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MEDIA SOLUTIONS / PPC PAID SEACH & PMAX

Search and Shopping Have Changed. We Know How to Win Anyway.

Google has reengineered its advertising tools by shifting from manual campaign management to AI-driven formats such as Paid Search, Shopping, and Performance Max. Orange 142 helps brands and agencies use these new tools to capture demand more efficiently and avoid wasted spend.

OVERVIEW

AI-Era Campaigns, Human-Level Strategy

Even as automation accelerates, strategy still sets the direction, and that's where Orange 142 excels.

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PPC campaigns have long been the backbone of customer acquisition for many brands. But with the rise of AI-powered campaign types, such as PMAX, that foundation is shifting. Campaign structures are evolving. Keywords are giving way to signals. And optimization is being guided by algorithms instead of manual rules.

Orange 142 manages modern Google campaigns—including Paid Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and AI Max—with a hands-on approach that blends real-time optimization, strategic oversight, and a deep understanding of how AI shapes results.

We help brands and agencies adapt to this new reality by aligning campaign assets, signals, and settings in ways that guide the algorithm toward better outcomes. Our team monitors performance daily, identifies what’s working, and fine-tunes your campaigns to capture intent, drive efficiency, and deliver measurable results, even as the tools continue to evolve.

OUR SERVICES

PPC Paid Search & PMAX Services

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PPC Design, Management & Execution

Since the early days of the web, PPC campaigns have been critical to building a brand. However, this success has also made paid search, including Google Ads, Google Shopping, and Microsoft Ads, highly competitive and expensive. Capturing high-intent customers requires skill, planning, and experience.

Orange 142 begins by building strategic lists of keywords that align with your brand, products, and customer behavior (we’ll send you a keyword approval form to sign off on, ensuring we’re on the same page). 

We write (and test continuously) compelling ad copy, calls-to-action, and landing pages to drive clicks and conversions. At the same time, we optimize bidding strategies to boost campaign efficiency and reduce acquisition costs.

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What are Intent-Based Assets and Why Are They Important?

A fundamental shift in AI-driven campaigns is the central role that intent—and Google’s ability to detect it—now plays in determining who sees your ad.

Intent-based assets are critical to modern PPC success. These are the ad components—headlines, descriptions, images, videos, CTAs—that advertisers provide to Google as modular inputs. Google’s AI dynamically assembles and delivers these components based on real-time signals of user intent, not fixed keyword triggers.

Because of this, assets must do more than look good. They need to speak directly to a user’s needs in the moment, whether or not that user ever clicks through. This makes intent-based assets one of the most important tools advertisers have to guide performance in AI-powered formats like PMAX, Demand Gen, and AI Max.

Your Orange 142 Media Solutions team will supply assets, as well as build and structure them to work with Google’s AI systems. That means creating intent-based components that speak directly to user needs, testing and refreshing them regularly, and making sure they’re mapped to the right signals.

 

Learn Read our Q&A on Intent-Based Assets and how they function »

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Performance MAX Support

Consumers rarely stick to one channel, which means their purchase journeys can begin on YouTube, move to search, and conclude with a click on a Shopping ad. Google’s Performance Max (PMAX) is designed to tell a cohesive brand story across all Google Ads touchpoints, including Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube, Discover, Gmail, and Maps. 

Your Orange 142 Media Solutions team manages every aspect of your PMAX campaigns. We define search themes, structure campaigns to align with your business goals, and apply audience signals and location targeting to reach the right people. We also create and test all campaign assets—including product images, headlines, ad copy, and landing pages—for full-funnel impact. It’s a full-service approach designed for results.

Learn more about how the Orange 142 Media Solutions team manages your campaigns »

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Demand Gen

Demand Gen is Google’s AI-powered campaign type built to drive interest and consideration across visually rich placements, such as YouTube, Discover, and Gmail. It’s a subset of PMAX that focuses specifically on mid-funnel users who aren’t actively searching but are likely to engage based on their behavior, preferences, and intent signals.

Your Orange 142 Media Solutions team builds Demand Gen campaigns with the right balance of automation and control. We develop scroll-stopping creative, guide Google’s AI with audience cues, such as interests and past behaviors, and monitor performance daily to adjust for what’s working. 

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AI Max 

AI Max is Google’s next-generation search format, powered by AI, but still grounded in keyword-based targeting. Ads appear across Google Search and Search Partner sites, reaching people who are actively searching for products or services. Unlike traditional campaigns where keyword match types strictly control who sees your ad, AI Max treats keywords as intent signals. That means the AI has more flexibility to match your ads with relevant searches, even if the exact terms don’t appear in your list.

Orange 142 helps you strike the right balance between guidance and automation. We develop high-quality, intent-based assets, structure your campaigns for clarity and control, and continuously monitor performance to ensure your ads are being shown to the right searchers. Our approach helps brands get the most out of AI without giving up strategic oversight.

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Optimization & Reporting

Our Media Solutions teams meet multiple times a week to assess how each campaign and its assets are performing, so we can tweak, test, and optimize them ASAP. Nothing is overlooked, beginning with the targeting inputs, whether that’s a traditional keyword list or AI-driven signals, such as Search Themes.

AI-driven campaigns are evolving fast, and Orange 142 is evolving with them. Our teams are developing and refining proprietary methods that adapt to the way AI interprets intent, signals, and assets. 

Regardless of the campaign type, we continuously analyze budget allocation and optimize the bidding strategy based on channel performance. We track conversions, cost-per-click, cost-per-lead, return on ad spend, and cross-channel lift. With your performance and budget at stake, we look at everything.

And you can too! Our real-time dashboards provide you with detailed campaign results 24/7. Our end-of-campaign wrap-up report provides you with insights into key metrics, including best-performing creatives, regions, channels, and more.

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How Do I Troubleshoot PPC Campaigns?

Are your PPC campaigns failing to deliver the results you or your clients need? Orange 142 Media Solutions teams are here to help. We’ll conduct a comprehensive review of your account structure to uncover performance blockers and hygiene issues.

For traditional campaigns, that means evaluating keyword strategy, ad copy, bidding, budget allocation, and extensions. For AI-driven formats such as PMAX, Demand Gen, and AI Max, we also review creative assets, audience signals, as well as the AI control levers, which include negative keywords, content blocks, and permission settings that influence how the system serves your ads.

To get your campaigns back on track, we can recommend (or implement) strategic improvements such as campaign restructuring, keyword and signal optimization, ad revisions, bidding adjustments, and more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How is AI changing the way PPC campaigns are planned, targeted and optimized?
A: AI is shifting the focus from exact keyword targeting to a broader understanding of user intent. In traditional campaigns, advertisers built around specific queries. Now, with formats like Performance Max, the platform can mine for themes and signals automatically, which means you need to be more strategic in how you guide the system.

Instead of focusing only on what someone types, we now consider who they are and why they’re searching. Audience signals, search themes, and creative assets all work together to influence delivery. Planning a campaign today means thinking about the full user journey, not just the keyword.

Q: What roles do keywords play in traditional and emerging AI-driven PPC campaigns?
A: In traditional campaigns, keywords directly control which searches trigger your ads. In AI-driven formats such as PMAX and AI Max, keywords still matter, but they act more as intent signals than strict targeting tools. Instead of relying on exact matches, the platforms use those signals, along with audience behavior and creative context, to decide when and where to serve your ads.

Q: Can I just “let the AI run” in Google Ads?
A: Technically, you can, but you’ll run into trouble. All AI needs oversight. Without strong inputs and active optimization, campaigns can stall or veer off course. Your ads may appear in places that aren’t brand suitable, or shown in irrelevant placements.

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