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Just like always, Google’s never standing still. The casualty this time: expanded text ads. Coming soon, new expanded text ads will be a thing of the past. What’s the timeline, and what does it matter? Let’s check it out. What’s happening and why? Starting June 30th, 2022, you’ll no longer be able to create new expanded text ads or edit old ones on Google. This doesn’t mean you can’t use them at all — old expanded text ads can still be served from your account, but you won’t be able […]
So, you’re getting involved in YouTube advertising. Good call! YouTube viewing hours per day, month, and year are so vast it’s hard for our human brains to comprehend. But there are some factors to this form of marketing you need to figure out along the way, too. Take, for example, campaign objectives. While campaign objectives are part of setting up ad campaigns on many platforms, YouTube has its own that come with different qualities. Plus, YouTube campaign objectives carry their own implications as to the different ads that should be […]
When running a PPC campaign, you have no shortage of bidding options. You can bid manually or with automatic settings; if you go the latter route, your options are for maximum conversions, maximum conversion value, maximum clicks, or target impression share. Today, we’re going to go over how maximum clicks can help you. What exactly is max clicks auto bidding? For starters, max clicks are an automated bidding strategy that sets out to generate — as the name suggests — the most amount of clicks for you within your given […]
If you’re working on marketing, whether as the owner of a small business or as part of a marketing department on a much larger team, you’re almost certainly using Google Ads. (And if not, get on it!) But while Google Ads itself is crucial to building your online visibility and increasing your business’ success, there’s ways its usability can be hindered. Enter Editor. What is Google Ads Editor and what are its features and benefits? Before we dive into it, Editor is a program you can connect to a Google […]
Google offers a lot of channels on which to advertise and settings you can play with to best achieve your campaign goals. But what if you want to coordinate a campaign that’s not limited to one channel, without dealing with tediously applying settings across so many broad approaches? Enter the newly-introduced Performance Max. What is Performance Max and how is it useful? Performance Max is a new campaign type from Google that’s based on your identifiable goals for a campaign. It gives you the ability to use all your Google […]
When it comes to PPC marketing, there are many aspects that go into an effective campaign. Alternatively, this also means there are many areas where, if not done right, your effectiveness can be reduced. Here we have some recommendations for approaches you can take to increase the efficiency of your PPC accounts. It pays to be lazy Seriously — your goal here is to not have to do extra work. This is of course because extra work is extra time, which is definitely avoidable. Furthermore, besides valuing getting “lazy” because […]
What’s changing about Google Ads Starting June 2021, Google’s updating their policy regarding advertising for healthcare and medicines. Already, pharmaceutical companies are only allowed to advertise prescription drugs in Canada, New Zealand, and the US, and they’re not allowed to advertise opioid prescription painkillers in any countries. The list of countries where they can advertise over-the-counter medications is larger, but still includes fewer countries than where you can’t advertise over-the-counter medicine. Similarly, online pharmacies have to be certified in order to run ads on Google. What will be new with […]
A while back we gave a beginner’s overview on advertising on YouTube on the Fujisan blog. That piece included a quick look at the different ad types available, and recently we’ve been wanting to look at those closer. So today, we’re focusing on just that — the ad types and their uses and benefits. There are six choices when advertising on YouTube: Skippable in-stream ads Non-skippable in-stream ads Video discovery ads Bumper ads Outstream ads Masthead ads Let’s start at the beginning with the first. Skippable in-stream ads Example of […]
If you’re running a business in 2020, you’ve got an online presence. (Or, at least, we really, really hope you do.) And if you’ve got an online presence, you’re hopefully doing the work to expand that presence through organic and advertising efforts. And if your advertising includes YouTube, there’s a handy little tool that can help you make the most out of your effort there. That tool’s called Reach Planner, and it’s your friend. Here’s why. So, what is YouTube Reach Planner? In one sentence: It’s a Google Ads tool […]
Worried about keeping up with Google’s algorithm and its occasional changes? First off, don’t be. (Or, don’t really be.) Google recently had a significant core update that’s worth dissecting, but in the end it’s mostly a good excuse to discuss A) Google’s priorities and B) how they affect you. This change should not mean an overhaul of your content strategies — unless said strategies needed overhauling anyway — but Google shows they’re continuing to place increasing significance on content integrity and quality. Here’s what we know: What is this “Google […]
