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Demand Gen Uplift Experiments measure incremental impact alongside PMax
Demand Gen Uplift Experiments is a new automated A/B testing framework that measures the statistically significant uplift of adding Demand Gen to an existing campaign mix (PMax, App, Video, Display). The mechanic provides a turnkey way to isolate Demand Gen's impact on conversions, sales, CPA, or ROAS: answering the long-standing question of whether Demand Gen is incremental or cannibalising.
What changed
Google's data: adding Demand Gen to Search and PMax campaigns delivers +10% higher ROAS and +12% higher sales effectiveness vs. campaigns without Demand Gen (Nielsen MMM meta-analysis commissioned by Google in 2024; 1.1MM campaigns across 104 weeks).
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means YouTube-running performance accounts can finally prove Demand Gen's incremental value to finance and leadership stakeholders rather than arguing for it on conversion-count grounds. Worth lining up an Uplift Experiment for a high-spend campaign as the structured input to 2026 budget planning conversations. Availability: Closed Beta, Global, All.
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Demand Gen Uplift Experiments measure incremental impact alongside PMax
Demand Gen Uplift Experiments is a new automated A/B testing framework that measures the statistically significant uplift of adding Demand Gen to an existing campaign mix (PMax, App, Video, Display). The mechanic provides a turnkey way to isolate Demand Gen's impact on conversions, sales, CPA, or ROAS: answering the long-standing question of whether Demand Gen is incremental or cannibalising. Google's data: adding Demand Gen to Search and PMax campaigns delivers +10% higher ROAS and +12% higher sales effectiveness vs. campaigns without Demand Gen (Nielsen MMM meta-analysis commissioned by Google in 2024; 1.1MM campaigns across 104 weeks).
For you, this means YouTube-running performance accounts can finally prove Demand Gen's incremental value to finance and leadership stakeholders rather than arguing for it on conversion-count grounds. Worth lining up an Uplift Experiment for a high-spend campaign as the structured input to 2026 budget planning conversations.
Availability: Closed Beta, Global, All.
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