E-commerce ad spend on search and social product ads keeps growing

Product ad spending continued to grow year-over-year on both social and search channels. Source: Kenshoo E-commerce advertisers spent 39% of their search budgets on Shopping campaigns and 37% of their social budgets on product ads in the third quarter of the year, according to new Kenshoo data. Social outpacing search. Spending on social product ads…

Conditional ads – customized ads made easy

Martin Röttgerding on stage at SMX Advanced in Berlin. Photo credit: Twitter Customized Ads provide great potential for great ads. Yet when it comes to simple things, marketers often shy away from using feed-based customizations – the implementation costs seem to outweigh the benefits. At SMX Advanced Europe, I presented a new approach to customized…

How to Improve Your Facebook Ads During a Holiday Season

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SMX Overtime: Rise of the PPC geek

Amy Bishop speaking at SMX Advanced Europe held in Berlin in September. For the first edition of SMX Advanced Europe, the PPC track was strongly dominated by a new breed of search geek. Today’s PPC is “the science of managing data pipelines,” as Chris Gutknecht from Bergzeit put it. The main themes of the PPC…

6 Social Media Marketing Attribution Models and Tools to Help Marketers

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Capture leads with Google Ads latest ad extension test

Capture lead information with Google Ads lead form extension. Google is beta testing a new ad extension for advertisers looking to capture leads from their text ad campaigns. Searchers can submit their information to request or download information from Google Search ads through the new lead form extension. How it works. The lead extensions look…

Creating Branded Content on Instagram: What Marketers Need to Know

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