Google Ads to Launch Automated Promotions for Search and Performance Max Campaigns
· 2h ago · Originally reported by Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads will soon begin automatically extracting and applying high-quality promotions from advertisers' websites to Search and Performance Max campaigns with linked location assets. This change is set to take effect on October 12, 2026, and aims to streamline promotional updates for advertisers.
Why it matters
Automated promotions could affect the click-through rates and ad performance for arbitrage operators using Google Search feeds, potentially impacting revenue and campaign management strategies.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like Google automatically putting your store's best sale signs in your ads without you having to do anything.
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Google Ads
Google Ads is Google's advertising platform, where businesses bid to show ads on Google Search, its search partner sites, YouTube and other properties.
Campaign
A campaign is one organised advertising effort on a platform, with its own budget, targeting, bids and set of ads.
Advertiser
An advertiser is the business that pays for an ad in the hope of winning a customer, a lead or a sale.
Performance Max (PMax)
Performance Max is an automated Google Ads campaign type that places one advertiser's ads across Search, YouTube, Display, Discover, Gmail and Maps from a single campaign.
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