Anyone else think Google Performance Max (PMAX) is garbage?

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PMax is just the digital marketing version of CDOs from the 2008 real estate bubble. A bunch of garbage inventory repackaged and given a worthless stamp of approval so they can actually sell it.

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Yes! I just paused it because it stinks!

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I feel like they boosted it at launch so everyone would switch, we saw much better roas than standard shopping with it. Now it has died down a bit. One optimization that has helped, make sure you are using first party data lists in your asset group targeting, (e.g 1st party list of shoe purchasers in your shoe asset group), not just all Google ads converters across the board. Cleaning up the feed may also help if that’s a mess.

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Tell your rep to added branded keywords as negatives and make sure you opt out of search partners.

But regardless is waste

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They recently added the ability to block brand search in PMAx campaign settings. Had my team block brand searches last week.

Depends on your creative, your offer, and audience signals.
It’s also not ideal to expect it to run on par with search campaigns which don’t generate demand.
It should run along side it.

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