Welcome to PPC Pulse: this week’s updates focus on creative controls and video delivery across Google Ads. Google expanded beta access to text guidelines in AI Max, allowing advertisers to set guardrails for AI-generated ad copy across Search and Performance Max campaigns. At the same time, VRC non-skip ads are now generally available globally, expanding […]
What SMEC’s Data Reveals About AI Max Performance
Since Google introduced AI Max for Search campaigns, most of the discussion has focused on Google’s own benchmarks. Those benchmarks suggest advertisers can expect meaningful conversion growth without major efficiency changes. But like many platform statistics, they leave open questions about how the feature behaves inside mature accounts. To get a clearer view, Mike Ryan, […]