Google Announces Enhanced Campaigns Migration Date

Anne Garcia - April 15, 2013

Earlier this year, Google AdWords introduced Enhanced Campaigns to its advertisers in an effort to consolidate and increase efficiency of pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns in order to reach customers  more effectively based on a their device, location or time of day they are searching for products or services. This week Google announced an automatic migration date for any campaigns not already upgraded to Enhanced Campaigns by July 22, 2013.

What does this mean for Google AdWords advertisers? If campaigns within your AdWords account are not manually migrated to Enhanced Campaigns, they will be automatically migrated. This means that if you have specific settings for either tablet or mobile devices, your campaigns may be affected and your ads may show on a device you previously chose to opt out of. In addition, other settings like geo-targeting and ad scheduling may not be ported over, so advertisers should manually upgrade their campaigns before this information is lost.

Some features of Enhanced Campaigns include upgraded Sitelinks where advertisers can add these extensions at the ad group level and can select what time of the day they are shown as well as automatically adjusting cost-per-click (CPC) bids.