People move seamlessly across online and offline channels to find the products and services that they need. To make it easier to maximise omnichannel ROI, shop visits in Smart Bidding is now available to all advertisers for Search and Shopping campaigns.
Turn insights into action
Over 70% of advertisers already use Smart Bidding, but until today, you could only optimise for online conversions. Shop visits in your Smart Bidding allows you to optimise for total omnichannel performance more holistically, helping you drive better results while saving you time.
MediaMarkt, Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, improved campaign performance by changing its Smart Bidding strategy to incorporate shop visits.
'As a part of MediaMarkt Turkey’s growth strategy, our aim is to drive traffic both online and in shops. By switching our bidding strategy from online-only to omnichannel, we were able to increase omnichannel revenue by 113% in our test campaigns. We plan to roll this approach out across other campaigns.' —Selçuk Kaya, Digital Marketing Manager, MediaMarkt Turkey |
Flexible testing at the campaign level
Trying a new bidding strategy at the account level can be challenging, so it’s now possible to test incorporating shop visits into your Smart Bidding strategy for select Search and Shopping campaigns. By enabling the campaign-level conversion setting, you can include shop visits as an optimisable conversion on a subset of Search campaigns before expanding your omnichannel bidding strategy to your entire account. If you'd like to run a similar test in a subset of your Shopping campaigns, contact your Google account team to participate in the Shopping conversion goals beta.
To learn how to value shop visits and set your campaigns up for success with Smart Bidding, take a look at our best practices.
Posted by John Chen, Group Product Manager, Google Ads