Performance Planner is a tool that lets you create plans for your advertising spend and assess how changes to campaigns might affect key metrics and overall performance.
Using Performance Planner, you can:
- Access forecasts for your campaigns.
- Explore outcomes by adjusting campaign settings.
- Understand opportunities in seasonal periods.
- Manage budgets across accounts and campaigns.
Benefits
- Review your campaigns projected monthly and quarterly performance.
- Get suggestions that can help your campaigns perform better for the same spend.
- Find out how your spend and performance goals are affected if you change your campaign settings.
- Choose the specific conversion goal that you want to create a forecast for.
- Note: Conversion actions under a goal must be set to primary, and they should be added to forecastable campaigns in order to show up in the conversion goal drop-down.
How it works
To give you the most accurate forecasts possible, Performance Planner takes into account billions of search queries, usually updated every 24 hours. Performance Planner simulates relevant ad auctions over the last 7–10 days, including variables like seasonality, competitor activity and landing page.
After running simulations and collecting data, the accuracy of Performance Planner forecasts are measured by running campaigns against their eventual performance and Google AI is used to fine-tune your forecasts.
Forecast conversions are based on the conversion types in the 'Conversions' column of your Google Ads performance reports or the conversion goal that you choose when creating a new forecast. Learn more about account, campaign and ad group performance.
Performance Planner includes conversion delay estimates for Search and Performance Max impact estimates. Conversion delay occurs when people click on an ad and then take some time to complete a conversion action. The estimates help you make more informed decisions about bidding strategies, budgets and return on advertising spend (ROAS) by providing more accurate traffic and conversion projections. Conversion estimates reflect conversions expected within your conversion window.
Performance Planner can support up to 10,000 campaigns per plan and is also available for manager accounts.
Requirements
Refer to the tables below to find out if your campaigns are eligible to use Performance Planner.
Search campaigns
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid strategy |
Uses manual cost per click (CPC), enhanced CPC, max clicks, max conversions, max conversion value, target return on ad spend (ROAS), target cost per action (CPA) bidding strategies or target impression share bidding strategies. Have not changed bid strategies in the last seven days |
| Run time | Have been running for at least 72 hours |
| Recent clicks | Have received at least 3 clicks in the last 7 days |
| Conversion minimum | Have received at least three conversions in the last seven days |
| Budget | Have a search lost IS (budget) of less than 5% over the last 10 days (target impression share campaigns only) |
Shopping campaigns (Standard)
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
|
Bid strategy |
Campaign isn’t part of a portfolio bid strategy |
| Run time | Have been active each day with a minimum spend of $10 USD or more in the last 10 days |
| Impression minimum | Have received at least 100 impressions in the last 7 days |
| Conversion minimum | Have received at least 10 conversions and/or conversion values in the last 10 days |
| Budget |
Campaign doesn’t have a status of 'Limited by Budget'. Target ROAS standard shopping campaigns (only): have a Search lost IS (budget) of less than 5% over the last 10 days0 A campaign with a shared budget is eligible only if all campaigns in the shared budget use a single Merchant Center account. |
Display campaigns (smart and standard)
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid strategy | Have not changed bid strategies in the last seven days |
| Run time |
Have been running for 7 days or more |
| Conversion or click minimum | Have had at least 5 conversions (or 20 clicks for Maximise clicks) and more than $10 USD in cost in the last 7 days |
| Budget | Campaign doesn’t have a status of 'Limited by Budget'. |
Demand Gen campaigns
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid strategy |
Have not changed bid strategy within the last seven days Use a maximise conversions or target cost per action (CPA) bid strategy |
| Impression minimum |
All ad groups have at least one impression in each of the last seven days |
| Budget |
Uses daily budgets Not using shared budgets |
| State | Campaigns should be active (not in a draft or experiment state) or have been paused for < seven days |
| Conversions minimum | Have had at least one conversion in the last seven days |
App campaigns
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid strategy |
Have not changed bid strategies in the last 10 days Use app install ads with target cost per install (tCPI), target cost per action (tCPA), or app engagement ads with target cost per action (tCPA) bidding strategies |
| Run time | Have been running for 10 days or more |
| Conversion minimum | Have received at least 10 conversions in the last 10 days |
| Budget | Campaign doesn’t have a status of 'Limited by Budget'. |
Local campaigns (Upgraded to Performance Max for shop goals)
| Eligibility factor |
Eligibility requirements |
| Bid Strategy |
Optimising for store visits Have sufficient store visit data in the last 30 days Not optimising for calls or directions only |
| Run time | Have been active for the last 30 days |
| Budget |
Not using shared budgets Have an average daily spend of $500 USD or more in the last 30 days |
Video campaigns
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid Strategy |
Have not changed bid strategy within the last 3 days Use a maximize conversions or target cost per action (CPA) bid strategy TrueView for Action or Video Action Campaign format |
| Conversion minimum | Have at least 5 conversions and have spent $10 USD in the last 7 days |
| Budget |
Using daily budgets Not using shared budgets |
| State | Campaigns should be active, not in a draft or experiment state |
Performance Max campaigns
| Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
| Bid strategy |
Have not changed the bid strategy within the last seven days Campaigns with a shared budget are only eligible when they use bid strategies with a target. |
| Run time |
Must be active or have been paused for fewer than seven days Must not be in a draft or experiment state |
| Conversion or click minimum |
Use Maximise conversions (with or without bids) or Maximise conversion value (with or without bids) Have had at least ten impressions, three interactions, one conversion and one conversion value (for conversion value-related campaigns) in the last seven days |
| Budget | Using daily budgets |
Ineligible campaigns
Depending on the settings or state of a campaign, it may be ineligible to use Performance Planner. If any of the following apply to your campaign, it's ineligible to use Performance planner:
- Has been changed to meet the eligibility requirements, but has been running for fewer than 10 days with new settings
- Is in draft or an experiment state
- Has been deleted
