Topic: audience signals

  • Unlock Google Ads PMax: Audience Signals & Search Themes Explained

    Unlock Google Ads PMax: Audience Signals & Search Themes Explained

    Performance Max campaigns are goal-based systems where Google's AI autonomously targets users likely to convert, rather than allowing manual audience or keyword selection. Audience signals and search themes serve as optional hints to guide the AI but are not strict targeting rules, as the system ...

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  • How Top Marketers Win With Performance Max

    How Top Marketers Win With Performance Max

    Performance Max is a Google Ads approach that uses machine learning instead of manual controls, requiring marketers to adapt their strategies and trust the algorithm for effective scaling. The campaign type automates targeting and ad assembly, limiting direct control over placements and creative ...

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  • Microsoft Boosts Performance Max with 50 Search Themes

    Microsoft Boosts Performance Max with 50 Search Themes

    Microsoft Advertising has expanded Performance Max campaigns to allow up to 50 distinct search themes, giving advertisers greater control over how automation targets user queries and intent. This update enables more granular, signal-based control, allowing advertisers to combine search themes wit...

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  • Master Broad Match Without Losing Control

    Master Broad Match Without Losing Control

    Google Ads is shifting toward automated campaign management, with broad match now a core component designed to work integrally with Smart Bidding and machine-driven intent matching, moving away from manual keyword lists. The primary risk of modern broad match is strategic drift toward low-quality...

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  • Google Launches "Partner Match" for YouTube Ads

    Google Launches "Partner Match" for YouTube Ads

    Google has launched Partner Match for YouTube, allowing advertisers to use anonymized third-party customer data to build precise audience segments for video campaigns. The tool matches hashed user information to YouTube accounts for targeting across several campaign types, though it excludes ad s...

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