Amazon is an ever-growing force in the world of online shopping with sales up by nearly a third in 2017 (BBC News 2018). This was spurred on by growth in its Prime delivery service with sign-ups to Amazon Prime at their highest level to date, both in the US and worldwide. With this in mind…
Over the last few weeks there have been several high-profile brands pulling their ads from Google, particularly YouTube and the GDN. This is as a result of their ads appearing against content that does not align with their brand values. Fears ran high that ads were appearing against extremist videos, and you can see why…
James leads with a big statement at this years E-Commercial Conference ‘the world has gone mad he says… we are controlled by the search box’; and if you take a minute to think about it quite possibly we are. If you have a question (whether that be Chinese takeaways close to your location, or the weather…
Shortly after Google’s official announcement in May that they would be releasing a new ad format in the form of expanded ads, Bing followed suit (as expected) announcing its support for this feature. Just like in AdWords what this now means is that you get 50% more character space to fill with enticing & useful…
It’s that time again Google has got itchy feet, cue there latest update… ‘Showcase shopping ads’. So what do these ads entail and how might they affect your campaign? Firstly it’s worth noting that this new ad format will only be triggered for broad, non-branded product searches such as ‘women’s shoes’ or ‘makeup brushes’. These…
Segmenting Functionality’s It has long been a pet hate of mine the ever missing feature in Bing that is the ability to segment the data. Well finally Bing has caught up with AdWords on this one. Over the last couple of months we have slowly started to see it creep into our accounts and we…
It’s the announcement the Paid Search team at Anicca have been waiting for since the shake-up to device targeting back in 2013 – Google is soon to allow individual bidding across all device types, with the option to select which device is your primary target; opening up a ‘mobile-first world’ as described by Google themselves….
With more and more consumers becoming increasingly comfortable with the world of online shopping, it seems like a natural progression for Google to maximise on this. In response to this ever growing market Google has announced just ahead of its annual I/O developer conference, it has launched its own visual shopping ads, which encompass the…
In the forever changing world of Google AdWords it is hard to keep up with all the new features and changes that are happening on a monthly, sometimes even daily basis – But don’t worry we’ve got your back. One of the latest arrivals in Google Beta is what is being referred to as both ‘Table…
Until September 2015 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) had always been just a recommended attribute within the Google shopping feed – with merchants able to select 2 of the unique identifiers (brand, gtin and mpn). In September Google released an update that started to require GTINs for products in a merchants feed; the initial introduction…