The percentage-of-spend Google Ads agency pricing model rewards agencies for increasing your ad budget, not for improving your results. This article breaks down the math behind the misalignment, shows how agencies can grow their revenue without delivering better performance, and explains why fixed-cost autonomous management is the only model truly aligned with advertiser outcomes.
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