Performance Max Retail

Performance Max offers retailers the opportunity to serve on new inventory thereby expanding reach and meeting goals. Some of these new advancements require additional assets (such as text, image, or video) to enable them to serve on new formats and surfaces such as text, Discover, YouTube In-stream, and Display. If these assets are not available, retailers can only serve on existing Smart Shopping campaign inventory for the stated goal.

Additionally, if retailers have unique insights on which segments of users are more likely to convert, they can now use Audience signals to let Google know.

Performance Max campaigns offer full parity with Smart Shopping campaigns, while offering the following advantages:

Language targeting based on Merchant Center feed or campaign criteria
FinalUrl expansion
Store targeting. All stores are targeted when the Store Visit goal is selected.
Ability to set conversion goals on a per-customer or per-campaign basis
Additional inventory as mentioned above

Link your Merchant Center and Google Ads accounts

In order to use Performance Max for retail, an existing Merchant Center account must be linked. Follow the instructions in Link your Merchant Center and Google Ads accounts if you previously have not linked your accounts.

By linking to Merchant Center, assets are generated automatically. You can optionally choose to add additional assets. As a best practice, we recommend uploading additional assets to maximize reach across all inventory.

Create a Performance Max retail campaign

Like other shopping campaigns, set the ShoppingSetting fields of the campaign.

Required

merchant_id: The Merchant Center ID of the account that contains the products to advertise.
sales_country: The target sales country of the products to include in this campaign. You can add multiple locations or enter a location and radius around the specific location you'd like to target.

Optional

campaign_priority: The priority of the shopping campaign. Campaigns with numerically higher priorities take precedence over those with lower priorities.
language: You can select multiple languages to show your ads to specific sets of customers.

Local products are turned on by default if inventory is present. This can be filtered using listing groups.

Conversion goals

When migrating from Smart Shopping campaigns, all campaign-level conversion goals behave the same except for store visits.

You can override customer-level conversion goals by updating campaign-level conversion goals, as illustrated in this example:

Java

/** Retrieves the list of customer conversion goals. */
private static List<CustomerConversionGoal> getCustomerConversionGoals(
    GoogleAdsClient googleAdsClient, long customerId) {
  String query =
      "SELECT customer_conversion_goal.category, customer_conversion_goal.origin "
          + "FROM customer_conversion_goal";

  List<CustomerConversionGoal> customerConversionGoals = new ArrayList<>();
  try (GoogleAdsServiceClient googleAdsServiceClient =
      googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createGoogleAdsServiceClient()) {
    // The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50, so we use
    // GoogleAdsService.search instead of search_stream.
    SearchPagedResponse response =
        googleAdsServiceClient.search(Long.toString(customerId), query);
    for (GoogleAdsRow googleAdsRow : response.iterateAll()) {
      customerConversionGoals.add(googleAdsRow.getCustomerConversionGoal());
    }
  }

  return customerConversionGoals;
}

/** Creates a list of MutateOperations that override customer conversion goals. */
private static List<MutateOperation> createConversionGoalOperations(
    long customerId, List<CustomerConversionGoal> customerConversionGoals) {
  List<MutateOperation> mutateOperations = new ArrayList<>();
  // To override the customer conversion goals, we will change the
  // biddability of each of the customer conversion goals so that only
  // the desired conversion goal is biddable in this campaign.
  for (CustomerConversionGoal customerConversionGoal : customerConversionGoals) {
    ConversionActionCategory category = customerConversionGoal.getCategory();
    ConversionOrigin origin = customerConversionGoal.getOrigin();
    String campaignConversionGoalResourceName =
        ResourceNames.campaignConversionGoal(
            customerId, PERFORMANCE_MAX_CAMPAIGN_TEMPORARY_ID, category, origin);
    CampaignConversionGoal.Builder campaignConversionGoalBuilder =
        CampaignConversionGoal.newBuilder().setResourceName(campaignConversionGoalResourceName);
    // Change the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
    // Set biddability to True for the desired (category, origin).
    // Set biddability to False for all other conversion goals.
    // Note:
    //  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
    //     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
    //  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
    //     shows only one.
    if (category == ConversionActionCategory.PURCHASE && origin == ConversionOrigin.WEBSITE) {
      campaignConversionGoalBuilder.setBiddable(true);
    } else {
      campaignConversionGoalBuilder.setBiddable(false);
    }
    CampaignConversionGoal campaignConversionGoal = campaignConversionGoalBuilder.build();
    CampaignConversionGoalOperation campaignConversionGoalOperation =
        CampaignConversionGoalOperation.newBuilder()
            .setUpdate(campaignConversionGoal)
            .setUpdateMask(FieldMasks.allSetFieldsOf(campaignConversionGoal))
            .build();
    mutateOperations.add(
        MutateOperation.newBuilder()
            .setCampaignConversionGoalOperation(campaignConversionGoalOperation)
            .build());
  }
  return mutateOperations;
}AddPerformanceMaxRetailCampaign.java

