Digital Marketing

Reach Beyond the People Already Searching

Display and remarketing across two million sites and YouTube — targeted by audience, filtered hard on placements, and judged by what it actually contributes to conversions.

  • Placement exclusions from day one
  • Creative for every required size
  • Measured on assisted conversions
  • You own the ad account

Is this you?

Four Signs Display Is Being Wasted

Display has a reputation for burning budget. It earns that reputation in these four ways.

  • Search is capped and growth has stalled

    You're already capturing everyone who searches. Growth now means reaching people before they start looking.

  • Visitors leave and never come back

    Traffic arrives, browses, and disappears — with nothing bringing the ones who nearly converted back again.

  • Your display spend has no exclusion list

    Ads running on parked domains, made-for-advertising sites and mobile games, quietly consuming budget.

  • You're judging display on last-click

    It looks like it converts nothing, because the model gives every sale to whatever the person clicked last.

Overview

Display Done With Discipline

Audience, placement control and creative — the three things that separate reach from waste.

The Display Network reaches most of the internet, which is exactly why it's so easy to waste money on. Left to defaults, campaigns spread across parked domains, low-quality apps and sites built purely to serve ads, generating impressions that flatter a report and influence nothing. Run deliberately, it's the most cost-effective way to build demand and recover the visitors your other channels lost.

We run it audience-first. In-market and custom segments for people actively researching your category, remarketing tiers segmented by what someone actually did — viewed a product, abandoned a cart, read three articles — and lookalike expansion off your own converter data rather than a generic interest bucket. Then we cut hard: exclusion lists from day one, placement reports reviewed weekly, categories and app inventory suppressed unless proven, and frequency capped so recovery doesn't become irritation.

Creative is the other half, and it's usually the neglected half. Display fatigue is real and measurable, so we build full size sets, rotate variants, and refresh on a schedule tied to frequency rather than to boredom. Reporting is framed around view-through and assisted conversions alongside direct ones, because a channel that works upstream will always look worthless under last-click — and cutting it on that basis is one of the most common expensive mistakes in paid media.

Capabilities

What's Included

Nine areas of display management. The mix depends on whether you're recovering demand or creating it.

  • Campaign Strategy & Structure

    Account architecture separating prospecting from remarketing, so budget and bidding can be controlled per objective instead of averaged.

  • Audience Targeting

    In-market, affinity and custom segments built from search behaviour and site visits, plus lookalike expansion off your own converter data.

  • Remarketing & Retargeting

    Tiered audiences segmented by real behaviour — product viewed, cart abandoned, pricing page reached — each with its own message and window.

  • Dynamic Remarketing

    Product feed campaigns that show the item someone actually looked at, with feed health monitored so ads don't run on stale inventory.

  • YouTube & Video Advertising

    In-stream, in-feed and short-form video placements with audience targeting and sequencing for people who've already seen you.

  • Placement Control & Exclusions

    Exclusion lists applied from launch, weekly placement reviews, and category and app suppression — the single biggest lever on display waste.

  • Ad Creative & Size Sets

    Responsive and static display sets covering every required size, with variants rotated and refreshed against frequency data.

  • Landing Page Alignment

    Destination pages matched to the audience and message, because display traffic is colder and punishes a generic homepage landing.

  • Measurement & Attribution

    Conversion tracking, view-through reporting and assisted-conversion analysis, so display is judged on contribution rather than last click.

Deliverables

What You Receive

  • Campaign structure separating prospecting, remarketing and dynamic activity
  • Audience strategy with segment definitions and remarketing windows
  • Full creative size sets with variants for rotation
  • Placement exclusion lists applied before launch and maintained weekly
  • Conversion tracking and remarketing tags verified end to end
  • Monthly reporting on assisted and view-through conversions, not just clicks
  • Creative refresh schedule tied to frequency and fatigue data
  • Full ownership of the ad account, audiences and creative assets

Stack

Platforms & Tools

Run inside your own accounts, so the data and the history stay with you.

Ad Platforms

  • Google Ads
  • Google Display Network
  • YouTube Ads
  • Display & Video 360

Measurement

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Looker Studio
  • Google Merchant Center

Creative

  • Figma
  • After Effects
  • Google Web Designer

Analysis

  • Hotjar
  • Microsoft Clarity
  • Google Ads Editor

Our Process

How We Run Display

Six phases. The exclusions and the tracking are in place before a single impression is bought.

