
Google’s steps toward GDPR surrounded by questions
With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect in two months, there are several new indications — none...

Giants collide: Google’s impending showdown with Amazon
Talk in the digital advertising space has traditionally focused on Google and Facebook’s digital duopoly, each fighting for more of your...

Understanding campaign performance: Answers to common conversion tracking questions
Last month, I wrote about the importance of knowing pay-per-click (PPC) fundamentals when you’re hiring new team members. While you can...

Google launches cost-per-sale Shopping Actions, unified shopping program across Search, Assistant &#
Google has been working on retail challenges for some time. The problems: (1) how to make mobile shopping from its properties like Search...

Forecast: Amazon and Snapchat gain US ad revenues at Google and Facebook’s expense
According to new estimates from eMarketer, Google and Facebook’s hold over the US online ad market is loosening — slightly. The so-called...

With game apps in mind, Google announces Universal App Campaign & AdMob monetization updates
Google announced several app promotion and monetization initiatives for game app developers on Thursday. The announcements, made ahead of...

Google says it removed more than 3.2 billion bad ads in 2017
Google says it removed more than 3.2 billion ads that violated its advertising policies during 2017, nearly doubling the 1.7 billion ads...

Bringing search intent to video: Google extends custom intent audiences to YouTube, launches TrueVie
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Google unveiled two features designed to improve direct-response advertising performance on YouTube —...

5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaigns
Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making it harder for brands to reach the...

30 questions to ask that so-called PPC ‘expert’ before hiring him/her
When it comes to pay-per-click (PPC), it’s often best to call in the experts. But sometimes even experts need to be put to the test. The...

Are you ready for the attribution changes coming to Google AdWords?
There is an old saying: the only constant in life is change! Word on the street and from Google is they’ll stop supporting last click...

Google’s antitrust infringement continues ‘unabated’, Google Shopping competitors
Comparison shopping engines aren’t satisfied with Google’s response to the European Commission’s demand that the search giant give equal...

4 ways to get more out of Bing Ads
Sometimes Bing Ads is the forgotten stepchild of PPC. The reasons probably trace back to when Bing Ads was very hard to manage and...

Survey: Amazon, Google top SMB ‘Trust Index’
Local business network Alignable released its most recent small business (SMB) Trust Index Report, which reflects net promoter scores...

Insights from our 2017 holiday retail survey
By most accounts, the holiday shopping season was an e-commerce success, with final tallies beating analyst estimates. Earlier this...

AdStage makes the shift from ad management to campaign analytics & automation platform
AdStage launched in 2013 as a platform for cross-channel (search and social) ad campaign management. In 2016, it launched cross-channel...

It’s 2018. Are your Google Shopping campaigns ready?
What a year 2017 was for Google Shopping, right? The real question is, though: How did your campaigns fare? Stellar? Decent? Mediocre?...

3 AdWords features you’re probably underutilizing
Unfortunately, this means we’re prone to getting stuck in our ways, often neglecting to explore features, reports and methods that we’re...

YouTube sets stricter rules on videos that can carry ads
Google has announced several significant changes to how it will be monetizing content on YouTube. The changes come after a series of...
























