Most advertisers searching for a middle ground between DIY and fully managed Google Ads end up in the worst possible arrangement. This piece explains why half-managed accounts structurally underperform either extreme, identifies three failure modes that break hybrid setups, and describes what a genuine done with you collaboration model requires to actually work.
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