Big Google Ads agencies underdeliver for mid-market advertisers not because of incompetence, but because of structural incentives. Staffing ratios, templated playbooks, vanity reporting, and spend-based compensation models are designed to optimize agency profitability at scale, not your account performance. This article breaks down exactly how those mechanisms work, when a big agency relationship still makes sense, and what alternative execution models actually change about the equation.
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