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02Paid Search & Performance

Google Ads. Intent meets execution.

At scale.

Google Ads is still the highest-intent advertising channel on the planet. The challenge isn't access — it's precision. Smart Bidding, Performance Max and Demand Gen have made the platform more powerful and more complex at the same time. We combine deep platform expertise with AI-assisted workflows to build campaigns that are faster to launch, sharper in targeting and built to compound — while keeping you fully in control of strategy and spend.

What's included

Everything you need to win with Google Ads.

From Search to YouTube to Performance Max — a fully managed or collaborative Google Ads programme built around your pipeline goals, not vanity metrics.

Google Search campaigns: intent-led, keyword-precise, conversion-focused

Performance Max: AI-driven reach across all Google channels, controlled by you and our team!

Demand Gen & YouTube: visual storytelling that builds demand and drives action

Display: brand visibility and retargeting across the Google Display Network

Conversion tracking and data layer setup — clean measurement from day one

AI-assisted campaign builds, ad copy generation and continuous optimisation

Our approach

From insight to impact — engineered for Google Ads performance.

01

Insight

Audit & Market Mapping

We audit your current account (or start from scratch), map your competitive landscape and identify where budget is being wasted and where opportunity is being missed. We benchmark CPCs, Quality Scores, conversion rates and audience coverage before a single euro is moved.

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Plan

Strategy & Campaign Architecture

We design a campaign structure built around your funnel: Search for high-intent demand capture, Performance Max for efficient full-funnel reach, and Demand Gen or YouTube for earlier-stage influence. Every campaign has a defined role, KPI and budget band — no overlap, no waste.

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Build

Campaigns, Creative & Tracking

We build, write and launch — with conversion tracking, data layer configuration and audience lists in place before the first impression is served. AI accelerates our build process: from ad copy variants to audience signals to asset generation. You approve the strategy and creative direction. We execute with precision.

04

Impact

Optimise & Scale

Weekly optimisation cycles against your actual business metrics: ROAS, CPL, CAC and pipeline contribution. We use AI to surface anomalies, test hypotheses and scale what's working. You get transparent reporting — and a partner who explains what's happening and why, not just what the dashboard says.

The AI edge

AI makes us faster. Expertise makes it work.

Google's own AI — Smart Bidding, broad match, automatically created assets — is powerful. It's also indiscriminate without the right guardrails. We use AI at every stage of our workflow: to research competitors, generate and test ad copy at scale, analyse search term reports, build audience segments and detect performance shifts before they become problems. But AI doesn't set strategy. It doesn't understand your market positioning, your margins or your sales cycle. That's where your domain knowledge and our performance expertise take over. The result: campaigns built faster, optimised smarter — and a marketer who stays fully in control of the decisions that matter.

  • AI-assisted ad copy generation and A/B testing at scale
  • Smart Bidding strategy with human-defined guardrails and targets
  • Automated anomaly detection and budget pacing
  • You set the direction — we use AI to execute it faster and better

Campaign types

Four campaign types. One coherent strategy.

Not every Google Ads campaign type deserves the same role in your account. We build structures where each campaign type does a specific job — and together they cover the full customer journey from first search to conversion.

Google Search

Capture demand at peak intent

Search campaigns remain the foundation of almost every Google Ads account. When someone types exactly what you offer, you need to be there — with the right message, the right bid and a landing page that converts. We build Search campaigns around tightly themed ad groups, precise negative keyword lists and conversion-optimised ad copy that earns high Quality Scores and lower CPCs over time.

What we focus on

  • Exact and phrase match strategy with disciplined negative keyword management
  • Responsive Search Ads with statistically meaningful asset combinations
  • Quality Score optimisation: ad relevance, expected CTR and landing page experience
  • Bid strategies aligned to your funnel stage: tCPA, tROAS or manual with automation layered in
Performance Max

Full-funnel reach, intelligently managed

Performance Max is Google's most ambitious campaign type: one campaign that runs across Search, Display, YouTube, Gmail and Maps simultaneously, driven by Google's AI. It can be extraordinarily effective — or an uncontrolled spend machine. We treat PMax as a tool that amplifies a well-defined strategy, not a replacement for one. We build asset groups with clear audience signals, set strong brand exclusions, monitor search term and placement reports weekly and ensure PMax isn't cannibalising your Search campaigns.

What we focus on

  • Asset group architecture by product line, audience or funnel stage
  • Audience signal building from first-party data, customer lists and in-market segments
  • Brand exclusions and Search campaign traffic protection
  • Weekly PMax reporting: conversion split, asset performance and placement quality
Demand Gen & YouTube

Build demand before it becomes search

Not all demand is captured — some of it has to be created. Demand Gen campaigns (formerly Discovery) and YouTube ads let you reach high-intent audiences across YouTube, Gmail and Discover with visually compelling creative. They're particularly effective for brands entering new markets, launching products or competing against category leaders who already own the search results.

