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2026 Google Ads Impact Award Winner

Heidi Giggie
Director, Integrated Digital Media

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Impact by the numbers

76%

Lift in approved credit card applications

341%

Scaled reach with coordinated, full-funnel campaign

80%

Increase in total search conversions with 45% conversion value growth

The winning formula

The challenge

Royal Bank of Canada faced a critical growth barrier in unbranded search.

It was missing high-intent moments and qualified prospects at the most valuable and competitive stage for acquiring new credit card customers.

The approach

To avoid lost applications and approvals, RBC used an orchestrated, multi-AI strategy to help discover, generate, and capture new demand.

The results

Linking AI Max for Search and Smart Bidding Exploration surfaced more high-intent queries, helping RBC achieve 145% conversion growth in generic search.

By repositioning Performance Max as a discovery engine across YouTube and Gmail, RBC reduced channel overlap to generate 625% new impressions and a 110% conversion lift.

Using Demand Gen to introduce its brand earlier in the research journey, RBC drove more than 42 million upper-funnel impressions that contributed to Search conversion rates.

This winning strategy delivered an overall 76% increase in approved credit card applications and scaled reach by 341%, a performance lift that manual optimization and single-channel approaches could not achieve.

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Campaign creative showcase

  • Digital ad for a limited time credit card offer for up to 55,000 Avion points.
    Campaign ad creative
  • Digital ad for a limited time credit card offer for up to 21,000 Avion points and up to $150 value in gift cards.
    Campaign ad creative

Campaign contributors

Duane Currie

Sr. Director, Programmatic Marketing
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Nicholas Tinker

Director, Digital Marketing Channel and Data Enablement
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Travis Brown

Director, Digital Acquisition Media
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Jillian Eigelshoven

Senior Manager, Performance Marketing
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Teymoor Tanweer

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