Home/Blog/Strategy

What ad creative actually works on Google for eCommerce

Search barely needs creative. Demand Gen and YouTube are almost nothing else.

Search: the ad is copy, not art

Relevance wins. Product name in the headline, real differentiator in the first line, genuine policies in the assets.

Shopping: the image and the price are the ad

Clean product shot, accurate price, honest title. Lifestyle crops that hide the product lose to plain ones that show it.

Demand Gen and YouTube: the asset is the campaign

Here creative does nearly all the work. Hook in the first seconds, product doing something visible, offer stated plainly.

How often to refresh

Watch CTR on assets that used to perform. A steady decline is fatigue, and it is a creative problem — no bid change fixes it.

We produce creative as part of the work rather than billing it separately — requested and delivered in the portal.

Want this checked on your account?

The teardown is free, takes view access, and you keep the write-up either way.

Free teardown10% of spend, publishedNo lock-in, no notice periodYou keep the account