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Google Ad Manager is a platform for publishers that combines the former DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange products.
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July 11, 2022
Biggest Player in the Search Marketing Game
I use Google Ads Manager to advertise for various clients in my book of business. We primarily use paid search campaigns with less emphasis on video and display campaigns. This is due to the goals of the clients and the user intent that we can tap into with search campaigns.
- Bulk edits and changes streamline management of large accounts
- Reporting options are robust and easy to use
- Provides the largest market share of search marketing in the world
- More visibility into smart-bidding algorithms
- Optimization recommendations other than spend more
- More transparency in search terms reports
June 16, 2022
Google Ads is my personal fav!
Score 7 out of 10
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I use Google Ads Manager to advertise our products. We tried to use paid search campaigns with still images of the gas industry. It was amazing to use. the interaction was a bit hard to do with google analytics, so we had to refer to YouTube for that but overall it was easy to use and they have a lot of tutorials that help you to see a lot of new features which you did not know they had.
- Tracking of campaigns
- Keyword research
- Provide hide option for not useable campaigns.
- Tricky to connect with Google Analytics in my opinion.
May 19, 2022
Best Platform To Run Ads
Google ads manager is the one and only tool that helps me and my organization to run ad campaigns aall over the platform. Google ads manager helps me and my clients to scale the business. It increases our customer acquisition and provides use genuine leads for the business. It is very easy to set up and well organized.
- Setups Ads
- Keywords research
- Proivde hide option for not useable campaigns
With our marketing strategy and to gain the attention of the user from the competition so that they will view our ads over the other ads that they see. Adding highlighted words and also adding information that attracts the user that is reading the ad. Also, we use it to gauge what the user is looking at and what they are searching for by adding some Artificial Intelligence to it.
- Attraction
- Cost effective
- engauges
- more configuration
- more documentation or videos to set it up
- allow for additional features with out having to pay for them.
April 29, 2022
Google Ad Manager is perfect for ad management!
We use Google Ad Manager for multiple clients at the same time. This is such a great platform when it comes to managing all the different ads for our clients. It is simple to target potential customers all over the United States and breaks it down into more demographics as well.
- Simple
- Creditable
- Productive
- Need more options for details
- Automatically selects words to target
- Should not approve words without allowing user to select them
September 16, 2021
Simple tool for Google users
The Google Ad Manager helps us analyze and view our Google ads clearly and even in real-time. It gives us the insights we need to improve future Google ads.
- The data analysis part is clear and very useful.
- We are able to manage all our ads in one place, very convenient.
- Easy to use.
- It takes a while to get used to the platform but once you get it, it's easy to manage!
June 03, 2021
The main tool to automate media buys
We use Google Ad Manager to concentrate and manage almost all of our media buys. Google has by far the most used and intutive platform on the internet to automate the media buying process. It has the most inventory, the best integrations and the more advanced soltions for measuring results.
It is mostly used by the marketing department and we have a special team dedicated to optimizing the results of Google Ad Manager.
It is mostly used by the marketing department and we have a special team dedicated to optimizing the results of Google Ad Manager.
- Different attribution models built within the platform
- Lots of bidding methods available
- Vast supply available in all countries
- Not dedicated team unless you are spending enourmous sum of money.
- Margins not transparent
- Operates like black box and missing indepedent verification on its metrics
June 02, 2021
Efortless scaling and time saving
We are using Google Ad Manager to drive leads and clients to our website. There are different features inside the platform for many uses depending on what you want to achieve, your budget and the competitiveness of your industry.<br><br>Google Ad Manager is used only by the marketing department.<br><br>It makes it very easy to aggregate different channels and deploy text and image ads.
- Customizable dashboard.
- Instant feedback and notifications.
- Scalable ads.
- Some initial learning curve
- Some features are hard to understand
April 28, 2021
Incredible reach at a great price!
Google Ad Manager gives online advertisers the ability to "cast a wider net" and give a larger reach by managing ads across multiple ad networks.
- Easy set up
- Easily managed
- Clients love the extended reach achieved
- More robust system reports to lessen agency reporting time
- With the variety of tools & features, it is overwhelming to understand
April 05, 2021
Google Ad Manager: The most powerful way to PPC!
One of the services we provide is PPC (pay per click). We utilize Google Ad Manager to run our clients' Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Display, [&] YouTube). I utilize the platform on a daily basis as well as keep up to date with the everlasting platform changes, upgrades, and betas. Google Ad Manager is our primary focus when it comes to PPC as a whole on search.
- Hyper targeting - I love how we can target, analyze, and then hyper target [advertisements] to our audiences to be able to hyper target the audiences that convert best. [Audiences besides] Google understands them, but also demographics, locations, search terms, and more.
- Advanced reporting - Without Google's seemingly endless ways to read and break down reports, we would not be able to best make decisions to maximize ROI.
- Strong conversion algorithm updates - The algorithm has become impressively strong for 'maximized conversions' and 'smart' campaigns. [That's] coming from someone who hated these portions of the algorithm until about 2019 where the updates (and continued updates) have worked incredibly well for these algorithms' purpose.
