Google launches Trial Run Ads for apps in search results to let users play before installing

The app streaming ads allow Android users to play with an app for 10 minutes right from the search results.

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Jewelry Advertisers Spending More On PLAs (Both Mobile & Desktop) Than Text Ads

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, AdGooroo has released data on the top jewelry advertisers on Google and the keywords that grab their budgets.

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Bing Ads Discusses 3 New Initiatives: Native Ads On MSN.com, Mobile Ad Formats, Remarketing

The company’s foray into native advertising will harness intent signals from Bing Ads.

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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]

Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.

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Smartphones Account For 40 Percent Of US Search Ad Spend In Q4 [Marin]

Desktop’s influence, while still dominant, continued to wane in the fourth quarter.

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Think Small: Solve Your Mobile SEM Problem With “Micro Leads”

The time has come for brands to have a mobile paid search strategy in place. Columnist Susan Waldes suggests that businesses begin with tiny steps.

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To Prove Online-To-Offline Impact, Google Rolls Out “Store Visits” Metric In AdWords

Measures impact of search ads on in-store traffic as part of AdWords Estimated Total Conversions.

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The 4 Cs Driving Mobile Search, Shopping & Buying

Mobile is driving the evolution of shopping behaviors. Contributor John Cosley explores how marketers can meet consumer needs and win customers.

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AdWords Now Shows Up To 3 Business Locations In Google Mobile Search Ads

Google has made an update to AdWords location extensions that allows multiple locations to display in mobile search ads. When several business locations are nearby, users may see up to three locations in an ad. The extensions can display the street address and distance from the user’s current…

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App Extensions Coming To Bing Ads

App extensions will be available to advertisers on Bing Ads starting next spring. Timed to coincide with the removal of explicit mobile OS targeting, app extensions will be targeted automatically to a user’s OS and device. The extensions will feature an app’s icon and a call-to-action…

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Microsoft Execs Lay Out Strategy For Growing Bing’s Market Share: “We’re Putting Search Where People Are”

At a Bing Ads Next event in Redmond, Washington yesterday, Microsoft executives outlined the roadmap ahead for Bing and Bing Ads, which powers paid search advertising on both Bing and Yahoo. In discussing the evolution of Bing and the way Micosoft is t…

Bing Ads Makes Combined Tablet-Desktop Targeting Official

Desktop and tablets are now united across paid search — with one caveat. Bing Ads has officially combined tablet and PC targeting in search campaigns on the platform, following on Google’s move to do so last year with the introduction of Enhanced Campaigns. Bing Ads announced the…

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Call Gap: Survey Finds 54 Percent Of Search Marketers Don’t Track Phone Conversions From Search Campaigns

How important are offline phone calls to search marketers? Google has reported that 70 percent of mobile searchers have called a business directly from search results. BIA/Kelsey estimates inbound phone calls from mobile search will grow from roughly 4…

Official: Google Expands Local Inventory And Store-Only PLAs Beyond The U.S.

Last fall, Google introduced local product listing ads, which it is now calling “local inventory ads”, in the U.S. This week Google officially announced support for local inventory ads in the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Australia. These are product listing ads (PLAs) from nearby…

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Google To Start Bumping Ad Copy For Extensions In Mobile Search Ads

When Google added ad extensions and formats to the Ad Rank formula last fall, the company essentially put a neon sign flashing “Ad Extensions Increase Click Through Rates” in that store window you walk by every day. Now, in another sign of the rise of ad extensions, Google has announced…

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