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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
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.
August 30, 2019
Nobody ever lost their job for choosing Google Ad Manager
We use it in partnership with our agency in managing our suite of ads that lead potential customers to our website. Our most effective use is in retargeting ads that deliver to customers who have abandoned the shopping cart process. We find the most effective ROI via this method for ad spend.
- Bid suggestions via machine learning: they save us a lot of time running analysis.
- Dashboards allow for effective turnkey presentations when reporting results to management.
- Google Ad Manager integrates with Analytics and provides a solution with easy setup.
- Only really suitable for business-class internet connections. Good luck loading the data on your phone without 80+ Mbps down.
- Could have a more robust API: we've had to make a lot of, "hackey" in house solutions to pull the data into our marketing automation software.
August 20, 2019
Best platform for ads for both for small and big businesses
Google Ad Manager is being used by my whole organization. All the Media and Communication Planners in all departments and brands use it. We use Google Ads Manager to manage and handle all the information and reports for our clients. We use this to analyze and extract data and then we present it to our brands for future campaigns and advertisements. We also use it as a report to check on the status and how well our brands and ads are making overall. We use it almost every day!
- It extracts data that can help in future plans and campaigns of the brands. It tells us where we can improve.
- It forecasts data to show the right match and type of ads for our brands and campaigns. It's very customized and perfect for either big or small brands.
- There are a lot of options to choose from. It really helps in choosing the right platform and way to serve the ads for the campaigns.
- I think Google Ads Manager can improve on its interface. Needs easier options so brands won't have a hard time.
- Needs to extract better reports. The reports are sometimes confusing and hard to read, despite being very informative.
- Needs simpler data.
March 19, 2019
Can't go wrong with a well-established brand
We are serving our direct and programmatic ads using DoubleClick ad server and share the instance with other Hearst newspapers. Normally each newspaper can only access their own insertion order. We, like some of the Hearst newspapers, manage the ad ops of another newspaper. So we are able to manage the operations of two companies. We basically use it to manage ads like uploading creative and make changes as well as to pull reports.
- It allows you to change a lot of attributes for the line items.
- The report function is versatile, allowing different types of queries.
- It does not allow different user permissions. We have to pay for an order entry app/platform for order entry people to enter orders so they won't mess up with the system.
- The reports takes a long time to run.
- The reports lack visualizations.
- Some reports cannot be automated because some of the queries do not have enough dynamic dates options such as 'ends X days ago'.
February 07, 2019
Google Ads: The Only Choice for Us
We use Google AdWords to manage the entirety of our digital ads. I am the sole user at our company, but I have trained others in its use. My role is essentially to make sure that when I am gone it can run without interruption or need from anyone else. Google Ads addresses a very specific issue—that we need to market in the online sphere, and with Google being one of the most powerful engines (and entities) out there, it would be irresponsible not to use it.
- Interface. You can understand how to build the ads very easily. When you first begin, and throughout the process, there are little help icons which explain what you need to understand.
- Pricing. By this, I mean the ability to change it at any time. You can select a variable rate, or you can preset it. Either way, you can change how much you spend every second if you'd like. This makes it easier to control your budget if you need to make emergency purchases and don't have much space in your budget.
- Always growing. They are always announcing something new. Always growing and always trying to update.
- Support. Not that they don't call or offer help, it's that our account people are bullies. I tell them I don't have time, so I am insulted and told that I need to get in front of the laptop otherwise I have "failed the company." I have never had a situation where I wasn't bullied by our Ad reps. They don't respect or value our time, which can make their calls frustrating.
- Too quick on support. They don't take the time to understand the product. We are a preschool which shares a name with a popular motorcycle. An Ad rep insisted he knew the company so well that he could help me within five minutes. After being interrupted frequently, I just let him continue to tell me how I "could increase awareness of our aerodynamic seat design by creating ads with those keywords..."
- Better management of trademark keywords and program awareness. We switched over to a new site, the domain changed for about ten seconds. All of our ads were unapproved and put on pause. The email stated it would be fixed very quickly, but I had to go in for the last 3 days to reactivate each one individually.
November 18, 2018
The Integrated Ads Solution
We use Google Ad Manager to gain actionable insights within the Ad Manager dashboard. We are able to review performance benchmarks, revenue growth opportunities, and view granular reporting metrics which influence our strategy. All the suggestions we receive are customized to our business and current trends, as result we are empowered to make smarter decisions.
- A robust native ad creation tool.
- Ad optimization suggestions.
- Granular data that integrates multiple platforms.
- It would be great if the tool enabled advertisers the ability to review and report brand/trademark infringement.
- Needs a custom ap (not the Google Ads app)
November 15, 2018
Google Ad Manager - Good to Use
Our organization uses Google Ad Manager in order to manage our advertisers' campaigns, but we also use the whole publisher and advertiser suite in order to offer products. To put some perspective here, we as a CMI are a sales house for different Grupo Carso companies, and we have strategic alliances which allow us to have a pretty broad product portfolio for every advertiser need.
Having said that, Google Ad Manager helps operations team to do all that on a day to day basis; we also integrate some of our data platforms into Google Ad Manager so we leverage both 1st and 2nd party data.
Having said that, Google Ad Manager helps operations team to do all that on a day to day basis; we also integrate some of our data platforms into Google Ad Manager so we leverage both 1st and 2nd party data.
- The UI is very easy to understand. They have made some changes lately for good, I think
- The integration for 1st party data from other platforms is very transparent, allowing you to identify audiences via the internal code from the data platform itself
- The integration with Data Studio is something we love. This is pretty useful when presenting info to high level teams
- If you have a slow internet connection you might suffer
- Sometimes reports are so slow to load
- Internal processes, such as whitelisting external platforms, may take some time
November 14, 2018
Google Ad Manager brings in the leads
Google Ad Manager is used by both our internal digital marketing team and an external agency. We run a bulk of our ads through there and carefully watch our ROI on all our buys.
We love it because it gives us the power to make changes to buys quickly based on market changes and budget needs.
- The platform does a good job establishing a hierarchy of ad groups, ads keywords etc to make things easier to organize.
- Reporting is flexible and mostly easy to use.
- You can incorporate 3rd party info into buys to connect sales to spend.
- I think sometimes it needs a wizard or a template for certain actions to make it quicker to do.
- An easier way to clean up legacy issues in accounts.
- Sometimes it runs slow, even in Chrome.