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Click Smarter, Convert Better: Tactics for Rising CPCs
Exclusive webinar collaboration between Kinase and Fresh Egg
Face to face - digital marketers in their own words
What really inspires Kinasers, how did they start out, and what are they working on now?
Microsoft Ads to launch LinkedIn campaign type
Kinase spotted a new campaign type option in the wild. Something new is indeed coming to Microsoft Ads
Is AI Usurping the SERPs?
How is AI changing the search results experience - and what might it mean for advertisers?
Cookies and Privacy in 2024
This year the transition from third party tracking and use of tracking data towards privacy-centric advertising has moved into its final phase. Kinase outlines key changes and why 2024 will be the completion of the privacy revolution.
Secrets of the Google Ad Auction
Now the evidence is done, what can we glean from the DoJ vs Google courtroom so far? Kinase sums up
3 Conversion Rate Wins for Paid Search Lead Gen
Lead generation through paid search isn’t always seens as a glamorous or dynamic discipline - but Isabel Figueiredo has found it to be both, and here explains how she came to love lead gen
From 'Pretty Cool' to 'Mind Blown': Exploring Google's Product Studio Capabilities
Surprising no one, generative AI led the way at Google’s Marketing Live this year. We explore Product Studio’s three main capabilities and rank them from ‘pretty cool’, to ‘wow’, to ‘mind blown’.
Apple's iOS 17 Shakes Up Paid Media with Enhanced Privacy Features
Apple's latest move with iOS 17, introducing Link Tracking Protection, poses a challenge to marketers. Kinase explores what this update will mean for digital marketers moving forward.
Is Your Advertising Strategy Doomed Without Similar Audiences?
As of May 1st, 2023, Google Ads bid farewell to its Similar Audiences feature, leaving marketers pondering their next move.
Highlights and Insights from Google Marketing Live 2023
Google are going to focus in 2023 on accelerating the impact of AI in three areas: creativity, performance and privacy. The question is what does this mean for brands and how can we make the most of this opportunity?
Kinase Ranks Google’s Already Existing AI Tools for Digital Marketers
We take the chance to look back at Google’s previous deployments, asking how successful they were and wondering how this bodes for the next big wave of disruption to sweep across the internet.
Stop Grumbling, Start Unbundling
If Performance Max isn’t working for your KPIs, there’s one option you should consider - unbundling.
Performance Max or Performance Meh?
What do you do to get the best out of Performance Max, and how do you proceed with your Google Ads strategy now it’s here?
Auto Applied Recommendations will now push traffic towards Broad Match
If you’ve opted into Google Ads’ auto applied recommendation to 'Remove Redundant Keywords’, then you should be aware that the scope of the changes it can make is about to get bigger...
Five Predictions for Black Friday
Will Black Friday continue to grow this year despite so many negative trends? We break down how each headline factor from the World Cup to consumer confidence will matter for performance.
How to design a successful test
Test design has many pitfalls. Kinase’s David Reed lays out how to test for success
Why you must experiment
Kinase founder Richard Brooks on why experiments and modelling are now essential for taking digital marketing forwards
Where the hell is my robot butler?
Google’s match types have become a moving target. We asked The Secret PPC Veteran whether they could make sense of the latest changes - and whether paid search is on the right path towards bidding on meaning, rather than simply text.
Notes on Google’s next ad automation push
Ads on Google are changing - from June 2022 they will be fully automated. But is automation always good for its own sake - and what are the implications for control over your campaigns?