Automated bid strategies like Target CPA and Target ROAS are designed to adjust in response to performance, but marketers still have to make an important decision: when should you change the target, and how much should you change it? This article digs into those two questions, with a closer look at the supporting numbers and the practical takeaways for managing automated bid strategies based on our original research.

Automated bid strategies such as Target CPA and Target ROAS are typically managed through periodic adjustments to the target value. However, practitioners have limited empirical guidance on how the magnitude of those adjustments, whether Minor or Major, affects campaign performance. This study examines seven paid media campaigns using both Target CPA and Target ROAS strategies to assess how change magnitude affects short-term spend stability and longer-term conversion volume

If you’ve spent any time running Google Ads campaigns, you’ve probably heard a lot about Quality Score. It’s one of those metrics that can make advertisers obsess over a number, thinking that a high score automatically equals success. But here’s the reality: Quality Score is a helpful signal, not the ultimate measure of success. Your real goal is always profit.

A Working Planet client thought they had it figured out: a finely tuned predictive model delivering real-time performance insights. But after months of testing, we uncovered gaps in what looked, on paper, like a perfectly sound approach.