Performance Max Session From PubCon Vegas 2024

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About Me
● 15 years in digital marketing
with experience in SAAS, in-
house, and agency.
● Board member of PSA,
Foxwell Founders, judge for
digital marketing awards, and
regular contributor to SEL,
SEJ and others.
● Pet mom, gamer girl, and
metal fan

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Performance
Max Is An Often
Misunderstood
Campaign Type

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At Its Heart, PMax Is Designed For Mid to Lower
Funnel

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Many Confuse Visual Content With Top Of Funnel

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PMax Will Work As Well As The Work You Put In

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What Does Putting In The Work Mean

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Task One: Splitting Asset Groups By
Service/Product/Persona

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We Know To Make Ad Groups For Different
Products/Services…
Why Not Asset Groups?

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Performance Max Is Not An “Easy” Campaign
Type
If You Put In Average Effort, You’ll Get
Average Results
3.20%
Campaigns didn’t
break even

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Data Shows
Splitting Up
Asset
Groups
Improves
Performanc
e

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Let’s Address Feeds First…Mixed Success
Have merchant feed?
COUNTUNI
QUE of
Campaign Id
MEDIAN
of CPC
MEDIAN
of CPA
MEDIAN
of CTR
MEDIAN of
Conv Rate
MEDIAN
of ROAS
No 5122 0.70 16.35 2.98% 4.72% 101.71%
Yes 13513 0.48 21.58 1.13% 2.32% 502.21%
7100 ad accounts

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57.72%
Accounts With One
PMax Campaign
42.28%
Accounts With Multiple
PMax Campaigns
Multiple Campaigns or One PMax
Campaign?
7100 ad accounts

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38
Asset Groups In Single
PMax Campaign
Accounts
28
Asset Groups In
Multiple PMax
Campaign Accounts
31
Asset Groups Across
All Accounts With
PMax
Medians Of Asset Groups Per PMax
Campaign
7100 ad accounts

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Majority Of Advertisers Run One Campaign,
One Asset Group
27.54%
Run multiple PMax
campaigns with one asset
group
41.35%
Use one asset group
with one campaign
15.73%
Use one asset group
with multiple
campaigns
16.85%
Run multiple PMax
campaigns
With multiple asset groups
7100 ad accounts

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Is It Better To Run
Many Campaigns With One Asset Group
Or
Campaigns With Multiple Asset Groups?

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Median ROAS Across 18,542 Campaigns
426.66
%
All Campaigns
424.57%
One Asset Group
461.64%
Multiple Asset
Groups
7100 ad accounts

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There Is No “Right” Answer
Just The Best One For You!

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Task Two: Building Out Creative

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There Are Two Schools Of Thought
Add Everything Add Desired
Channels

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Own The Power Of Visual Assets

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16
Text Assets
13
Image Assets
4
Video Assets
Median Assets By Type
7100 ad accounts

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AI can Help But It’s Not Perfect

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Canva is part of PMax!

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Don’t Feel Trapped By Auto-Generated Content:
You Can Opt Out!

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URL Expansion (DSA) Needs To Be A Conscious
Choice

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Task Three: Build Out Audience Signals

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Audience Signals Are Not The Same As
Remarketing Lists

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Both First Party Data and Native Audience Signals
Are Important

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Don’t Be Afraid To Use Websites As a Signal

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Location Options Are Available In PMax!

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Do Audience Signal Work?
Using audience
signals?
COUNTUNI
QUE of
cmp_id
MEDIAN
of CPC
MEDIAN
of CPA
MEDIAN
of CTR
MEDIAN of
Conv Rate
MEDIAN
of ROAS
No 121 0.72 34.21 1.20% 2.46% 227.72%
Yes 14387 0.53 20.75 1.27% 2.65% 429.28%
7100 ad accounts

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Task Four: Build Out Exclusions

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Exclusions Are Just As Important As Targets

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Negative Keywords Can Be Done Through The
Form
https://support.google.
com/google-
ads/contact/pmax_imp
lementation#

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Conversion Data Exclusions Might Be Needed!

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Account Level Lists Mean Other Campaigns Can
Influence Your Success!

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Task Five: Partnering Search Themes
With Traditional Search

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Search Themes Are A Powerful Way To Prove
Which Keywords Should Go Into General Search
Campaigns

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What Does Early Performance Say About Search
Themes
Using search
theme?
COUNTUNI
QUE of
campaign
MEDIAN
of CPC
MEDIAN
of CPA
MEDIAN
of CTR
MEDIAN of
Conv Rate
MEDIAN
of ROAS
No 9673 0.51 20.30 1.26% 2.64% 453.95%
Yes 4830 0.57 22.46 1.28% 2.66% 377.33%
7100 ad accounts

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Why Should We Use If Performance Is Mediocre?

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Exact Keyword Will Always Win Over Search
Themes

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Phrase and Broad With Exact Syntax Will Win
Search Themes Will Win Otherwise

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Turn Proven Search Themes Into Exact
Keywords
&
Test New Ideas As Search Themes

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Top 5 Things To Do
★ Identify distinct personas/profit centers and build for
them.
★ Partner with but don’t fully delegate to AI.
★ Please use Audience Signals.
★ Be proactive about traffic you don’t want - harness all the
exclusions!
★ Search Themes will be as useful as you make them -
partner with your search campaigns.

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Navah Hopkins
navah@optmyzr.com
@navahf

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