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Decoding the Jargon

Brand lift

Also called Brand lift study

Performance marketingTerm

A measure of how much your ads changed what people think, such as ad recall, awareness or consideration, found by surveying people who saw the ads and a group who did not.

Example

Meera runs a YouTube campaign in Pune with a brand lift study. 18% of people who saw the ads remember Meera's store, compared with 12% of the control group, a lift of 6 percentage points.

How you'll hear it

“The video didn't drive many clicks, but brand lift shows ad recall went up six points.”

Don't confuse it with

  • Conversion lift: measures purchases or other actions, not opinions.
  • Reach: how many people saw the ad, not whether it changed anything.

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Sources

  1. About Brand Lift, Google Ads Help
  2. About Brand Lift Tests, Meta Business Help Center

Checked 1 October 2026. Examples use a fictional business; figures are illustrative.

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