C#

/// <summary>
/// Retrieves the list of customer conversion goals.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="client">The Google Ads Client.</param>
/// <param name="customerId">The customer's id.</param>
/// <returns>A list customer conversion goals.</returns>
private List<CustomerConversionGoal> GetCustomerConversionGoals(
    GoogleAdsClient client,
    long customerId)
{
    // Get the GoogleAdsService.
    GoogleAdsServiceClient googleAdsServiceClient =
        client.GetService(Services.V11.GoogleAdsService);

    List<CustomerConversionGoal> conversionGoals = new List<CustomerConversionGoal>();

    SearchGoogleAdsRequest request = new SearchGoogleAdsRequest()
    {
        CustomerId = customerId.ToString(),
        PageSize = 10000,
        Query =
            @"SELECT
                customer_conversion_goal.category,
                customer_conversion_goal.origin
            FROM
                customer_conversion_goal"
    };

    // The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50 so we use
    // GoogleAdsService.search instead of search_stream.
    PagedEnumerable<SearchGoogleAdsResponse, GoogleAdsRow> searchPagedResponse =
        googleAdsServiceClient.Search(request);

    // Iterate over the results and build the list of conversion goals.
    foreach (GoogleAdsRow row in searchPagedResponse)
    {
        conversionGoals.Add(row.CustomerConversionGoal);
    }

    return conversionGoals;
}

/// <summary>
/// Creates a list of MutateOperations that override customer conversion goals.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="customerId">The customer's id.</param>
/// <param name="conversionGoals">A list customer conversion goals.</param>
/// <returns>A list customer conversion goal operations.</returns>
private List<MutateOperation> CreateCustomerConversionGoalOperations(
    long customerId,
    List<CustomerConversionGoal> conversionGoals)
{
    List<MutateOperation> operations =
        new List<MutateOperation>();

    foreach (CustomerConversionGoal conversionGoal in conversionGoals)
    {
        CustomerConversionGoal newConversionGoal = new CustomerConversionGoal()
        {
            ResourceName = ResourceNames.CustomerConversionGoal(
                customerId,
                conversionGoal.Category,
                conversionGoal.Origin
            ),
        };

        // Change the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
        // Set biddability to True for the desired (category, origin).
        // Set biddability to False for all other conversion goals.
        // Note:
        //  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
        //     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
        //  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
        //     shows only one.
        newConversionGoal.Biddable =
            conversionGoal.Category == ConversionActionCategory.Purchase &&
            conversionGoal.Origin == ConversionOrigin.Website;

        operations.Add(
            new MutateOperation()
            {
                CustomerConversionGoalOperation = new CustomerConversionGoalOperation()
                {
                    Update = newConversionGoal,
                    UpdateMask = FieldMasks.AllSetFieldsOf(newConversionGoal)
                }
            }
        );
    }

    return operations;
}
AddPerformanceMaxRetailCampaign.cs

PHP

private static function getCustomerConversionGoals(
    GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient,
    int $customerId
): array {
    $customerConversionGoals = [];
    $googleAdsServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getGoogleAdsServiceClient();
    // Creates a query that retrieves all customer conversion goals.
    $query = 'SELECT customer_conversion_goal.category, customer_conversion_goal.origin ' .
        'FROM customer_conversion_goal';
    // The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50 so we use a search request
    // instead of search stream.
    $response =
        $googleAdsServiceClient->search($customerId, $query, ['pageSize' => self::PAGE_SIZE]);

