About Video campaign goals

Video campaigns for product and brand consideration now show ads across both YouTube video and YouTube Search networks, helping you expand your reach and gain potential customers.

When you create a Video campaign in Google Ads, you choose a campaign goal first. A campaign goal is the main thing you want your campaign to achieve for your business, for example, sales or website traffic.

In this article, you’ll learn about Video campaign goals and how they determine the campaign subtypes, ad formats, ad networks, and bidding strategies available to you when creating the campaign.

Optimize your campaign as you create it

As you create your campaign, you may receive notifications based on your setting selections. These notifications may alert you of issues that can result in decreased performance or that may be significant enough to prevent you from publishing your campaign.

The campaign construction navigation menu that appears as you construct your campaign provides a holistic view of your construction progress and will call attention to notifications that you may want to address. Move between steps in the navigation menu to easily review and resolve potential issues with your targeting, bidding, budget, or other campaign settings. Learn how to Set up your campaign for success.

Video campaign goals

When setting up your campaign, you can select from one of these goals:

An illustration of video campaign goals in Google Ads.

If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can also select “Create a campaign without a goal's guidance”. Learn more About campaign goals

Video campaign subtypes

After you choose a goal, you can then choose a campaign subtype. The campaign subtype specifies how you want to reach people, where the campaign runs, and which ad formats can be used in the campaign.

Sales / Leads / Website traffic

  • Drive conversions: Drive interactions and relevant conversions on your website. Also known as Video action campaigns.

Awareness and consideration

  • Get views: Connect users to your brand using ads designed to drive interactions and engagements.
  • Video reach campaigns: Get the most reach for your budget, either by reaching more unique users through the use of bumper ads, skippable in-stream ads, or an optional mix of the 2 formats, or by reaching users with your entire message (through the use of non-skippable in-stream ads).
    • Note: Google Ads supports ads serving on Google TV by default if you’ve selected Efficient reach and Non-skippable campaigns as subtypes.
  • Ad sequence: Tell your product or brand story by showing ads in a particular sequence to individual viewers.
  • YouTube engagements: Get subscriptions and drive engagement on YouTube with video ads designed to encourage valuable interactions.

Available ad networks and ad formats for Video campaigns

The campaign goal and campaign subtype that you choose determines the ad networks where your ads can appear, and the ad formats that you can use in the campaign.

Ad networks

Ad networks are places where your ads can appear. Video ads can appear in the following places:

YouTube Videos icon Video partners on Display Network icon Google TV icon
YouTube Video partners on
the Display Network
Google TV

Ad formats

Ad formats determine what your ads look like and how they behave to people who view them. Learn more About Video ad formats.

Skippable in-stream icon Non-skippable in-stream icon Bumper icon Video discovery icon
Skippable in-stream Non-skippable in-stream Bumper In-feed video

Compare goals

Expand a section below to view the campaign subtypes, ad networks, ad formats, and bid strategies available for each goal.

Sales / Leads / Website traffic

Drive conversions

Networks

YouTube Videos icon Video partners on Display Network iconGoogle TV icon

(All networks are auto-selected.)

Ad formats Skippable in-stream icon
Bid strategies

Set bids on the cost-per-conversion (Target CPA)

Automatically set bids to help get the most conversions for your campaign while spending your budget (Maximize conversions)

Awareness and consideration

Get views

Networks

YouTube Videos icon Video partners on Display Network icon

(YouTube and YouTube video partners are auto-selected.)

Ad formats Skippable in-stream icon Video discovery icon
Bid strategies Set bids on video views or interactions with your video (Maximum CPV)

Ad sequence

Networks

YouTube Videos icon

(YouTube is auto-selected.)

Ad formats Skippable in-stream iconNon-skippable in-stream iconVideo discovery icon
Bid strategies

Set bids on the cost-per-thousand impressions (Target CPM)

Set bids on video views or interactions with your video (Maximum CPV)

Video reach campaigns

Networks

YouTube Videos iconGoogle TV icon

(YouTube and Google TV are auto-selected.)

YouTube Videos icon

(YouTube is auto-selected.)

Ad formats "Efficient reach"

Skippable in-stream iconBumper icon
"Non-skippable in-stream"

Non-skippable in-stream icon

"Target frequency"

Skippable in-stream iconNon-skippable in-stream iconBumper icon

Bid strategies Set bids on the cost-per-thousand impressions (Target CPM)

YouTube engagements

Networks

YouTube Videos icon

(YouTube is auto-selected.)

Ad formats Skippable in-stream iconVideo discovery icon
Bid strategies

Set bids on the cost-per-conversion (Target CPA)

Automatically set bids to help get the most conversions for your campaign while spending your budget (Maximize conversions)

 

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