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How advertising rates vary by category on Amazon
You need to gain a thorough understanding of search terms for Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands from a volume and margin perspective to bid to value effectively on Amazon.
Offense or defense: The secrets to bidding on brand terms on Amazon Advertising
Testing strategies to capture shoppers’ attention on a crowded shopping channel can have benefits beyond increasing paid conversions - it can boost organic sales as well.
Gift-giving shopping behavior from religious holidays to relationships and beyond
New research analyzes data and trends from last year's holiday season to bring you key insights to help you optimize your campaigns.
Google’s new take on Shopping goes live in U.S.
The new Google Shopping offers personalized recommendations. "Buy on Google" is featured prominently as the company responds to Amazon.
Shopify Marketing now integrates with Microsoft Advertising
With the latest integration, merchants can run search campaigns across the Microsoft network within the e-commerce platform.
Sidecar launches Amazon Advertising campaign management solution
It supports campaign management for sponsored products, sponsored brands and product display ads.
Report alleges Amazon manipulating search results to boost its products, profit
The company said to give its own products “preferential treatment in search.”
Lucidworks’ new feature promises enhanced internal site search customization
Aims to enable retailers to optimize site search without having to call on IT.
Now you can easily find negative keyword conflicts in Microsoft Advertising Shopping campaigns
Get a better view into product negative keyword conflicts in your Shopping campaigns.
Beyond conventional SEO: Unravelling the mystery of the organic product carousel
New SERP features in the US will soon be rolled out globally and involves the use of inputs and tools that we wouldn’t normally associate with SEO: product feeds through Google’s Merchant Center and Manufacturer Center.
Review fraud: Hijacked Amazon reviews a big problem says Consumer Reports
The fake reviews problem on Amazon isn't going away any time soon.
How brick-and-mortar retailers can succeed on Amazon
Retailers need to view Amazon as a platform to not only sell more products but to build reputations as well.
Report: Product advertising is driving spend growth in search, social, marketplace
Product ad spend is outpacing overall market growth, according to a Kenshoo report.
New Google Shopping program enables customer photos to show with their product reviews
The feature is rolling out now and available through a handful of reviews partners.
Pinterest broadens e-commerce capabilities with ‘Complete the Look’ visual search feature
The visual search feature will recommend fashion and home decor products based on the context of an image.
SearchSpring acquired by venture equity firm Scaleworks
The deal will introduce more investment into the company’s merchandising capabilities as well as a new CEO.
You can now automatically set your Google history to be deleted
Set it and forget it when it comes to deleting your search and location history on Google.
A new customer experience, how AI is changing marketing
Armed with data and insights, Watson Marketing empowers marketers to know their customers better than ever and help drive loyalty.
New Google smart bidding signals coming: price competitiveness, seasonality for Shopping campaigns
Mobile app ratings will also soon be among the signals Google uses in automated bidding.
New personalized, Shopping Actions-enabled Google Shopping debuts in France
Personalized recommendations and universal checkout are front and center in the update.
Google Shopping Actions vs. Google Shopping: A real-world case study
This non-Google case study on Shopping Actions examines what happens when exposing GSA ads for low funnel searches and PLA ads for high funnel searches (hint: it works out quite well).
Marketers can now view Shopping Campaigns in Bing Ads search terms reporting
The updated reporting grid also includes an Added/Excluded keywords column.
For retail advertisers, Shopping ads continue to overshadow text ads
Fourth-quarter reports from Marin and Merkle highlight the importance of Shopping ads for merchants' search advertising strategies.
Learn how to manage product unavailability without hurting your SEO
When your e-commerce site has out-of-stock products, here are strategies to manage your indexed pages and turn the customer experience into a sale.
Riding the wave of AI: Is your marketing campaign as smart as it can be?
AI and machine learning are helping marketers in more ways that you can imagine.
Amazon adds customer acquisition metrics for Sponsored Brands campaigns
The "new-to-brand" set of metrics are also available for Amazon sellers' display and video ad campaigns.
Amazon had a record-breaking holiday season, here’s how advertisers managed it
The holiday season brought improved Sponsored Brand ad copy approval times but policy enforcement was fairly inconsistent. However, new feature rollouts should continue to be helpful into the new year.
Leveraging Amazon search ads in a time of rapid change
Amazon's advertising offerings are getting more sophisticated, presenting marketers with new opportunities and complexities.
Amazon Sponsored Products ads now support dynamic bidding, bid adjustments
Advertisers can opt-into automated bidding and tailor bids for the search ads by page placement.
Google Manufacturer Center adds rich content, deeper analytics, expands availability
A new "From the manufacturer" section in Google Shopping product pages can feature brand-supplied rich content.
Shopping ads for the small budget: Here’s what to expect in 2019
This year may (finally) see the end of feeds, but we can also expect an increasing adoption of smart shopping campaigns and more advanced bidding strategies with Bing Ads for smaller budgets.
Google Shopping is largest growth opportunity for most online retailers in 2019
Brands need to invest resources into feed management and utilize format variations to ensure they appear in as many relevant queries as possible.
What Amazon Advertising’s big 2018 advancements will mean for 2019
The e-commerce giant's ad business continued to grow as it made significant updates to its advertising systems and capabilities.
Google Shopping expands to India in English and Hindi
Google enters India's massive market where Flipkart and Amazon have been battling for e-commerce dominance.
Amazon product ads evolution: A harbinger of Amazon local advertising?
Whether or not you sell products on Amazon, understanding how the company is evolving its advertising products should be on your radar.
Cyber Monday dominated Black Friday in paid search spend, but AOV lagged
Mobile took a bite out of average order value, but sales from paid search over the holiday period rose.
TrueView for Shopping: The perfect marriage of awareness and direct response
To get the most out of a single video for a campaign, pair it up with a custom label that constantly refreshes and excludes the proper audiences.
The new world of marketing
Machine learning is reinventing marketing — and a growing number of marketers know it. According to recent research from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 91 percent of marketers at companies that outperform their competitors believe artificial intelligence is important to the future of their organizations. At the same time, only about a quarter of […]
Google Ads showing Black Friday click, impression share trends in Overviews
Throughout the week, advertisers will be able to see how their campaigns are trending over last year.
Google launches special Black Friday, Cyber Monday deals ad unit
Here's how you can join Google's experiment to show offers at the top of the search results for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.