path resets your marketing and advertising approach for success in this landscape. Take all the courses, pass the Assessment, and earn an Achievement to display on your profile.

Programmable marketing basics courses

Automate your marketing impact
Programmable marketing is on the rise and offers creative, scalable solutions for marketers. In this course, learn what makes it unique and see how a leading brand used it to make a huge, positive impact across the entire customer journey.
Meet the programmatic participants
Learn who does what and when with programmatic media buying
Define your programmatic audience
The digital world is becoming increasingly personalized and your customers demand messages that are relatable and relevant to them. This course explores how to identify your customers in a way that allows you to both scale and personalize your messaging.
Uncover your customer’s intent
People give thousands of signals into who they are and what they want every second of every day. This course explores how these signals illuminate intent and how you could use them to drive targeted and relevant messages to your customers.
Find programmable marketing signals
Being a successful programmable marketer means sending the right message to the right people at the right time. This course explores how to reach your audience at various stages along their path to purchase by using signals.
Create engaging programmatic messages
Programmatic creative needs to tell relevant stories in order to keep customers engaged. This course helps you decide what to say to your customers and when to say it. It explores data-driven and sequential messaging, as well as programmatic ad formats.
See programmatic creative in action
Jump-starting a programmable marketing strategy can be a daunting endeavor for any company. This course looks at ways leading brands have incorporated innovative programmatic creative into their campaigns and strategy.
Select KPIs for programmatic
Getting programmatic’s impact right can be challenging for many companies. This course shows why you should move beyond last-click attribution and how to get your measurement on track by choosing the right key performance indicators (KPIs).
Solve programmatic measurement problems
Measuring today’s consumer journey is tricky enough, but add the scale of programmatic marketing, it can be even more challenging. This course offers solutions to common measurement problems so that you can get the truest view of your marketing efforts.

1.) Imagine you’re prepping your team about an upcoming programmatic campaign and someone asks you how you’ll actually plan and buy ad space. What do you say?

This happens with demand-side platform technology
You’ll use ad publishers to help you with this
You’ll have to research all the different trading desks and pick one to help you
Use anything but an ad exchange to help with running campaign

2.) Which programmatic tool allows you to purchase individual impressions in auction-based environments?

Ad exchanges
Ad publishers
Demand-side platforms
Trading desks

3.) The other day you were searching for electronic music schools and visited some related sites. A few days later you were curious about how many calories were in the curry rice you had at lunch and searched “calories in curry rice”. You landed on a site with nutritional tips and noticed a display ad for an electronic music school. You decide to click on it. What signal was used to target you with this ad?

An earlier site visit of electronic music schools
People who searched for “where to buy chicken curry”
People who were interested in half marathons in the area
All those who searched for a recipe

4.) Imagine you’re trying to convince your board that investing in programmatic technology would be a step forward for your company. What do you think would convince them?

Tell them that after the initial investment and training, the efficiencies and return on investment would be worth the effort. There’s no better way to personalize and scale.
Focus on getting direct buying and real-time bidding right. It will seem expensive at first, but you’ll be able to save money by delivering one message throughout the entire journey.
Explain that with so many customers now using several devices, the journey is complex. Programmatic finds insights from your data for you, so you’ll be able to save on resources.
Insist that all of your competitors are using it, so you have to stay relevant. You’ll be able to keep your last-click attribution method because regardless of technology, it’s still the final conversion that truly counts.

5.) Jenni sells custom-printed t-shirts and knows that customers begin their journey online with research on their mobile devices and end up making most purchases using their desktop. But, on her recent programamtic campaign, mobile isn’t getting any credit. What would you recommend to solve this measurement problem?

Double-check current attribution model and replace if necessary
Implement several cross-channel measurement tools
Adopt a data-driven approach and stop investing in mobile messages
Get the mobile team to rethink their strategy and come up with a solution

6.) Ron markets football cleats for a sporting goods company and ran a dynamic campaign in the hope of increasing sales volumes. Conversions in the “See” stage were really low. Which explanation is the most plausible?

He may have used too many signals to target his audience, his message may been better suited for the “Think” stage, and the key performance indicator for the “See” stage could have been wrong.
He most likely provided too many details for the three customer portraits he chose. There is also a good chance that he didn’t use See, Think, Do, Care effectively.
He could have used the wrong format for his one marketing message. What is also probable is that he made a spelling error when inputting the settings in his programmatic tools.
He forgot to account for the app campaign that was running concurrently. In the app, customers were invited to join an exclusive club where they received information others didn’t.

7.) You work for a perfume company and identified a customer portrait for young, working moms who are fans of organic, natural products. How would you target them during the “Think” stage of See, Think, Do, Care?

