Podcast
Ads Decoded
Google Ads product conversations with the teams building the platform, covering campaign mechanics, measurement, creative and product data.
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Ginny Marvin
Ads Product Liaison and Ads Decoded host
Ginny Marvin is Google’s Ads Product Liaison and the host of Ads Decoded, a podcast connecting advertisers with the teams building Google Ads. Her background is in paid search and digital advertising. Through the programme, she helps marketers understand product decisions and practical advertising questions, bringing advertiser concerns into conversations with Google’s product specialists.
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Ads Decoded
Ginny Marvin's Ads Decoded newsletter, published by Google Ads, shares product-team conversations and practical takeaways on campaign strategy, measurement and platform updates.
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Video
How to guide campaign spend with Google Ads budget and bidding controls
Ginny Marvin and Tal Akabas discuss Google Ads budget and bidding controls, including campaign total budgets, Smart Bidding Exploration, channel prioritization, budget allocation, promotion mode and customer lifecycle goals.
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Video
How to prepare your Google Ads retail campaigns for holiday shopping
Ginny Marvin and Enric Durany discuss preparing Google Ads retail campaigns for holiday demand, including early discovery, AI Max for Shopping, acquisition goals, customer value and budget pacing.
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Video
One year testing Meridian: Real agency results and takeaways
AdVenture Media practitioners discuss a year implementing Meridian for clients, including data preparation and practical lessons.
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Guide
Ginny Marvin publishes her SMX Advanced Europe measurement framework
Google's Ads Liaison has written up her SMX Advanced Europe talk as a roadmap built on three questions: impact (what the media budget achieved), optimisation (where the next pound should go) and profitability (whether spend matches business goals), with her slides attached.
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New-customer value can now be a percentage, and retention modes reach Search and Shopping
Google Ads liaison Ginny Marvin says percentage multipliers for customer-lifecycle goals are leaving beta in a global October rollout. The update lets bidding adjustments scale with predicted purchase value instead of relying only on a fixed added value.
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Google Ads budget and target changes: an Ads Decoded learning-period discussion
PPC Land reports that Google’s Tal Akabas told Ginny Marvin on Ads Decoded that changing targets or budgets on an established campaign does not itself put the campaign into a learning period.
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Google Ads Decoded advises gradual Demand Gen creative refreshes
Google’s Demand Gen discussion recommends using asset reporting to guide gradual additions instead of replacing creative on a fixed timetable.
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