What we focus on

  • Video asset strategy: hook, message and CTA frameworks for 6s, 15s and 30s formats
  • Demand Gen audience targeting: custom intent, affinity, life events and lookalike lists
  • YouTube remarketing sequences for warm audiences
  • Connecting upper-funnel view and engagement data to lower-funnel conversion performance
Display

Visibility, retargeting and brand continuity

The Google Display Network reaches over 90% of internet users worldwide. We use Display selectively: primarily for retargeting warm audiences, maintaining brand visibility during longer sales cycles and supporting launches or promotions with reach-at-scale. We don't use Display as a volume play — we use it as a precision tool with tight audience controls and placement exclusions.

What we focus on

  • Retargeting audiences segmented by funnel stage and intent signals
  • Responsive Display Ads with high-quality creative assets and tested headlines
  • Placement exclusions and brand safety controls
  • Frequency capping to avoid ad fatigue and wasted impressions

AI & control

Google's AI is powerful. The question is who's directing it.

Google Ads has been one of the most aggressive adopters of machine learning in any advertising platform. Smart Bidding, broad match, Performance Max, automatically created assets, AI-generated ad copy — the platform now makes thousands of decisions per day on your behalf. That's not a problem. It's actually an enormous advantage — if you know how to work with it.

The risk isn't the AI. The risk is handing the AI an unclear objective, insufficient conversion data or an account structure that creates conflicts it can't resolve. We've seen accounts where Google's automation was technically correct and commercially disastrous — because no one had defined what "winning" actually meant in business terms.

Our approach is to use AI as an accelerant, not a replacement for thinking. We define the strategy, the constraints and the success metrics. We feed the algorithms the right signals: clean conversion data, first-party audience lists, clear asset hierarchies. Then we let automation do what it's genuinely better at — real-time bidding, multi-channel frequency optimisation and creative performance testing at scale.

You always know what's running, what it's costing and what it's returning. We translate the machine's decisions into plain language — and we flag the ones that need a human override.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Google Ads management.

Do you manage Google Ads accounts independently or alongside our internal team?

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Both. We work as a fully managed partner, a strategic co-pilot alongside an in-house team, or anything in between. What matters is clarity on who owns which decisions. In every setup, you retain full access and ownership of your Google Ads account — we work in it, not around it.

How do you handle Performance Max — isn't it a black box?

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It's more transparent than its reputation suggests — if you know where to look. We use asset group reporting, search term insights (now available in PMax), audience signal analysis and placement reports to understand what Google's AI is doing with your budget. We also set up PMax in a way that protects your Search campaigns from cannibalisation and gives you a clear picture of where conversions are coming from.

We're already running Google Ads internally. What would you change?

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We start with an audit before making any recommendations. In most accounts we inherit, the most impactful changes are: tightening match types and negative keywords, improving conversion tracking quality, restructuring PMax asset groups and aligning bid strategies to actual business objectives rather than platform defaults. We give you a written audit with findings and prioritised recommendations — then you decide what to act on.

How important is creative for Google Ads performance?

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More important than most advertisers realise, especially for Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube. Google's AI optimises delivery based on asset performance — which means weak creative limits what the algorithm can achieve regardless of how good the targeting is. We bring a structured creative framework: clear hooks, benefit-led messaging and calls to action tested across formats. For video, we brief and produce or help you brief your own production team.

What does 'AI-assisted' mean in practice for our campaigns?

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Concretely: we use AI to generate large volumes of ad copy variants for testing, to analyse search term reports for patterns a human would miss, to model budget scenarios, to detect performance anomalies in real time and to produce creative briefs faster. None of this replaces the strategic decisions — which campaigns to run, how to structure the account, what KPIs to target and how to interpret results in the context of your business. Those stay with us and with you.

Do you work with Google Shopping campaigns?

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We have experience with Shopping but it's not our primary focus. Our strength is in Search, Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube — which is where the most interesting performance gains are for most of our clients. If Shopping is a meaningful part of your business, we'll be transparent about where our expertise ends and where you might need a specialist.

How do you measure success beyond ROAS?

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ROAS is a useful signal but an incomplete one. We track and optimise against the metrics that connect to actual business outcomes: cost per qualified lead, pipeline contribution, customer acquisition cost and — where possible — lifetime value. We set this up from the start with proper conversion tracking, CRM integration and attribution modelling. Reporting looks like a business review, not a dashboard export.

What budget level do you work with?

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We work with clients across a wide range of budgets, but we're most effective when monthly Google Ads spend is €5,000 or above — that's the threshold where Smart Bidding algorithms have enough data to optimise effectively and where the compound gains from continuous optimisation outperform what you'd achieve with a set-and-check approach.

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Last updated: 1 June 2026 · Reviewed quarterly.