Next time you set up a search campaign in Google Ads, check your default campaign settings. Broad match is now the default setting when creating new Google Ads Search campaigns. This is a departure from its previous default of having broad match turned off.

“This change could significantly impact campaign performance and budget spend if advertisers aren’t vigilant,” as Search Engine Land’s Paid Media Editor Anu Adegbola wrote in Google Ads makes broad match default for new search campaigns.

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Barry Schwartz,
Broad search writer

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