- Bumper Machine - While this is still in beta, there is a lot of room for improvement for the machine to pick proper clips. I'm sure that will come in time though.
- Inclusion of a Home Page Button - This is a simple request, truly, but one that bothers me everyday. I have a campaign home button, but it's not accessible unless you go back to the beginning of the platform. If the 'home' button was static, I'd be able to go to my preferred view with one click instead of having to loop around, as there isn't a trustworthy 'back button' option either.
- Display - This is a big one. I have a love/hate relationship with display campaigns and algorithms. I have seen where they can perform [strongly] but also be massive budget bleeds with little ROI. It's not very industry specific either so I'm hoping to gain more consistency and trust with the future of the display algorithm.
April 22, 2020
Google Ad MEHnager
We use Google Ads Manager to manage ad campaigns on Google for the ad campaigns that our company runs on Google. Google Ads Manager is only being used our marketing department not the entire organization. The problem that Google Ads Manager solves it allows us to manage our Google ads for use on Google.
- Manages Ads
- Single Sign On
- Is Google
- Confusing interface
- Poor documentation
- High learning curve
March 23, 2020
Easily Place Well-Targeted Ads and See Results
Google Ad Manager is used by our firm's content and channel planning teams as a key function of their everyday work in highlighting and managing that work that our creative team is doing on behalf of our clients. We use the Manager to execute portions of our paid media campaigns and use the Manager for reporting metrics as well.
- High functionality and user friendly.
- Great on the back end to develop reports.
- Tracks many key metrics important to clients.
- Cross-team functionality would provide greater access.
March 13, 2020
Google Ads Manager: Big Money, but Big Results Too
The Marketing department is the primary user of Google Ads Manager. As a non-profit staffing/recruitment agency, we use google for both search advertising and display advertising. We advertise open positions we are recruiting for, hiring events and job fairs, and general branding strategy for our agency. The advertising mostly supports our talent acquisition team as a means of sourcing candidates for jobs.
- The obvious is the data - Google Ads Manager gives me essential and even critical data about which jobs and industries are hot right now and what is driving the most response.
- Google Ad Manager gives us more control over the search engine results page as we get more visibility and real estate on our branded search terms and job/industry-specific search terms.
- Google Ad Manager gives us the chance to compete with major national players in job recruitment, Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, etc.
- One of the major areas that Google could improve is in budget management - Google makes it extremely easy to spend money that may not even be relevant.
- Google Ads Manager could improve it's notification system when ads are not optimized or they have suggestions of how to improve ad performance.
- Google Ad Manager could improve its speed to approving search or display ads, or offering feedback on rejected ads. Often, I have no idea why an ad was rejected or what policy it supposedly violated.
March 11, 2020
Google Ad Manager Review
Our company uses Google Ad Manager to sell and monetize digital advertising on our site to outside clients. It allows us to control the size of the ad units, creative assets, impression goals, and ad placements to support our clients' KPIs. Additionally, we use Google Ad Manager to provide clients with a reliable performance metrics to help with campaign management and optimizations.
- Real-time and accurate performance metrics (impressions and CTRs)
- Targeting capabilities
- Control over creative assets and ad unit sizes
- Complex product, big learning curve for beginners
February 18, 2020
Take your display advertising to the next level
I work for the ad ops side of the business at Devada. Google Ad Manager allows us to help our sponsors target the developer community with their content. This ranges in topic from security to AI. My team executes and reports on all campaigns. With the new changes within Ad Manager some reporting can be tricky.
- Ad management.
- Custom reporting.
- Reporting.
- Changes/updates notification.
We use Google Ad Manager to work with Google AdWords and publish ads. Our Marketing department uses it for advertising purposes and we will use this to promote different website pages and landing pages that we want customers to see when they are using Google search to look up terms and searches.
- Promote ads.
- Drive page visits.
- Customer support isn't great.
- There is no tutorial or walk-through process.
December 04, 2019
Google Ads Manager can add value to any business when used wisely
Google Ads is used to create ads for Google searches to direct users to our business website in order to generate traffic and sales.
- If you are new to the platform, they will accommodate you by guiding you on how to create a basic ad easily.
- You can explore keyword search volumes and add it to your campaigns directly from within the platform.
- You can integrate Google Tag Manager so that you can define custom conversions and track it easily while ads are running.
- There is enough data available to view how well your ads are performing.
- I don't have any complaints. It's a complex product and they are doing a good job of accommodating all levels of users.
December 04, 2019
Google Ad Manager Review
Google Ad Manager is being used by my organization in a variety of ways. Although we do not use it internally for advertising purposes, we use and implement this product for many of our clients within our agency. We use this as a paid media platform to promote, engage and generate more leads and contacts for companies and organizations.
- Manage multiple ads.
- Reporting capabilities.
- Integratable with Google products.
- Integrates well with marketing platforms.
- Targeting.
- Constant changes.
- More help videos.
- Better customer service line.
