Your exclusive recap of
Google Marketing Live 2026
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The Gemini advantage
Your advertising edge lies in the Gemini advantage: Our best AI for your best ROI.
The Future of Search
Explore the rapid transformation of Google Search from simple keyword matching, to a multimodal, conversational, and agentic experience.
The Best Ads are Answers
Personalised and agentic Search and Shopping experiences means a quicker path from discovery to decision. AI Max and PMax makes your brand the answer.
Telstra Case Study: Emir Kazazic
Telstra shares how AI Max captured complex queries they never thought of, to drive a 52% increase in SIM orders and a 36% reduction in CPA.
YouTube for Performance
YouTube is a brand-building powerhouse and a huge driver of conversions. Demand Gen is how you create and convert that demand.
The Measurement Moment
In the age of AI, getting measurement right has compounding effects for your business. Connect and tag your data, measure causality, and compare with MMMs.
Eucalyptus Case Study: Tim Doyle
Eucalyptus founder shares how through rigorous measurement and placing big bets, he went from zero revenue, to a >$1B USD acquisition in 7 years.
Go Big or Go Home: Les Binet
Les Binet challenges efficiency obsession, offering a scientific approach to budgeting and balancing brand building with sales activation.
By adapting to queries in real-time, our AI-powered Search tools ensure your message stays relevant. This precision turns simple interest into tangible growth, making every search a competitive edge for your brand.
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Ads in AI Mode
Turn interactions into meaningful results by integrating your brand in generative search.
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AI Brief
Guide AI Max with your own words for better performance and results.
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Business Agent for Leads
Deliver high-intent prospects to sales teams with AI-driven agents.
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AI-Powered Shopping Ads
Eliminate manual deep-dives by giving shoppers the confidence to decide with instant summaries.
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AI Max for Shopping Campaigns
Use your Merchant Center feeds to transform product data into dynamic Shopping ads that answer conversational queries.
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Direct Offers
Reduce checkout friction and build trust with flexible promotions.
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Improved Click-to-Call Ads
Let Gemini analyse calls to find top leads, skip time-wasters, and reveal what drives sales.
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RCS Message Ads for Business
Build instant trust by connecting with leads and nurturing them with text messaging.
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Journey Aware Bidding
Maximise performance with bidding that considers your entire lead journey.
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Search Campaigns for Travel
Simplify workflows through advanced bidding and reporting for all travel formats.
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AI Max for Search Campaigns
Enhance ad experiences with more control using AI Brief and new text disclaimers.
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Demand-Led Budget Pacing
AI-powered pacing that follows consumer demand and maximises your reach, all within your budget.
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Smart Bidding Exploration
Expand your reach across Search and Shopping to capture traffic from more diverse sources.
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Campaign Total Budgets
Reduce manual budget adjustments by setting a fixed total budget for your campaign’s duration.
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New Customer Acquisition Modes
Reach net-new audiences not yet searching for you by targeting prospects with enhanced controls.
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Missed Opportunity Reporting
See missed growth opportunities with new visual illustrations on conversion volume and value lost.
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Leads in Google Ads
Accelerate sales velocity and stop lead leakage with a lightweight CRM built right into Google Analytics.
You no longer need to choose between brand building and conversions. Fuel growth with Demand Gen, where creators meet AI-powered relevance to spark discovery, inspire decisions, and win new customers before they search.
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Campaign Type Attribution
Capture the full value of your conversions from Demand Gen to optimise and calibrate your campaigns.
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Product Feeds Expansion
Turn your Demand Gen ads into a storefront with Product Feeds, expanding to new formats and verticals.
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Google Maps in Demand Gen
Turn local discovery into foot traffic by serving high-impact Demand Gen ads directly on Google Maps.
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Affiliate Partnerships Boost
Turn creator trust into conversions by boosting affiliate videos directly within your campaigns.
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Creator Videos in Asset Picker
Effortlessly identify and boost high-potential creator videos directly within Demand Gen campaign setup.
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Product Videos at Scale
Scale hyper-personalised video ads by integrating Google Merchant Center product videos into Demand Gen campaigns.
