Does Google Smart Bidding Optimize For Google Revenue Instead Of Yours
Google's Smart Bidding, Performance Max, and Optimization Score are structurally optimized to grow Google's advertising revenue, not your ROAS. This article breaks down four specific mechanisms where Google's AI goals diverge from advertiser goals, explains what happens when you give the algorithm full control, and shows how to fix the problem by layering strategic oversight and independent execution on top of Google's native systems.
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