October 04, 2019
Powerful, Reliable and Free
We used Google Ad Manager in our company to sell ad space on our website to different clients. It allowed us to monetize high traffic areas of our webpages and control exactly what ads showed up on our website. We were able to control the size of the ad units, where the ads would show up and the creatives we wanted to use for the ad. Being able to provide clients with a reliable impression and click metrics provided a different level of integrity to our product offerings.
- Flexible ad units.
- Control over creatives being displayed on your website.
- Metrics for impressions and CTRs.
- Targeting by user demographics and webpage.
- Not the easiest user experience for non-technical users.
- Needs a bit of trial and error to figure out the best fit.
- Ads take quite a bit of time to propagate to production.
October 04, 2019
Google Ad Manager Review
We support hundreds of car dealerships around the country with the best platform online to get the right ads visible to hand-raisers who genuinely are interested in our client's products. Paid search, display retargeting ads and YouTube video pre-roll are all rolled nicely together into Google Ad Manager for easy, precise and time-saving mass adjustments to campaigns.
Ad Manager saves our teams large amounts of valuable time by letting them make adjustments to whole accounts, large groups of campaigns and keywords at once, rather than having to individually adjust each at a tedious pace.
Ad Manager saves our teams large amounts of valuable time by letting them make adjustments to whole accounts, large groups of campaigns and keywords at once, rather than having to individually adjust each at a tedious pace.
- Fast adjustments to campaigns.
- Fast adjustments to geographies/targeting and copying those changes across multiple accounts.
- Quickly see errors/denied ads in one easy interface.
- Sometimes it can bog down and crash. This is rare, but it is processing a lot of steps/changes all at once and it's not expected to be perfect.
- Being able to quickly filter by campaign types would be nice (PPC/Display/Video Pre-roll). Our fix is to run these campaigns in totally separate accounts, so there is no overlapping in reporting/etc. This helps with seeing stats clearly without having to filter constantly.
- It could be visually prettier.
October 04, 2019
Running ads is now easy and profitable!
Google Ad Manager is being used by the marketing team, specifically the performance marketing guys at our office. They use this to set up their marketing ads, be it an app install, web ads, retargeting, SEM etc. They use it for end to end, ad ideation, segmentation, targeting, communication, management.
- User segmentatation - new, old, prospecting/retargeting etc.
- User targeting - day-parting, demographics, interests etc.
- Campaign management
- Ad formats and tweaking for experimentation
- It's a little complex to understand for beginners
- It doesn't allow you to run various ad platforms on a single platform
- Its data has discrepancies at times even against the Google analytics or Playstore data
October 04, 2019
A great platform to help you manage your ads and increase ROI
Google Ad Manager is being used by our social media team and by our PPC team. Google Ads allows us to manage our ads across all of our marketing channels. It solves the problem of having to use multiple programs to accomplish the same exact goal. It allows us to easily set up and report on our current ad campaigns.
- The Doubleclick manager is very intuitive and allows anyone without extensive experience to jump in and start managing ads.
- My favorite feature is it allows you to manage all of your ads in one place.
- The training and user forum knowledge is top-notch. I can always find the answer to any questions I have.
- Sometimes the tags are not reliable in certain browsers such as Microsoft Edge.
- Sometimes the server gets bogged down making everything slow and clunky.
- Not the most intuitive software. Luckily, there is a big user group to help you with problems.
October 03, 2019
Great program but could use a few tweaks
We use it to track how our ads are performing on different websites and platforms. It has really helped us condense our reporting and information, we can now use just this one program rather than different programs to track clicks, demographics, opens, etc. It saved us money by allowing us to condense into one program.
- Condenses Information
- Tracks clicks and opens
- Gives demographic info
- A little tricky to use at first. Could have better training options
- Would love for even more information to be provided
- Better mobile version
October 02, 2019
Google Ad Manager Review
Google Ad Manager is used by one specific department within our entire organization.
- Targeting.
- Reporting.
- Ease of use.
- Conversions.
- Notifications/alerts.
- Certain targeting not available.
October 02, 2019
Simple and Effective
We use Google Ad Manager as a tool in our marketing campaigns for the company when we are running ads to drive traffic to various landing pages optimized for conversions or when we drive traffic to our main website. GAM is a good overview high-level snapshot of where we stand in our campaigns.
- GAM makes the data analyzation process seamless, they offer many different display types/charts and even allow us to run algorithms/machine learning on the data.
- GAM is constantly updated and has a strong release schedule for bugfixes, maintenance, and new features. Google seems to really care about this project.
- The reporting functionality is robust, allowing multiple query types that are even friendly to non-developers.
- Speed - I know its a website that's doing lots of data calculations, but there has to be a way to make this better. Even using enterprise internet solutions I have had a decent amount of lag from page inception to data displaying.
- API - When I wanted to pull a report to display on a backend system for a web application, the API was a bit complicated for doing a simple data extraction REST API pull.
- User Management - This has been a difficult aspect/pain point for us when we utilize sub-contractors or take on different clientele. Having different user permissions (or explaining how to implement it easily) would be a huge plus for us going forward.