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Multimodal Video Creation in Asset Studio
Scale production effortlessly by turning a single core concept into a diverse library of performance based YouTube ads.
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AI-Assisted DG Campaign Creation
Easily launch Demand Gen with relevant settings from your existing PMax campaigns paired with best practices.
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DG in Commerce Media Suite
Capture high-intent shoppers across YouTube, Discover and Gmail using retailers’ 1P data with Demand Gen.
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Checkout Links
Accelerate purchases by directing high-intent users from video ads straight to checkout.
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VTC Optimization
Drive more conversions in less time by optimising for View-through conversions in Demand Gen.
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Demand Gen Uplift Experiments
Prove the additional performance impact of your Demand Gen campaigns using automated A/B testing.
Turn fragmented data into a roadmap for success. Our measurement solutions use AI to boost your ROI and optimise budgets, ensuring every dollar works harder.
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Meridian Budgeting in GA
Forecast budget shifts with precision by reconciling your MMM, MTA, and lift data in Google Analytics.
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Qualified Future Conversions
Accurate Cross-Channel budget forecasting with Meridian in GA360.
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Google Tag Gateway
Boost your conversions and improve the resilience of your measurement.
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Data Manager
Maximise AI performance by seamlessly integrating your data sources into one central hub.
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Meridian GeoX
Transparent, cost-effective geo experiments that anchor your marketing strategy in causal reality.
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Meridian Studio
Scale your measurement effortlessly by customising hundreds of MMMs via Meridian Studio.
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Enhanced Conversions
Future-proof measurement and optimise performance by securely hashing customer signals.
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Google Tag Manager
Deploy measurement faster across sites by unifying your tagging infrastructure in one place.
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Attributed Brand Searches
Reveal the true impact of demand creation ads by measuring organic brand searches.
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Leads in Google Ads
Accelerate sales velocity and stop lead leakage with a lightweight CRM built right into Google Analytics.
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Lead Intent Scores
Reveal the true impact of demand creation ads by measuring organic brand searches.
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Lead Journey Mapping
Visualise the complete path from click to close by mapping your sales stages in Google Ads.
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Commerce Media Suite
Maximise profit by linking retailer data with the Gemini advantage to optimise the entire shopper journey.
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Store Sales
Prove offline revenue by connecting digital ad spend directly to in-store sales.
Capture new shoppers and prime your brand for agentic commerce. Turn conversational intent into instant checkout, removing purchase friction while staying in control of your brand, customer relationships, and margins.
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Universal Commerce Protocol
Turn AI discovery into instant action with the Universal Commerce Protocol powered features on Google.
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AI-Powered Shopping Ads
Elevate shopping ads with AI summaries explaining why your product is a great match.
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AI Max for Shopping Campaigns
Use your Merchant Center feeds to transform product data into dynamic Shopping ads that answer conversational queries.
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Direct Offers
Reduce checkout friction and build trust with flexible promotions.
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Ask Advisor for Merchant Center
Unlock growth and resolve issues instantly by chatting directly with your product feeds.
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AI Performance Insights
Grow sales using this Merchant Center tool mapping your AI search visibility against demand.
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Product Value Adjustment
Optimise profit by strategically adjusting conversion values based on your product priorities.
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Missed Opportunity Reporting
See missed growth opportunities with new visual illustrations on conversion volume and value lost.
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Commerce Media Suite
Maximise profit by linking retailer data with Gemini AI to optimise the entire shopper journey.
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Conversational Attributes
Optimise your feed with data attributes designed for discovery in the conversational commerce era.
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Smart Bidding Exploration
Expand your reach across Search and Shopping to capture traffic from more diverse sources.
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New Visual Rich Search Formats
Reach shoppers in moments of inspiration with highly engaging ad formats
Transform your app into a high performance growth engine supported by agentic implementation. Power better results on iOS with robust new signals, more granular measurement, and advanced bidding strategies.
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App Connect
Unify your app’s full power across all campaigns for a seamless customer experience and maximum ROI.
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iOS App Campaign Advancements
Power better iOS results with robust signals, granular measurement, and advanced bidding.
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Deep link agent
Cut App deep link implementation from days to minutes with an AI agent that automates coding.
