BookBub Ads is a great tool for helping you achieve a variety of book marketing goals, but it can be tricky to master. You may find yourself falling into common pitfalls like targeting readers who don’t engage with your ad or spending a lot on a campaign without seeing the … [Read more...]
BookBub Ads
BookBub Ads is an auction-based advertising platform that lets you promote any book, any time at the bottom of BookBub's daily emails. Here are a few of our top posts on running BookBub Ads campaigns:
8 Ways to Target Readers Using BookBub Ads
With BookBub Ads, authors and publishers can promote any book to BookBub’s millions of power readers at any time. While this is a valuable audience of book buyers to begin with, BookBub Ads’ targeting options let advertisers refine their audience even further. There are … [Read more...]
Boosting Sales of Discounted Books with BookBub Ads [Part 2: $0.99+ Books]
Earlier this week, we shared how two authors set up successful BookBub Ads campaigns to promote free books. Today, we’ll cover three campaigns for $0.99 or $2.99 deals. From long-running discounts to limited-time offers, BookBub Ads is a great way to get your book in front … [Read more...]
Boosting Sales of Discounted Books with BookBub Ads [Part 1: Free Books]
Price promotions can be a super effective way to reach new readers and entice them to buy your book. While your first thought for promoting a discount may be to run a Featured Deal, BookBub Ads can also be a great tool for marketing your sale and hitting your goals for a … [Read more...]
How to Create Eye-Catching BookBub Ads Images
Marketing doesn’t have to be complicated! If you are like me and often overcomplicate marketing tasks, think of these words from Mad Men’s Don Draper: “Make it simple, but significant.” The way to significance in online marketing often starts with … [Read more...]
Tips for Troubleshooting BookBub Ads Campaigns
BookBub Ads can be an incredible tool for driving sales, reaching new readers, and running cost-effective ad campaigns. But because there are so many variables to adjust for each campaign, it can be hard to know what to change to find a winning combination and get the … [Read more...]
The Best BookBub Ads of 2018
In 2018, thousands of authors and book marketers used BookBub Ads, our self-serve display ads platform, to promote books to BookBub’s millions of readers. As the end of the year approaches, we wanted to share some of the most successful BookBub Ads campaigns of … [Read more...]
How an Author Doubled First-in-Series Sales Using BookBub Ads
Many partners use BookBub Ads to continuously promote first-in-series books. Because you can run ads on an ongoing basis, you can introduce a consistent stream of new readers to book #1 and drive sales for the whole series. Eva Pohler doubled daily sales for her $3.99 … [Read more...]
Ads Bidding for Authors: Strategy Guide + Bid Calculator
Online advertising can be an effective, ROI-positive option in an author’s marketing tool kit for driving book sales and getting exposure to new readers, but figuring out the economics of auction-based ads can be a confusing and time-intensive process. Running profitable ads … [Read more...]
Biggest BookBub Ads Mistakes Authors & Marketers are Making
Running online advertising campaigns can be challenging! Between finding the right target audience, optimizing your creative, and perfecting your budgeting, bidding, and pacing strategies, there are a ton of decisions to be made and many different elements to tweak and test. … [Read more...]
