What is the Dynamic Display Ads feature?

Dynamic Display Ads is a Google feature that allows you create ads that are tailored to your target audience. This happens dynamically as your ads are shown to a specific user on a specific website.
 

The key benefits of this type of ad are as follow:

• Ads stay fresh and relevant by combining the Display Ad Builder’s content management system with the Google Merchant Center automated product updates.
• Allows advertisers to contextualize ads based on page content, or by specific user. For example, you can show users different languages or currencies based on their location.
• Achieve creative efficiency gains by creating a single display ad that dynamically shows a user the right messages and the right products in the right context.
• Report on and optimize ad performance by selecting different layouts for your ad content and receiving reports on which ads perform best.

What are Dynamic Remarketing Ads?

Dynamic Remarketing Ads are a type of Dynamic Display Ads that let you personalize your ads based on products a customer has viewed on your site or added to their cart.

How Dynamic Remarketing Ads work

Using a special tag on a merchant’s website, Google retrieves product ID numbers for all available products for that merchant. Next it matches these IDs to the site’s Google Merchant Center feed. It then uses this information to create customized Dynamic Remarketing Ads which can display different names, images, prices etc. based on the specific user.

Using Dynamic Remarketing Ads with the platform

Because Dynamic Remarketing Ads are not currently available via the API, they cannot be managed within the Platform.

However, you can sync your campaigns, groups and ads in the Platform and run reports on these levels.

Tracking Dynamic Remarketing Ads

When syncing a Dynamic Remarketing campaign, the Platform cannot append tracking values to the main destination URL of the banner, as these ad types are not editable. There are two ways to work around this:

1) Individual product URLs can be tracked using the click prefix URL in the AdWords Display Ad Builder. You can specify the redirect in the Click Prefix URL (optional) field. This will pre-pend the URL specified in this field to the landing page URL for dynamic ads (this could be the destination URL, c:drlp, adwords_redirect, or the product URL).

Note: To locate the Click Prefix URL, look under "Landing Page," click on the text that says "Final URL" and change this to "Destination URL."

Here is an example of a pre-pended URL using Platform tracking: http://tracker.example.com/rd?cid=abcd1234&pcrid={creative}&lp=

The above method works for any accounts on Platform tracking, even if they do not normally use redirects. It should also function for most third-party redirect-based tracking solutions. Please contact your Platform representative for more details.

2) You can manually update the destination URL in AdWords and append the correct tracking parameters to its URL.

Note: The destination URL for the ad will only be used if the user clicks when not viewing a specific product. Clicking into a product will result in the use of the same URLs as defined in the merchant feed.