Episode 37

You Can Now See Your Performance Max Campaign Placements!

· 7:51 · Host: Solutions 8 team (rotating strategists)

Here's where Google hid the placement reports that show where your Performance Max campaigns were served and the number of impressions they've received.

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Here's where Google hid the placement reports that show where your Performance Max campaigns were served and the number of impressions they've received.

Kasim also shares how you can use the placement reports as additional data to help you make informed decisions in scaling your Google Ads Performance Max campaigns.


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Full transcript

The complete conversation, in order. 1,668 words.

Kasim [00:00:11] We have more data, which is always exciting

Kasim [00:00:14] So shout out to the Andrew on our team who at least told me about this

Kasim [00:00:17] If you go to reports, predefined reports, scroll down to other

Kasim [00:00:22] Performance Mex campaign placements

Kasim [00:00:23] First of all, could you hide this any better?

Kasim [00:00:27] Lord Google?

Kasim [00:00:28] This is actually really cool though

Kasim [00:00:29] Really cool

Kasim [00:00:30] Quite a bit of opportunity to slice and dice, and I'm not gonna, I get into,

Kasim [00:00:33] because to be honest with you, I don't know how, and I don't want to look

Kasim [00:00:36] stupid as I'm recording this video

Kasim [00:00:37] I'd have to go to school on it

Kasim [00:00:38] However, feel free to play with this

Kasim [00:00:40] And if there's somebody that's really knows their, their, their way around this,

Kasim [00:00:43] I'd be really interested in learning

Kasim [00:00:45] We've got a gentleman actually that only does data analytics on our team

Kasim [00:00:48] So I might have him just go to help me go to school and figure

Kasim [00:00:50] out the multi-dimension ability to integrate some of these reports

Kasim [00:00:54] Because when I see someone who's not an idiot like me play with

Kasim [00:00:58] this, it can get really cool

Kasim [00:00:59] Just the comparative analysis that's allowed

Kasim [00:01:01] That said self-deprecation aside, check it out

Kasim [00:01:04] Uh, We get to see real placements instead of performance max 600 rows of them

Kasim [00:01:09] And they're actually exactly what you would think

Kasim [00:01:12] Like it's, it's like any other display campaign placements

Kasim [00:01:15] Here's one of the things that I'd caution you against is I'd caution you

Kasim [00:01:17] against allowing this to discourage you because it doesn't matter

Kasim [00:01:21] Performance max isn't bidding on placements

Kasim [00:01:23] It's bidding on audience

Kasim [00:01:25] And so as long as your audience targeting is sound and the goals that you have set

Kasim [00:01:28] up are being met, then what this means is this is where your audiences are

Kasim [00:01:32] However, I do think that there's some intelligence that can come out of this

Kasim [00:01:35] So the first thing is, you know, for instance I saw an investing site

Kasim [00:01:38] here at one point wallet investors

Kasim [00:01:41] This is a company that sells pet products

Kasim [00:01:43] And if I saw a bunch of investing sites that, you know, and I have this sorted

Kasim [00:01:48] by impression what I would start to do is I'd start to try to identify where

Kasim [00:01:52] there's Consistency and commonalities that are outside of what I might have

Kasim [00:01:57] otherwise assumed our guests, because that's going to feed my audience insights

Kasim [00:02:00] And so that could be a whole new asset group with a whole new audience insight

Kasim [00:02:03] If there was a bunch of these, there's not, but you know what I mean?

Kasim [00:02:06] Like I'm giving an example

Kasim [00:02:08] Some of them make a ton of sense, top dog tips.com

Kasim [00:02:10] So I look at that and I'm like, gosh, I'm getting so much there,

Kasim [00:02:14] maybe that becomes its own audience

Kasim [00:02:16] Maybe there's its own, you know asset group just for that

Kasim [00:02:19] And if I want it to be real sneaky, check this out, y'all check it out

Kasim [00:02:22] Y'all I go look at their brand and I look at their brand

Kasim [00:02:25] I look at the colors and look at the profile and look at the, the approach

Kasim [00:02:28] And now maybe, maybe the of such a child maybe the assets that

Kasim [00:02:32] I'm using and started that essay

Kasim [00:02:35] Are more aligned with this brand, which, I mean, I gotta be honest with you

Kasim [00:02:40] That's that's Trojan horse level 5,000, like that's, bad-ass marketing

Kasim [00:02:46] If you had one brand that was like really performing very well for you

Kasim [00:02:50] And there's a couple of hero to

Kasim [00:02:53] My dog guide my pet child

Kasim [00:02:55] So this is just, I dunno, I would get the biggest kick out of digging

Kasim [00:02:59] into this and really going to school and where we're, we're heading

Kasim [00:03:03] There is no in somebody correct me by the way, if I'm wrong

Kasim [00:03:06] Cause PMX is so new that maybe there's more

Kasim [00:03:10] More than you've been able to accomplish them

Kasim [00:03:11] We've been able to accomplish as far as I know, there's no negative placements

Kasim [00:03:14] for performance max allocating negative placements on an account level

