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Marketing · searchengineland.com · Monday, 17 August 2026

Google's Aug 17 bid change kills the overperformance your budget was hiding

Starting Aug 17, budget-limited Target CPA/ROAS campaigns will optimize to the target you set, not the better efficiency Smart Bidding found while under-budgeted. That means campaigns quietly beating their targets lose the overperformance unless you adjust the bid target. Audit any campaign where actual CPA/ROAS outpaces its target now.

Read the source: searchengineland.com ↗In the 17 August issue →