  • 01

    Audit & Audience Planning

    We review existing activity and analytics, define the audience segments worth targeting, and set what a successful assisted conversion is actually worth.

    Deliverables: Account audit, audience plan, target economics

    1 week
  • 02

    Tracking & Tagging

    Conversion actions, remarketing tags and feed connections implemented and verified end to end — because display decisions made on broken tracking are worse than none.

    Deliverables: Verified conversion tracking, remarketing audiences, feed connection

    3–5 days
  • 03

    Creative Production

    Full size sets built with variants per audience tier, so prospecting and recovery say different things rather than repeating one message.

    Deliverables: Display creative sets, variant matrix, video assets where relevant

    1–2 weeks
  • 04

    Build & Launch

    Campaigns structured by objective with exclusion lists, frequency caps and budget guardrails applied at launch rather than after the first wasted month.

    Deliverables: Live campaigns, exclusion lists, budget and frequency controls

    3–5 days
  • 05

    Optimisation

    Weekly placement pruning, audience and bid adjustment, creative rotation against fatigue signals, and budget shifted toward what genuinely assists conversions.

    Deliverables: Weekly optimisation log, updated exclusions, performance analysis

    Ongoing
  • 06

    Reporting & Strategy Review

    Reporting framed on contribution — assisted and view-through conversions alongside direct — with a clear recommendation on where next month's budget should sit.

    Deliverables: Monthly report, attribution analysis, budget recommendations

    Monthly

Engagement

How We Work Together

Three shapes, depending on whether display is a test, a channel or part of a wider paid programme.

  • Ongoing management of display and remarketing at a monthly fee. Best when display is a standing channel with a consistent budget.

Fit

Who This Is For

And, just as usefully, who it isn't for.

Ideal for

  • Businesses that have maxed out search demand and need to create more
  • E-commerce brands with product catalogues suited to dynamic remarketing
  • Companies with long consideration cycles where staying visible matters
  • Brands launching a product nobody is searching for yet
  • Advertisers whose display spend has never had placement discipline applied
  • Organisations wanting YouTube reach against defined audiences

Not the right fit if

Why DM Solutions

What You Get Beyond the Impressions

Four commitments aimed at the waste that gives display its reputation.

  • Exclusions From Day One

    Parked domains, made-for-advertising sites and app inventory are suppressed before launch and pruned weekly. This is the single biggest lever on display waste.

  • Judged on Contribution

    We report assisted and view-through conversions alongside direct ones. Killing an upstream channel on last-click data is a mistake we'd rather help you avoid.

  • Creative That Gets Refreshed

    Full size sets with variants, rotated on a schedule tied to frequency data — display fatigue is measurable, so we act on the measurement.

  • Your Account, Your Data

    Everything runs in accounts you own — campaigns, audiences, conversion history and creative stay with you if we ever part ways.

Proof of work

Display That Paid Its Way

Campaigns where recovered visitors and assisted conversions justified the spend.

Testimonials

What Clients Say About Working With Us

  • DM Solutions feels less like an agency and more like an extension of our own team. They challenge our assumptions, bring data to every debate, and genuinely care whether the numbers move.

    Elena Vasquez

    Head of Demand Gen, Cortex Software

  • What stood out was that they treated our budget like it was their own money. Every channel was measured, the underperformers got cut fast, and the winners got scaled. Refreshingly honest.

    Hannah Brooks

    VP Marketing, FreshCart

  • The campaign strategy paid for itself within the first quarter. Qualified leads went up, cost per acquisition came down, and for once the reporting actually made sense to our leadership team.

    Aisha Demir

    CMO, Verde Wellness

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The six that come up before every display engagement.

  • It is when it's run on defaults. Google will happily serve your ads on parked domains, low-quality apps and sites built entirely to farm ad revenue. Run with exclusion lists from day one, audience-led targeting and weekly placement pruning, display becomes the cheapest way to recover lost visitors and build demand. The discipline is the whole product.

Ready to Reach People Before They Search?

Tell us who you're trying to reach and what a customer is worth. We'll come back with an audience plan, a budget recommendation and a proposal.

Detailed proposal within 48 hours. No commitment required.