// Field_Notes // Paid Search

    Paid Search

    Google Ads, bid strategy, and how paid search evolves as AI Overviews absorb more of the SERP.

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    Paid Search8 min read

    Paid Social in 2026: What a Good Agency Actually Does

    Creative volume, incrementality testing and margin-aware targets — the three things that separate a paid social agency from a campaign babysitter.

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    Paid Search7 min read

    Incrementality for new ad platforms: the test design that survives your P&L

    Every emerging channel over-reports at launch. A repeatable geo holdout design, the metrics that decide, and the kill criteria to agree before you spend.

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    Paid Search7 min read

    How to improve CTV ROAS: a practical operating checklist

    Frequency, creative, audience mix, measurement and landing experience — the five areas that decide whether streaming spend produces revenue or just reach.

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    Paid Search8 min read

    CTV CPMs are climbing: what changed and what to do about it

    Connected TV had a cheap window and it is closing. Why effective CPMs on platforms like MNTN and Vibe keep rising, and the three levers that still move CTV economics.

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    Paid Search7 min read

    AppLovin for ecommerce: what a serious test looks like

    AI-bid networks can deliver paid-social-class performance on non-search inventory, but only for advertisers with clean signal and real creative volume. How to test one without fooling yourself.

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    Paid Search7 min read

    The desktop shift: why advertisers are rediscovering Microsoft Ads

    Desktop traffic converts differently, and Microsoft owns a disproportionate share of it. What the shift means for landing pages, targets, and budget planning.

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    Paid Search10 min read

    Google Ads vs Microsoft Ads, 2026–2027: mobile, desktop, and where the money is moving

    Google skews mobile, Microsoft skews desktop, and revised target ROAS behaviour is pushing budget across the gap. A practical comparison for advertisers deciding how to split.

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    Paid Search7 min read

    The tROAS glidepath: raising targets without killing volume

    A repeatable framework for moving target ROAS upward in controlled increments, with the checks that tell you whether each step bought profit or just bought silence.

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    Paid Search8 min read

    Your Google Ads budget isn't spending. Here's the actual diagnosis.

    Unspent daily budget is almost never a budget problem. It is a bid ceiling problem, a signal problem, or a demand problem, and each one has a different fix. A step-by-step diagnostic.

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    Paid Search9 min read

    Google's target ROAS change: what actually happened to your bids

    Google revised how target ROAS translates into auction bids. The result is higher effective CPCs on the auctions you still win, lower impression share, and budgets that no longer spend. Here is how to diagnose and reset your targets.

    Sep 2026Read →
    Paid Search8 min

    The Bid Target Adjustment Tool: a 30-minute playbook for the July 2026 Google Ads rollout

    Google's new Bid Target Adjustment Tool launches July 6, 2026. Here's how to use it in one sitting, which campaigns to touch first, and how to avoid the mistake that will cost most accounts real revenue in August.

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    Paid Search9 min

    Google Ads is changing Target CPA and Target ROAS on August 17, 2026 — what advertisers need to do now

    Google is closing the gap between stated targets and actual performance on budget-limited campaigns. If your Target CPA or Target ROAS has been over-delivering, your performance will move toward the target you set — not the number you've been reporting.

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