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App Connect in Ask Advisor
Prompt Ask Advisor for guided workflows to fix app deep links, set up bidding, and import conversions.
Unify your brand ecosystem in Asset Studio to bring in assets, generate with Google AI, and run one-click tests. Drive ROI with Ask Advisor built with Gemini to optimise, troubleshoot, and build campaigns across surfaces.
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Asset Studio
Ingest, scale and measure your assets with Asset Studio.
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Multimodal Asset Generation
Generate policy-ready assets effortlessly by using natural language in our asset studio workspace.
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Creative Insights & Testing
Prove the value of your assets with frictionless A/B testing directly in Ad Editor.
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Ask Advisor
Drive ROI and collaborate seamlessly across all of your Google advertising platforms at once.
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Ask Advisor in Google Analytics
Discover customer insights, analyse campaign performance, and drive growth.
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Ask Advisor in Google Ads
Drive campaign growth by turning complex data into visualisations with simple prompts.
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Ask Advisor in Merchant Center
Unlock growth and resolve issues instantly by chatting directly with your product feeds.
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Ask Advisor in Google Marketing Platform
Streamline every campaign stage, from media plan to setup and analysis with a single prompt.
The Search Four to drive ROI
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Build and activate your Data Strength by connecting your data sources & maximising your signals in Data Manager and Google tag gateway.
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Align your Smart Bidding strategies to your business goals, steering Google AI to capture high-value outcomes for your business.
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Adopt AI Max for Search Campaigns and Performance Max with text customisation and final URL expansion to drive your goals.
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Unlock maximum opportunity by setting flexible budgets—daily or flighted— that unlock profitable growth.
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Follow best practices to boost your site’s visibility and engage more people as Google Search evolves.
Learn directly from our product experts in Search
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On demand
AI-Ready Google Search Foundations
Get a deep dive on leveling up your Search strategy with AI Max and Performance Max to expand reach, create demand, and generate measurable growth.
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On demand
Drive performance with AI Max for Search
Learn how AI Max for Search can help you reach more customers and drive better results within your Search campaigns with the best of Google AI.
The YouTube Four to drive conversions
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Prioritise Data Strength for Demand Gen by implementing sitewide Google tag, upgrading to Google tag gateway, and connecting your data sources in Data Manager.
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Align your bidding strategies to your goals and calibrate bids for sufficient conversion volume to fuel AI optimisation and sustained performance.
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Scale to high-value customers dynamically with optimised targeting, 1PD audience segments, and the new customer acquisition goal.
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Maximise performance through creative variety with image & video assets, including creator partnerships boost on YouTube.
Learn directly from our YouTube product experts
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Create and Convert Demand with Demand Gen
Learn about the latest features and best practices for Demand Gen to create and convert new demand and ultimately drive more conversions.
The Commerce Four to drive sales
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Boost product discoverability and accuracy by enriching your product feed with more details and setting up your Brand Profile and Business Agent(1) in Merchant Center.
(1) Available US. Geo Expansion soon.
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Maximise Data Strength with Data Manager, Conversions with cart data, and Google tag gateway.
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Drive sales with AI Max for Search, Performance Max, and Demand Gen using flexible budgets and Smart Bidding. Plus, supercharge your Shopping campaigns by turning on AI Max.
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Future-proof your agentic infrastructure by evaluating Universal Commerce Protocol(2) and using Google Pay for frictionless payment.
(2) Available US, AUS, CA. Geo Expansion soon.
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Follow best practices to boost your site’s visibility and engage more people as Google Search evolves.
The Apps Four to drive growth
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Build your data strength with the latest Google Analytics for Firebase SDK (with on device conversion measurement for iOS apps) and unlock more comprehensive 3P reporting with Integrated Conversion Measurement.
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Align your bidding strategies with your unique business goals with AI-powered Smart Bidding strategies.
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Drive deeper impact with High Engagement formats for your creative assets.
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Drive seamless user journeys and boost conversions from your loyal app users with App Connect and app audience re-engagement.
Beyond the broadcast
Insights from ACA’s Effectiveness Database
Independent marketing consultant Rob Brittain analyses ACA Effies data, proving campaigns with YouTube deliver stronger outcomes.
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