This past Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that brand ads were still showing up on polarizing and misleading sites, despite recent efforts to stop it. The article in particular pointed out how cheerful green ads for the Girl Scouts showed up next to content about Muslim invaders and faked mass shootings. Not good. The Survey Takes 90 Seconds Click here to take it now and … [Read more...] about Survey: Are you still worried your ads will show up in the wrong places?
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10 Tips To Fix Facebook Ads Under Delivery
One of the most frustrating things you can have happen to you on Facebook ads is to experience under-delivery on your ads. You go through the pain of setting up campaigns, ad sets, and ads. Then you give everything a budget, push it live.....and nothing. No spend to little spend with no to little actual ad delivery. So what's next? Lets look at some best practices to help out … [Read more...] about 10 Tips To Fix Facebook Ads Under Delivery
What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
In the past, we’ve posted about the complicated intersection of civil rights law and digital marketing. It’s an interesting topic, largely because it’s an area where there is very little settled law. Since the marketing technologies available on platforms like Google Ads and Facebook are relatively new, courts do not have decades of precedent to rely on. This can leave digital … [Read more...] about What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
How the Changing Paid Search Landscape Will Impact Marketers
With the rise of AI, voice search, and automation, PPCers everywhere are wondering: how is the paid search landscape changing, and how will it affect me? With the changing times comes the challenge of testing new AI features, discernment about how to utilize new features to optimize your post-click experience, and all while staying compliant with Google’s restrictions. To help … [Read more...] about How the Changing Paid Search Landscape Will Impact Marketers
UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
If you are like most marketers, automation can make you nervous. Universal App Campaigns are one of the simplest campaigns to set up in Google Ads. Simple is a word you like to hear, but how do you know Google will target the right users? How do you maximize performance and ensure you are getting quality conversions? 1) Form a Strategy Forming a strategy is a given for any … [Read more...] about UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
As every digital advertiser should know by now, AdWords has officially rebranded to Google Ads. Whether you are pro-change or anti-change with Google’s advertising services, there is one certainty - You have to change regardless. That in mind, there have been a ton of updates recently with name changes, new offerings, shuffled offerings, the completely new UI, and the list goes … [Read more...] about New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
You can’t have an outstanding team without an outstanding culture
We talk a lot about PPC on this blog (I mean, duh, PPC Hero :) ), but we don’t talk a lot about our company, Hanapin Marketing, the producers of this blog and the conference series, Hero Conf. Every week, the same people that are running client accounts, solving problems, and strategizing for the future are the same people that write the blogs on here, present on webinars, … [Read more...] about You can’t have an outstanding team without an outstanding culture
Tracking UAC Performance Through Third-Party App Analytics
Since Universal App Campaigns are highly automated, their success relies on using download and in-app behavior data. Below is a general guide to link and import app downloads and in-app events in Google Ads through third-party app analytics providers. This process may vary depending on which app provider is being used and its capability to send information to the Google Ads … [Read more...] about Tracking UAC Performance Through Third-Party App Analytics
The 2019 Budget Season Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare
When it comes to preparing PPC budgets, there are a zillion things to think about. Business are just way more complicated than they used to be – now you have to decide how to split up your budget between multiple brands and products, how much you should put into a lead gen campaign, how to allocate between social, search and Amazon, and try to predict the unexpected events that … [Read more...] about The 2019 Budget Season Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare
How to Build an In-Platform Facebook Ads Funnel
Many advertisers today are looking for ways to create their sales funnels within platforms for several reasons. It helps reduce friction, keeping users within the platform and eliminating issues with conversion-rate optimization and bounce rate once the user lands on a webpage. It also avoids issues with using potentially sensitive customer data to build a funnel, a topic … [Read more...] about How to Build an In-Platform Facebook Ads Funnel
How We Gained $21,000 More in Revenue by Changing One Color
Do you cringe when someone says, “button color?” Do you automatically shut down when a test is recommended to you that seems like just a minor change? Today I want to encourage you to shift your mindset. What may seem like a “minor” change to you may bring $21,000 more in revenue to your company. Now it doesn’t seem so “minor,” does it? You may hesitate testing something as … [Read more...] about How We Gained $21,000 More in Revenue by Changing One Color
Bing’s New(ish) Automated Bidding Strategies
It seems to have flown a bit under the radar but Bing is slowly rolling out many of the fancy new automated bidding strategies that Google has been pushing as of recent. Bing seems to be an afterthought but lately, I’ve been seeing some good success in the channel once things are tweaked. While Bing & Google are Search at the end of the day, they have their differences and … [Read more...] about Bing’s New(ish) Automated Bidding Strategies