this is one of the greatest times in history to run google ads
1. demand gen/youtube ads are working way better than they were 1-2 years ago
we’ve been getting a lot more creative angles and placements to hit this year.
a lot of brands that couldn’t make this channel work before are now scaling it to $20k-$50k/day in spend.
image ads on discover placement are a great example
every week i’m seeing more of them print inside client accounts.
they’ve become one of the strongest cold traffic formats we’re running.
google's also pushing a bunch of new features/upgrades on demand gen right now
you can tell they want this to become their version of meta ads
and it’s only going to get better in the next few years
2. there’s an insane amount of tof & mof traffic on google with barely any competition
especially inside search.
you can get in front of people researching a problem through informational searches
you can influence buyers evaluating different options through comparison searches
90% of brands don’t target these searches
and the brands who try…
they either can’t get these keywords profitable or they can’t scale them very far.
which leaves a massive opening for you to take advantage of
because let me tell you…
all of these keyword types can be highly profitable.
you can make multiple 6 to 7 figures… as long as you have the right funnel & landing page experience for them.
3. ai compresses a lot of the manual work inside the process
for the 2 points i’ve just talked about…
the unlock for demand gen is creative volume.
the unlock for those search placements is landing pages.
both can now be produced fast, at scale with ai.
so one of the biggest bottlenecks behind scaling them is getting pretty much removed.
on top of that
inside the agency we’ve been building a lot of workflows and automations to save us time on
competitor research
keyword research
data analysis
etc
basically:
> google’s opened up more traffic opportunities and placements than ever before
> the time required to launch and test them is lower than it’s ever been
and more importantly
most brands still think of google as a bottom funnel channel
i think eventually, people will wake up to how profitable google is at new customer acquisitions
and these advantages will shrink over time
but for now, it’s still wide open territory.