Google Marketing Live 2023: Accelerate growth with your app
Granular analysis and first look
Google Marketing Live 2023 on May 23, 2023, introduced new ways to enhance app advertising, focusing on making app ads more shoppable, creating seamless web-to-app experiences, and improving iOS app campaign measurement. These updates aim to increase user engagement, drive higher conversions, and optimize app performance.
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Why this matters?
- Shoppable App Ads: Integrating product feeds and promotional assets into app ads on platforms like YouTube Shorts increases conversion rates and user engagement.
- Seamless Web-to-App Experience: Web to App Connect ensures a smooth transition from web to app, enhancing user experience and driving higher conversion rates.
- Improved iOS Measurement: Enhanced on-device conversion measurement and new SKAdNetwork integrations provide better data and insights for optimizing iOS app campaigns.
Next Steps/Action Items
- Integrate Product Feeds: Apply product feeds to your app ads on YouTube Shorts and in-feed inventory to boost conversions.
- Use Promotion Assets and Seasonality Adjustments: Implement these features to optimize bids during peak user demand periods.
- Adopt Web to App Connect: Utilize this tool, currently in beta, to set up deep linking, conversion tracking, and bidding for a seamless web-to-app experience.
- Enhance iOS Campaign Measurement: Implement on-device conversion measurement and configure SKAdNetwork conversion value schema to improve reporting and optimization.
Helpful links for this Google update
Learn more about past Google updates
- Oct 2024 - October 2024 Google Ads Update – New Performance Max features
- Oct 2024 - October 2024 Google Ads Update – Simplified Video Experiments
- Sep 2024 - September 2024 Google Ad Update – First Position Now available across YouTube in Display & Video 360
- Sep 2024 - September 2024 Google Ad Update – YouTube Studio offers new website visits goal
- Aug 2024 - August 2024 Google Ad Update – New First-Party Data Tools
- Aug 2024 - August 2024 Google Ad Update – New AI Acquisition goals, creative tools & more
- Aug 2024 - Fewer ad breaks and more user engagement on YouTube-connected TVs
- Jul 2024 - Four tips to maximize sales this back-to-school season
- Jul 2024 - Results from Google’s display ads experiment with the Privacy Sandbox APIs
- Jun 2024 - Maximize performance on Search with updates to query matching
- Jun 2024 - Introducing Cross Media Reach
- Jun 2024 - Introducing Brand Recommendations in Google Ads
- May 2024 - Completing the Transition to a New Google Ads Design
- May 2024 - Google Marketing Live 2024: Key Updates and The Impact on Marketers
- May 2024 - Google I/O 2024: Making AI Helpful for Everyone
- Apr 2024 - New ways to steer your Performance Max campaigns to success
- Feb 2024 - Capture sales this spring shopping season and engage shoppers with AR & VR features
- Feb 2024 - Building more durable and effective bidding strategies for Hotel Campaigns
- Feb 2024 - Drive more performance from AI-powered Search ads with new asset changes
- Jan 2024 - Adapt to privacy and regulatory changes with consent mode
- Dec 2023 - A new way to buy reservation ads in Google Ads
- Dec 2023 - YouTube builds a better streaming experience with fewer ad breaks and expansion of Shorts