The Return On Advertising Spend Metric

The Return On Advertising Spend Metric

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  • avatar

    Hi Matt…. defining a sustainable or target ROAS really depends on your margin or ROI.
    On low margin products even an amazing ROAS might not make the necessary margin to support the business model.
    I suggest pulling a table together of UNIT COST/UNIT ADVERTISING COST/REVENUE/MARGIN/ROAS/ROI; and then varying ad spend accordingly to see what works. Define the ROAS target…..test and cut anything that is not at the required level.
    Hope that helps!
    Jon 🙂

  • avatar

    My question on ROAS is what is a "good" number.  The number I was given by our tech people is 300-500%, and b/c right now our number is so much higher than that, they are saying we are doing great, but our is a VERY niche business and so what is a good number for a market with only a few players vs. a good number for mass players?

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    Hey Ryan!
    Thanks for the comment. In a simple world where we are comparing the static hypothetical situation you suggest, then the answer IS relatively simple. However, if you combine your suggested situations (and add 5-10 more) then ROAS plays a part in understanding budget allocation. For example, your customer wishes to add $500 to their spend… then my suggestion would be to initially place it in situation 1 see if you can maintain the 1000x return and generate $500K. If you place this in situation 2 then you might expect $5000 in additional revenue.
     
    When we manage multiple campaigns we trend the ROAS for each over time to understand how effective they are being.
     
    Really we use ROAS is an alternative to ROI because we do not have the full understanding of customers total investment (including full operational costs etc).
     
    I hope this helps.. thanks for your post!
     
    Jon

  • avatar

    I'm sorry to come late to this conversation.  I found this post because I am currently doing some SEM work for a company that really likes to use the metric (ROAS) and I wanted to find out why anyone would use this metric.  In my opinion, it is completely useless.  Maximizing ROAS does not necessarily lead to maximizing profit.  There are much better ways to use your Revenue and Cost numbers to maximize profit.  What about Revenue – Cost.  I think businesses would be much rather know that number.
    Hypothetical situation 1:
    Revenue = $1,000.00
    Cost = $1.00
    ROAS = 1000
    Profit = $999.00
    Hypothetical situation 2:
    Revenue =$10,000.00
    Cost = $1,000.00
    ROAS = 10
    Profit = $9,000.00
    Which of these situations would you rather be in?  If you answered 1, you should probably find a new career.

  • avatar

    David – Bang on…. measure and make intelligent decisions. Any marketing budget should be measured and tuned for maximum effect.
    Mia – Thanks for the comment. I understand your reservations. Please let me clarify.
    Obviously,operational vs revenue is essential for understanding ‘Business Effectiveness’ and how profitable one’s business model is.
    For the purpose of specifically measuring ‘Ad Campaign Effectiveness’ operational costs introduce too many variables that clutter the effect of campaign tuning. If I’m deciding whether to adjust spend on Google Adwords or the effect of recent content changes then I do not need to see my facilities or resource costs built into this. In fact their inclusion would remove the abilibty to measure effectively.
    It takes 2 minutes to create a ROAS report using analytics and gives you a simple reference point from which to tune.
    Hype is irrelevant, ROAS is simply a measurement. The ‘new improved’ tape measures may be hyped but the inch is just there to measure with. The inch has no flaws unless you measure incorrectly with it! 🙂
    Really, the point of this post is to say: “To get the best from your advertising dollar 1) Measure, 2) Present data in a format that allow decisions on ad campaign to be made and 3) measure the effect. Then repeat.”

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    Companies need to exercise utmost caution while spending money on advertising. It could help you scale up your sales or it could be a mere waste of money. Either way, one needs to keep a tab on the money spent on ads. Yes, Google Analytics is an extremely useful tool to measure your ROAS and can help you judge the pros and cons on your adspends.

  • avatar

    I am not fully convinced about this much hyped ROAS. Yeah, I agree, it measures whether we are making more money than you are spending, but there is more to it. It’s fine, providing an initial indication of the status of our overall program and perhaps individual campaigns. But ROAS has a number of defects and even flaws, and I am not a big supporter of it. I think we need to see more about the operational costs of revenue vs expense.

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