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The Physics of PPC: Why Google Ads Revenue Has a Natural Limit, but Campaign Waste Has No Bottom

Kirk Williams
Team Zato
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Google Ads
Learn why Google Ads is primarily a demand capture channel and how understanding the limits of search-based growth can prevent wasted spend and drive true business scaling.
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Why is My Sale Price Wrong in Google Merchant Center?

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Merchant Center
When a client offers a sale price for a product, but Google still sees the old price (let's say, GMC either disapproves the product for pricing errors, OR the Automatic Item Updates updates the feed s

An Asinine Asset Assignment Annoyance in Google Performance Max Campaigns

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Performance Max
According to Google, signals are just that… they guide the machine learning process, which ultimately determines what and who to target. The problem is, your ad asset groups can be targeted to any aud

Train Robberies, Shipping Conglomerates, and Giving Your Employees Purpose with Mike Beckham - PPC Ponderings Podcast

Team ZATO
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PPC Podcast
What do water bottles, train robberies, inventory management, 7x increases in shipping containers, employee purpose and the great job exit, have to do with one another? They're all topics of today's

Expanded Text Ads (ETAs) Will Be Sunset Soon; Are You Ready for Responsive Search Ads (RSAs)?

Sakshi Sharma
Team ZATO
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Google Ads
As Google attempts to shift more ads over to this new ad format, they have officially announced a sunset date for Extended Text Ads (ETAs) of June 30, 2022. On that date, advertisers will not be able

Digital Advertising Isn't the Problem, Programmatic Is 👏 Louder for Those In the Back

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Marketing Principles
When does this black eye on digital advertising get resolved? I'm not a programmatic media buyer, so I don't have the solution, but I can tell you, I'm getting weary of defending all digital advertisi

🎙 Episode 4 - The Supply Chain Crisis Explained. Why Did It Break, and How Did It Impact Ecommerce? - PPC Pondering Podcast

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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PPC Podcast
Two years ago, the pandemic started a chain of events that would break the supply chain in various and sundry ways. The hits just kept (and still keep) coming, and in this episode, we dig into...

My Semi-Exhaustive Audit Checklist for Troubleshooting Shopping Performance Drops

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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Google Shopping
There are hundreds of ways Google Shopping can break, but here are some of the first things I look to when we’re running an audit on dropped performance in Google Shopping.

Free Stuff: The ZATO Google Ads Audience Targeting List of Affinity Categories & In-Market Segments

Chris Reeves
Team ZATO
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Google Ads
We love running audience targeting here at ZATO and sometimes we need a complete list of Google's Affinity Categories and In-Market Segments. The problem is, a full list is very hard to find. Until no

🎙Episode 3 - PPC Pondering Podcast - Beginner's Guide to PPC Attribution Models

Kirk Williams
Team ZATO
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PPC Podcast
In this brief (seriously, it's only 15 minutes long) Class 101 on Attribution, Kirk & his four returning guests, takes a look at the attribution models that can be used in PPC and when they can/should

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