Extend your social strategy and generate and convert demand

Creative

• Use Image & Video Together to tell a cohesive story using the medium that most resonates with your audience.
  • Prioritize assets that perform across inventory: Think mobile-first when selecting assets, and use high-performing creatives from other campaigns and audiences to fuel performance. 
  • Tell your brand’s story with creative made for the platform: For video, use ABCD (Audience, Branding, Connection, Direction) creative guidance, and repeat the CTA and ensure it’s echoed in the voiceover and overlaid graphics.

Deep Dive into Creative

Audiences

• Create a Core Audience Profile - Use your data to tell Demand Gen about your current customers, and pair it with Google’s signals to find new customers.
  • Start with Customer Match & Remarketing: Use your first party data with Customer Match to reconnect with previously engaged customers, or reach segments of your existing customers to deliver a tailored message at the moment of relevance.
  • Add custom segments and search terms: Customize your audience based on relevant search terms that your customers are using on Google platforms. Use at least 10-15 of the highest converting search keywords to curate your custom segment.
  • Use Optimized Targeting (OT): If your campaign goals are driving towards conversions, OT will enhance your campaign performance. 
• Use Lookalike Segments to Find Similar Users
  • Use Google’s AI to amplify your first party data: Upload your customer list and find valuable new users who have potential based on what is similar to your existing customers. 
  • Separate high-value and low-value customers: Create unique Lookalike segments based on users with similar interactions with your business.

Conversion Health

• Enable Sitewide Tagging to improve your conversion tracking accuracy and access features that prevent conversion loss with a unified tag.
• Set Up Conversion Tracking to improve your conversion tracking accuracy and access features that prevent conversion loss with a unified tag, like enhanced conversions and cross-account conversion tracking. 
• Optimize for Your Bidding Strategy to improve your efficiency by choosing the right bidding strategy for your campaign’s conversion goals.

More on the foundations for durable ads performance

Campaign Structure

• Set Up Consolidated Campaigns to maximize performance in machine learning models like Demand Gen that learn best from large data sets. 
  • Create a single campaign for your business: Unless you have different marketing objectives, ROI targets, or bid strategies—it’s best to use a single campaign for your business. 
  • Combine audience themes in one ad group: Include similar audience themes in the same ad group (ex: combine ‘baseball’ + ‘football’ as ‘sports’)—our model learns at the ad group level, so consolidation improves performance. 
  • Size ad groups based on conversion volume: Start with the ad group size that allows you to get at least 50 conversions in the first 30 days to perform best. If you are not getting that volume, you should further consolidate. To aid with consolidation, consider merging ad groups with fewer than ~30 conversions in 30 days.
• Use Product Feeds 
  • Turn your ad into a virtual storefront that helps consumers discover your brand and product. If you’re a retailer selling products through a website, in a physical store, or both, use Merchant Center—a free tool that helps millions of shoppers on Google discover, explore, and buy your products. You can upload and manage your product feeds so that your products appear in Demand Gen and other Google campaign types.
• For more info and FAQs, visit the Feed Policy Help Center Article.

Bidding Strategy

• Choose the Bidding Strategy for Your Goals
  • Campaign Goal: Conversions - Maximize Conversions is the recommended strategy. If you have a specific ROI to follow, use tCPA as an alternative. 
  • Campaign Goal: Multiple Conversions / Conversion Value  - Maximize Conversion Value is the recommended strategy. If you have a specific ROI to follow, use tROAS as an alternative. 
  • Campaign Goal: Clicks / Website Traffic / Consideration - Maximize Clicks is the recommended strategy. 
    • Note that if you have a specific type of website traffic (e.g. those who interact with a product, spend X mins on a page) in mind, Maximize Conversions would be a better fit.
• Use the Bid Strategy Report to help assess the performance of your bidding over time.
  • This includes your bid strategy status and key performance metrics such as clicks, impressions, CTR, cost, conversions, etc. You can also add customized metrics based on preference.

Budget Setting

• Set Sufficient Budgets - Supporting a campaign with enough budget from Day 1 to win in your customers’ auction is critical to driving sustained performance.

  Bidding Strategy		Daily Budget
  Conversion Bidding	Maximize Conversions	We recommend at least $100 per day per campaign.
  	tCPA	We recommend at least $100 per day per campaign, or 20x your tCPA—whichever is higher.
  Value Bidding	Maximize Conversion Value	We recommend at least $100 per day per campaign.
  	tROAS	We recommend at least $100 per day per campaign, or 20x your (expected average conversion value / tROAS)—whichever is higher.
  Click Bidding	Maximize Clicks	No minimum requirement.

   

  Tip

  Campaigns and ad groups with more than 50 conversions perform better, so optimize your budgets to maximize conversion volume.

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