{"id":9108,"date":"2019-07-01T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/?p=9108"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T11:00:13","slug":"weekly-ppc-news-google-is-testing-carousel-format-for-text-adsyoutube-mockup-tool-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/weekly-ppc-news-google-is-testing-carousel-format-for-text-adsyoutube-mockup-tool-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly PPC News &#8211; Google is Testing Carousel Format for Text Ads,YouTube Mockup Tool and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Welcome to this week&#8217;s PPC News recap!\u00a0Microsoft Advertising&#8217;s Parallel tracking and final URL suffix, Quora&#8217;s announcement regarding new and improved ads targeting experience,Combination of Smart bidding and Last-Click Attribution, Twitter providing clarity on political advertising in Canada and more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2019\/06\/offering-greater-transparency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Offering Greater Transparency for Social Issue, Electoral or Political Ads in More Countries<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Announcement from Facebook regarding transparency tools for advertisers\u00a0wanting to place ads about social issues, elections or politics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/about.ads.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/post\/june-2019\/better-tracking-with-final-url-suffix-and-more-custom-parameters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Better tracking with final URL suffix and more custom parameters<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Announcement from Microsoft Advertising regarding Parallel tracking,final URL suffix to avoid delay in loading the websites.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/advertiseonbing-blob.azureedge.net\/blob\/bingads\/media\/blog\/2019\/06\/blog-645_image1_800.png\" alt=\"View of flow showing faster path to final URL using parallel tracking.\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.instagram.com\/blog\/bringing-ads-to-explore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bringing Ads to Explore, Instagram\u2019s Discovery Destination<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; On Instagram, people go to explore if they want to discover ,connect with people or shop. Learn here regarding an announcement to introduce ads in explore feed to discover latest trends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.quora.com\/New-and-Improved-Ads-Targeting-Experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New and Improved Ads Targeting Experience<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Quora is announcing new categories which will help advertisers make informed targeting choices to reach their goals. Get more insight here.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/qph.fs.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-6af3cc265c86b38e595f519b9e499d53\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bl01-blog-post-masthead__title type--bold-48 color--neutral-white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_ca\/topics\/company\/2019\/political_advertising_in_canada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Providing clarity on political advertising in Canada<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Keeping a goal of transparency with regards to advertising during elections, Twitter has announced the expansion of political advertising transparency efforts to Canada. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_MicheleAustin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michele Austin<\/a> sheds more light on the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinks.com.br\/google-ads-exibe-carrossel-de-anuncios-de-texto-no-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Google Shopping and Google Images, Google Ads begins testing carousel format for text ads.<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; As ad carousal has often been seen in shopping ads or on Google images, now Google Ads\u00a0begins to test Sponsored Links of text in carousel format. Learn more here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"header-banner__title header-banner__title--industry-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkleinc.com\/blog\/ctr-impact-recent-google-ad-label-change-still-unclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTR Impact from Recent Google Ad Label Change Still Unclear<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Google&#8217;s new black ad labels on mobile devices and favicon feature might\u00a0boost the rate at which searchers interact with paid ad units. However, early data gives a different picture altogether. A brief article by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PronouncedAhndy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Taylor<\/a> explaining the same.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merkleinc.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/google_phone_text_ad_ctr.png\" alt=\"Google Phone Text Ad CTR\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/ads\/reach-deal-seekers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get your campaigns ready to reach the always-on deal seeker<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; When it comes to online shopping, customers are on a look out for great deals throughout the year. Here are listed some new tools which help advertisers to reach to the right audience.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Google-Image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9110 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Google-Image.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optmyzr.com\/blog\/why-smart-bidding-and-last-click-attribution-are-a-dangerous-combination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Smart Bidding and Last-Click Attribution are a Dangerous Combination<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; There are some dangerous combination we need to avoid using in our PPC account with regards to automation. One such combination is Smart bidding and Last-Click attribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siliconvallaeys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederick Vallaeys<\/a> gives more insight on the same.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/p330jybTVHTMPHtKCtThllFa96BtCTeCyu6RcJk3CUxkx5L1cOQyTQ8-Dj5PxTWBODD8hqLPcwNXAviQB9uzLZoGHrtHdEYhwZXQ6hhrSF_HJgYktHzHR-gczOAyODljB-ic6Kyj\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clixmarketing.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/dont-miss-the-youtube-mockup-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t Miss the YouTube Mockup Tool<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; YouTube Mockup Tool is a free tool from Google for advertisers. What is this tool all about and how to use it, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MilwaukeePPC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Martinez<\/a> explains in this brief write-up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"single-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/ad-copy-testing-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ad Copy Testing Best Practices<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"single-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/using-google-audience-targeting-in-display-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Google Audience Targeting in Display Campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"single-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/are-long-tail-keywords-still-relevant-in-paid-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Are Long Tail Keywords Still Relevant In Paid Search?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week&#8217;s PPC News recap!\u00a0Microsoft Advertising&#8217;s Parallel tracking and final URL suffix, Quora&#8217;s announcement regarding new and improved ads targeting experience,Combination of Smart bidding and Last-Click Attribution, Twitter providing clarity on political advertising in Canada and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ppc-roundup"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amita","author_link":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/author\/amita\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9125,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karooya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}