Google Marketing Live 2024: A look back at the event
Google Marketing Live 2024 highlighted Google's advances in digital advertising. With AI at the heart of these innovations, new features aim to optimize advertising campaigns, enhance user experience and offer deeper insights to advertisers. Here's a summary of the main announcements and their practical applications.
Major announcements at Google Marketing Live 2024
1. Performance Max and generative AI
Google has enhanced Performance Max by integrating AI tools to deliver improved conversion performance and optimized return on investment (ROI). Advertisers can now create visually appealing ads that respect brand standards, thanks to specific guidelines and image editing tools. These features enable product images to be adjusted, objects to be added or removed, and images to be adapted to various formats.
2. Immersive advertising experiences
Advances in generative AI deliver immersive advertising experiences on Google Search and YouTube. Shopping ads now appear in visual search results, while ads integrated into the "AI Overviews"increase opportunities for product discovery. New advertising options include interactive stickers in YouTube Shorts ads, making ads more engaging.
3. Maximizing visual presence
Visual campaigns are enhanced by partnerships with creative platforms such as Canva. Advertisers can easily create and export assets (components), maximizing their presence on YouTube, Shorts, Discover and Gmail. Similar segments and new engagement features, such as animated image ads, help reach new customers and increase conversions.
4. Data optimization and measurement
Google has simplified data management with Google Ads Data Manager, enabling more effective use of direct user data (first party data). New features include new customer acquisition targets and multi-channel budgeting tools in Google Analytics. These innovations offer detailed insights and optimization recommendations to improve campaign performance.
5. Enhanced user experience for applications
Application campaigns benefit from significant improvements with Web to App Connectoffering higher conversion rates for clicks redirected to apps. Updates to SKAdNetwork improve user path attribution, enabling more accurate measurement of iOS campaigns.
Practical applications
1. Creating attractive visual content
Use Google's AI tools to create compelling visual content in line with your brand. Image editing and new visual generation options help maintain a consistent and engaging presence across advertising platforms.
2. Real-time optimization
AI-powered automatic campaign optimization capabilities enable advertising strategies to be adjusted in real time to maximize results. This includes the use of AI for targeting and bid adjustment, improving campaign efficiency.
3. Engaging with users
Interactive ads, such as stickers in YouTube Shorts, increase user engagement. By integrating interactive elements and taking advantage of new ad placement features, advertisers can create more immersive and engaging experiences.
4. Efficient use of data
Take advantage of new data management tools to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of your advertising campaigns. AI-based insights and recommendations enable informed decisions and optimize advertising budgets.
A word from Planning Média
Google Marketing Live 2024 introduced major innovations that are redefining the digital marketing landscape. By integrating these new features and adopting an AI-centric approach, marketing professionals can optimize their campaigns, engage users more and maximize performance.
At Planning Media, we regularly monitor new trends and developments on advertising platforms like Google Ads. AI transcends the new tools and features offered by Google. This year, as last year, they mentioned the "Ads Power Pair" which combines Performance Max and broad query search campaigns. A strategy we've already successfully implemented in the majority of our accounts, with concrete results!
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