
Coming To Google: Click On Ad, Get Free Ride To Merchant Or Restaurant?
US 8630897 B1 which essentially allows advertisers to show a sort-of transportation ad extension offering free or discounted travel to...

Google Remarketing Ads Broke Canada Privacy Laws, Concedes To Revamp Ad Review System
In the process of the investigation, Canada’s privacy watchdog also found Google’s automated ad review system to have “demonstrable...

Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Mobile Has Won”
In an “ask a billionaire” interview with Bloomberg, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt makes a number of predictions about the coming...

Auto-Generated Vs. Pro-Designed Display Ads: How Much Does Creative Matter?
test by Dispop, a self-serve display platform that enables advertisers to crowdsource display ad creative from graphic designers. The...

Kraft Crushes All Other CPG Brands In Paid Search [Study]
In a ranking of the top 50 consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers in paid search by ad impressions, Kraft Foods Group overwhelmed the...

Identifying Customer Lifetime Value Trends In AdWords
In this post, I’ll touch on a basic way to look at those CLV numbers in AdWords for those conversions you are currently monitoring:...

Google Quietly Debuts Viewable Impression CPM Bidding In AdWords
received MRC accreditation for its Active View product to measure impressions by viewability. The company then stated that it would be...

How To Use Paid Search To Aid Your SEO
A lot has changed in the world of search marketing over the last year. From Enhanced Campaigns to Hummingbird and not provided, search...

Report: Ask.com Beats Google, Bing & Yahoo When Measuring Online Ad CTRs
ad click and traffic trends over the course of ten days last month, online ad network Chitika discovered Google had the lowest online ad...

Google Adwords Rolls Out New Video Call Support Feature Using Hangouts
Google AdWords is rolling out a new video call help feature using Google Hangouts. According to a post in the Google AdWords Discussion...

Google Debuts ROI-Driven Display Targeting With “In-Market Buyers” In AdWords
This week, Google has very quietly introduced “In-Market Buyers” in AdWords which allows advertisers to tap into Google’s consumer...

3 Paid Search Tips For A Successful Holiday Season
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, it is high time search marketers got their paid search program ready to scale up...

SEE: The Giant Banner Ads Google Is Showing For Major Brands
New banner ad format, showing to some people in a search for Virgin America As we covered last week, there are now giant banner ads being...

Giant Banner Ads Being Tested In Google’s Search Results
Google is running what it calls a “small experiment” in the US to show giant banner ads for specific branded search queries. The...

FAQ: All About Google’s New “Shared Endorsement” Ads
On November 11, Google is expanding the use of “Shared Endorsements” in ads, where people’s images and the things they like, comment on,...

The Growing Divide Between Paid Search & Marketing
Like most people, I hate being wrong. Let me correct myself: I hate being wrong. There is nothing worse than that sinking feeling when...

The Future Of Online Analytics: New AdWords Estimated Cross-Device Conversions
A couple of months after the paid search world had to transition to AdWords Enhanced Campaigns in the name of simplified and more...

Google Debuts AdWords Cross-Device Conversion Estimates, Phone and In-Store Conversions Coming
Cross-device conversion estimates are calculated by using Google account holders who are logged in to multiple devices as a proxy for the...

Remarketing For Search: Approaching The Promise Of Digital Marketing
Good fishermen know where the fish are… so why is it that good marketers don’t always know where the best consumers are? Despite massive...
























