Episodes

#ppcchat Anu Adegbola chats with Paid Search expert Chris Ridley, about account structure and AI Q1. Does Account Structure Even Matter Anymore? Q2. Do you think account structure matters anymore? If so, does it vary by platform? And if not, why not? Q3. Have you changed the way you structure accounts and/or campaigns? If so, does it vary by platform? And if not, why not? Q4. What are your biggest frustrations with account and/or campaign structures right now? Q5. If you could change someth...

#ppcchat Anu Adegbola chats with in-house Paid Search expert Matt Beswick⁠, about the latest updates in Search Marketing, giving PPC-ers advice on how to approach PPC in 2025" Q1 How did you get into client-side Q2 What frustrates you most about all the new updates Q3 How is your PPC workload as a client-side professional Q4 What’s one thing you want to leave people with Q5 Advice to freelancers wanting to pitch Q6 What is your favourite agency story to tell Q7 What best advice have you b...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Do you use social media to either build your brand and/or find business or leads? If so, which platform(s) do you use? Q2 Do you use social media to either build your brand and/or find business or leads? If so, which platform(s) do you use? Q3 Have any of the recent changes on social platforms (Meta dropping fact checking or TikTok being banned and unbanned for example) changed your social med...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Much like Twitter before this, after their change in ownership and subsequent policy changes, do these changes on Meta cause you to feel any differently about the platform, either personally or professionally? Q2 Has any of last week’s happenings with Meta given you pause over continuing to recommend advertising on their platform? If so, why and how? And if not, why not? Q3 Do you think as adv...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Sarah Stemen (@runnerkik) Q1 Do you do research as part of your PPC strategy and management? If so, what types? Q2 Is research something you do once or is it ongoing? If it is ongoing, at what frequency are you doing it and what types are you doing? Q3 Do you have any tools you use for PPC research? Q4 What is your biggest struggle or challenge when doing PPC research? Q5 Is there a tool you wish existed for PPC research? ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What are your predictions for paid search advertising (Google and Microsoft Ads)? Q2 What are your predictions for paid social advertising (Meta, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc.)? Q3 Are there any platforms that you think will gain ground in PPC in 2025 that we are not really talking about much in 2024? Q4 What are your predictions for the PPC industry?

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What was your overall impression of the BFCM period this year? Q2 What is your strategy for the rest of the holiday shopping season 2024? Q3 Have you seen any trends in advertising or sales this year that have you excited or worried? If so, what and why? Q4 What is on your holiday wish list for Google Ads or Microsoft Ads? Q5 What is on your holiday wish list for PPC clients or stakeholders?...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What do you consider to be “wasted spend” and does it vary by platform? Q2 How do you detect wasted spend in your accounts (if you look for it)? Where do you find it most often? Does it vary by platform? Q3 Are you seeing an uptick in wasted spend in your accounts? If so, does it differ by platform? Q4 Are you doing anything to try to combat wasted spend in your accounts? If so, does it diffe...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What does “ethical marketing” mean to you? Q2 Q2: Are there tactics you’ve seen that you consider unethical and if so, why? How much do the ad platforms influence ethical vs unethical behavior? And do you find ad platforms themselves to be ethical or unethical or a bit of both? Q4 Have you ever been in a position where you’ve been asked to do something unethical by a client/boss? How did you ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What is a horror story regarding a platform (performance, support, etc.) that you have experienced? Q2 What is a horror story regarding a client that you have experienced? You can fuzzy up details to protect the “innocent” if need be! Q3 What is a horror story regarding a mistake you made in PPC? Q4 What is your biggest challenge in lead gen PPC right now? Has it changed in the last 6 to 12 m...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Is the Q4 season a big deal for the accounts you manage? If so, why and if not why not? Q2 Do you have anything new that you are trying for this year’s Q4 season? Q3 How are clients and stakeholders as we head into Q4 this year - are they excited, nervous, etc.? Q4 What is your gut feeling on how Q4 will be this year - strong, weak, similar to 2023? Q5 Are you running into any issues yet wit...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Are you currently using any AI-generated content in your PPC (ads, assets, videos, images, landing page content, etc.)? If so, what are you using and how is it going? If not, why not? Q2 Do you think you can discern AI-generated content, images or video in ads or landing pages? What, if anything, makes it stand out to you? Q3 Do you have a reaction to AI-generated content when you recognize it...

