Google Ads Introduces New Visibility, Control, and Insights in Performance Max Campaigns

Google Ads has announced a series of powerful updates to Performance Max campaigns, designed to give advertisers greater control, enhanced reporting capabilities, and smarter creative optimization. These improvements build on feedback from Google Marketing Live and reinforce Google’s commitment to making AI-powered advertising more transparent and effective.

Greater Control Over Audience Targeting

Advertisers now have expanded tools to ensure ads reach the right audience in the right context:

• Campaign-Level Negative Keyword Lists help brands exclude specific search terms across Search and Shopping campaigns, safeguarding brand integrity and improving traffic quality.
• Increased Search Theme Limits now allow up to 50 search themes per asset group, doubling the previous capacity and enabling broader yet relevant reach.
• Device and Demographic Targeting Enhancements give advertisers the ability to fine-tune delivery by device type and age group, with a beta feature adding gender-based targeting for even greater precision.

Smarter Reporting and Diagnostics for Better Decisions

• Refined Customer Acquisition Insights now clearly distinguish between new and returning customers, removing the ambiguity of previously “Unknown” conversions.
• Goal Diagnostics Tools identify and alert advertisers to potential setup issues—such as missing tags or misconfigured conversions—and offer guided steps to resolve them quickly.

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Deeper Creative Performance Metrics

• Final URL Expansion Reporting now provides insights into the use of personalized text assets and highlights underperforming creative, making it easier to optimize for impact.
• Channel-Specific Creative Recommendations help advertisers tailor visual and text assets to perform at their best across different platforms.

Why It Matters:

These updates strengthen Performance Max as a comprehensive, cross-channel advertising solution. By combining AI efficiency with deeper advertiser control, enhanced reporting, and creative intelligence, marketers can now run more targeted, transparent, and high-performing campaigns that deliver measurable results.