New: Use Location In AdWords Ad Customizers To Auto-Tailor Ads Based On Where Users Are

Use location data to highlight special promotions, inventory availability, shipping speeds and more to searchers in those areas.

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With a new update to ad customizers, you can now dynamically tailor ads based on a person’s physical location when they search.

Add location-specific information in your ad customizer spreadsheets to show accurate store inventory, store hours, location information, shipping times, and of course, highlight discounts, promotions and events in your ad copy — all at the store or regional level.

The “Target_location” field in the spreadsheet will inform when the attribute is used. In an example showing a Denver location having a sale on the ProWhip brand of mixers, the customizers spreadsheet would look something like this:

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Using the Brand and Sale attributes in the ad, the ad text might look like this:

{=Mixers.Brand} Stand Mixer
www.example.com
{=Mixers.Sale}.
Find the right mixer for you!

Then when a user in Denver searches for “ProWhip Denver,” they might see an ad like this:

ProWhip Stand Mixer
www.example.com
20% off mixers in our Denver store.
Find the right mixer for you!

In case you’re wondering, as I was, how the store piece gets inserted into the ad copy without using the attribute in the ad text, the location attribute is used for targeting as a signal of when to show a value, versus the brand and sale attributes which signal what to insert into the ad copy. So you don’t actually have to put it in  your ads.

There are obvious benefits to being able to tailor ads dynamically based on location. It will be interesting to see how these render in the real world based on varying ad text and location targets.


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Ginny Marvin
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Ginny Marvin was Third Door Media’s former Editor-in-Chief (October 2018 to December 2020), running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, MarTech and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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