Performance Planner is a tool that lets you create plans for your advertising spend and assess how changes to campaigns might affect key metrics and overall performance.
Using Performance Planner, you can:
- Access forecasts for your campaigns.
- Explore outcomes by adjusting campaign settings.
- Understand opportunities in seasonal periods.
- Manage budgets across accounts and campaigns.
Benefits
- Review your campaigns' projected monthly and quarterly performance.
- Get suggestions that can help your campaigns perform better for the same spend.
- Find out how your spending and performance goals are affected if you change your campaign settings.
- Choose the specific conversion goal that you want to create a forecast for.
How it works
To give you the most accurate forecasts possible, Performance Planner takes into account billions of search queries, usually updated every 24 hours. Performance Planner simulates relevant ad auctions over the last 7–10 days, including variables like seasonality, competitor activity and landing page.
After running simulations and collecting data, the accuracy of Performance Planner forecasts are measured by running campaigns against their eventual performance and Google AI is used to fine-tune your forecasts.
Forecast conversions are based on the conversion types in the 'Conversions' column of your Google Ads performance reports or the conversion goal that you choose when creating a new forecast. Learn more about account, campaign and ad group performance
Performance Planner is also available for manager accounts.
Requirements
Refer to the tables below to find out if your campaigns are eligible to use Performance Planner.
Search campaigns
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid strategy | Uses manual cost-per-click (CPC), enhanced CPC, max clicks, max conversions, max conversion value, target return on ad spend (ROAS), target cost-per-action (CPA) bidding strategies or target impression share bidding strategies |
Run time | Have been running for at least 72 hours |
Recent clicks | Have received at least three clicks in the last seven days |
Conversion minimum | Have received at least three conversions in the last seven days (if the campaigns focus on conversions) |
Budget | Have a Search lost IS (budget) of less than 5% over the last 10 days (target impression share campaigns only) |
Shopping campaigns (Smart and standard)
Eligibility factor | Eligibility Requirements |
Run time | Have been active each day with a minimum spend of $10 AUD or more in the last 10 days |
Impression minimum | Have received at least 100 impressions in the last seven days |
Conversion minimum | Have received at least 10 conversions and/or conversion values in the last 10 days |
Budget |
Target ROAS standard shopping campaigns (only): have a Search lost IS (budget) of less than 5% over the last 10 days |
Display campaigns (Smart and standard)
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid strategy | Have not changed bid strategies in the last seven days |
Run time |
Have been running for seven days or more |
Conversion or click minimum | Have had at least five conversions (or 20 clicks for Maximise clicks) and more than $10 AUD in cost in the last seven days |
Budget | Have not been recently budget constrained |
Demand Gen campaigns
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid strategy |
Have not changed bid strategy within the last 7 days Use a maximise conversions or target cost-per-action (CPA) bid strategy |
Impression minimum |
All ad groups have at least 1 impression in each of the last 7 days |
Budget | Uses daily budgets |
State | Campaigns should be active (not in a draft or experiment state) or have been paused for < 7 days |
Conversions minimum | Have had at least 1 conversion in the last 7 days |
App campaigns
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid strategy |
Have not changed bid strategies in the last 10 days Use app install ads with target cost-per-install (tCPI), target cost-per-action (tCPA) or app engagement ads with target cost-per-action (tCPA) bidding strategies |
Run time | Have been running for 10 days or more |
Conversion minimum | Have received at least 10 conversions in the last 10 days |
Budget | Have not been recently budget constrained |
Local campaigns
Eligibility factor |
Eligibility requirements |
Bid Strategy |
Optimising for shop visits Have sufficient shop visit data in the last 30 days Not optimising for calls or directions only |
Run time | Have been active for the last 30 days |
Budget |
Not using shared budgets Have an average daily spend of $500 USD or more in the last 30 days |
Video campaigns
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid Strategy |
Have not changed bid strategy within the last three days Use a maximise conversions or target cost-per-action (CPA) bid strategy TrueView for Action or Video Action Campaign format |
Conversion minimum | Have at least five conversions and have spent $10 AUD in the last seven days |
Budget |
Using daily budgets Not using shared budgets |
State | Campaigns should be active, not in a draft or experiment state |
Performance Max campaigns
Eligibility factor | Eligibility requirements |
Bid strategy |
Have not changed the bid strategy within the last 7 days Use a shared budget for bid strategies with a target |
Run time |
Must be active or have been paused for fewer than 7 days Must not be in a draft or experiment state |
Conversion or click minimum |
Use maximise conversions (with or without bids) or maximise conversion value (with or without bids) Have had at least 10 impressions, 3 interactions, 1 conversion and 1 conversion value (for conversion value-related campaigns) in the last 7 days |
Budget | Using daily budgets |
Ineligible campaigns
Depending on the settings or state of a campaign, it may be ineligible to use Performance Planner. If any of the following apply to your campaign, it's ineligible to use Performance planner:
- Has been changed to meet the eligibility requirements, but has been running for fewer than 10 days with new settings
- Is in draft or an experiment state
- Has been deleted