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Bing Ads Starts Piloting Expanded Ads

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…

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Google Shopping Latest – Showcase Shopping Ads

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…

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Anicca awarded Google Premier Partner status

Anicca is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded Google Premier Partner status. Google has given us this status across the fields of search, mobile, display and shopping ads. This status is to recognise our high-quality service for our clients across the awarded fields, and our ability to not just deliver excellent results, but…

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Note Worthy Releases In Bing In 2016

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…

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SMX London 2016 – key takeaways and slides

SMX London 2016 was as informative as ever, but with the added impetuous of a year full of announcements and changes in Google to fuel the presentations and expert panel (which I was privileged to be part of). I have provided some of the key takeways from the session I attended, which was the paid…

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Google Announces Forthcoming Changes to Device Bidding In AdWords

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….

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Google Image Searches to Now Return Shopping Ads in Results

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…

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New In Shopping: Google Moves to Make GTINs a Required Attribute

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…

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Google Removes Ads from Right Hand Side And Introduces A Fourth Advert Above The Organic Results

So they’re at it again. With a swipe of their mighty finger search giant Google has once again put the search industry into a spin with its latest update to the search results pages. On Friday the 19th February 2016, Google removed the ads from the right hand side of search results pages. This change…