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What is incrementality?

  • It’s near real-time attribution to fuel short-term business and bidding decisions
  • It’s a top-level modeling to understand what drives sales including media and all possible external factors
  • It’s a way to measure if the change in user behavior was directly caused by exposure to an ad campaign
  • It’s a way to test variations of ad creative against each other
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If someone wanted to use creatives to promote an upcoming weekend sale, which of these approaches would you recommend?

  • Start the campaign a week in advance, then refresh your generic store creative to a sales focused creative the day of the sale.
  • Start the campaign the day before the sale then, refresh your creative frequently to move from more generic store creative to sales-focused creative.
  • Start the campaign 2-3 weeks in advance, then refresh your creative from more generic store creative to sales-focused creative.
  • Start the campaign 2-3 days in advance then, refresh your generic store creative to a sales focused creative the day of the sale.
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How is Performance Max for omnichannel goals different from Smart Shopping Campaigns (SSC)?

  • Performance Max offers product specific formats to support markekting objectives of online and omnichannel sales
  • Performance Max allows users to opt into Smart Bidding, which uses machine learning to optimize bids.
  • Performance Max allows for marketing objective goals to align with your business goals of online and omnichannel sales.
  • Performance Max offers the same inventory as SSC, with additional formats to feature products such as YouTube In-Stream, Text Ads, and Display.
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How do geo-based experiments work?

  • Geo experiments use random geographic regions assigned to control group.
  • Geo experiments use non-overlapping geographic regions that are randomly assigned to a control or treatment group.
  • Geo experiments use random geographic regions assigned to test group.
  • Geo experiments use overlapping geographic regions that are assigned to a control or treatment group.
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Which option describes how Google accounts for a store visit?

  • When users see your ads and then visit your store, Google attributes those store visits back to the ad views
  • When users purchase online and then visit a store, Google attributes those store visits back to the online purchase and engagement.
  • When users make a purchase in store, Google attributes those store visits back to ad conversions.
  • When users engage with your ads and then visit your store, Google attributes those store visits back to the ad engagements in a privacy-safe way.