For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t, it often slipped behind priorities for the PPC campaigns you were running. Now, that approach is starting to show its age. Google’s recent Ads Decoded ..
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For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t, it often slipped behind priorities for the PPC campaigns you were running. Now, that approach is starting to show its age. Google’s recent Ads Decoded ..
It won’t surprise anyone that most advertisers are hesitant to use auto-generated creative from ad platforms. Auto-generated ads fall into the following categories: Customer-in-the-loop (CITL): Assets are generated based on inputs like a website URL or a user prompt. The advertiser always has a choice as to whether or not they want to include these ..
Google just announced the deprecation of Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) and is officially moving its legacy capabilities into AI Max. Starting in September, eligible campaigns using Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), automatically created assets (ACA), and campaign-level broad match settings will automatically upgrade to AI Max. While advertisers have speculated about this change for months, the ..
For most of the history of paid search, performance measurement followed a clear cause-and-effect relationship. Advertisers controlled the inputs inside their campaigns like bid strategies, keyword and campaign structure, ad copy, and landing pages. All these factors contributed to conversion performance in some shape or form. When performance changed, the explanation was usually traceable. For ..
AI and automation in ad platforms are well established. Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising are heavily invested in automated features, and the technical barrier to entry has never been lower. However, that accessibility comes with a tradeoff. Two common challenges surface when bringing a PPC team in-house: Campaigns are easier to launch than they are ..
Since Google introduced AI Max for Search campaigns, most of the discussion has focused on Google’s own benchmarks. Those benchmarks suggest advertisers can expect meaningful conversion growth without major efficiency changes. But like many platform statistics, they leave open questions about how the feature behaves inside mature accounts. To get a clearer view, Mike Ryan, ..
Welcome to PPC Pulse. This week’s PPC updates come from both Microsoft and Google, all dedicated to more “behind the scenes” work. Microsoft announced a new Content Publisher Marketplace, where it is starting to rethink how content is compensated amid the increased use of AI. On the Google front, Google now says the standard tag ..
Many Google Ads accounts generate steady traffic but struggle to turn that traffic into outcomes the business actually values, such as purchases, qualified leads, or demo requests. That disconnect usually isn’t caused by a lack of demand or a broken platform. It’s more often the result of small, fixable issues across the account that quietly ..
A click drop in your Google Ads account can feel like the floor just moved under your account. Not because clicks are considered more of a vanity metric. But because most sites still convert just a small slice of visitors. Shopify, believe that 2.5-3% is an average benchmark for industry leaders (although not backed with ..