    // Iterates over all rows in all pages and builds the list of conversion goals.
    foreach ($response->iterateAllElements() as $googleAdsRow) {
        /** @var GoogleAdsRow $googleAdsRow */
        $customerConversionGoals[] = [
            'category' => $googleAdsRow->getCustomerConversionGoal()->getCategory(),
            'origin' => $googleAdsRow->getCustomerConversionGoal()->getOrigin()
        ];
    }

    return $customerConversionGoals;
}

/**
 * Creates a list of MutateOperations that override customer conversion goals.
 *
 * @param int $customerId the customer ID
 * @param array $customerConversionGoals the list of customer conversion goals that will be
 *      overridden
 * @return MutateOperation[] a list of MutateOperations that update campaign conversion goals
 */
private static function createConversionGoalOperations(
    int $customerId,
    array $customerConversionGoals
): array {
    $operations = [];

    // To override the customer conversion goals, we will change the biddability of each of the
    // customer conversion goals so that only the desired conversion goal is biddable in this
    // campaign.
    foreach ($customerConversionGoals as $customerConversionGoal) {
        $campaignConversionGoal = new CampaignConversionGoal([
            'resource_name' => ResourceNames::forCampaignConversionGoal(
                $customerId,
                self::PERFORMANCE_MAX_CAMPAIGN_TEMPORARY_ID,
                ConversionActionCategory::name($customerConversionGoal['category']),
                ConversionOrigin::name($customerConversionGoal['origin'])
            )
        ]);
        // Changes the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
        // Sets biddability to true for the desired (category, origin).
        // Sets biddability to false for all other conversion goals.
        // Note:
        //  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
        //     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
        //  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
        //     shows only one.
        if (
            $customerConversionGoal["category"] === ConversionActionCategory::PURCHASE
            && $customerConversionGoal["origin"] === ConversionOrigin::WEBSITE
        ) {
            $campaignConversionGoal->setBiddable(true);
        } else {
            $campaignConversionGoal->setBiddable(false);
        }

        $operations[] = new MutateOperation([
            'campaign_conversion_goal_operation' => new CampaignConversionGoalOperation([
                'update' => $campaignConversionGoal,
                // Sets the update mask on the operation. Here the update mask will be a list
                // of all the fields that were set on the update object.
                'update_mask' => FieldMasks::allSetFieldsOf($campaignConversionGoal)
            ])
        ]);
    }

    return $operations;
}AddPerformanceMaxRetailCampaign.php

Python

def _get_customer_conversion_goals(client, customer_id):
    """Retrieves the list of customer conversion goals.

    Args:
        client: an initialized GoogleAdsClient instance.
        customer_id: a client customer ID.

    Returns:
        a list of dicts containing the category and origin of customer
        conversion goals.
    """
    ga_service = client.get_service("GoogleAdsService")
    customer_conversion_goals = []
    query = """
            SELECT
              customer_conversion_goal.category,
              customer_conversion_goal.origin
            FROM customer_conversion_goal
            """
    # The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50 so we use
    # GoogleAdsService.search instead of search_stream.
    search_request = client.get_type("SearchGoogleAdsRequest")
    search_request.customer_id = customer_id
    search_request.query = query
    search_request.page_size = 10000
    results = ga_service.search(request=search_request)

    # Iterate over the results and build the list of conversion goals.
    for row in results:
        customer_conversion_goals.append(
            {
                "category": row.customer_conversion_goal.category,
                "origin": row.customer_conversion_goal.origin,
            }
        )
    return customer_conversion_goals


def _create_conversion_goal_operations(
    client,
    customer_id,
    customer_conversion_goals,
):
    """Creates a list of MutateOperations that override customer conversion goals.

