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Geo-Targeted Mobile

Display and video ads on mobile devices, targeted by where someone has physically been as well as who they are and what they do online. It is the channel that connects an ad impression to a real-world visit, because the same location data that targets the ad can report whether the person later turned up.

How we target

  • Geography first
  • Online behaviour — sites visited, searches, videos watched, products viewed, forms completed
  • Offline behaviour — places visited, stores shopped, events attended
  • Geo-fencing and geo-retargeting, plus geo-retargeting lookalike
  • Address targeting and address retargeting
  • Weather trigger
  • Cross-platform targeting
  • Behavioural targeting and retargeting

Worth knowing

  • On-site visit tracking reports people who saw the ad and then came to your business with their phone within two weeks, on your monthly report.
  • Certain state restrictions apply to geo-fencing, categories, address targeting and visit tracking.

Geo-Targeted Mobile in the field

Campaigns we have run on this channel. Clients are described by sector rather than named.

Political

A senate primary campaign closed with screens and phones in the same districts

A state senate candidate needed saturation inside specific districts in the closing days before a primary.

What we ran

  • Mobile ads served against an address list for the senate district
  • Digital Out-of-Home screens across the same geography for the final push
Mobile impressions
800,000+
Clicks
3,860
Out-of-Home impressions by Super Tuesday
25,064
Outcome
Won with 53% of the vote

Powersports retail

A motorcycle dealership added mobile and was up 15% in a month

A Harley-Davidson dealership wanted a new audience without changing anything else in its marketing.

What we ran

  • Location-based mobile targeting around the dealership's catchment
  • Behavioural targeting against in-market riders
Click-through rate
0.36% — over 5× the national average
Change in the first month
Up 15%, with mobile the only addition
Attributed activity
53 clicks, 4 estimated store visits, 2 view-through conversions

Home services — roofing

Real-time geofencing plus Live Chat produced 154 billable leads

A southern-based roofing company wanted awareness in the areas it was actively working, and leads rather than traffic.

What we ran

  • Mobile ads geofenced to active service areas in real time
  • Live Chat on the website to qualify the resulting visitors
Impressions since launch
300,000+
Click-through rate
0.71% — over 10× the national average
Real-time geofencing click-through rate
1.01%
Billable leads in five months
154

Questions we get asked

Are there places geo-fencing cannot be used?
Yes. Certain states restrict geo-fencing, some targeting categories, address targeting and visit tracking. We will tell you which of those apply to your geography before a campaign is built rather than after.
How many clicks should I expect?
The national average click-through rate for digital display advertising is about 0.07%, so 100,000 impressions should produce at least 70 clicks through to your website. On 300,000 impressions that is roughly 210 visits. Campaigns we run frequently beat that average by several multiples, but the benchmark is what any plan should be built on rather than the best case.
How many of those clicks turn into leads or sales?
That depends on your own website conversion rate, not on the ads. Take the share of visitors who currently do what you want them to do and apply it to the expected clicks: at 300,000 impressions and a 5% site conversion rate, roughly 210 clicks would produce about 10 conversions. If you do not know your current conversion rate, that is the first thing worth measuring, because it sets the ceiling on everything paid media can deliver.
Can you track whether someone who saw an ad came to my location?
Yes, on the channels that serve to mobile devices. If someone sees the ad and then visits your location with their phone within fourteen days, that visit can be attributed and reported. It is shown on your monthly report as verified and estimated visits.
What counts as a conversion, and do you measure view-throughs?
A click conversion is someone who clicked the ad and then completed the action you are tracking. A view-through is someone who saw the ad, did not click, and arrived at your site and converted later. Both are reported separately, because counting only clicks understates what awareness channels like video, audio and Connected TV actually do.
What does optimisation actually involve?
Concrete changes during the flight rather than a monthly status call: adjusting daily budget and bids, changing the frequency cap, adding targeting categories and keywords to widen inventory, adding ad sizes, rewriting copy, and adding retargeting once there is enough traffic to retarget. AI bidding handles what it is good at; the account team makes the judgement calls it is not.
How is my campaign protected from ad fraud and unsafe placements?
Campaigns run behind a DoubleVerify filter at no additional cost. Every impression has to satisfy both your targeting and DoubleVerify's authentication, which covers brand safety — keeping ads away from content you would not want to appear beside — and fraud, by not bidding on inventory that fails verification.
Why not just ask customers how they heard about us?
Because people misremember, reliably and in predictable directions. It is a well-documented effect in local advertising: audiences routinely name channels a business never ran. It is a reasonable conversation starter and a poor attribution method, which is why reporting here is based on tracked clicks, view-throughs and visits instead.

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