The Google Ads Podcast

If you're preparing for a major sales event or you feel your Black Friday ads could have been better, our Google Ads Aficionados are here to help! Usama, Colby, and Glen share effective strategies to optimize Google Ads campaigns even before the sale begins. Watch the video now.  Connect with The Google Ads Aficionados on LinkedIn: Usama Khan:    /     Colby Doyl...

Explore the importance of social media with your paid ads strategy. Ari and Priyanka talk about why social media is necessary for businesses to connect with their audience and provide value beyond promotional offers. Watch this video now. In this video, our Social Media Manager, Ari Paulin, and our Client Creative Manager, Priyanka Lakha, discuss that while paid ads can give you immediate sales, s...

In this episode of Curry, Cheese, and Vegemite: The Google Ads Aficionados, Usama, Colby, and Glen dive into John Moran’s Shopping Feeder Strategy that resulted in a revenue increase of 127.81%. This strategy uses a low tROAS Shopping campaign alongside of a higher tROAS Performance Max feed only campaign with only that one product. Watch this video as our Google Ads experts share their results wi...

Learn the Meta Ads L0, L1, L2, and L3 approach in this quick guide with Colby, Nick, and Jonathan. Discover how to build each funnel stage effectively, target the right audience, and optimize your creative strategies to boost revenue. Our Meta Ads experts also reveal tips for catering your messaging at each funnel stage. Learn more about the Meta Ads L0, L1, L2, & L3 Approach here: 💰 Meta Ads...

Curry, Cheese, and Vegemite: The Google Ads Aficionados are here! Our Google Ads Strategists Usama Khan, Colby Doyle, and Glen Wilson discuss the rise of ChatGPT Search and other AI tools. More importantly, they talk about their impact on digital marketing and the future of paid ads. Watch this video as they explore the shifts in user behavior, content creation for SEO, what to focus on as adverti...

John shares his new strategy for optimizing Google Ads Performance Max campaigns in a business with a significant Meta Ads allocation. With his concern about Meta Ads overshadowing Google's targeting and audience signals, he runs Standard Shopping Ads alongside PMax to boost performance and customer acquisition. Watch the video now as he reveals the promising initial results of "The Feeder Strateg...

Maximize your Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales with these effective strategies from our Meta Ads Account Managers, Nick Ewing and Jonathan Paquin. Learn how to prepare for BFCM, the important campaign types, effective ad and creative strategies, how to scale your budget, and the promotions to run alongside the biggest sale season of the year. Watch this video now. Related videos: 💰 Google Ads...

Learn about John Moran’s Google Ads Standard Shopping with Performance Max strategy. The strategy resulted in increased conversion value while lowering CPCs through smart budget allocations and ROAS targeting. Watch this video to discover how you can apply it to boost your Google Ads performance. 👉 This video is from our You vs. Google Mastermind. Join our You vs. Google Mastermind to get exclusi...

Improve your marketing efforts with this detailed Media Efficiency Ratio (MER) Tracker Sheet. Learn to analyze profitability metrics and track customer behavior across all your digital marketing platforms (Google Ads, Meta Ads, Shopify, etc.) so you can make data-driven decisions without relying on third-party attribution platforms. Nick also shares a cheap but detailed tool you can use to extract...

John shares the Meta Ads strategy, which reduced costs by 10% and increased new customer acquisition by 18%. Watch this video to learn about this strategy focused on the ABO approach and how you can apply it to scale your Meta Ads. 👉 This video is from our You vs. Google Mastermind. Join our You vs. Google Mastermind to get exclusive access to weekly calls and Q&A sessions, insider resources...

Learn about the importance of helping your clients understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) when running Google Ads and Meta Ads. Our experts also talk about the limitations of attribution tools and their recommendations for presenting data-based results to clients. Watch this video to help build effective client communication so you can strategize for better campaign performance. Related vide...

Learn about the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you should share with clients as a digital marketing manager. Our Meta Ads Manager, Nick Ewing, also discusses the challenges and importance of understanding and analyzing KPIs, like Media Efficiency Ratio (MER) and new customer acquisition costs (nCAC). He then shares how his new strategy improved new customer acquisition, watch this video to lear...

