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Advertising that allows campaigns to run across Google’s entire network

Performance Max is Google’s campaign type that runs across all of its channels at once — Search, Shopping, YouTube, Display, Gmail, and Maps — using machine learning to find the audiences most likely to convert. When it’s set up and fed correctly, it can be one of the most efficient ways to drive results across Google’s entire network.

The catch is that it requires careful setup, strong creative assets, and clear conversion signals to work properly. Without those foundations in place, the automation has nothing meaningful to optimise toward. We make sure everything is in place before the campaign goes live.

What are Performance Max campaigns?

Performance Max is a Google Ads campaign type that uses automation to show ads across Google’s entire network. Instead of choosing keywords and placements manually, you tell Google what actions matter to your business, provide the creative, and give details about your products or services. You can also add audience signals to help point the system in the right direction.

Google then tests combinations of these inputs across its network to find where conversions are most likely to happen. Performance Max works best when conversion tracking is set up properly and the account has some existing data to learn from.

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When PMax makes sense

Performance Max helps you reach more high-intent users across Google and capture conversions you might miss if you rely only on Search and Shopping. It works for businesses that want to increase sales or leads without creating separate campaigns for each placement.

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Performance Max is a good fit when you want to:

  • Reach customers across more than just Search
  • Grow e-commerce revenue across large product feeds
  • Increase lead generation across multiple placements
  • Scale campaigns with automated bidding and targeting
  • Use automation to complement Search and Shopping campaigns

Our approach to Performance Max

Goals and conversion tracking

We start with a chat about which actions matter most for your business – this might be form submissions, phone calls, purchases, or qualified leads. The focus stays on outcomes that connect to revenue, not just vanity metrics like clicks and impressions.

Before launch, tracking is checked end-to-end to ensure those actions are being captured properly. Higher‑value conversions are prioritised, so the system can learn what a good result looks like.

Ad creative and asset strategy

Performance Max creates ads by automatically mixing and matching the copy, images, logos, and videos in your account. It tests different combinations across placements, allocating more spend to the versions that yield stronger results.

We develop the messaging and visual assets based on your services, key selling points, and common customer questions. Our in-house video team can produce and edit campaign-ready content where needed. New assets are added over time and underperforming assets are removed, so the creative stays both relevant and effective.

Audience signals

Performance Max uses automation to find users on its own, but it performs better when it starts with some direction. Audience signals guide the system toward people who are most likely to convert, so the campaign has high audience relevance from the outset.

The signals we use often include visitors to your site, customer lists, in-market audiences, and custom intent audiences based on search behaviour. Signals are refined over time as more performance data comes in, so the automation continues to target higher-quality traffic.

Campaign structure

We do not group all products, services, and locations into a single Performance Max campaign. When campaigns are structured like this, it becomes more difficult to see what specifically is driving sales or leads.

Instead, campaigns are usually separated by product categories, service types, locations, or by lead generation versus e‑commerce. This makes performance easier to interpret and allows budgets to be adjusted with more control.

Budget and bidding

Budgets and bidding are determined by meaningful metrics like conversion volume and cost per result, not just clicks or impressions. More budget goes to campaigns producing consistent outcomes, and spend is reduced in areas that are not contributing at the same level. As more data becomes available, bidding is further optimised to maintain budget efficiency.

Ongoing optimisation

PMax needs ongoing management to keep performance moving in the right direction. We look at asset performance, search term insights, audience trends, conversion quality, and cost trends on a regular basis. Poor‑performing assets are replaced and new creative is introduced as we see patterns emerge.

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Performance Max can be hard to interpret if it is not structured properly. Our in-house Perth team manages the feed, asset groups, tracking, and audience signals so the automation has direction and reporting reflects real results. We run PMax alongside Search, Shopping, SEO, and paid social so the channels support each other.

Asset groups organised by product range or service type
Merchant Center feed refined to strengthen Shopping performance
Conversion tracking set up to reflect sales or qualified leads
First-party data used to guide early campaign learning
Search and placement insights reviewed to shape ongoing changes

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FAQ

Get answers to common questions about Google Performance Max in Perth

Google Performance Max is a goal-based campaign type that uses automation to deliver ads across multiple Google platforms from a single campaign. It uses audience signals, creative assets, and conversion data to identify users most likely to take action and optimise placements in real time.

Traditional campaigns such as Search or Display focus on specific channels and allow more manual control over targeting and bidding. Performance Max combines multiple channels into one campaign and relies more heavily on automation and machine learning to optimise performance.

Performance Max campaigns can deliver ads across Google Search, Display Network, YouTube, Gmail, Discover, and Shopping placements, allowing advertisers to reach users across multiple touchpoints within a single campaign.

Best practices include setting up accurate conversion tracking, defining clear campaign goals, using strong creative assets, providing relevant audience signals, and allowing sufficient data for the campaign to learn and optimise effectively.

Scaling typically involves refining asset groups, improving creative performance, analysing conversion data, and gradually increasing budgets while monitoring return on ad spend to maintain efficiency.

Performance Max is often effective for eCommerce businesses, service-based industries, and brands focused on lead generation or online sales, particularly where there is sufficient conversion data for automation to learn from.

Performance Max uses machine learning to adjust bids, placements, audiences, and creative combinations based on performance signals. The system continuously learns from user behaviour and conversion data to improve results over time.

Integration involves aligning conversion tracking, messaging, and targeting strategies so campaigns complement each other rather than compete. Clear structure and monitoring help maintain balanced coverage across different stages of the customer journey.

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