    Args:
        client: an initialized GoogleAdsClient instance.
        customer_id: a client customer ID.
        customer_conversion_goals: the list of customer conversion goals that
          will be overridden.

    Returns:
        MutateOperations that update campaign conversion goals.
    """
    campaign_conversion_goal_service = client.get_service(
        "CampaignConversionGoalService"
    )
    operations = []

    # To override the customer conversion goals, we will change the
    # biddability of each of the customer conversion goals so that only
    # the desired conversion goal is biddable in this campaign.
    for customer_conversion_goal in customer_conversion_goals:
        mutate_operation = client.get_type("MutateOperation")
        campaign_conversion_goal = (
            mutate_operation.campaign_conversion_goal_operation.update
        )

        campaign_conversion_goal.resource_name = (
            campaign_conversion_goal_service.campaign_conversion_goal_path(
                customer_id,
                _PERFORMANCE_MAX_CAMPAIGN_TEMPORARY_ID,
                customer_conversion_goal["category"].name,
                customer_conversion_goal["origin"].name,
            )
        )
        # Change the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
        # Set biddability to True for the desired (category, origin).
        # Set biddability to False for all other conversion goals.
        # Note:
        #  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
        #     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
        #  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
        #     shows only one.
        if (
            customer_conversion_goal["category"]
            == client.enums.ConversionActionCategoryEnum.PURCHASE
            and customer_conversion_goal["origin"]
            == client.enums.ConversionOriginEnum.WEBSITE
        ):
            biddable = True
        else:
            biddable = False
        campaign_conversion_goal.biddable = biddable
        field_mask = protobuf_helpers.field_mask(
            None, campaign_conversion_goal._pb
        )
        client.copy_from(
            mutate_operation.campaign_conversion_goal_operation.update_mask,
            field_mask,
        )
        operations.append(mutate_operation)

    return operationsadd_performance_max_retail_campaign.py

Ruby

def _get_customer_conversion_goals(client, customer_id)
  query = <<~EOD
    SELECT
        customer_conversion_goal.category,
        customer_conversion_goal.origin
    FROM customer_conversion_goal
  EOD

  customer_conversion_goals = []

  ga_service = client.service.google_ads
  # The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50 so we use
  # GoogleAdsService.search instead of search_stream.
  response = ga_service.search(
      customer_id: customer_id,
      query: query,
      page_size: PAGE_SIZE,
  )

  # Iterate over the results and build the list of conversion goals.
  response.each do |row|
    customer_conversion_goals << {
        "category" => row.customer_conversion_goal.category,
        "origin" => row.customer_conversion_goal.origin
    }
  end

  customer_conversion_goals
end

def create_conversion_goal_operations(client, customer_id, customer_conversion_goals)
  campaign_conversion_goal_service = client.service.campaign_conversion_goal

  operations = []

  # To override the customer conversion goals, we will change the
  # biddability of each of the customer conversion goals so that only
  # the desired conversion goal is biddable in this campaign.
  customer_conversion_goals.each do |customer_conversion_goal|
    operations << client.operation.mutate do |m|
        m.campaign_conversion_goal_operation = client.operation.campaign_conversion_goal do |op|
          op.update = client.resource.campaign_conversion_goal do |ccg|
              ccg.resource_name = client.path.campaign_conversion_goal(
                  customer_id,
                  PERFORMANCE_MAX_CAMPAIGN_TEMPORARY_ID,
                  customer_conversion_goal["category"].to_s,
                  customer_conversion_goal["origin"].to_s)
              # Change the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
              # Set biddability to True for the desired (category, origin).
              # Set biddability to False for all other conversion goals.
              # Note:
              #  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
              #     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
              #  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
              #     shows only one.
              ccg.biddable = (customer_conversion_goal["category"] == :PURCHASE &&
                  customer_conversion_goal["origin"] == :WEBSITE)
          end
          op.update_mask = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::FieldMaskUtil.all_set_fields_of(op.update)
        end
    end
  end