Discover the strategies we applied to double a client's return on ad spend (ROAS) after two months while reducing their ad spend by 25%. Our Meta Ads Manager, Jonathan Paquin, shares the strategic adjustments, effective audience targeting, enhancing ad copy, and leveraging top-performing creatives, which led to increased purchases and a drop in cost per purchase. He also shares what he tweaked on...

Learn how we optimized Advantage+ Shopping campaigns that resulted in a 22% increase in sales, a 275% rise in conversion rates, and an increase in new customers. Our Meta Ads Manager, Nick Ewing, reveals the truth about Advantage+ campaigns and the strategies that helped boost overall campaign performance. He shows these through a case study of a new client, highlighting dramatic improvements in p...

Our Meta Ads Manager, Nick Ewing, discusses the interdependence of Meta Ads and Google Ads for success. In the case study that Nick shares, the business initially allocated a balanced budget for Meta Ads and Google Ads, and they had better results in Google Ads. However, when Meta Ads was lost due to Facebook restrictions, the business's revenue dropped from $25,000 to zero in July. Google's perfo...

Stop wasting ad budget by relying on in-app metrics! Watch this video to learn which key metrics and sources to focus on when measuring business performance. Our Meta Ads Manager, Nick Ewing, shares a case study where negative in-app metrics didn't coincide with Shopify's sales data that indicated an increase in sales and conversion rates. He reveals the limitations of in-app metrics and how solel...

Learn how to optimize your advertising efforts and enhance customer acquisition with this Meta Ads campaign strategy, the L0 Approach, with our Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, John Moran. Watch this video as John shares what the strategy is about, how he tracks the campaign performance, his cloning and scaling strategy, and his recent success with it. Related videos: 💣 Optimal Meta Ads Setup: L1...

Learn how to analyze your purchasing funnel so you can identify and resolve issues in your Meta Ads account. Our Meta Ads Account Manager, Nick Ewing, ends the series by analyzing the funnel, checking your creative efforts, assessing different audience strategies, and more. If you haven’t seen part 1 of How to Audit a Meta Ads Account In Ten Minutes, you can watch it here:     •&nbs...

Want to identify issues in your Meta Ads campaigns but don't know where to start? This guide is for you! Learn how to identify and resolve issues in your Meta Ads account as our Meta Ads Account Manager, Nick Ewing, walks you through how to audit your account in ten minutes or less. Watch this video now to learn where to analyze your account and how you can make data-driven adjustments to improve...

Learn the best remarketing practices to boost the performance of your Meta Ads. Watch this video now. In the third and last part of our Meta Ads Targeting Guide, Jonathan Paquin, one of our Meta Account Managers, shares his strategies for effective remarketing, the exclusions you should note, how to scale your campaigns by testing which audiences to target, and more. If you haven't watched the fir...

Learn how to target audiences based on interest, behavior, and demographics, and leverage Advantage+ to maximize the performance of your Meta Ads. Watch this video now. In the second part of this three-part Meta Ads Targeting Guide, Jonathan Paquin, one of our Meta Account Managers, walks you through how to stack interests effectively, utilize behavioral data, use broad targeting techniques, and u...

Learn how to target audiences effectively on your Meta Ads with Jonathan Paquin, one of our Meta Account Managers. Watch this video now. In the first part of this three-part Meta Ads Targeting Guide, Jonathan explains how to build lookalike audiences. He walks you through the process so you can leverage your best customers to target a similar, larger group to get more sales. He also shares how he...

John Moran shares his strategy that resulted in getting 40% higher lead quality in Google Ads. Learn about the bidding strategy he uses and how he manages campaigns to boost performance. 👉 This video is from our You vs. Google Mastermind. Join our You vs. Google Mastermind to get exclusive access to weekly calls and Q&A sessions, insider resources and training, and a private Slack group: http...

John shares an example of how he runs the optimal Meta Ads setup that utilizes the L1, L2, and L3 approach. Watch this video to learn if this is something you can replicate to help boost your digital marketing efforts. If you haven’t seen part 1 yet where John shares an overview of how the approach generates, and engages cold traffic then remarkets, you can watch this video:     •&n...

John shares his new strategic approach for using Meta Ads and Google Ads together to enhance the performance of digital marketing efforts. Watch this video to learn more about this strategy. Google doesn’t generate demand, but captures demand. Meta is good at generating demand, but poor at capturing demand. With these two key concepts, John developed a strategy to leverage each of the ad platforms...