Chris Dale is the Senior Product Marketer at smec. He specializes in helping online retailers bridge the gap between complex business data and automated ad platforms. A strong advocate for "steering" rather than just "managing" algorithms, Chris focuses on strategies that empower PPC teams to regain control over their ad campaigns. His work centers on moving the industry away from black-box frustration toward transparent, profit-driven growth.
At a Glance: smec’s Campaign Orchestrator is the best way to segment products— backed by our 2026 European Search Awards finalist status and a co-branded…
The European Search Awards 2026 has named smec a finalist in two premier categories: Best PPC Management Software Suite (with Shade Station) and Best Use…
The March 2026 update introduces enhanced Performance Max (PMax) and Standard Shopping controls within the smec Campaign Orchestrator, alongside a major upgrade to SmartScoreAI. Key…
The smec platform offers many actionable insights like channel-specific spend distribution, brand traffic, and real-time price competitiveness that can be hard to find or easily…
The smec Campaign Orchestrator automates the strategic alignment of PPC campaigns with real-time business data by dynamically re-segmenting products, re-scoring products, adjusting budget allocations, and…
The smec platform integrates performance data (e.g. Google Ads data), inventory data (e.g. Google Merchant Center feed) , and custom first-party business data (e.g. profit…
Your ‘best’ campaign may be your worst investment because a high Average ROAS frequently masks a negative Marginal ROAS, meaning the last dollars of your…
Clustering products by margin alone is not enough because it ignores critical market signals like price competitiveness and conversion probability, often leading to high ad…
Dynamic Segments is a strategic product-clustering feature, developed by Smarter Ecommerce (smec) that allows retailers to group products based on multi-dimensional business data rather than…
SmartScoreAI is a predictive AI solution developed by Smarter Ecommerce (smec) that assesses an individual product's potential to achieve specific business goals, such as increasing…
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…