Episode 37
You Can Now See Your Performance Max Campaign Placements!
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.
Show notes
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.
Find or create placement reports for your Performance Max campaigns:https://bit.ly/39J0uYU
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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 The Google Ads Podcast is the tactical command center for people who live inside Google Ads. 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