Google Ads announced a number of updates yesterday, across new reporting, shopping tools and more ad features, including, of course, AI ad features. “To help retailers maximize success and stay nimble in this year’s shorter holiday shopping season, today at our annual Think Retail event we shared some new updates to Google tools,” Google wrote.
The new shopping trends reports can help Google Merchant Center users and advertisers explore shopping trends relevant to their product inventory, helping retailers discover on viral moments for that their shoppers may care about and make sure product descriptions use the terms to meet their shoppers where they are.
Here are those new reports:
These show popular shopping queries, ranked by popularity and organized by topic and product.
Also, in Merchant Center there is this generative AI-powered insight summaries at the top of the analytics tab. We saw this with Google Ads AI summaries before, but now with Merchant Center, these will show summaries of recent product performance.
Here is what that looks like: