Google adds generative AI insights, shopping ad campaign goals
Google's new tools offer retailers real-time shopping trends, AI-powered insights and automated inventory syncing.
Anu Adegbola on August 27, 2024 at 10:39 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google today introduced four updates meant to help retailers ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Key updates:
- Shopping trends insights. You can now access real-time shopping trends in Google Merchant Center. This could help you adjust your inventory and product descriptions based on what shoppers are actually searching for or viral trends.
- AI-powered insights. Two new generative AI features in Merchant Center Next provide quick summaries of product performance and custom reports based on specific data queries.
- Automated in-store availability. Google is streamlining the management of local inventory ads by automatically syncing in-store availability from retailers’ websites. This should make it easier for customers to find products nearby.
- New campaign goals. Google Ads now includes options for setting customer acquisition goals and optimizing campaigns with profit-focused metrics, helping advertisers prioritize profit and optimizations during peak shopping periods.
Why we care: There are fewer days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s to reach consumers. This means retailers will be under pressure to hit holiday sales goals. Google’s new tools are meant to help businesses stay agile and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
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Anu Adegbola has been Paid Media Editor of Search Engine Land since 2024. She covers paid search, paid social, retail media, video and more.
In 2008, Anu's career started with delivering digital marketing campaigns (mostly but not exclusively Paid Search) by building strategies, maximising ROI, automating repetitive processes and bringing efficiency from every part of marketing departments through inspiring leadership both on agency, client and marketing tech side.
In 2008, Anu's career started with delivering digital marketing campaigns (mostly but not exclusively Paid Search) by building strategies, maximising ROI, automating repetitive processes and bringing efficiency from every part of marketing departments through inspiring leadership both on agency, client and marketing tech side.
Outside editing Search Engine Land article she is the founder of PPC networking event - PPC Live, host of weekly podcast PPCChat Roundup, and brand evangelist at ClickTech.
She is also an international speaker with some of the stages she has presented on being SMX (US), SMX (Munich), Friends of Search (Amsterdam), brightonSEO, The Marketing Meetup, HeroConf (PPC Hero), SearchLove, BiddableWorld, SESLondon, PPC Chat Live, AdWorld Experience (Bologna) and more.