
Now emails can now stay on Google Customer Match lists indefinitely
Google has removed the expiration time for emails to remain on a Customer Match List. Google is alerting AdWords customers when they log...

SEM ad copy tips that you may find scary
Writing ad copy for your AdWords campaign typically is a process that unfolds something like this: Identify keywords and user needs....

Google and Bing each institute bans on ads in the name of consumer protection
The two companies said the moves were to protect consumers from “deceptive or harmful financial products” (Google), particularly...

YouTube announces Google Preferred Breakout Videos ad package at #Brandcast
During last night’s YouTube Brandcast event, CEO Susan Wojcicki announced a new “Breakout Videos” ad package, the site’s latest offering...

What Kobe Bryant can teach you about succeeding with AdWords
April 13, 2016, marked Kobe Bryant’s final game in the NBA. He went out in a blaze of glory, scoring an insane 61 points. Kobe’s career...

Google Shopping ads so hot right now: the meteoric rise of PLAs
Google Product Listing Ads have been around quite a while, having rolled out to all US advertisers in 2011. Since then, we’ve seen...

Trend observation: branded PPC ads getting more expensive
Since the recent update to Google SERPs that removed ads along the right-hand rail, our paid advertising team at ZOG Digital has...

Dynamic remarketing: not just for retailers anymore
It would be every advertiser’s dream for a user to convert on the first visit to their website. You’d only pay for one click; there would...

Five reasons why GTIN should be your new favorite Google Shopping acronym
There’s a deadline coming up in the wonderful world of Google Shopping. Third Door Media’s paid media reporter Ginny Marvin talked about...

YouTube launches 6-second Bumper video ads to extend TrueView campaigns
YouTube has added a short-form video ad option to its lineup. Called Bumper ads, the six-second videos are available through AdWords and...

Better in-store attribution is here
There have been huge advances in hard-to-track conversions like phone calls, store visits and those that stem from the use of more than a...

The Ultimate AdWords Extension Quiz
Ad extensions are a great way to make your paid search ads pop in search results by providing extra information about your business. But...

Google Analytics adds more AdWords reporting capabilities
Google Analytics has beefed up reporting integrations with AdWords. A look at the latest release notes from GA highlights the following...

Visual analysis of AdWords data: a primer
Data visualization is one of the most powerful tools available if you want to explore and understand your data, whether it’s on a small...

First-page minimum bids continue to rise in wake of Google desktop SERP changes
We’re just about a month out from Google’s sweeping changes to desktop SERPs, in which text ads were removed entirely from the right-hand...

From waste to win: watch how a simple change affects AdWords performance
Over the past two years, we’ve audited more than 2,000 AdWords accounts at Disruptive Advertising. I’ve written at length elsewhere about...

The real impact of Google’s new paid search ad layout on organic search
nito / Shutterstock.com Over the years, the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) have changed a lot. Features like news, images, videos and...

Image-driven mobile ads for automakers now available on Google in the US
You may recall that Google announced new mobile ad formats for specific verticals about a year ago, one version of which was a test for...

Gmail Ads: Email marketing without the emails
mrmohock / Shutterstock.com Any advertiser interested in growing their business needs to think about the top of the funnel, and the...
























