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How to Use Google Marketing Platform for Your Business

Written by Lukáš Lískovec | 4/26/22

This article will cover an overview of the features and benefits of GMP, how to get started with the platform, and best practices to get the most out of it.

Content

Introduction

Benefits for Advertisers

Google Marketing Platform Services

How to Get Started with GMP

Best Practices when Using GMP

The Challenges of Google Marketing Platform

Conclusion

Introduction

Google Marketing Platform (GMP) is a suite of marketing tools and services that allow you to create and manage your digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels. It is made up of several services, including Display & Video 360, Search Ads 360, Campaign Manager 360, Analytics 360, Optimize 360 and Tag Manager 360.

Benefits for Advertisers 

Access to a wide range of audiences: with Google's marketing platform, advertisers can reach a wide range of audiences through powerful targeting options and multiple channels. 

Targeting options: advertisers can use advanced targeting options such as location, demographics, interests and behaviors to reach their desired audience. 

Real-time offers: advertisers can use real-time offers for their products or services to reach the right people at the right time. 

Automated strategies: Google's marketing platform provides automated strategies to help advertisers optimize their campaigns. 

Measurement and Reporting: Advertisers can measure and track their campaigns in real-time through the platform's reporting and analytics tools.

Customisation: advertisers can personalize their ads with text, images and videos to create engaging content for visitors. 

Multiple ad formats: Advertisers can choose from a variety of ad formats, including display ads, video ads and text ads.

Google Marketing Platform Services

GMP offers you several tools to take your business marketing to the next level. 

Display & Video 360 

Display & Video 360 is Google's comprehensive tool that allows users to customise their ad campaigns to maximise their performance.

With this tool, you can create unified campaigns by combining different aspects of online advertising - display or video - to bridge the gap between paid search and branding goals.

In addition, Display & Video 360 also provides a variety of data-driven reports for each stage of the campaign, giving users the ability to see where their ads are most successful and what adjustments need to be made to adapt to changing market conditions.

The platform also offers fast, scalable, easy-to-use automation systems (even for mobile) that make it easy to deploy personalized campaigns across all digital devices.

Search Ads 360

Search Ads 360 is a service that allows businesses to take control of their search advertising campaigns and increase their profits.

This platform not only gives businesses the ability to better identify their goals and target audience, but also offers quality tools to collaborate and optimise performance across multiple channels.

It also provides a real-time view of market dynamics and reveals key opportunities to create effective strategies.

With this tool, corporate executives have easy access to the data needed to make critical decisions that will help companies increase ROI without wasting time and resources.

Campaign Manager 360

Campaign Manager 360 is a useful tool for any marketing team. 

It helps you save time, streamline all campaign-related processes (planning, monitoring, measurement) and ultimately reach more potential customers. 

It allows you to create better targeted campaigns with up-to-date information on audience behavior trends, and you can also use the tool to set up automatic content delivery across different channels.

For a complete overview of the benefits of this tool, visit Campaign Manager - Benefits.

Analytics 360

Analytics 360 is a comprehensive analytics tool that enables companies to turn data into actionable insights.

It offers a wide range of features such as interactive reports, automated segmentation and live customer journey mapping.

Analytics 360 also enables companies to quickly identify trends and opportunities in their data sets and helps them make informed decisions about their business strategy.

With all the benefits of this tool, companies can achieve huge success in the long term.

Optimize 360

Optimize 360 provides a comprehensive set of features that allow businesses to quickly and efficiently measure their website performance (page load speed, content optimization and overall SEO).

It also has the advantage of a user-friendly interface with advanced automation features, allowing this app to easily track the latest trends and ensure that your website is always optimized in the best possible way.

Thus, with this tool, you can improve your visibility and reach without having to invest a significant amount of time or other resources.

Tag Manager 360

Tag Manager 360 is a powerful tool that simplifies the management of tags for websites and mobile apps. 

It simplifies the process of deploying pixel, analytics, and other tags, and its automated workflow ensures that changes are always safely implemented across all platforms.

Tag Manager 360 can also interface with third-party service providers, meaning you can customize the data delivered to each external source while maintaining seamless performance monitoring.

But it also brings many other benefits.

How to Get Started with GMP

To get started with Google Marketing Platform, you'll first need to sign in to your Google account

Once you have done so, you can visit the GMP website and click on the "Sign in to Google Marketing Platform" button. 

Once your account is set up, you can begin linking your existing Google Analytics, Google Optimize, Google Tag Manager accounts, etc. 

To do this, simply enter the login credentials for each account you wish to link.

The moment you link your accounts, you can start creating campaigns, tracking reports and checking optimization scores (0-100, depending on click-through rate, cost per click, conversion rate, etc.) to maximize the performance of your marketing campaigns.

Best Practices when Using GMP

If you want to use this marketing platform to its full potential, you should regularly optimise your campaigns.

Set up detailed campaign tracking and reporting to better understand how your campaigns are performing. With this feature, you can measure their effectiveness and adjust them as needed. 

Use artificial intelligence to simplify and streamline the entire optimization process. GMP's AI-based algorithms help you determine which campaigns are performing best and which ones need to be adjusted or even replaced.

Regularly check your optimization scores to ensure that your campaigns are performing at their peak.

In addition, you can also test different marketing strategies to ensure your campaigns reach your target audience and get the results you want.

The Challenges of Google Marketing Platform

One of the biggest challenges associated with using Google's marketing platform is the complexity of its functions and features. 

In fact, it can be very time-consuming to understand how the various components of the platform work together and how to use them effectively. 

In addition, the platform requires a certain level of technical knowledge to use it to your liking. 

You should, therefore, at the very least, consider investing in the services of experts who you can be sure know what they are doing.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Google Marketing Platform is a powerful tool that businesses of all sizes can use to manage their advertising campaigns. 

GMP offers a range of marketing tools, including ad creation, audience targeting, and analytics, that can help businesses increase their reach to maximize their marketing results. 

With GMP, businesses can gain valuable insights about their customers, create campaigns that meet their specific goals, and measure their performance as well.

If you're only interested in some of the services (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, etc.) that GMP offers, visit our blog to read an article about each of them.