The expansion of professional service ads, broad match modifier changes, and much more updates were announced today in the Microsoft Advertising April newsletter.

Professional service ads. Microsoft Advertising’s professional service ads are now available globally. Microsoft first released professional service ads as a beta about a year ago, saying:

“To help champion these professionals and better connect them to consumers with engaging ad experiences, Microsoft Advertising is developing a new ad solution called Professional Service Ads to make these connections more effective than ever.”

This is what it looks like:

Broad match modifier changes. Broad match modifier was deprecated in 2021 and with that, Microsoft said it is “rolling out gradually over the next several weeks, all broad match modifier keywords for search ads now serve as broad match keywords instead of phrase match.”

Microsoft added:

• “No action is required from you on this, as we expect this change to be beneficial to advertisers’ conversions and cost per acquisition (CPA) overall. There won’t be any impacts to bidding strategies or third-party bidding.”

Recently we reported Microsoft Advertising broad match modifier keywords are now serving ad broad match.

Bulk operations in Asset Library. Advertisers in Microsoft Advertising can now organize your assets with bulk operations. This can allow you to bulk delete folders and assets, and move multiple items in bulk to your target folder or subfolder.

Target bid value. Microsoft also announced that within Target CPA, Target return on ad spend (ROAS), or Target Impression Share bid strategies you can now view and edit the current target bid value within the campaign grid in Microsoft Advertising online.

This applies for both standalone bid strategies and also for portfolio bidding. You can add this column via the “modify column” command in Microsoft Advertising online.

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Read Microsoft’s full announcement. Professional Service Ads and other product updates for April.