Babar Khan Javed
Sep 5, 2017

Google Adwords updates touch on creative and shopper experience

The latest updates will allow digital marketers to limit the impressions of their ads based on the product inventory in stock and also know which ads appeared in the coveted ad spots.

Updated feature in AdWords limits ad wastage and highlights ad success.
Updated feature in AdWords limits ad wastage and highlights ad success.

This week, advertisers and agencies using Google AdWords will gain access to two new features that will allow them to gauge the effectiveness of ad creatives and to limit ad frequency by attaching it to the product inventory in stock.

The first feature will show advertisers which ad creative appeared in the coveted "absolute top" impression share. If an advertisers ad creative appears three times out of 10 in the absolute top slot, then its absolute top impression share is 30 percent. This is yet another step by Google to help advertisers improve CRO.

According to Google internal data for Q3 2016, advertisers that achieve this stand to generate upwards of three times more clickthroughs on ads that appear in the absolute top space.

Another new feature will allow advertisers to limit an ad serving based on the inventory of a product in stock. Previously, advertisers would manually remove an ad for a product that went out of stock or they would attempt an integration with an eCommerce CRM tool to make that adjustment for them, albeit with delays. With this integration, connected with Google tag manager, the ads stop appearing once the product inventory is depleted after successful online sell through.

In doing so, advertisers lower the risk of attracting a site visitor that is ready to buy and gradually lower buyer frustration emanating from "out of stock" messages after an entire purchase journey. 

Source:
Campaign Asia

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