#ppcchat Anu Adegbola chats with in-house Paid Search expert Brooke Osmundson, about the latest updates in Search Marketing, giving PPC-ers advice on how to approach PPC in 2024" Q1 How much would you say you’re keeping up with all the updates from Google, Microsoft and the world of Ai Q2 With all the people worrying about enhanced CPC’s, how have you felt about it and how should people approach it? Q3 Do you use performance max and how are you finding it? Q4 How do you use Ai - How often do...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What do you think the ideal workload is for a PPC professional - how many accounts can one person reasonably be responsible for and on how many platforms? Do you have a hard limit on how many accounts you will manage at once? Q2 What have you done if you find yourself with an unreasonable workload? Q3 Do you have any standard operating procedures (SOPs) in place for setting up and/or managing ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Are you taking into consideration political advertising in the U.S over the next six weeks and how it might impact your PPC campaigns? Q2 Have you noticed that holiday seasons are being started earlier this year and is this impacting your PPC strategy in any way? Q3 With economic conditions being tight around the world, are you making adjustments to your current and or 2024 holiday strategy? ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What is your most controversial or unpopular opinion? Q2 What is a controversial or unpopular opinion that you vehemently disagree with that you see out there being touted? Q3 What popular PPC opinion do you really disagree with? Q4 Is there any PPC take you’ve seen recently that really got you thinking? Q5 What is your most hopeful or optimistic PPC take? Thank you for listening! Please h...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Do you think the PPC industry as we know it is dying - yes, no or not sure? Do you think the current PPC skillset is dying - yes, no or not sure? Q2 Why do you think the PPC industry as we know it is dying or not dying? Q3 What do you think our jobs will look like in 5 years? Q4 What are the PPC skills of the future? And how do you feel about learning them (if you don’t already have them!)? ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Smart versus manual bidding, what is your position on which strategy to use and under what circumstances? Q2 What is your position on using PMAX and under what circumstances? Q3 SKAG or STAG, what is your position on which strategy to use and under what circumstances? Q4 Do you think you have biases towards platforms? If so, which ones and why? Q5 Do you have a natural trust or distrust of a...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Were any of your accounts impacted and if so how? Are they now back to normal and what are your general thoughts on the situation? Q2 What are your thoughts on the newly delivered ruling against Google in the antitrust case? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMo...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5 pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 With Google’s announcement that they will not be deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, what are your thoughts about it? Q2 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is focusing on surveillance pricing and currently investigating this practice, what do you think about this? Q3 What do you think about the FTC’s claim that hashing doesn’t make customer's data anonymous? Q4 What are your thoughts ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Have you ever been micromanaged in your PPC work? Q2 What are the most annoying or frustrating ways in which you’ve been micromanaged in your PPC work? Q3 Do you have anything in your prospecting process that helps you screen for potential micromanagers?? Q4 How do you handle or manage it when you're being micromanaged in your PPC work? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What are the KPIs that you are most often asked to track? Q2 What are the KPIs that you are most often asked to optimize toward? Q3 What KPI(s) do you think are the most important to track and/or optimize toward and why? Q4 What KPI do you think is the most misunderstood by either PPCers and/or clients/stakeholders? Why do you think it is misunderstood? Q5 What KPI would you like to see go a...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1: What are your general thoughts on bidding on brand terms in search? Q2: Are there any situations or circumstances when you think it is an absolute MUST to bid on brand terms? Q3: Are there any situations or circumstances when you think it is an absolute must to NOT bid on brand terms? Q4. What do you think is the most misunderstood aspect of bidding or not bidding on brand terms for PPCers? ...

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Have you heard about Google Ads moving a set of advertisers off of credit card billing? If so, what are your thoughts on this? Q2 How is your overall trust in ad platforms these days? What influences your trust in an ad platform? Q3 Which platforms do you find most and least trustworthy and why? Q4 What could ad platforms do to regain and/or build more trust with advertisers and PPC pros in y...