The top 10 international Pay Per Click Industry News from June 28 to July 7, 2024, commented live by Gianpaolo Lorusso, the founder of ADworld Experience (the World’s Largest PPC-Cases-Only event).
1) Is GoogleAds artificially inflating CPCs?
Raoul van Heerden comments a podcast episode by John Moran about Google’s CPC inflation while SMEC presented a new study on it
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7212456238192750593/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7213875334138515457/
2) Should you remove redundand keywords?
According to Brad Geddes you should not. In order to prevent poor matching ads & landing pages.
https://adalysis.com/blog/should-you-remove-redundant-keywords/
3) Meta’s Ad-Free subscription violetes DMA
According to EU Commission Meta will have to change again its free subscription model to comply with DMA (Andrew Hutchinson)
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/eu-commission-metas-ad-free-subscription-offering-violates-dma/720368/
4) Rules & supplemental feeds landed in GMC Next
Finally these 2 important features made their apparence in Merchant Center Next too (under an Add-On additional feature to be opted in)
https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/14989391
5) Audience suggestions not always needed in MetaAds
Jon Loomer shared the results of a test evidencing the low impact of suggestions in long-lasting optimized accounts
https://www.jonloomer.com/qvt/audience-suggestions-not-always-necessary/
6) A new Chrome plug-in to test enhanced conversions
Scott Carruthers (via Adriaan Dekker) shared a very nice & useful plug-in to check data collected with enhanced conversions
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7214902431002824704/
7) Over segmenting PMax could lead to worsten results
Chris Schwarz shared an under performing case story of over-segmentation without tCPA balancing & wrong budget allocation with search campaigns
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7214775659812802560/
8) Tik Tok blocks teens targeting & marks virtual influencers (in US)
The Chinese social giant rolled out some new privacy & AI controls in the US market
https://www.tiktok.com/business/en-US/blog/enhancing-privacy-control-advertisers-users
9) GAds conversions are metereopathic
Floris De Schrijver remembers to all of us that weather can heavily influence results & points out how to mitigate this impact
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7212001348559474688/
10) Microsoft launches its hotel/accomodation ads facility
Property Center is the name of the new lodging campaigns management hub by Microsoft (globally available)
https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/july-2024/welcome-to-property-center-your-gateway-to-managing-lodging-campaigns
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