Paid Media terms
Advertising auctions, targeting, bidding, creative, and paid campaign economics. Browse plain-language definitions and practical context below.
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A Google audience built from keywords and URLs to reach people researching specific topics.
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A tool that uses your uploaded customer contact data to target or exclude those people with ads.
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The average amount you set to spend on a campaign per day.
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Scheduling ads to run only during chosen hours or days when they perform best.
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A Google campaign for visual, social-style ads across YouTube, Discover, and Gmail feeds.
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Software advertisers use to buy programmatic ad inventory across many sources from one place.
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Selecting who sees an ad based on traits like age, gender, income, or parental status.
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The body text of a search ad that explains the offer beneath the headlines.
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Advertising shown on digital screens in public places like streets, transit, and stores.
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Google's earlier native ad format across the YouTube feed, Gmail, and Discover.
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Visual banner or image ads shown on websites, apps, and other placements across ad networks.
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The web address shown in an ad, which may differ from the real landing page.
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Ads that show people the exact products or services they viewed on your site or app.
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A semi-automated strategy that adjusts your manual click bids based on the chance of a conversion.
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A match type that shows ads only for searches with your keyword's same meaning.
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A retired Google search ad format with fixed headlines and descriptions you wrote directly.
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Google Ads' estimate of how likely your ad is to be clicked when shown for a keyword.
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The actual landing page address a user reaches after clicking an ad.
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An auction where the winning bidder pays the full amount they bid.
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Limiting how many times one user sees your ad within a set time period.