Nick Grant
How to Build a Brand Defense Monitoring System
Monthly reporting lets brand waste compound. Learn to build a monitoring dashboard with CPC, impression share, and Auction Insights ...
How to Spot Brand Coverage That Isn't Actually Defending
Not all brand clicks need defending. Learn 3 signals, competitor presence, geo pressure, and SERP alternatives, to tell defense from ...
How to Prove Brand Search Ads Brings In New Customers
Brand search isn't just retention. Learn how CRM based Customer Match audiences and holdout tests prove new customer acquisition to finance.
How to Frame Brand Search as a Moat for the Board
Brand search isn't a ROAS channel, it's a competitive moat. Learn the 3 metrics boards actually care about: ownership, trend, and ...
What CFOs Miss About the Cost of Pausing Brand Ads
Pausing branded search looks like easy savings, but competitor capture, demand decay, and restart CAC often cost far more. Model the ...
How Google Auto Assets Can Accidentally Change Your Brand Claims
Google's automation writes branded ad copy from systems you can't easily trace, risking unapproved claims. Govern with audits, pinning, and ...
How to Stop Marketplaces From Capturing Your Brand Demand
Marketplaces hijack your branded demand, draining margin, data, and LTV — not just fees. Defend with paid coverage, sharper pages, and ...
Why AI Mode Surfaces Competitors on Your Brand Queries
AI Mode cites competitors on your brand queries because their pages are easier to extract — not more authoritative. Restructure to win ...
How Product Returns Erode Your Google Ads ROAS
Google Ads bids on gross checkout revenue, ignoring returns — inflating ROAS and scaling your highest-return products. Feed retained ...
What Happens When Performance Max Captures Your Brand Keywords (and How to Stop It)
Performance Max quietly bids on your brand terms, inflating ROAS and brand tax. See how exclusions, negatives, and holdback tests stop it.
What Google AI Mode Means for Your Branded Search Campaigns
Google AI Mode is quietly cutting clicks on informational brand queries. The fix isn't slashing brand spend — it's reallocating it by ...
How to Use Claude to Audit Your Google Ads Account
Manual Google Ads audits miss the patterns that waste spend. See how to use Claude to analyze full account exports in one pass — and ...