Kasim [00:03:18] Still doesn't let you assign them to performance max

Kasim [00:03:20] And I'm, I'm being that bullish to that statement because I've

Kasim [00:03:22] heard other people say, otherwise, I have not had that experience

Kasim [00:03:25] If you upload you can have negative placements account wide, you can't

Kasim [00:03:28] apply them to performance mix

Kasim [00:03:30] So at the moment, PMX isn't allowing us negative placements

Kasim [00:03:34] However, I hope and think it's coming

Kasim [00:03:38] I hope and think it's coming

Kasim [00:03:39] And when it's coming, what we're going to do is we're going to build like the

Kasim [00:03:42] biggest baddest list that's ever existed for display based negative placements

Kasim [00:03:46] And then I'll try to share that with you all if I can, but

Kasim [00:03:49] you know, what's really cool

Kasim [00:03:50] Is this, is there actually, this is such an interesting thing to see it's relevant

Kasim [00:03:55] The placements are relevant

Kasim [00:03:58] And there's a fricking ton of them

Kasim [00:04:00] You just get to see like the proliferation of this and this is

Kasim [00:04:03] a relatively early stage campaign

Kasim [00:04:04] So, so exciting

Kasim [00:04:06] Y'all so, so exciting

Kasim [00:04:07] It's also really interesting to see some of the mobile apps that

Kasim [00:04:10] are more popular than others

Kasim [00:04:12] Those could also like words of wonders, 139 impressions in

Kasim [00:04:17] that say that one mobile app

Kasim [00:04:18] That's probably just maybe because it's a more popular game

Kasim [00:04:20] Have you ever heard of it?

Kasim [00:04:24] I'm gonna try find when it's better

Kasim [00:04:26] Like, because this is a pet product company

Kasim [00:04:28] It'd be really cool

Kasim [00:04:28] If there's a pet product app

Kasim [00:04:29] You know, like if you were a pool company and then I saw Leslie's

Kasim [00:04:32] pool supply app on your phone and the aha, a new audience, but that's

Kasim [00:04:37] really what I'd be using this for

Kasim [00:04:38] I'd be using it as an additional audience insight

Kasim [00:04:41] This is a good example, demographic consecutive graphically

Kasim [00:04:44] It's probably not quite as applicable to this avatar, but

Kasim [00:04:46] like, depending on what it is that we are selling king James Bible

Kasim [00:04:49] So for instance, let's say we were doing marriage counseling

Kasim [00:04:51] If we're doing marriage counseling

Kasim [00:04:52] And then all of a sudden I saw a bunch of impressions inside of this app that would

Kasim [00:04:55] become a new audience for me, but then

Kasim [00:04:59] Advertisements would be more theologically leaning, obviously

Kasim [00:05:03] So don't just start tossing it

Kasim [00:05:05] Audiences, try to start matching your message and your assets to the audience

Kasim [00:05:10] That's where we're going to be cooking you all

Kasim [00:05:11] Like this is that's what's necessary and that's what makes performance max

Kasim [00:05:14] amazing, but also hard, but also hard

Kasim [00:05:17] We can't be lazy

Kasim [00:05:18] We've been so spoiled for so long by this insane targeting that's been allowed

Kasim [00:05:23] It just got so good

Kasim [00:05:24] And so granular

Kasim [00:05:26] You actually have to zoom out a little bit

Kasim [00:05:28] You have to make sure because it is so precise that your message matches

Kasim [00:05:32] the precision of the targeting

Kasim [00:05:33] Otherwise you could be doing yourself a disservice, so super cool

Kasim [00:05:37] So exciting

Kasim [00:05:38] It's going to be cool to see what else is coming for Pemex to like the more,

Kasim [00:05:42] the data and analytics that we have

Kasim [00:05:46] Won't be matched

Kasim [00:05:47] So expect to be disappointed

Kasim [00:05:48] That's why there's some big agencies that have chosen not to

Kasim [00:05:50] use performance measures because they don't like it reporting

Kasim [00:05:52] I'm like, okay, fine

Kasim [00:05:56] You know, it's like, I don't know, we're in an arms race

Kasim [00:06:01] And we just found like a new weapon that trumps all other weapons, but they

Kasim [00:06:09] don't like it because it doesn't match the mounts on their old, old weapons

Kasim [00:06:12] That's

Kasim [00:06:14] That analogy is so much more apps than I'm going to give it credit

Kasim [00:06:17] for it, because if I pursue it any further, people are going to get mad

Kasim [00:06:20] You have to adjust to the, whatever it is, the technological

Kasim [00:06:24] capacity of your competitors

Kasim [00:06:25] And for people that aren't doing, that they're going to find

Kasim [00:06:27] themselves really, really far behind

Kasim [00:06:28] So you're not going to get the data that you used to get, but you're going to

Kasim [00:06:31] get a whole bunch of other data that's going to be, and you shouldn't get the

Kasim [00:06:34] data that you used to get, because it's not actionable to you because it's not

Kasim [00:06:36] the way that performance max works

Kasim [00:06:38] So I got, I want you to input

Kasim [00:06:39] I want to know what you think

Kasim [00:06:40] I mean, the comments say something

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