
Performance Max: What Kind of Campaign Is It and Why Is Google So Insistently Promoting It?
Automation in advertising has long ceased to be an optional extra and is now a standard part of working with Google Ads. Performance Max has become a prime example of this approach: the advertiser sets the goal, budget, feed, creatives, and audience signals, and the system itself determines where to display the ad. The format operates on Google AI, which optimizes bids, audiences, creatives, attribution, and budgets to achieve the specified goal. This is convenient but requires careful monitoring, as some decisions shift from the specialist to the algorithm.