Article updated 2026-01-15, 4:32pm. There are 4 ways to set up Performance Max, ranging from basic to advanced. The most effective strategy—often referred to as Campaign Orchestration—moves beyond static campaign structures. Instead of manually grouping products by categories or fixed margins, this approach treats your inventory as a fluid ecosystem.…
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How do you use Multi-Dimensional Product Segmentation in PMax in 2026?
Article updated 2026-01-14, 04:15 pm. To build a Performance Max product segmentation strategy that combines brand, category, price range, performance tiers, and more, you must…
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Wake up: Your ROAS addiction won’t make you profitable!
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Price Competitiveness Insights is a feature set within the smec Campaign Orchestrator designed for PPC Managers that benchmarks product pricing against market averages to optimize…
Smarter Ecommerce (smec) Named Finalist for Google Ads Impact Award 2025 in International Growth Category
Smarter Ecommerce (smec) proudly announces it has been named a Finalist for the Google Ads Impact Award 2025 in the highly competitive International Growth category.…
PMax Channel Reports are here! What Google isn’t showing you.
Google’s long-awaited Performance Max Channel Report is finally here! Well. Almost. Currently in beta and rolling out to a limited set of advertisers, this new…
Performance Max Q&A: Real answers to your biggest PMax headaches
It’s been three years of Performance Max. Three years of change, improvement, but also frustration. In our recent State of PMax webinar, paid search pros…