Retargeting is a combination of technologies for interacting with audiences already familiar with your brand or product. Retargeting helps bring users to place their first order or draw them back to your site for repeat purchases. Successful retargeting involves three components: accurate audience segmentation according to the stages of the sales funnel, carefully composed texts and the correct campaign settings. This article provides useful tips for each of these components.

A new “Preview” button has appeared in the Yandex.Direct interface. Clicking on this button allows you to see the impressions of your display banners on sites in the Yandex Advertising Network and external networks.

In an ideal world, a user's path to making a purchase looks like this: Query → Click → Cart → Purchase. In reality, however, things are much more complicated. In our new presentation, we tell you all about how retargeting can help make sense of users' behavior and motivate them to make purchases.

We are glad to announce that our DIY course on Yandex.Direct is now available in English. The course is comprised of 10 lessons designed to teach you everything you need to create, manage and optimize your campaigns in Yandex.Direct.

We've put together some new, detailed instructions to help you set up ads for mobile apps. This Yandex.Direct ad format was developed specially for promoting mobile applications: attracting new users, boosting the number of downloads and bringing back users who've been inactive lately.

We are ready to introduce the updated "Daily budget" strategy, with an improved algorithm and optimized fund allocation.

Advertisements placed via Yandex.Direct are seen by the vast majority of Russian internet users, so click reports provide insight into seasonal changes in demand for different products and services. To see which seasonal patterns repeat annually, we analyzed three years of click data from Yandex.Direct and took note of the products and services that regularly top the charts.

There's a new way to maximize your ad texts' personalization for different parts of your target audience — your display campaigns in Yandex.Direct can now be split by device type, allowing you to set the right bid adjustments and match your creatives to the screens where they will look the best.

A new tip now appears in the display campaigns section of the Yandex.Direct interface: recommended CPM. Even before your campaign has launched, this recommendation will help you determine the ideal CPM you should set to reach your campaign goals.

Since we first began testing new designs, most Yandex Search users have come into contact with experimental SERP layouts. This doesn't come as a surprise, given that we launch new experiments each week.

Our latest experiments have involved both minor changes like new background colors or different column widths, as well as more major innovations. In this post, we'll fill you in on the changes we've recently implemented and others we are testing right now.

We are proud to announce the arrival of the new and improved Turbo page in Yandex.Direct. Among the features we added to the new Turbo pages are the option to set goals for your statistics and a new template in Turbo Page Builder for selling products, along with other improvements.

If you haven't tried out Turbo pages for your ads in Yandex.Direct yet, now is еру time to start: shorter loading times for smartphones mean lower bounce rates and improved conversion rates.

Zabaykalsky Krai and the Republic of Buryatia, previously part of the Siberian Federal District, are now included in the Far Eastern Federal District. The geotargeting tree in Yandex.Direct will soon reflect recent administrative changes in the list of Russian federal districts. Please check your campaign settings if you apply bid adjustments for the region or use the API.

Recent improvements to our forecasting algorithms mean that you can now use strategies like "Average CPA" and "Weekly budget: Maximum conversions" for new Dynamic ad and Text & Image ad campaigns right from the get-go, without waiting to accumulate statistics.

Creating campaigns for ads for mobile apps in Yandex.Direct is even faster and simpler thanks to our most recent updates, which are already available for new clients. Soon they will be ready for all users. Keep reading to find out what's changed.

When creating Turbo pages in Yandex.Direct, you can can choose between two types of Yandex.Metrica tags: a preset tag with automatically generated goals, or a custom tag for which you should set your own goals. You can change the tag type at any time.

Beta testing for Dynamic ads is now complete. From cosmetics to real estate, Dynamic ads are available for most business types. Dynamic ads are a universal tool for online stores with constantly changing product ranges, and simple enough that even new advertisers can use them. Most importantly, they make it possible to achieve all sorts of goals while keeping spending under control.

When it comes to determining which goals are most important for a certain ad campaign, we are sure that you know best. Now the Yandex.Direct interface makes it possible for you to designate the goals that are most important in your campaign and set specific conversion values for them.

Yandex.Direct is stepping up to a new level with video ads available for Text & Image campaigns. Set bids, adapt ad texts and titles, and apply bidding strategies and budget limits separately for video ads, without affecting your other ads.

Thousands of patients from across the world come to the Hadassah clinic, one of the largest in Israel, for medical care each year. In December of 2016, the international medical tourism company Health Plus International Medical Adviser became Hadassah’s exclusive partner and took on their marketing department functions. In one year, the company succeeded in increasing the number of target leads by an impressive 69%. Keep reading this success story to find out how Yandex.Direct helped them reach these exceptional results.

Display campaigns are ideal for strengthening brand loyalty. They attract your target audience into the sales funnel, where you can then continue communicating with them via contextual ads and retargeting.

To make the entire ad purchasing process even easier, you can now manage your display campaigns in the Direct API.