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After running a video campaign, a startup wants to see if their users are more likely to look for them on Google or YouTube. Which tool should they use?

Unique Reach
Brand Pulse
Asset Report
Search Lift

Correct Answer

Search Lift

Why is this the correct answer?

They should use Search Lift. It measures the additional search activity a video campaign generates by comparing an exposed group with a control group, showing whether people who saw the ads went on to search for the brand, its products or related terms on Google and YouTube. That is exactly the behaviour a startup wants to prove: video working as demand creation, prompting people to go looking for them afterwards. It also captures value that click-based reporting misses entirely, because a viewer who searches the brand name days later usually arrives through a branded search campaign that takes the credit. Search Lift sits alongside Brand Lift, which measures attitudinal change through surveys, and Conversion Lift, which measures incremental conversions against a holdout group.

Why are the other options wrong?

Unique Reach

Unique Reach reports how many distinct people saw the ads and how often. It measures delivery, not subsequent searching.

Brand Pulse

Brand Pulse is not the tool for measuring search behaviour driven by a campaign.

Asset Report

The asset report shows how individual creative assets performed, not downstream search activity.

Real-world example

A startup's video campaign drives few direct conversions, but Search Lift shows a 31% increase in brand searches among the exposed group. Those searches convert through branded Search at a low cost, which is how the video budget gets justified.

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