  operations
endadd_performance_max_retail_campaign.rb

Perl

sub get_customer_conversion_goals {
  my ($api_client, $customer_id) = @_;

  my $customer_conversion_goals = [];
  # Create a query that retrieves all customer conversion goals.
  my $query =
    "SELECT customer_conversion_goal.category, customer_conversion_goal.origin "
    . "FROM customer_conversion_goal";
  # The number of conversion goals is typically less than 50 so we use
  # GoogleAdsService->search() method instead of search_stream().
  my $search_response = $api_client->GoogleAdsService()->search({
    customerId => $customer_id,
    query      => $query,
    pageSize   => PAGE_SIZE
  });

  # Iterate over the results and build the list of conversion goals.
  foreach my $google_ads_row (@{$search_response->{results}}) {
    push @$customer_conversion_goals,
      {
      category => $google_ads_row->{customerConversionGoal}{category},
      origin   => $google_ads_row->{customerConversionGoal}{origin}};
  }

  return $customer_conversion_goals;
}

# Creates a list of MutateOperations that override customer conversion goals.
sub create_conversion_goal_operations {
  my ($customer_id, $customer_conversion_goals) = @_;

  my $operations = [];
  # To override the customer conversion goals, we will change the biddability of
  # each of the customer conversion goals so that only the desired conversion goal
  # is biddable in this campaign.
  foreach my $customer_conversion_goal (@$customer_conversion_goals) {
    my $campaign_conversion_goal =
      Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V11::Resources::CampaignConversionGoal->new({
        resourceName =>
          Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V11::Utils::ResourceNames::campaign_conversion_goal(
          $customer_id,
          PERFORMANCE_MAX_CAMPAIGN_TEMPORARY_ID,
          $customer_conversion_goal->{category},
          $customer_conversion_goal->{origin})});
    # Change the biddability for the campaign conversion goal.
    # Set biddability to true for the desired (category, origin).
    # Set biddability to false for all other conversion goals.
    # Note:
    #  1- It is assumed that this Conversion Action
    #     (category=PURCHASE, origin=WEBSITE) exists in this account.
    #  2- More than one goal can be biddable if desired. This example
    #     shows only one.
    if ( $customer_conversion_goal->{category} eq PURCHASE
      && $customer_conversion_goal->{origin} eq WEBSITE)
    {
      $campaign_conversion_goal->{biddable} = "true";
    } else {
      $campaign_conversion_goal->{biddable} = "false";
    }

    push @$operations,
      Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V11::Services::GoogleAdsService::MutateOperation
      ->new({
        campaignConversionGoalOperation =>
          Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V11::Services::CampaignConversionGoalService::CampaignConversionGoalOperation
          ->new({
            update => $campaign_conversion_goal,
            # Set the update mask on the operation. Here the update mask will be
            # a list of all the fields that were set on the update object.
            updateMask => all_set_fields_of($campaign_conversion_goal)})});
  }

  return $operations;
}add_performance_max_retail_campaign.pl

Best practices for asset groups

For asset aroups in Performance Max retail campaigns, we recommend that each asset group target different products (learn more).

If you want to customize your messaging (such as text, images, video, logos) by audience, you can create multiple asset groups per campaign. In this way, you can create different asset groups for the same final URL.

In general, the more assets you provide, the more ad formats the system can create to target additional inventory.

Shopping reports

Use the shopping_performance_view to retrieve metrics summarized by product segments such as segments.product_item_id.

SELECT
  segments.product_item_id,
  metrics.clicks,
  metrics.cost_micros,
  metrics.impressions,
  metrics.conversions,
  metrics.all_conversions,
  campaign.advertising_channel_type
FROM shopping_performance_view
WHERE
  campaign.advertising_channel_type = 'PERFORMANCE_MAX'
  AND segments.date DURING LAST_30_DAYS
  AND metrics.clicks > 0
ORDER BY
  metrics.all_conversions DESC,
  metrics.conversions DESC,
  metrics.clicks DESC,
  metrics.cost_micros DESC,
  metrics.impressions DESC

Create campaign criteria

Listing groups