Google Has 120+ Million Local Guides In 24,000 Locations Google Maps is a sleeping giant. Every month, more than a billion people use Google Maps. Following a host of feature upgrades within the past year they’re about to use it a whole lot more. Google’s plan for Maps is to be the one-stop-shop where users …
Google Maps & Shopping Campaigns See Xmas Upgrade One of the most overlooked and underserved aspects of digital communications is the ability to physically move audiences. For the past 20 years, most online marketing tactics have centred on serving web impressions, driving clicks, watching vids, generating Likes and encouraging online comments. Also, Poking. Remember when …
Google's "BERT" Update Will Impact 1 in 10 Search Queries Google has announced its most important search update in almost five years, BERT. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. According to Google, BERT helps better understand the nuances and context of words in searches, enabling Google to better match those queries with more …
Google Search Beta Will Capture Leads Directly From Results Page Google is testing a new way for businesses to capture customer information with lead form extensions for Google Ads. The new beta functions very similarly to Facebook Lead Ads, in that Searchers can submit their information directly from the search ad. See image above via …
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Google has introduced a few new AI-driven tweaks for campaigns in the Display & Video 360 platform. We’re talking outcome-based ad buying and automated bidding at the insertion order level. It’s simpler and more impressive than it may sound… Automating outcome-based success Up to now, automated bidding in Display & Video 360 only supported ad …
Starting this week, the price paid by winning bidders in Ad Manager auctions will be calculated differently. Google Ad Manager is moving to a first price auction method. Some fear this will cause a price hike for online ads. Google signalled the change in March. They say that months of trials have proven that ‘first …
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Fresh Google research indicates that third-party cookies may still be irreplaceable to marketers. Cookies, publisher data, advertiser concerns Google Ads Senior Product Manager Chetna Bindra recently observed that publishers who can’t use cookies see ad revenues fall by ‘an average of 52 percent’. At the time, Bindra didn’t give details about the source of those …
Google Claims New Update *Could* Drive 4% More Conversions Although social media tends to grab more column inches that search engine marketing (SEM) nowadays, SEM continues to grab more dollars. Paid search has dominated digital investment for the past two decades and is up 10% year on year, according to Kenshoo’s latest Quarterly Trends Report. …
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Facebook Search Ads Now Live Following six months of trialling Facebook has expanded the rollout of its new ‘Search’ ads. Initially announced in December 2018, search ads are now increasingly available as an ad placement, after a successful trial in the automotive and retail sector. The launch of Facebook search ads echoes the recent launch …
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ACCC's Sweeping Recommendations Will Alter Digital Landscape Forever (Image credit: KC Green, 'This Is Fine' meme.) Last Friday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concluded its 18-month investigation into the effective digital duopoly which Google and Facebook enjoy. Or, more formally put, its Digital Platform’s enquiry. The final report includes 23 wide-reaching recommendations, the …
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