Deliver a display ad that promotes a blog post on the top perfume ingredients that children are allergic to.
Send out an exclusive newsletter with instructions on how to apply for a loyalty discount card.
Create a search campaign based around the terms “looking for organic, hypoallergenic perfume”.
Make a pre-roll, skippable video ad that showcases the lifestyles of your target audience.

8.) You just received low results from an awareness campaign for a local non-profit you manage. You used a wide array of signals to make sure you provided relevant answers across the entire journey. What will you try next time?

Combine fewer signals, so that you reach more people
Completely start over from scratch with a new campaign
Combine even more signals, so that you are sure to reach more people
Absolutely nothing and let this pass you by as a lesson learned

9.) If you wanted to understand if the impressions you purchased were actually seen by customers, what measurement concept would you ask to know more about?

Viewability
Brand efficacy
Brand love
Impressions

10.) What would be the best key performance indicator for a coffee company that just opened and is trying to attract a new clientele?

Video views of a new video talking about their unique selling point around how they roast coffee
Number of customers who asked for a loyalty card
Number of up-sells of pastries and baked goods
Number of coffees purchased

11.) You’re surfing some of your social media sites and the exact same electronic music school advertisement from earlier in the day appears. Earlier, you clicked on the ad, but this time you don’t. What could have been done to be more relevant in that micro-moment?

The marketers’ ad could have said how your friend “liked” the school.
The marketers should have focused only on environmental signals.
The marketers should have ignored this micro-moment.
The marketers could have relied on more media signals.

12.) What would be the best format and message for a women’s clothing retailer in the “Do” stage?

Search with ad extensions offering discounts and a click-to-buy extension
Skippable pre-roll ad talking about how the clothing is manufactured and designed
Newsletter on tips to take care of your new garment
Blog post outlining fashion trends

13.) Louise, who works for a computer company, is trying to understand why customers she targeted in the “Care” stage didn’t convert. She sent them a “For your first purchase of software, get a discount” display ad. Why didn’t this work?

This message would have worked better for the “Do” stage.
This message catered to customer awareness.
This message would have worked better for the “See” stage.
This message would have worked better for the “Think” stage.

14.) If you were asked to explain programmable marketing to your peers, what should you say?

It’s the strategy behind the activation of technology that automates, scales, and personalizes marketing messages across the entire customer journey.
It’s the tools, such as demand-side and supply-side platforms, available to help scale, personalize, and automate marketing messages across the entire customer journey.
It’s about buying ad space when and wherever you want. It increases the complexities around decision-making and measurement, but the return on investment is worth the effort.
It’s really effective when trying to target a customer on one specific part of the customer journey. The key is choosing the right technology at the right time.It’s really effective when trying to target a customer on one specific part of the customer journey. The key is choosing the right technology at the right time.

15.) Ormond, who works for a national basketball franchise, wanted to reach more fans with new content. They identified new segments and aimed to deliver real-time, online, live game footage. Conversions were really low. Why didn’t this work?

The quality of the footage wasn’t appropriate. Most likely unforeseen and unreported technology issues were to blame.
Most likely, the targeted audience wasn’t segmented properly or the creative wasn’t strong enough to capture audience attention.
The fans they identified weren’t verified properly during the pre-advertising survey that was sent out.
Something must have gone wrong with the tagging of the analytics. The attribution algorithm wasn’t set up properly either.

16.) Your manager thinks the detail you’ve used in your customer portraits isn’t necessary. What should you do next?

Say that you see his point and that this is just a way for you to glean more insights. You’ll be prioritizing demographic data only.
Agree with your manager and redo all the portraits according to his vision. Implement a best practice to follow suit.
Advocate for keeping the detail in the portraits because it represents very accurately what the people in your focus groups told you.
Point out that the more you know about your audience, the more targeted you can be with your messages across the entire journey.

17.) To capture the “Do” stage for a marketing campaign selling men’s razors, you invited users who watched your entire pre-roll ad to sign up for a newsletter on male grooming trends. The results were dismal. Why?

This tactic didn’t consider personas or opposites attract thinking.
This would have been better as an awareness campaign.
This was a great idea to reward loyal customers.
This tactic would have been appropriate for the “Think” stage.

18.) Rodrigo’s campaign to increase automobile sales using an online car configurator didn’t convert as hoped. The configurator usage was high, but sales were low. What went wrong?

The attribution model fails to take the role of the configurator into account.
The algorithm on the data-driven attribution model was off.
The “Care” section of the customer journey was ignored.
Programmatic can’t track online and offline sales very well.