Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Inside AdWords - EN

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Inside AdWords - EN

Use ad customizers to gear up for your holiday promotions

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 12:06 PM PST

A few months ago, we introduced ad customizers, a new AdWords tool that lets you show highly relevant text ads to your customers, in real-time, even when you have thousands of products, services, and promotions—all changing by the day. Check out this video to see how you can put ad customizers to work in your accounts.

Use ad customizers to boost performance this holiday season

As the holiday season continues, there's no better time than now to use ad customizers to connect with your customers at scale with the products and promotions they're searching for, in real-time. Cameron Urry, Senior Interactive Acquisition Manager at Extra Space Storage, says: "We loved the ability to use the same ad template across multiple ad groups, while still being able to share a unique and relevant message to our potential customers." To learn how Extra Space Storage used ad customizers to dynamically insert their daily inventory details, and increased their CTR by 113%, check out their story on Think with Google.
Elite SEM, a performance driven digital marketing agency, also implemented ad customizers for their client, Clarks USA, to help them dynamically count down the number of days left in their Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions, influencing customers to convert on their site. Kylie Beals, eCommerce Marketing Manager at Clarks Americas, says: "When using countdown ads over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend, we noticed a 32% uplift in CTR. The ads proved effective at driving urgency once the consumer was onsite because conversion rates increased 3% over static ads."

Introducing the new countdown widget

And, to make it even easier to dynamically count down to important events like promotions in your ads, we are rolling out the new countdown widget to AdWords over the next few weeks. Now, you can easily set up a countdown to an event just by typing "{=" into any line of ad text as you're creating text ads in the 'Ads' tab. You can also preview what the countdown will look like in your ads before setting them live.
This holiday season, don't forget to use ad customizers to dynamically show your customers:
  • the number of days, hours, or minutes left to ship their holiday presents in time
  • daily discounts or promotions for your hottest deals
  • most-up-to date inventory availability on your products, or even the number of flights left to make it home in time for the holidays
To learn how you can set up ad customizers in your account, visit our AdWords Help Center.

Posted by Karen Yao, Group Product Manager, AdWords